Dr.Chitra Jacob graduated from Trivandrum Medical College and attained MRCPCH from the UK. She moved to Canada 10 years back and switched her career to health administration and continued as a faculty of Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada.
In 2020, she attained FISQua, Fellow of the International Society for Quality in health care (ISQua). ISQua is the accrediting body for Accreditation Canada and has members across the globe. Her focus is to build quality improvement capacity in medical students and faculty.
When people ask what it is like to be a woman in interventional electrophysiology, I tell them the truth: for most of my career, I was the only one at the table. Not the only woman in the EP lab; nurses, techs, and coordinators have always been the backbone of every EP lab I have worked in, but the only woman standing in lead, with the catheters in her hands. That has changed. It has not changed enough. Cardiology remains one of the least gender-balanced fields in medicine, and the procedural subspecialties EP, interventional, structural are the narrowest part of that funnel. We are not short on talented women entering medical school. We lose them somewhere between the classroom and the lab. I have thought a lot about where that loss happens, and I no longer believe it is mostly about ability or even about ambition. It is about permission, the quiet, cumulative sense of whether a room expects you to be in it. The room does not hand you authority ... Early on, I learned that bei...

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