Emma R. Dioso
Emma Dioso grew up on a farm in rural north-central Montana, and is now a medical student in the class of 2025 at the University of Utah School of Medicine. She has interests in neurosurgery, gender and health equity and global health.
Over the past five years, female medical school applicants consistently out-numbered males and female general surgery applicants steadily increased, yet female surgical subspecialty applicants have not followed suit. In 2008, the American Association of Neurosurgical Surgeons/Congress of Neurosurgical Surgeons Section on Women in Neurosurgery (WINS) compiled a list of obstacles contributing to the lack of recruitment and retention of...
