Welcome to The Brave Enough Show! 

Season 3 Episode 10: Beyond the Critics: Leading through Adversity 

This week on the Brave Enough Show podcast, we are bringing you another empowering conversation from the BE Elevate Summit. Your host Dr. Sasha Shillcutt has a chat with Dr. Shikha Jain, a board certified hematology & oncology physician, and founder of the inaugural Women in Medicine Symposium. The doctors discuss dealing with harsh criticism as women in academia and how to deal with social media backlash while giving grace to other’s. 

Grab a cup of coffee and enjoy! 

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Shikha Jain is a board-certified hematology and oncology physician. She is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hematology, Oncology at the University of Illinois Cancer Center in Chicago. She is the Director of Communication Strategies in Medicine and the Associate Director of Oncology Communication & Digital Innovation.  Dr. Jain was named one of Modern Healthcare’s Top 25 Emerging Leaders in 2019, and was also awarded the Rising Star award by the LEAD Oncology Conference in 2019 and nominated in in 2020 as a Women Leader in Oncology.  Dr. Jain was selected as a ResearcHERS ambassador by the American Cancer Society, and was honored by 500 Women in Medicine.  She was appointed to the 2020 American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Women’s Networking Center taskforce, the 2021 ASCO Diversity and Inclusivity Task Force, and appointed to the Council on Communications and Membership Advocacy and the COVID19 taskforce for the Illinois State Medical Society.  She is a founder and the Chief Operating Officer of the COVID19 action and advocacy group IMPACT and a founder and the Chair of the Women In Medicine Summit.  

She founded and co-chaired the inaugural Women In Medicine Symposium at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago in 2018. She is the co-founder of the Rush Center for the Advancement of Women in Health Care. Dr Jain is the host of the podcast Oncology Overdrive by Healio, and  the founder and former host of the podcast The Rush Cast.  She is the founder of the social media group Dual Physician Families and the Communictations Ambassador for SoMeDocs (Doctors on Social Media).  Dr. Jain gave a TEDx talk in 2019 on the gender moonshot and the importance of gender parity in healthcare. She has been invited to speak and deliver keynotes nationally. She is a regular contributor to Fox32 News and writes for several national publications including  US News, The Hill, Scientific American, the Chicago Tribune, Physician’s Weekly,  Doximity,  KevinMD, ASCO Connection and others. She was selected as a thought leader by Doximity and completed a year as a Doximity writing fellow and a Public Voices fellow through the OpEd project.