Purvi Parwani, Mamas Mamas, Martha Gulati, ESC 2018 – Social Media and Cardiology

Dr Purvi Parwani (Assistant Professor of Medicine, Loma Linda University Health, Loma Linda, CA, USA), Professor Mamas Mamas (Professor of Cardiology, University of Keele, Keele, UK) and Dr Martha Gulati (Head of Cardiology, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix, AZ, USA) discuss social media in cardiology.

Filmed at ESC 2018, Munich.

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Speaker Disclosure: Dr Purvi Parwani, Professor Mamas Mamas and Dr Martha Gulati have nothing to disclose in relation to this video interview.

Questions:

“How did you get into social media?” (0:41)

“How do you think that social media is evolving at conferences?” (1:15)

“Social media has been used not only to advocate conferences but it’s really changed our profession. There is a huge inequality, for example within women in cardiology – women are finding it increasingly difficult to get positions of leadership. How do you think social media has helped that?” (2.26)

“Martha, a while ago you published a really nice paper around myocardial infarction in ladies, and there was a whole Twitter journal club around that. Do you see that’s the way, going forwards, in dissemination of academic output?” (3:22)

“How do you feel that in terms of education around imaging, social media has helped? (4:40)

“How do you see the future of social media […], how do you see it changing?” (5:25)

“Do you see that there’s a downside to social media in cardiology?” (6:28

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