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83 | Associate Professor Sonya Burgess on gender equity, allyship & interventional cardiology

January 27, 2023 Dr. Maple Goh
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83 | Associate Professor Sonya Burgess on gender equity, allyship & interventional cardiology
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Associate Professor Sonya Burgess is an interventional cardiologist based in Sydney, Australia, having graduated from Otago Medical School with distinction, before finishing her fellowship with RACP. She completed her interventional fellowship in Liverpool hospital, Sydney, and her PhD in the University of New South Wales. She has 90 peer reviewed publications, but she is passionate about medical education and teaching, and on addressing workforce gender equity issues, particularly in cardiology. 

In this episode, we discuss her journey into choosing medicine and interventional cardiology, the roots of her passion for academia, her research in gender equity issues in cardiology and in particular, interventional cardiology, and of course - all things intervention. 

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Sonya Towns
Finding medicine
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Finding cardiology
Interventional cardiology
Training involved for interventional cardiology
Gender inequity in interventional cardiology
Academia & research
Work-life balance
Challenges and lows of cardiology
Day-to-day life in cardiology
Managing 24 hour on call