This collaborative, interactive, facilitated "fireside chat" that will employ presenter (Drs. Barnes and Coehlo) and audience narratives to create a facilitated dialogue on the nature, impact, and human cost of disparities in access and quality of care, and distill some elements of women’s encounters in health systems.  Dr. Bill Allen will serve as primary facilitator and Dr. Anne Farrell will serve as the secondary facilitator for this fireside chat.