Dr. Casey Seideman
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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When I was at the meeting last year, a medical student came up to me and introduced herself and gave me her card and told me that she would love to connect. And she did. She sent me an email. She was really wonderful. It fostered a really great sort of mentorship, sponsorship, relationship.
And it really dawned on me that this was a very unique opportunity because here's a person who lives on the other side of the country who I would have never interfaced with otherwise. who now I feel like I have a really strong relationship with just from this happenstance encounter at a SWU mentorship meeting. I think that that's something particularly unique to SWU.
I don't think you have that same opportunity at larger national meetings or society meetings. They're not as focused on the mentorship and sponsorship aspect. So I really think that there's a special ingredient there that allows for women to
And sort of trainees, medical students, faculty, even retired faculty to connect across borders and really foster these networks that otherwise might not have ever happened. Very empowering. I love it.
The other side of that coin, though, and this is something that Dr. Savasilan mentioned, is that there is also a lot of attention that's coming up about mid-career urologists, especially women and gender diverse individuals. When you hit your mid-career, there is this risk that you either plateau or peter out because you may not have the same opportunities that maybe you had in that
early career ramp up. What can SWU do or what value does SWU have for people in their mid-career? How can we support mid-career urologists?
I remember a couple of years ago at a SWU conference, Dr. Kirsten Green gave a talk on how to interview for chair positions. And that was a really eye-opening talk for me to listen to because she basically told us her story. She's the chair at UVA. But she also told us about the process.
And just by talking about it, it really unlocked something in my brain that was like, how many women in this audience want to be chair people? And how can I dedicate myself to promoting women to achieving that goal? And so oftentimes, once you hit certain years in practice, you'll start to get these emails from across the country asking you to recommend people for positions.
And it really sparked my interest thinking, how many people do we not know who are interested in these positions? And how can we help these people unlock their potential to actually achieve this goal? And I think SWOO did something really special in that moment by opening up that conversation. Obviously, not everybody wants to be a chairperson.
And a lot of chair people these days would caution you against it. But I think it's actually a great it's a great conversation to have with this group to sort of demystify it, make it look sort of attainable, achievable, connect you with people who have done it before you and just allow these goals to sort of take place. Very powerful.
How many times when you invite a woman to be a speaker, do they ask you if you're sure you want them or they don't necessarily think that they're the right person? Is that something that you encounter frequently when you invite people to speak?
You do it very well. And yet I still don't like it. I want to ask you both, what is your prediction for the future of SWU? Where do you see SWU going over the next 10, 20 years?
I agree. I think that SWOO is already an infiltrative part, to be honest, and I just see it growing. It's such a well-organized machine with the task forces, with the integration of medical students, with both an online way of staying in touch through webinars and through mentorship, but also an in-person mentoring conference.
I think that SWOO has done an extraordinary job of finding a way to touch people that are coming from different places in their career. I think that it will continue to do that. And I think that it will continue to meet the needs of its community. I also think that SWOO might be thought of as kind of an exclusionary group. You know, the Society of Women in Urology.
might evoke the thought that maybe men aren't a part of this group or gender diverse individuals may not feel welcome. Dr. Mehta, you mentioned earlier that SWOO has opened up the doors, not just for women, but with some of your male colleagues. I'm going to ask you very pointedly, how can our male colleagues support and participate in the SWOO mission?
And how can SWOO be more inclusive of gender diverse individuals as well?
I agree. I think there needs to be collaborative efforts to support women and gender diverse individuals in urology. I think that we won't be successful if we all do it alone.
And I think being inclusive and listening to each other, inviting each other to the AUA meeting has been a really powerful way of sort of opening up some of these conversations and showing the world that we are an open organization. We're happy to have you join as a member. We're happy to have your support.
And we really want you to attend and network with us and get to know us and learn how we can help each other. I want to be mindful of time. I don't want to keep you for much longer. I'm going to ask you to end with one quick thought. What is your favorite SWOO memory?
Well, my favorite memory revolves around food. So that's all you need to know about me. But I just remember one of the first times we all went out to dinner as a group after the meeting and just kind of were able to connect about our lives and our lived experiences and realize that there was a lot of shared experience amongst us. It was just a really wonderful opportunity.
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