Heather Logghe is a surgical research fellow at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. She started the viral movement #ILookLikeASurgeon, a hashtag that reached over one hundred million people on Twitter.

Heather Logghe
Alma materUniversity of California, San Francisco
Employer(s)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Early life and education

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Logghe graduated from the University of California in 2011.[1] She won the 2012 Chancellor's Award for the Advancement of Women.[2]

Career

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Logghe began a surgical residency at the University of North Carolina and took two years off for research.[3] She studied laparoscopic surgeries, and identified that laparoscopic shunt revision can avoid the complications of open revision.[4] Logghe started the viral Twitter campaign #ILookLikeASurgeon whilst a preliminary surgical resident in October 2015.[5][6] Logghe was inspired by the #ILookLikeAnEngineer campaign.[7] The social media posts generated hundreds of millions of impressions, including the American College of Surgeons and Royal College of Surgeons as well as media outlets.[8][9][10][11][12][13] In 2017 the campaign was selected as the cover of The New Yorker.[13]

She has since published peer-reviewed papers on the evolving image of surgeons, as well as providing guidelines for surgeons' social media use.[14][15][16] She believes Twitter can be a useful tool in advancing academic surgery.[17][18][19] In 2017 she joined Thomas Jefferson University Hospital as a Surgical Research Fellow, looking at how social media can be used to disseminate research, medical education and patient care.[20][21][22]

References

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  1. ^ "Dr. Heather Logghe, MD - Chapel Hill, NC - General Surgery | Healthgrades.com". healthgrades.com. Retrieved 2018-07-04.
  2. ^ "Chancellor Presents 2012 Award for Advancement of Women to Three". UC San Francisco. 28 March 2012. Retrieved 2018-07-04.
  3. ^ "#ILookLikeASurgeon raises awareness about women in medicine". TODAY.com. Retrieved 2018-07-04.
  4. ^ Heather, Logghe; John, Maa; Michael, Mcdermott; Michael, Oh; Jonathan, Carter. "Laparoscopic Shunt Revision Avoids Many Complications of Open Shunt Revision and Has Outcomes Similar to First-time Shunt Placement". ingentaconnect.com. Retrieved 2018-07-04.
  5. ^ "Meet the female surgeons who are calling for a change in medical culture". Upworthy. Retrieved 2018-07-04.
  6. ^ "Blazing a trail for women in medicine: Ode to Elizabeth Blackwell - Dr. Heather Furnas, Plastic Surgeon - Womanthology". Womanthology. 2016-07-07. Retrieved 2018-07-04.
  7. ^ "Resident News — Department of Surgery - UNC School of Medicine". med.unc.edu. Archived from the original on 2018-10-10. Retrieved 2018-07-04.
  8. ^ Lee, Bruce Y. "How Media Portrayal Affects Women, And What Geena Davis Is Doing About It". Forbes. Retrieved 2018-07-04.
  9. ^ "What do you think a surgeon looks like? These women are hoping to change that". Boston.com. 2015-08-14. Retrieved 2018-07-04.
  10. ^ "The #ILookLikeASurgeon Hashtag Movement Is Here at Stony Brook | Stony Brook University School of Medicine". medicine.stonybrookmedicine.edu. Archived from the original on 2018-07-05. Retrieved 2018-07-04.
  11. ^ "What does a surgeon look like? Professor helps spur national social media movement". Retrieved 2018-07-04.
  12. ^ Hughes, Kathryn A. (2015-11-01). "#ILookLikeASurgeon goes viral: How it happened". Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons. Retrieved 2018-07-04.
  13. ^ a b Ault, Alicia (April 20, 2017). "#ILookLikeASurgeon Gets New Boost From New Yorker Cover". Medscape. Retrieved 2018-07-04.
  14. ^ Logghe, H. J.; Rouse, T.; Beekley, A.; Aggarwal, R. (2018-05-01). "The Evolving Surgeon Image". AMA Journal of Ethics. 20 (5). Heather J. Logghe, Tyler Rouse, Alec Beekley, and Rajesh Aggarwal: 492–500. doi:10.1001/journalofethics.2018.20.5.mhst1-1805. ISSN 2376-6980. PMID 29763396.
  15. ^ Logghe, Heather J.; Boeck, Marissa A.; Gusani, Niraj J.; Hardaway, John C.; Hughes, Kathryn A.; Mouawad, Nicolas J.; Kulaylat, Afif N.; Hoffman, Rebecca L.; Turner, Patricia (March 2018). "Best Practices for Surgeons' Social Media Use: Statement of the Resident and Associate Society of the American College of Surgeons". Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 226 (3): 317–327. doi:10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2017.11.022. ISSN 1072-7515. PMID 29224795.
  16. ^ Logghe, Heather J.; Boeck, Marissa A.; Atallah, Sam B. (December 2016). "Decoding Twitter: Understanding the History, Instruments, and Techniques for Success". Annals of Surgery. 264 (6): 904–908. doi:10.1097/SLA.0000000000001824. ISSN 0003-4932. PMID 27322186. S2CID 38892223.
  17. ^ Logghe, Heather J.; Selby, Luke V.; Boeck, Marissa A.; Stamp, Nikki L.; Chuen, Jason; Jones, Christian (June 2018). "The academic tweet: Twitter as a tool to advance academic surgery". The Journal of Surgical Research. 226: viii–xii. doi:10.1016/j.jss.2018.03.049. hdl:11343/212247. ISSN 1095-8673. PMID 29622401. S2CID 4881831.
  18. ^ "Beyond the Surgeons' Lounge: Leveraging Twitter for Networking and Career Advancement - AANS Neurosurgeon". AANS Neurosurgeon. Retrieved 2018-07-04.
  19. ^ "Leadership Initiatives". American College of Surgeons. Retrieved 2018-07-04.
  20. ^ "Grand Rounds - Philadelphia University + Thomas Jefferson University - Thomas Jefferson University". jefferson.edu. Retrieved 2018-07-04.[permanent dead link]
  21. ^ Szekely, Peter. "For U.S. birthday, life, liberty and the pursuit of hot dogs". U.S. Retrieved 2018-07-04.
  22. ^ Frangou, Christina (December 7, 2017). "Surgeons Address Intimate Partner Violence Head-on". GeneralSurgeryNews.com. Retrieved 2018-07-04.