What happens when a bunch of Black female physicians meet up in one place ?
🤎 greatness
🤎 excellence
🤎 brilliance
🤎 joy
🤎 joy
🤎 joy
This weekend I attended NEXUS: Nurturing, Excelling, and Unifying Sisters in Medicine Conference 2024 organized by @blackingastro in @thetimescenter. It was simply sublime and jam-packed with amazing panels, speakers, food, vibes, music, and beauty. There were hundreds of messages for all the Black girlies in medicine but for now…
Here are my 10 takeaways:
1. Don’t change your vision…when you can venue [and prefer it that way] ~ Uché Blackstock, MD
2. If something isn’t working for you in any given space remember that you have the power to create your own space ~ Uché Blackstock, MD
3. The race is not always to the swift but to those who keep running ~ quote shared by Dr. Valerie Stone
4. As emerging Black women leaders in medicine we face barriers including Glass Ceiling and Glass Cliffs. Name them, recognize them but don’t let them hold you back ~ Dr. Valerie Stone
5. Our passions work and drive should always be rooted in love ~ LaShyra “Lash” Nolen, MD, MPP
6. Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust. ~ Bell Hooks (quote shared by @dr.lashnolen)
7. If you don’t ask for it you won’t receive it. ~ Aja Mccutchen, Dr Renee Williams, Dr. Ann-Gel Palermo
8. The first step in exploring motherhood and fertility is to get back in tune with your body. ~ Dr. Jackie Walters, Tia Jackson-Bey, M.D., MPH, Chantae Sullivan-Pyke, MD, MTR, FACOG
9. Black excellence is also Black Joy ~ Kimberly Manning
10. You deserve to attend that conference. You deserve to publish that paper. You deserve to get into the program of your choice. You deserve you deserve you deserve. ~ Me 🤎
Any other tips y’all have for the Black girlies in medicine? 🩺