Dr. Bianca Edison grew up dancing ballet and also running track and field and playing tennis.
Dr. Edison earned her undergrad degree in healthy care policy and sociology at Harvard University and a Masters in international healthcare management at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. She spent time working in government healthy policy before going back to medical school.
Currently, she is a pediatric sports medicine physician in the Children’s Orthopedic Center at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. She’s a team physician for the LA Galaxy soccer team and LA Kings Youth Hockey.
Bianca is also a board member of the LA Chapter of the Positive Coaching Alliance and chair of the female athlete committee for PRiSM, the Pediatric Research in Sports Medicine Society.
We talk about
- Building resilience through her experiences as a black woman physician
- Striving to be 1% better every day
- Accepting vulnerability to live courageously and resiliently
At one point in the interview, Bianca quotes a poem from her hero, Maya Angelou: Still I Rise…
You may write me down in history
-Maya Angelou
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.
Bianca Edison speaks with the same steadfast hope, seeing a path forward towards representation of diversity and equity for women and women of color in medicine.
Click here for the full poem by Maya Angelou.
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