
Nancy Day Adams
504 posts





Having a seat at the table is a good first start... but then, let me choose from the menu and eat at my own pace. Modern academic medicine needs to creatively redefine success for diversity and inclusion-timelines, milestones, metrics. #ILookLikeASurgeon


Nobody but mining companies, @realdonaldtrump and bought DFL politicians wants copper-nickel mining in the Lake Superior watershed or Boundary Waters. It’s an environmental catastrophe waiting to happen. twincities.com/2019/03/05/sav…

A hearty shout out to the 60,000+ U.S. hospitalists focused on caring for patients and ensuring the quality of their experience. #NationalHospitalistDay


This essay basically confirms what it set out to disprove: “American universities have transformed themselves into market-oriented enterprises, barely different from corporations”

Tenured. My grandparents were literally share croppers on one side, and on the other, my grandfather was denied promotion for decades because he was black. This is for them.

It does get old to call this out all the time. Raising awareness is only one part of the solution. I really want to change this. That's why I'm working with @womeninnephro to set up a speakers bureau for women in nephrology. No more excuses.






true for academics. the science, mentoring, and collaborations, should always be more important than any one person’s career.... now the challenge of changing a culture that incentivizes individual success


Lessons from the keynote address at the Annual BIRCWH Meeting. “Your mentors will watch you make safe mistakes that won’t destroy you or your career, and then remind you that they know you” ...and what you are capable of. @DukeSurgery @DukeCancer @BIRCWH

Indeed, wonderful group of outstanding nephrologists

❤️🌹A wonderful way to recognize the incredible #GiftOfLife.

A STARS-Studded Week: Reflections from a Medical Student - renalfellow.org/2018/11/26/a-s…




