Show notes

Listen to Dr Leo Gundle, Professor Vin Paleri and Mr Surash Surash role model how men ought to support women in the work place and society in general. They recount witnessing sexual harassment and misogyny, providing clear cut approaches to these issues and others which should be undertaken by all men. They call on all to listen to the women around them and actively advocate for them.

Episode collaborators:

Mr Surash Surash - Consultant Neurosurgeon and Author of Surash - Pearce Report 2019 

Prof Vinidh Paleri - Professor of Head & Neck Surgery - Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust. President of British Association of Head & Neck Oncologists 

Dr Leo Gundle - Senior House Officer, Academic Representative for Students & Foundation Doctors in Otolaryngology (SFO UK)

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Team Brief is the official podcast of the Academic Collaborative for Equality and Inclusivity in Surgery (ACEIS) UK

This maiden series is an ode to the International Women’s Day celebrations 2023. We remind ourselves of some of the progress made but we do not lose sight of the deficiencies and the devastating global impact of gender inequity

About ACEIS UK:

The Collaborative consists of a group of cross-specialty surgeons and expert advisers with a single interest: to highlight the true extent of the challenges of equality, inclusivity and their associated impacts in the surgical profession by leveraging data. Our role is to identify and report data from the frontlines of the surgical working environment; to provide an opportunity for individualised stories to be shared; to present all data to the surgical community without the burden of political or other influences in a transparent manner; to develop change strategies suitable for adoption in the workplace; to apprise other professional bodies and organisations with coherent data that can inform appropriate policies and procedures to tackle these challenges; to highlight positive and negative aspects of systemic workplace issues

Get in touch: To stay abreast of our activities as a think-tank, to share comments and/or ideas including collaboration opportunities then please contact us via our website www.ACEIS.uk or by email: [email protected]

You can also follow us on Twitter @aceisUK

Created, Produced and Directed by Ekpemi Irune @ENTmimi

Show notes

Listen to Miss Ginny Bowbrick and Miss Catherine Rennie discuss getting by day to day as a female Consultant Surgeon; on self-doubt and un-titling; on gendered language & disparities in tolerance; on pejoratives typically assigned to the woman in surgery and what constitutes a utopia for women in the workplace. 

Episode collaborators:

Miss Ginny Bowbrick - Consultant Vascular Surgeon. Chair of Vascular SAC. Head of School of Surgery KSS. Clinical Lead Professional Passport at the RCSEng and Chair of Pride in Surgery Forum (PRISM) RCSEng 

Miss Catherine Rennie - Consultant Rhinology, Anterior Skull Base Surgeon, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. UK. 

Miss Ekpemi Irune - Consultant Laryngology, Head & Neck Surgeon, Cambridge, UK. 

Founder of ACEIS UK

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Team Brief is the official podcast of the Academic Collaborative for Equality and Inclusivity in Surgery (ACEIS) UK

This maiden series is an ode to the International Women’s Day celebrations 2023. We remind ourselves of some of the progress made but we do not lose sight of the deficiencies and the devastating global impact of gender inequity

About ACEIS UK:

The Collaborative consists of a group of cross-specialty surgeons and expert advisers with a single interest: to highlight the true extent of the challenges of equality, inclusivity and their associated impacts in the surgical profession by leveraging data. Our role is to identify and report data from the frontlines of the surgical working environment; to provide an opportunity for individualised stories to be shared; to present all data to the surgical community without the burden of political or other influences in a transparent manner; to develop change strategies suitable for adoption in the workplace; to apprise other professional bodies and organisations with coherent data that can inform appropriate policies and procedures to tackle these challenges; to highlight positive and negative aspects of systemic workplace issues

Get in touch: To stay abreast of our activities as a think-tank, to share comments and/or ideas including collaboration opportunities then please contact us via our website www.ACEIS.uk or by email: [email protected]

You can also follow us on Twitter @aceisUK

Created, Produced and Directed by Ekpemi Irune @ENTmimi

Show notes

Listen to Prof Mala Rao and Ekpemi Irune delve into issues on poverty, the climate crisis and the disproportionate impact both have on women; they discuss women as breadwinners; sexual violence as a weapon in conflict zones is highlighted; they explore the benefits of facilitating women into senior leadership positions including policy roles; on the absurdity of “meritocracy” and differential attainment in research.

Episode collaborators:

Professor Mala Rao - Professor of Primary Care and Public Health. Director of Ethnicity and Health Unit, Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College, London. Past Adviser to NHSE Workforce Race Equality Strategy and Implementation Team

Miss Ekpemi Irune - Consultant Laryngology, Head & Neck Surgeon, Cambridge, UK. 

Founder of ACEIS UK

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Team Brief is the official podcast of the Academic Collaborative for Equality and Inclusivity in Surgery (ACEIS) UK

This maiden series is an ode to the International Women’s Day celebrations 2023. We remind ourselves of some of the progress made but we do not lose sight of the deficiencies and the devastating global impact of gender inequity

About ACEIS UK:

The Collaborative consists of a group of cross-specialty surgeons and expert advisers with a single interest: to highlight the true extent of the challenges of equality, inclusivity and their associated impacts in the surgical profession by leveraging data. Our role is to identify and report data from the frontlines of the surgical working environment; to provide an opportunity for individualised stories to be shared; to present all data to the surgical community without the burden of political or other influences in a transparent manner; to develop change strategies suitable for adoption in the workplace; to apprise other professional bodies and organisations with coherent data that can inform appropriate policies and procedures to tackle these challenges; to highlight positive and negative aspects of systemic workplace issues

Get in touch: To stay abreast of our activities as a think-tank, to share comments and/or ideas including collaboration opportunities then please contact us via our website www.ACEIS.uk or by email: [email protected]

You can also follow us on Twitter @aceisUK

Created, Produced and Directed by Ekpemi Irune @ENTmimi

Show notes:

Listen to Miss Isma Iqbal, Miss Tiffany Munroe-Gray and Prof Jaydip Ray converse. They highlight the unique pressures faced by women such as families, self-doubt, legacy of negative experiences, the menopause, etc; they discuss strategies that improve the working environment for women; the importance of allyship and variations in progress across the country in terms of equity for women in surgery. They acknowledge the progress made but together agree that there is still so much to be done in the bid to embrace equity. 

 
Episode collaborators:

Professor Jaydip Ray - Professor of Otology/ Neuro-otology, University of Sheffield; Training Programme Director for Yorkshire region 

Miss Isma Iqbal - Consultant ENT, Anterior Skull Base Surgeon Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 

Miss Tiffany Munroe-Gray - Otolaryngology Specialist Trainee (ST6) South Thames, London; Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Authority

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Team Brief is the official podcast of the Academic Collaborative for Equality and Inclusivity in Surgery (ACEIS) UK

This maiden series is an ode to the International Women’s Day celebrations 2023. We remind ourselves of some of the progress made but we do not lose sight of the deficiencies and the devastating global impact of gender inequity

About ACEIS UK:

The Collaborative consists of a group of cross-specialty surgeons and expert advisers with a single interest: to highlight the true extent of the challenges of equality, inclusivity and their associated impacts in the surgical profession by leveraging data. Our role is to identify and report data from the frontlines of the surgical working environment; to provide an opportunity for individualised stories to be shared; to present all data to the surgical community without the burden of political or other influences in a transparent manner; to develop change strategies suitable for adoption in the workplace; to apprise other professional bodies and organisations with coherent data that can inform appropriate policies and procedures to tackle these challenges; to highlight positive and negative aspects of systemic workplace issues

Get in touch: To stay abreast of our activities as a think-tank, to share comments and/or ideas including collaboration opportunities then please contact us via our website www.ACEIS.uk or by email: [email protected]

You can also follow us on Twitter @aceisUK

Created, Produced and Directed by Ekpemi Irune @ENTmimi

Show notes:

Listen to Professor Anton Emmanuel and Miss Ekpemi Irune navigate a conversation on first experiences of waking up to racial discrimination as a concept; they highlight the multiplicity of disadvantage in society faced by women, LGBTQI+ individuals and speak on the “woke” terminology; they both call for individual consciousness to break down systemic barriers to equality.

Episode collaborators:

Professor Anton Emmanuel - Professor of Neuro-Gastroenterology at University College London; Senior Clinical Lead for NHS Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) Programme 

Miss Ekpemi Irune - Consultant Laryngology, Head & Neck Surgeon, Cambridge, UK. Founder of ACEIS UK

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Team Brief is the official podcast of the Academic Collaborative for Equality and Inclusivity in Surgery (ACEIS) UK

This maiden series is an ode to the International Women’s Day celebrations 2023. We remind ourselves of some of the progress made but we do not lose sight of the deficiencies and the devastating global impact of gender inequity

About ACEIS UK:

The Collaborative consists of a group of cross-specialty surgeons and expert advisers with a single interest: to highlight the true extent of the challenges of equality, inclusivity and their associated impacts in the surgical profession by leveraging data. Our role is to identify and report data from the frontlines of the surgical working environment; to provide an opportunity for individualised stories to be shared; to present all data to the surgical community without the burden of political or other influences in a transparent manner; to develop change strategies suitable for adoption in the workplace; to apprise other professional bodies and organisations with coherent data that can inform appropriate policies and procedures to tackle these challenges; to highlight positive and negative aspects of systemic workplace issues

Get in touch: To stay abreast of our activities as a think-tank, to share comments and/or ideas including collaboration opportunities then please contact us via our website www.ACEIS.uk or by email: [email protected]

You can also follow us on Twitter @aceisUK

Created, Produced and Directed by Ekpemi Irune @ENTmimi

Show notes:

Listen to Miss Kanwalraj Moar, Prof Manohar Bance and Miss Ekpemi Irune discuss the current state of affairs facing women in surgery and how flexibility of thought, gender roles and intentional action can help us tackle these problems. Prof Bance also reminds us that the bottom from where we hope to rise is “slipping” with some key examples. Miss Moar underlines the importance of change being visible especially by leadership.  

Episode collaborators:

Miss Kanwal Moar - Consultant Cleft & Oral Maxillofacial Surgeon. Cambridge, UK. Honorary Secretary & Trustee British Assoc. of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons. Founder & President of Society of Women in Maxillofacial Surgery

Miss Ekpemi Irune - Consultant Laryngology, Head & Neck Surgeon, Cambridge, UK. Founder of ACEIS UK

Prof Manohar Bance - Professor and Chair of Otology & Skull Base Surgery University of Cambridge. President of the Otology Section, Royal Society of Medicine

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About the series:
Team Brief is the official podcast of the Academic Collaborative for Equality and Inclusivity in Surgery (ACEIS) UK

This maiden series is an ode to the International Women’s Day celebrations 2023. We remind ourselves of some of the progress made but we do not lose sight of the deficiencies and the devastating global impact of gender inequity

About ACEIS UK:

The Collaborative consists of a group of cross-specialty surgeons and expert advisers with a single interest: to highlight the true extent of the challenges of equality, inclusivity and their associated impacts in the surgical profession by leveraging data. Our role is to identify and report data from the frontlines of the surgical working environment; to provide an opportunity for individualised stories to be shared; to present all data to the surgical community without the burden of political or other influences in a transparent manner; to develop change strategies suitable for adoption in the workplace; to apprise other professional bodies and organisations with coherent data that can inform appropriate policies and procedures to tackle these challenges; to highlight positive and negative aspects of systemic workplace issues

Get in touch: To stay abreast of our activities as a think-tank, to share comments and/or ideas including collaboration opportunities then please contact us via our website www.ACEIS.uk or by email: [email protected]

You can also follow us on Twitter @aceisUK

Created, Produced and Directed by Ekpemi Irune @ENTmimi