Publications, Presentations and Media

Publications/Presentations

  • Gaps, Successes, and Opportunities Related to Social Drivers of Health from the Perspectives of Black Preterm Infant Caregivers: A Qualitative Study

    Paper #1 from the Center and Care Study

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  • Physician and Biomedical Scientist Harassment on Social Media During the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Physicians & scientists experience high levels of harassment online which has been worse during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study further examined that harassment.

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  • Anti-Black Racism in Medicine: The Medical Student Activist Perspective

    AMSA Racism in Medicine Scholars Program, April 2022

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  • I Ran Out of Compartments

    A MedPage OpEd about my experiences as a Black woman and medical student surviving two pandemics: racism and COVID-19.

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  • Black Pride

    "Black Pride" is a poem about honoring Black children for all that they are, and about living while Black during the pandemic.

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  • Advocacy from the Trainee Perspective

    Montefiore’s Social Medicine Rounds, February 2022.

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  • This is Us: A Case Examination on Black Men in Therapy

    Examination of the use of This is Us and how it portrays mental health in the Black community as a way to educate psychiatric trainees to create culturally competent mental health clinicians.

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  • The Hidden Costs of Medical School

    A Georgetown Medicine student’s perspective on the hidden costs of medical school: Lawren Wooten (M’22) shares her point of view in a piece for Georgetown Medicine Magazine.

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  • Mixed Method Evaluation of Bias in First Year Medical Students

    - Poster Presentations: GUSOM Capstone (October 2018), GUSOM-AHEC Licensing Presentation (January 2019), GUSOM ISP Presentations (May 2022)

    - Oral Presentation: New England Science Symposium at Harvard Medical School (April 2019)

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  • Development of an Asthma Clinic at an Outpatient Family Medicine Clinic

    Oral and Poster Presentation: Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles (2019)

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  • Pre-incisional SPY angiography use in nipple and skin sparing mastectomy surgery: An institutional review

    A retrospective chart review of patients who underwent nipple-sparing mastectomy (NSM) and skin-sparing mastectomy (SSM) with intraoperative pre-incisional SPY angiography.

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  • The Interaction of Dietary Isoflavones and Estradiol Replacement on Behavior and Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor in the Ovariectomized Rat

    Russell, A. L., Grimes, J. M., Larco, D. O., Cruthirds, D. F., Westerfield, J., Wooten, L., … Wu, T. J. (2017). The interaction of dietary isoflavones and estradiol replacement on behavior and brain-derived neurotrophic factor in the ovariectomized rat. Neuroscience Letters, doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2017.01.011

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  • Starved

    Original poem published in In-Training magazine.

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Media Appearances/ Content Creation

  • Hugs: A Podcast by Embrace

    HUGS is a podcast from the EMBRACE team providing pearls and pointers for parents from Black pediatricians in the Bay Area, California. Lawren recorded several episodes for this podcast hosted by Dr. Ursula Griffiths-Randolph

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  • Hope For Haiti Fundraiser

    I created this design and fundraiser to help Hope for Haiti, particularly now when their donations are likely decreasing as the media moves on. The design is intended to highlight that only 5% of doctors in the USA are Black. The design was created to feature trainees and physicians of various sizes, shapes, disabilities and genders because even though there aren't many of us, we are here and supporting our communities.

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  • The Nocturnists: Black Voices in Healthcare

    After the murder of George Floyd in May 2020, we launched a new audio storytelling series called “Black Voices in Healthcare”, hosted by Ashley McMullen, MD and executive produced by Kimberly Manning, MD.

    2021 Webby Award Honoree

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  • Lawren Wooten ’08 co-founds DC COVID sitters to support healthcare professionals.

    As medical schools across the country have moved to online classes and suspended patient-facing training in response to the COVID-19 epidemic, their students have been all but sidelined from efforts to treat those sickened by the novel coronavirus. But many, including Georgetown University med student Lawren Wooten ’08, are finding creative and powerful ways to join the fight and support healthcare professionals serving on the frontlines.

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  • Diagnostic Schema: Abdominal Pain

    Diagnostic Schema via the Clinical Problem Solvers for Abdominal Pain differential diagnoses.

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  • Vitamin Z Podcast

    In the first ever Vitamin Z double-header, we start with a conversation with a PGY-0, one of dozens of medical trainees across the country who took the hippocratic oath historically early to be on the frontlines of a pandemic. Next, we hear audio narratives from different medical students who helped spearhead creative initiatives to help their communities cope with COVID: PPE2NYC (Mericien Venzon), GW Reaching Out (Julie Merriam), and DC Covid Sitters (Lawren Wooten and Libby Wetterer).

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  • Medical students provide childcare for healthcare professionals during COVID-19 pandemic.

    Fox 5 Interview with Lawren Wooten and Libby Wetterrer, two co-founders of DC COVID Sitters.

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  • Hundreds of people showed up to thank Ford for testifying

    Vox Interview during the Kavanaugh Hearings

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