Mez Aref

[Mez Aref @MezAref]

An excellent study day on fibroids at @NHSBartsHealth - Whipps Cross. Thanks to @whatdawndid for being amazing!
Thanks also to the fantastic speakers @ManouMKaur @Jimi_Odejinmi, Natalie cooper, Wai Yoong, Bio Fakokunde, Justin Clark @odejinmi_remi @amanjit

[Mez Aref @MezAref]

Continuing the discussion on fibroids. Looking at our trust wide outcomes for laparoscopic and open myomectomy and considering ways to reduce inequity in access to care.
@Jimi_Odejinmi @zwaymagama
https://t.co/T3rVCLb4TK

[Mez Aref @MezAref]

https://t.co/jDdVSRYJGV
We need to about fibroids. Read out our latest article where we discuss fibroids and screening. @Jimi_Odejinmi

[Jimi Odejinmi @Jimi_Odejinmi]

Our latest article highlighting the need for a paradigm shift: Advancing women’s health: The imperative for public health screening of #fibroids for personalised care https://t.co/ACqlLGij87 @FibroidFoun @MezAref @whatdawndid @MaternityWX

[Jimi Odejinmi @Jimi_Odejinmi]

The BSGE continues to grow from strength to strength and relies on its members to stand and effect change
@TheBSGE members… only a few more days to go … vote to make that change 👇🏾🙏🏾👍🏿

[Mez Aref @MezAref]

@AXS_UK I can’t access my account. [email protected] I asked yesterday. No one has dmed me

[Mez Aref @MezAref]

@AXS_UK No direct message yet. Please can you send me reset code to log into my account

[Mez Aref @MezAref]

@AXS_UK please can you help reset a password for my account. Can’t get through to anyone

[Mez Aref @MezAref]

@AXS_UK Thanks for sending me a dm to reset my password

[Mez Aref @MezAref]

Best time learning and enjoying country music at AAGL Nashville @AAGL @BSGE @Jimi_Odejinmi @docnamc @zwaymagama @sophies46576586 @Krupa_Madhvani @jesspreshaw @DrGailBusby @WhippsCrossHosp

[Jimi Odejinmi @Jimi_Odejinmi]

In Brussels @ESGE 2023 taking about empowerment of women who need intervention for #fibroids @MaternityWX @BSGE @MezAref

[Mez Aref @MezAref]

Truclear training day. One step closer to outpatient polypectomy for those who want it and are suitable! @Medtronic @WhippsCrossHosp @Jimi_Odejinmi @amanjit

[Mez Aref @MezAref]

Fibroid awareness month. Love being a fibroid fighter. Thanks for the amazing t-shirts and scrub hats @sophie46542327 and your wonderful grandad!! @Jimi_Odejinmi @NHSBartsHealth @WhippsCrossHosp @zwaymagama

[Mez Aref @MezAref]

An interesting article looking at the pitfalls of retrospective data in guiding us on management of fibroids. Prospective data is essential to guide patients and clinicians @fibroidsupport @FibroidsNoMore @FibroidFoun @CAREAbtFibroids

[Jimi Odejinmi @Jimi_Odejinmi]

Our Recent letter to the editor @BJOGTweets highlighting the need for prospective data collection to provide evidence to inform women and individualise care for women with #fibroids https://t.co/0g1xOwFYlc @MaternityWX @TheBSGE

[Dr Golnar Aref-Adib #speakout @golnararef]

A massive massive MASSIVE thank you to you all for your support on Twitter and beyond. I have a date with @NIHRresearch to discuss my experiences of discrimination from their interview panel. It’s taken 2 years and 7 months -and a Twitter movement to make it happen. This movement included the Beyoncé of academia @trishgreenhalgh , @soniajohnson the Taylor Swift, @Emmafreud (a true highlight for my mental health team - YES she is related to Freud), the wonderful @caitlinmoran amongst many many others. I thank you all.

Sadly my academic mentor who would have been my PhD supervisor, Prof Elizabeth Murray, passed away in April this year, and in Farsi we would say 'her space is empty'. She taught me and many other women to be the best that we can be.

She is also the reason why I released my NIHR experience to the general public. After she passed away, I stopped reading @bmj_latest . If I am completely honest, for years I had only really read the obituaries.

When she died, I couldn’t face reading her obituary. The BMJs began to pile up. My husband teased me, asking if I would like the BMJs to go straight from the doormat to recycling bin.

That night, my middle daughter was ill and spiking temperatures when she finally fell asleep - I was unable to sleep myself. I was staring at the BMJ, and suddenly thought, ‘What would Elizabeth do?’ So I decided to be brave and read the BMJ. Elizabeth was truly fearless, and even as she was dying, she said, “I have few regrets. I, Elizabeth Murray, have had a great life.” So for Elizabeth Murray, I opened the BMJ.

The Lasker paper caught my attention and sparked a fire in me. So even in her afterlife, Elizabeth is championing women. To continue in her spirit, I ask to hear all the voices.

If you have experienced any discrimination from medical funders, I am compiling anonymised letters, so that together we can demonstrate that these problems are endemic and can only be addressed through structural change. Can we hear all the voices?

PM me any experiences and please RT + share widely.

[Dr Golnar Aref-Adib #speakout @golnararef]

Smart. Talented. Compassionate. Activist. Pragmatic. Powerful.

Doctor. Surgeon. Mother. Female.

Chief executive
@EvelinaLondon @GSTTnhs

BOOOOOM

Well done @gubby_ayida - one of the most inspiring leaders I know!

https://t.co/vEZZB4ObDr

#MedTwitter

[Mez Aref @MezAref]

Well done gol for being so brave and speaking out! Super proud of you and all you have done and all you stand for ❤️

[Dr Golnar Aref-Adib #speakout @golnararef]

Have you read Race&Gender Inequity paper @bmj_latest ?
Are you surprised? I am not.
For too long women have been subject to bias & discrimination. A call to action for all those in academia. Read about my experience @NIHRresearch
https://t.co/RR6n0nIsvA
It's time to #SpeakOut

[Dr Golnar Aref-Adib #speakout @golnararef]

Have you read Race&Gender Inequity paper @bmj_latest ?
Are you surprised? I am not.
For too long women have been subject to bias & discrimination. A call to action for all those in academia. Read about my experience @NIHRresearch
https://t.co/RR6n0nIsvA
It's time to #SpeakOut

[Dr Golnar Aref-Adib #speakout @golnararef]

OMG. Explaining to my non medic husband who @trishgreenhalgh is “she is like the Beyonce of the academic world”. I literally have goosebumps. Thank you for sharing, supporting and helping get the conversation going. Time to #speakout

[Dr Golnar Aref-Adib #speakout @golnararef]

1/ Well not bad for a days work! The most exposing & brave thing I have done in workplace. It’s a decision that took 2 years to make & @bmj_latest paper to spark it. If you want to pm me re experience -I am hear to listen. It’s time to #SpeakOut about UK funders