For Release: Dr. Jocelyn Fitzgerald Honored With 2023 Women Who Rock Impact Award
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Dr. Jocelyn Fitzgerald Honored With 2023 Women Who RockTM Impact Award
Dr. Jocelyn Fitzgerald will accept the award at the 6th Annual Women Who RockTM Benefit Concert Starring Ann Wilson of Heart & Tripsitter
Pittsburgh, PA –September 26, 2023 - The 2023 Women Who Rock™ Impact Award will be presented to Dr. Jocelyn Fitzgerald, at the 6th Annual Women Who Rock™ Benefit Concert Presented by Gibson Gives on Saturday, October 21, at Stage AE, Pittsburgh.
Dr. Fitzgerald is an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the division of Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital, and Magee-Womens Research Institute & Foundation. She completed her Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery Fellowship at Georgetown University/MedStar Health and her Gynecology and Obstetrics residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. She attended medical school at the University of Pittsburgh and graduated from the Physician Scientist Training Program. Before medical school, Dr. Fitzgerald attended The Schreyer Honors College at Penn State University and earned dual degrees in Neurobiology and Women’s Studies with an emphasis in Women’s Health. Her research and advocacy has focused on mechanisms of female chronic pelvic and bladder pain, patient-centered outcomes of gynecologic surgery, reimbursement and funding disparities in gynecologic surgery and women’s health research and the role of social and digital media in the promotion of women’s health.
This year’s Women Who Rock™ Impact Award is sponsored by Peoples, an Essential Utilities Company. The award ceremony has been a tradition during the annual benefit concert and honors outstanding women making a difference in the fields
of women’s health, women’s rights, or women in music. Women who have paved the way for those who will follow, who have changed the current landscape, and initiated significant developments. Dr. Jocelyn Fitzgerald’s contributions to the world of medicine over the years make her an exemplary recipient of the 2023 Women Who Rock™ Impact Award.
“It is a tremendous honor to be given this award, because it represents the core of what I believe to be the future of women’s health—collaboration and investment between society and science. Organizations like MWRIF and WWR working to close the investment gaps—and demonstrate a return on that investment—are how we accelerate innovation that will foster true health in women in every decade and stage of her life.” - Dr. Jocelyn Fitzgerald
An event experience like no other, Women Who Rock™ rolls out the pink carpet, featuring an all-female fronted music lineup. All proceeds from the Women Who Rock™ Benefit Concert support Magee-Womens Research Institute (MWRI), the nation’s largest research institute dedicated solely to life-saving women’s health research.
This year’s annual Women Who Rock™ Benefit Concert on October 21st at Stage AE will star the legendary Ann Wilson of Heart and Tripsitter. Widely praised as one of the greatest singers in the history of rock, Wilson’s powerful voice has been sending chills down her audience’s collective spine for over five decades, selling more than 35 million records and earning an induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
The lineup also inclues performances by The Vindys and DJ Madame Trio. Host of iHEART RADIO 102.5 WDVE Michele Michaels will return for the sixth year in a row as the emcee.
Tickets for the 2023 Women Who Rock Benefit Concert are on sale now here: https://womenwhorock.info/pittsburgh-2023
