83 | Associate Professor Sonya Burgess on gender equity, allyship & interventional cardiology

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Associate Professor Sonya Burgess is an interventional cardiologist based in Sydney, Australia, having graduated from Otago Medical School with distinction, before finishing her fellowship with RACP. She completed her interventional fellowship in Liverpool hospital, Sydney, and her PhD in the University of New South Wales. She has 90 peer reviewed publications, but she is passionate about medical education and teaching, and on addressing workforce gender equity issues, particularly in cardiology.
In this episode, we discuss her journey into choosing medicine and interventional cardiology, the roots of her passion for academia, her research in gender equity issues in cardiology and in particular, interventional cardiology, and of course - all things intervention.
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1. Sonya Towns (00:00:00)

2. Finding medicine (00:01:28)

3. Marker (00:02:38)

4. Finding cardiology (00:02:59)

5. Interventional cardiology (00:06:13)

6. Training involved for interventional cardiology (00:07:34)

7. Gender inequity in interventional cardiology (00:14:53)

8. Academia & research (00:28:56)

9. Work-life balance (00:30:37)

10. Challenges and lows of cardiology (00:33:37)

11. Day-to-day life in cardiology (00:43:17)

12. Managing 24 hour on call (00:45:44)