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After the all-male (and largely white) faculty lineup at the Heart Failure 2021 virtual meeting from Los Angeles drew ire on Twitter, organizers made swift changes.
Both program directors and all 23 speakers originally scheduled to lecture at the small subspecialty symposium March 12-13 are men.
"Gentleman, it's 2021 and there are soooooo many women in heart failure for this entire conference to be all men. Do better," Nasrien E. Ibrahim, MD, of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, tweeted on Wednesday with pictures of the then-current faculty list.
Ironically, Wednesday was also National Women Physicians Day.
Ibrahim called out the organizers for lack of effort, writing "you didn't search hard enough." Others weren't so generous.