In a recent Permanente Medicine Podcast” episode, Susan R. Bailey, MD, an allergist and immunologist and president of the AMA, and Margaret Ferguson, MD, a pediatric hospitalist and president and executive medical director of the Colorado Permanente Medical Group, shared some of the challenges they faced in striving to become leaders in their fields, as well as advice for young female medical students and physicians looking to build careers as leaders. Permanente Medicine is part of the AMA Health System Partner Program, which provides enterprise solutions to equip leadership, physicians ...