Shikha Jain, MD, FACP

Associate professor of medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of Illinois, Chicago; Director of communications strategies in medicine, Associate director of oncology communication and digital innovation, University of Illinois Cancer Center; Founder & president, Women in Medicine

Guest Editorial

Sexual harassers should face consequences: As NIH director, Bertagnolli can foster change

Last year, the NIH announced that at the direction of Congress, the organization would tighten rules for reporting sexual and workplace harassment by investigators funded by the NIH.

June 02, 2023

Vol.49 No.22

By Shikha Jain

Free Guest Editorial

Let’s stop passing the buck on sexual harassment in academic medicine

We’ve all heard this story before, just with a different set of names and places. Man harasses woman after woman, eventually someone (usually a woman) is brave enough to report him, a quiet investigation confirms the reports, and he quietly and seamlessly gets hired elsewhere with no one the wiser.

June 25, 2021

Vol.47 No.25

By Shikha Jain, Arghavan Salles and Vineet Arora

Shikha Jain, MD, FACP

Sexual harassers should face consequences: As NIH director, Bertagnolli can foster change

Let’s stop passing the buck on sexual harassment in academic medicine

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