Heather Logghe | |
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Alma mater | University of California, San Francisco |
Employer(s) | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Thomas Jefferson University Hospital |
Heather Logghe is a surgical research fellow at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. She started the viral movement #ILookLikeASurgeon, a hashtag that reached over one hundred million people on Twitter.
Logghe graduated from the University of California in 2011. [1] She won the 2012 Chancellor's Award for the Advancement of Women. [2]
Logghe began a surgical residency at the University of North Carolina and took two years off for research. [3] She studied laparoscopic surgeries, and identified that laparoscopic shunt revision can avoid the complications of open revision. [4] Logghe started the viral Twitter campaign #ILookLikeASurgeon whilst a preliminary surgical resident in October 2015. [5] [6] Logghe was inspired by the #ILookLikeAnEngineer campaign. [7] The social media posts generated hundreds of millions of impressions, including the American College of Surgeons and Royal College of Surgeons as well as media outlets. [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] In 2017 the campaign was selected as the cover of The New Yorker. [13]
She has since published peer-reviewed papers on the evolving image of surgeons, as well as providing guidelines for surgeons' social media use. [14] [15] [16] She believes Twitter can be a useful tool in advancing academic surgery. [17] [18] [19] In 2017 she joined Thomas Jefferson University Hospital as a Surgical Research Fellow, looking at how social media can be used to disseminate research, medical education and patient care. [20] [21] [22]