Improved Infectious Diseases Physician Compensation but Continued Disparities for Women and Underrepresented Minorities

To the Editor—We appreciated seeing a recent report on physician compensation in Open Forum Infectious Diseases. Trotman et al [1] found, in the largest survey of infectious diseases (ID) physician compensation to date, that ID physicians are generally paid more than the amounts previously published in Medscape and Doximity reports [2, 3]. The authors made initial efforts to examine differences in physicians’ salary by gender and noted that further analyses of the gender disparity in physician salaries are underway in conjunction with the Gender Disparity Task Force established by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) in September 2016 [4]