Post submitted by Geogy Vennikandam.
Thrilled to share that my incredible wife, Madhu, has been selected to join the ABC News Medical Unit!
She will be working alongside ABC’s Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Jennifer Ashton, MD, in helping to convey complex medical information to the general public for live broadcasts on Good Morning America, ABC World News Tonight with David Muir and other local affiliate stations like ABC 7 Chicago.
Telling stories and sharing happiness has always been her obsession, and one of the many reasons why I married her was because of her zest for life & her genuine willingness to help others in need. Sometimes she does it with a stethoscope, but many of the times she is able to do it with a simple thought-provoking conversation.
This new role into medical journalism gives her the opportunity & platform to provide unfiltered, informative & transparent health related information to millions of Americans who watch ABC news regularly on it’s various media outlets both online, in print and on television.
Kudos to you on continuing to break the glass ceiling! Time and again you have shown that this country is not just the land of opportunity for citizens, but for also immigrants like yourself who are willing to put in the hard work!
https://www.linkedin.com/in/madhu-mathew-vennikandam-178473127/
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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