Joint Committee on the Status of Women

Thursday, April 25, 2024* (NEW DATE)

12:00 – 2:00 PM

Tosteson Medical Education Center, Room 227 | 260 Longwood Ave.

Agenda:

12:00 – 1:00pm: “Challenging Hierarchy and Tradition to Promote Psychological Safety: The Cultural Morbidity and Mortality Review:”

Speaker: Ernest (Ted) Gomez, MD, MTR, FACS

Attending Surgeon, Head and Neck Oncology / Microvascular Reconstruction

Instructor, Harvard Medical School

Director of Innovation and External Programming, Simulation and Skills Center (SASC)

Division of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

1:00 – 2:00pm: Q & A; Discussion

This event has been organized by the JCSW Professional Equity Subcommittee Co-Chairs: Eman Ansari, MD & Elisabetta del Re, PhD.

The event objectives are to provide faculty, staff, fellows and students with tools to:

• To analyze real events of psychological harm that took place in an academic forum using a root cause analysis approach

• To provide attendees of all levels with tools to respond to psychological safety events in situ with techniques inspired by patient safety initiatives

• To promote discussion on harms that stem from cultural and generational divides within academic medicine

*We are hoping to hold this event in-person, but we need to make sure we have a good number of attendees to make this possible*
Please RSVP accordingly and be sure to update JCSW_AdminAssist@hms.harvard.edu if you need to change your in-person reply to zoom, or unable to attend, by April 22 at the latest.”

Register Now: Meeting Registration - Zoom

Lunch will be served!

Board-certified in otolaryngology–head and neck surgery, Dr. Ernest Gomez is a physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. His clinical interests include head and neck tumors, local and microvascular reconstruction of the head and neck, transoral robotic surgery (TORS) for cancer and sleep apnea, thyroid and parathyroid surgery, salivary gland surgery, facial reanimation, head and neck cancer survivorship, oral cancers, skin cancers of the head and neck, and open and minimally invasive skull base surgery.

He earned his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, where he also completed his residency and fellowship in otolaryngology–head and neck surgery.