Dr. Elizabeth Comen

I was criticized for how I dress.

I shouldn't wear my hair down.

I should wear my hair in a ponytail with glasses.

When I just wrote this book, it was, well, where are you going to go and talk about?

Yeah, I was wondering about the pushback because you're really critical of the system that you are operating in.

I think as so many women have to at some point in their lives, you have to bet on yourself.

Mm-hmm.

And if you really believe in something, good will come from it if your values are aligned.

And I'm so grateful to be at the Spignoni Women's Health Collaborative, to have so many people behind me supporting this, to have colleagues that I can talk to, to be able to meet you.

This whole world opened up to me.

The number of women that I have met on social media who are in medicine, I'm like, oh my God, you had the same experience too.

It's been incredible.

But we need more of them.

No, I mean, I did one of the biggest academic personal honors of my life this week, which was to give this big keynote address at Harvard at this conference on women's health and innovation.

I mean, truth be told, there were some incredible, famous professors there, and I felt super honored.

There were probably about a thousand people online and maybe 300 people in person.

This is a way bigger platform.

And how do we really meet people where they're at and disseminate information?

Yes, it's Harvard and I'm super grateful.

And also we need other spaces and places to really reach the masses.