Gabriele Lech
@Lech_GE
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MS5/6 @PUCRS 🇧🇷 | Interested in HPB, surg onc and peds surg | Founding chair @awspucrs | @harvardpgssc team BR student lead | Aspiring general surgeon
Porto Alegre, Brasil
Joined April 2021
Oi #MedTwitter #MedX! Processo seletivo aberto para o Team Brazil! 🇧🇷 Somos um grupo voluntário e colaborador independente do @HarvardPGSSC. 📣 Deadline da aplicação: 5 de janeiro de 2026, às 23h45 (BRT) 🔗 Inscrições: https://t.co/RYZRMFVfVt
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Honored to see our paper highlighted and to contribute to the conversation on #gender #disparities in industry payments to #surgeons. Thank you for the insightful comments and for pushing this conversation forward. 🔗 https://t.co/CoWlqRYfdB Shannelle Campbell @AAkinkuotuMD
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Happy to share our new study published in @AmJSurgery! 🔍 SR & MA with 37 studies 🔪 42,434 surgeons Female surgeons face higher burnout — and are less likely to become parents. These patterns aren’t about individual resilience — they’re about systems, support, and equity.
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Exploring Gender-Related Disparities in Mental Health and Parenthood Among Surgeons: A Systematic Review and MA by @WagemakerSofia et al 🔪 @BrenessaL @herbchen @pferrada1 @PipeCabreraV @CiruAndes2 @SWexner @TomVargheseJr @sminaev2015 @gogo_gopss Link:
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Gender disparities in surgery can impact personal and professional life. This meta-analysis aims to examine differences in well-being and parenting between genders in surgery in the Americas.
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New publication in the @AmJSurgery ! Highlighting the #mentalhealth and #parenthood challenges for #WomenInSurgery 🔗 https://t.co/S5BSANQ2RV
#MedTwitter #GenderEquity #SoMe4Surgery
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A study published in @AmJSurgery found that female surgeons consistently receive lower consulting fees than men, even after accounting for experience and specialty. Systemic change is needed to ensure equitable pay. Read more: https://t.co/KGn2ZhG9K9
#WomenInSurgery
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📢 Ensuring diversity in editorial leadership is essential for equity in surgical science. #WomenInSurgery #GlobalSurgery #AcademicLeadership
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Gendered mobility matters: Women from LMICs-Latin America had fewer international affiliations than men — reflecting barriers in academic migration.
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Female surgeons were significantly less likely to hold leadership roles: 26% in HICs (OR 0.12; p < 0.00001) 13% in LMICs (OR 0.19; p < 0.0001) #LeadershipGap
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Editors-in-chief: 👩⚕️ 17% in HIC journals 👩⚕️ 38% in LMIC journals Numbers remain small overall, showing persistent leadership gaps. #DiversityInMedicine
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Higher journal impact = less female representation. 📊 Female probability dropped from 42% at IF = 5 to 10% at IF = 521.
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Among 31 journals (24 HICs, 7 LMICs): 👩⚕️ 33% of editorial board members were women in HICs 👩⚕️ Only 13% in LMICs 📉 Odds of being female were 69% lower in LMICs (OR 0.31; p < 0.001). #GlobalSurgery #GenderDisparity
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🧵 Global inequities in surgical oncology journals’ editorial leadership Lech GE et al. The American Journal of Surgery (2025) 🔗 DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2025.116623 #GenderEquity #SurgicalOncology #AcademicSurgery
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Beyond grateful and honored to work with this team and the incredible Dr. @MeckerMollerMD as our mentor. Female surgeons remain significantly underrepresented in surgical oncology editorial and leadership positions in both HICs and LMICs-Latin America. https://t.co/ZYcK9ilLHz
@LatinoSurgery @gendereqsurg @WomenSurgeons @womeninsurgery @AmCollSurgeons @SocSurgOnc There is work to do in Latin America to support our peers and increase female surgeon representation in oncology journal editorial boards . #awereness + #advocacy + #actionplan
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Our new study findings on payments disparities faced by female surgeons in the U.S: Among 5505 payments made in 2023, 87% of $23.9M in consulting fees went to men and 37 men received royalties compared to just 1 woman. 🔗: https://t.co/zFhuh9u0jG
#genderequity #womeninsurgery
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I couldn’t have asked for a better team to work with! We couldn’t have done it without your mentorship Dr. @MeckerMollerMD ! You are a true inspiration for us! @marianaferrari thank you for your guidance in this project! ✨ #womeninsurgery #GenderEquity
What a great honor to work with a fantastic team of international medical students & young doctors: @WagemakerSofia @feresbrenda @Lech_GE #yasminbiscoladelacruz trying to move the needle in the right direction! Thanks @marianaferrari for your guidance
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The Unmasking of Industry Payment Disparities Faced by Female surgeons in the USA. Read it @ https://t.co/dpHzhTAKgt
@JBMatthews @WomenSurgeons @gendereqsurg @uchicagosurgery @womeninsurgery @SWexner @AmJSurgery
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What a great honor to work with a fantastic team of international medical students & young doctors: @WagemakerSofia @feresbrenda @Lech_GE #yasminbiscoladelacruz trying to move the needle in the right direction! Thanks @marianaferrari for your guidance
This project is very special, because unfortunately it is reality! Thank you team for this incredible work! And a special thank you for this incredible woman who inspire me and show me that we can do anything: @MeckerMollerMD 🔗 full text: https://t.co/RK8qPtWCRw
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This project is very special, because unfortunately it is reality! Thank you team for this incredible work! And a special thank you for this incredible woman who inspire me and show me that we can do anything: @MeckerMollerMD 🔗 full text: https://t.co/RK8qPtWCRw
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