Heather Logghe

Logghe graduated from the University of California, San Francisco 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]