In the press.
Selected press coverage, podcasts, speaking engagements, and featured appearances.
Press & Features
58% Of Women Surgeons Suffer Sexual Harassment: Why This May Hurt You Too
Covering a landmark study on sexual harassment in surgery presented at the Academic Surgical Congress, this piece features Dr. Logghe — founder of #ILookLikeASurgeon — on the patient safety implications of harassment and its role in driving women away from surgical careers.
“Beyond the physical and psychological toll of harassment on victims, the prevalence is concerning in light of patient safety. Victims of harassment naturally limit their interactions with persons who harass them. When this inhibits communication on patient care, patient safety is compromised.”
Surgeons Address Intimate Partner Violence Head-on
Following the death of transplant surgeon Sherilyn Gordon-Burroughs, MD, the surgical community convened at the ACS Clinical Congress to confront intimate partner violence — among patients and colleagues alike. Dr. Logghe is featured as an advocate who supported a colleague in leaving an abusive relationship, and is quoted on the responsibility of physicians to speak up.
“It is on us as physicians. We must speak up for our patients, for our colleagues and for our friends.”
Meet the female surgeons who are calling for a change in medical culture.
As the #ILookLikeASurgeon hashtag went viral, this piece traced the movement back to its founder — Dr. Heather Logghe — and explored why it struck such a nerve. Surgeons from around the world joined the conversation, sharing experiences of bias, invisibility, and the search for role models who looked like them. The piece captures a turning point: an online movement becoming a force for real cultural change in medicine.
“I’ve heard from many men who want the [medical] workplace culture to change…”
Female doctors saying “I look like a surgeon”
BBC Trending covered #ILookLikeASurgeon in its first week, as women surgeons around the world shared photos of themselves in scrubs to challenge assumptions about who a surgeon is.
Female surgeons raise awareness about women in medicine with #ILookLikeASurgeon
A TODAY Health feature on the #ILookLikeASurgeon movement as it went viral, covering how female surgeons used Twitter to spark a national conversation about representation and identity in medicine — and tracing it back to its founder, Dr. Heather Logghe.
“It is hard to find role models that remind you of yourself as a woman in surgery. It’s been so traditionally male and unfortunately so many of the female role models have had to conform to the male stereotypes to survive.”
Talks & Speaking
Neurodiversity in Surgery: Supporting Surgeons, Strengthening Well-Being, and Optimizing Patient Outcomes
Perspectives on Sexual Harassment in Surgeon Culture
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2012 Chancellor’s Award for the Advancement of Women
UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann presented the 2012 Chancellor’s Award for the Advancement of Women to Heather Logghe, then a fourth-year medical student, alongside two other members of the UCSF campus community.
Podcasts
#ILookLikeASurgeon with Drs. Logghe & Pitt
Two of the surgeons behind the movement — Dr. Logghe, who started #ILookLikeASurgeon, and Dr. Susan Pitt, who started the #NYerORCoverChallenge — talk about how it spread on Twitter and what it showed about being a woman in surgery.
#ILookLikeASurgeon: Thoughts on diversity in medicine from leading surgeons
Recorded while Dr. Logghe was a general surgery resident, this conversation brings surgical leaders together on women in surgery, the #ILookLikeASurgeon movement, and why diversity matters across medicine.