About Us
Who We Are
Women Docs Rock is a non profit organization that promotes gender equity in medicine. Our main focus is to provide outreach and training to female medical students and residents on skills they will need to thrive and become leaders in Medicine. Examples are leadership training, contracts and negotiation, advocacy, and sexual harassment awareness.
Our Goals
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Develop educational and mentorship programs for women medical students, medical medical residents in training, and early career physicians.
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Provide scholarships to women pursuing medicine who have demonstrated leadership skills.
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Provide grants to study causes, effects and remedies for gender disparities in medicine, including compensation, advancement and leadership opportunities.
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Provide advocacy for the interests of women physicians.
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Develop and collaborate with other stakeholders in hosting educational and networking events for women in medicine.
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Support local nonprofit organizations through fundraising.
Katherine Tynus, MD, FACP
Dr. Tynus is a primary care general internist at Northwestern Medical Group and an Associate Professor in the department of Medicine. She is a leader in academic and organized medicine.
After graduating from Northwestern University, majoring in speech and communications, Dr. Tynus earned her medical degree at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Rockford. She then completed an internal medicine residency at Loyola University.
She's had a long career in academic medicine, leading a successful transitional year residency program for 15 years and was awarded Gold and Silver Apple teaching awards at MacNeal Hospital in Berwyn, IL. Dr. Tynus serves on the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education Transitional Year Review Committee. She wrote board exam questions as a member of the American Board of Internal Medicine Test Writing Committee from 2010 to 2018. Active in organized medicine, Dr. Tynus is the Immediate Past President of the Illinois State Medical Society and a former President of the Chicago Medical Society. She is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. She serves as an alternate delegate to the American Medical Association’s House of Delegates and is on the AMA’s Speaker’s Panel for Practice Transformation and the STEPS ForwardTM Program.
She is married, has two children, five step-children, two dogs, a cockatoo and a guinea pig. She appeared monthly on the Pretty Late! With Patti Vasquez show on WGN radio, am 720 for Wellness Wednesdays from 2018 to 2019.
Christiana S. Shoushtari, MD, MPH, MS
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Dr. Shoushtari is an internal medicine resident at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital. Clinical medicine, however, is just one of her passions!
Upon graduating from Washington University in St. Louis, Dr. Shoushtari obtained a Master’s in Public Health from the University of Michigan School of Public Health. She utilized her public health education to then work as ahealth legislative correspondent in the Office of a U.S. Senate Majority Leader during the passage of The Affordable Care Act. She then went on to serve as a special assistant to the HRSA Administrator in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where she helped implement ACA policies and manage special project requests from the White House. Nevertheless, her childhood dream to help others as a physician drove her back to school where she first obtained her Masters in Science in Physiology at Georgetown University School of Medicine and then her Medical Degree at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago.
As a medical student and now resident, Dr. Shoushtari has had many leadership roles, including board of trustee member of the Chicago Medical Society and Illinois State Medical Society, where she spearheaded an educational advocacy series; delegate to the American Medical Association House of Delegates where she coauthored a resolution to provide incarcerated persons access to contraception education and methods; a member of the inter-departmental Resident Advisory Committee at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital; and podcast co-founder and participant of the American College of Physicians Resident and Fellow Section’s podcast, “ACP PRN”.
In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her family and friends over good food and drinks, running along the Chicago river and Lake Michigan, and practicing some mindfulness with yoga!
John A. Culver
John is an experienced attorney who has practiced over three decades in the areas of medical and professional malpractice, products liability and personal injury. In addition, he is General Counsel for Ultimate Chicago, which operated Ultimate Frisbee leagues and tournaments in Chicagoland, as well as National Counsel for a Chicago-based machinery manufacturer. He is formerly a foster parent and currently is a member of the Board of Directors for the Center for Law and Social Work.
Sofia Mirshed
Sofia Mirshed was formerly a pre-engineering student through the Project Lead The Way program at Jones College Prep. She is currently a psychology major at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has interned at the University of Illinois NeuroRepository and has shadowed under neurosurgeon Babak S. Jahromi, MD, PhD. She is also a nationally certified and an Illinois licensed Emergency Medical Technician.