When she became program committee co-chair of this year’s Women in Ophthalmology Summer Symposium, Anna Momont, MD, knew she wanted the meeting to focus on the challenges that women still face in the field.
Although the popularity of the WIO Summer Symposium shows the progress women have made, Momont said they are still underrepresented in areas of leadership.
“My goal was to find out how we can inspire this group, the members of Women in Ophthalmology, to even greater things and how to support them in the challenges that are specific to women,” she told Healio. “We’re