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Heather Logghe, MD

 

Heather Logghe is a trailblazer in the use of social media at the intersection of patients, practitioners, research, and medicine. She is an internationally sought after speaker, collaborator, and social media correspondent on topics of gender parity, diversity, professionalism, and strategic social media use.

Heather Logghe completed her undergraduate degree in psychology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She then spent a year at the front lines of public health working with the World Trade Center Medical Monitoring Program for the rescue and recovery workers of September 11. Following this she bicycled from San Francisco to Washington DC with the inaugural Ride for World Health, raising funds and awareness of global health issues.

She went on to earn her medical degree at the University of California, San Francisco. Following graduation, she worked with health tech startups in Silicon Valley, including Doximity, AgileMD, and Touch Surgery. She then completed two years of general surgery residency at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. In 2015 she founded the #ILookLikeASurgeon social media movement, which has united surgeons on issues of diversity, inclusion, and work-life-integration. To date, the hashtag has been tweeted 150,000 times by over 35,000 users, resulting in over 1 billion impressions.

She is currently a surgical research fellow at Thomas Jefferson University, examining the role of social media in surgical education, research dissemination, and patient care. The goal of this research it to increase utilization of existing technologies to improve health care communication, patient experiences, and outcomes.