• Sima I Patel, Parneet Grewal, Christa O'Hana S Nobleza, Neishay Ayub, Kim-Eng Ky, Doris H Kung, Suma Shah, Myriam Abdennadher, Halley B Alexander, Natasha Frost, Kamala Rodrigues, Sarah Durica, Seema Nagpal, June Yoshii-Contreras, Katherine Zarroli, Padmaja Sudhakar, Chen Zhao, Sol De Jesus, Deborah Bradshaw, Nicole Brescia, Nancy Foldvary-Schaefer, Laura Tormoehlen, Laurie Gutmann, Sneha Mantri, Ailing Yang, Annie He, Cynthia Zheng, Mark Fiecas, Julie K Silver, Alyssa F Westring, Sasha Alick-Lindstrom, and Jane B Allendorfer.
• Department of Neurology, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, St. Louis Park, Minnesota, USA.
• J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2024 Nov 1; 33 (11): 146414751464-1475.

AbstractBackground: Intersection of gender and race and/or ethnicity in academic medicine is understudied; we aim to understand these factors in relation to scholarly achievements for neurology faculty. Methods: Faculty from 19 US neurology departments completed a survey (2021-2022) to report rank, leadership positions, publications, funded projects, awards, and speaker invitations. Regression analyses examined effects of gender, race, and their intersectionality on these achievements. Women, Black/Indigenous/People of Color (BIPOC), and BIPOC women were comparator groups. Results: Four hundred sixty-two faculty responded: 55% women, 43% men; 31% BIPOC, 63% White; 21% BIPOC women, 12% BIPOC men, 36% White women, 31% White men. Men and White faculty are more likely to be full professors than women and BIPOC faculty. The number of leadership positions, funded projects, awards, and speaker invitations are significantly greater in White compared to BIPOC faculty. Relative to BIPOC women, the number of leadership positions is significantly higher among BIPOC men, White women, and White men. Publication numbers for BIPOC men are lower, number of funded projects and speaker invitations for White women are higher, and number of awards among White men and White women is higher compared to BIPOC women. Discussion: Our study highlights that inequities in academic rank, award number, funded projects, speakership invitations, and leadership roles disproportionately impacted BIPOC women. More studies are needed to evaluate gender and race and/or ethnicity intersectionality effects on faculty achievements, reasons for inequities, recognition, and potential solutions.

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