Overcoming professional barriers encountered by women in interventional cardiology: an EAPCI statement

Gill Louise Buchanan; Valeria Paradies; Nicole Karam; Lene Holmvang; Mamas A Mamas; Julinda Mehilli; Davide Capodanno; Piera Capranzano; Yolande Appelman; Stéphane Manzo-Silberman; Vijay Kunadian; Josepa Mauri; Stefanie Shuepke; Anna Sonia Petronio; Marta Kaluzna-Oleksy; Martine Gilard; Marie Claude Morice; Emanuele Barbato; Dariusz Dudek; Alaide Chieffo

doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehad053

Overcoming professional barriers encountered by women in interventional cardiology: an EAPCI statement

Eur Heart J. 2023 Apr 17;44(15):1301-1312. doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehad053.

Authors

Gill Louise Buchanan¹, Valeria Paradies², Nicole Karam³, Lene Holmvang⁴, Mamas A Mamas⁵, Julinda Mehilli⁶, Davide Capodanno⁷, Piera Capranzano⁸, Yolande Appelman⁹, Stéphane Manzo-Silberman¹⁰, Vijay Kunadian^{11

12}, Josepa Mauri¹³, Stefanie Shuepke¹⁴, Anna Sonia Petronio¹⁵, Marta Kaluzna-Oleksy¹⁶, Martine Gilard¹⁷, Marie Claude Morice¹⁸, Emanuele Barbato¹⁹, Dariusz Dudek^{20

21}, Alaide Chieffo²²

Affiliations

¹ Cardiology Department, North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust, Carlisle, UK.
² Cardiology Department, Maasstad Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
³ Cardiology Department, European Hospital Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.
⁴ Cardiology Department, The Heart Centre, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.
⁵ Keele Cardiovascular Group, Centre for Prognosis Research, Keele University, Stoke on Trent, UK.
⁶ Cardiology Department, Hospital Landshut-Achdorf and Ludwig-Maximilians-University Clinic, Munich, Germany.
⁷ Cardio-Thoracic-Vascular and Transplant Department, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Policlinico "Gaspare Rodolico-San Marco", University of Catania, Catania, Italy.
⁸ Cardio-Thoracic-Vascular and Transplant Department, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Policlinico "Gaspare Rodolico - San Marco", University of Catania, Catania, Italy.
⁹ Cardiology Department, Amsterdam UMC, location VU University Medical Center, The Netherlands.
¹⁰ Cardiology Department, APHP, Paris, France.
¹¹ Translational and Clinical Research Institute, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK.
¹² Cardiothoracic Centre, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK.
¹³ Cardiology Department, University Hospital, Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain.
¹⁴ Cardiology Department, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
¹⁵ Cardiology Department, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
¹⁶ First Cardiology Department, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznań, Poland.
¹⁷ Cardiology Department, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Brest, Brest, France.
¹⁸ Cardiology Department, Institute Cardiovasculaire Paris Sud, Ramsay, Massy, France.
¹⁹ Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.
²⁰ Department of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Interventions, Jagiellonian University Hospital, Krakow, Poland.
²¹ Maria Cecilia Hospital, GVM Care & Research, Cotignola (RA), Ravenna, Italy.
²² Interventional Cardiology Unit, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Via Olgettina 60, 20132 Milan, Italy.

PMID: 36881724
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehad053

Abstract

Despite the increasing proportion of female medical and nursing students, there is still a significant under-representation of women working as healthcare providers in interventional cardiology, with very few of them reaching senior leadership, academic positions, or acting principal investigators, as well as actively involved in company advisory boards. In this position paper, we will describe the current status of women working in interventional cardiology across Europe. We will also provide an overview of the most relevant determinants of the under-representation of women at each stage of the interventional cardiology career path and offer practical suggestions for overcoming these challenges.

Keywords: Interventional cardiology; Sex; Women.

MeSH terms

Cardiology* / education
Europe
Female
Health Personnel
Humans
Leadership
Physicians, Women*