Women's Dermatologic Society

  By Shawna A. Flanagan, MD, FAAD Twenty plus years ago I decided to establish a practice that I could call my own.   However, I soon realized that establishing myself as a female business owner and doctor in a male dominated industry would be no easy feat.   Fast forward to 2020, I have established myself as a successful dermatologist and business owner. As my journey progressed, I somewhat foolishly believed that many of the gender specific roles placed on doctors in the past had dissipated.   However, this notion quickly vanished when one of my younger female colleagues lamented that she was struggling to get her patients to address her by her preferred title, “Doctor”.   Although I am not typically one to get hung up on the details, soon after she brought this issue to my attention I couldn’t help but notice thereafter every instance patients referred to me by my first name and not the title that I had worked so hard to gain.   No matter how hard I tr...

By Maryanne Makredes Senna, MD and Brianna De Souza, MD Some time ago I was first asked to give a lecture to our residents on diagnosing and treating hair loss disorders. As I prepared my lecture, I typed “attractive women” into a search engine, and what returned were images of young women with tons of long, flowing hair.  Although, a similar search for “attractive men” yielded images of men with hair and also included pictures of bald men like Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, Bruce Willis, and Jason Statham.  These images were promptly used in my lecture to portray an important, increasing phenomenon that I see every day in clinic:  hair loss is becoming a largely female problem. >> Read the Full Editorial “A considerable number of women are at risk of developing female pattern hair loss (FPHL), and it has been shown that women with alopecia bear a greater emotional burden compared to men with hair loss.”