Dear WESH Members,

 

What a great year!  WESH membership is growing and we are asking for your help to keep it growing!  The Board and Membership Committee ask each WESH Member to recruit ONE new member to join Women Executives in Science & Healthcare. Our members are our best resource for spreading the word about this great organization.

 

Here is a sample email to send out to a potential Member:

 

Have you heard of WESH?  (Women Executives in Science & Healthcare) I'm a member and thought you would really enjoy and benefit from joining this great network of professional and academic women.

 

Benefits of membership:

• Learn more about leadership development and executive career advancement strategies
• Network both face to face and across the miles with other women colleagues
• Recognize and support colleagues in your field
• Keep up to date on issues important to women leaders
• Annual CME WESH Summit (2014 Summit in Chicago,IL on May 9-10 at The Palmer House Hilton)
• WESH Spotlights Newsletters (open access; check out the latest issues)
• WESH Leadership Journal (open access; check out the latest issues)
• Opportunities fostering mentor-, coach-, and sponsor-relationships, for you and others

Consider joining WESH today.  I look forward to seeing you at our highly anticipated 2014 Spring Executive Leadership Summit in Chicago,IL on May 9-10 at thePalmer House Hilton.

Don't just take my word for it; here is what another WESH Member has to say:

 

"WESH has provided me with a valuable and unique networking opportunity.  Being connected with other senior women leaders who experience similar challenges and understand and appreciate my career goals has been invaluable.  The opportunity to peer-mentor other women is also something that brings value to my life.  I recommend WESH to women leaders in science and healthcare as an important resource."

 

Kathleen Clem, MD

Professor and Chair

Department of Emergency Medicine

Loma Linda University Medical Center   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WESH Leadership Journal:  Kristine "Kris" M. Lohr, MD, MS:  kmlohr2@email.uky.edu

WESH Spotlights:  Simin Dadparvar, MD, FACNM, FACR:  sdadparvar@aol.com

 

Note: Editors of WESH Publications invite your articles on leadership issues, etc.

Elizabeth L. Travis, PhD, FASTRO

 

The 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare, as published in Modern Healthcare:

  

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/gallery/20130824/PHOTO/824009999/PH  

You are invited and welcome to attend the upcoming HERS Summit for Women Presidents & Chancellors: Leading Transformation/Transforming Leadership, April 10-12, 2014 (Thursday 4pm - Saturday Noon), Four Seasons Hotel, Denver, CO. This gathering will offer a unique setting for women presidents to engage in open conversations about the challenges and opportunities faced in leadership and to craft strategies for raising the voices of women presidents and chancellors on the changes needed in higher education today.

 

Plenary sessions will feature research reports and personal observations of women leaders taking on the critical issues of transforming higher education to provide access and excellence for all our communities.  Varied small groups will explore the "wicked problems" pressing higher education and personal quandaries posed for women leaders.

 

Registration for this event is limited to women who serve or have served as president or chancellor.  A limited number of other women leaders will be invited to share their perspectives in these conversations.  Reporters will not be allowed in the HERS Summit sessions.

 

More information about the Summit can be found on the website:

http://www.hersnet.org/summit.

 

Submitted on behalf of:       Judith White

   President & Executive Director

                  Higher Education Resource Services (HERS)

 

Subject: HERS Summit 2014 Wikipedia and women in science For further information, contact: Elizabeth Suarez [email:Elizabeth.Suarez@du.edu]   As most of Wikipedia submissions are made by men and women are less likely to self-promote Brown did this nice program to give some women in STEM some extra print space. You may have to cut/paste this into your browser.   http://www.bradenton.com/2013/10/17/4776921/women-scientists-put-wikipedia.html

 

SAVE THE DATES for the 2014-2015 program:

 

Module 1: September 29-October 2, 2014

Module 2: January 19-22, 2015

Module 3: May 11-14, 2015

 

 

 

 

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Jaclyn McCaffrey

Project Coordinator

 

"Leadership Tips: Learning about Sponsorship"*

 

 

Dr. Knovich graduated from the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, and did her internal medicine residency and hematology and oncology fellowship at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, where she has been on faculty for the past 10 years.  Her clinical focus is on consultative hematology, thrombosis, and hemostasis.  She successfully manages three medical director positions, over: 1) the Hemophilia Diagnostic and Treatment Center at Wake Forest Baptist Health, 2) the Adult Sickle Cell Program, and 3) the Apheresis Service.   She has served on the Board of Directors of the North Carolina Oncology Association.

 

Her research interests include thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, clinical laboratory science, and the development of novel coagulation testing and earned her a career development award from National Organization for Rare Disorders for her work in thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura. 

Leadership Lessons I Learned.....and Moving Forward

Getting to know the Senior Editor of WESH Spotlights...

 

My major leadership lessons started when I was a mid-career academic physician with an exciting nomination from my University to participate in the 1999-2000 Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine for Women (ELAM) Fellowship. That Fall (1999) I met thirty-three very bright classmates from across the United States and Canada who were as eager as I for the vigorous ELAM educational lessons in leadership training, developing initiatives, financial planning, and upper level administration skills. At the time I had been the Director of Nuclear Medicine for more than a decade and was highly motivated to advance into the position of chair of a radiology department or associate dean of a medical school.

 

Unfortunately, due to low reimbursements at that time in my field and being part of a For Profit Organization, my position disappeared due to restructuring. Needless to say, this loss was a devastating experience since I had invested all my energy and soul as the Director and had developed one of the most successful residency programs on the East Coast along with some strong research projects and publications. As I moved on to another institution and enjoyed working in my field again, I started getting more involved in leadership of the organizations.

 

Since my graduation from ELAM, I have served in SELAM (Society of Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine) and now in WESH (Women Executives in Science and Healthcare) on different committees. The ELAM class of 1998-1999 with Christine K. Abrass, MD, former president of SELAM designed a leadership brooch in silver and gold to raise funds at the SELAM Annual Meeting to benefit leadership projects. The brooch was purchased by many of us as ELUMS. I took the liberty as Class Representative to make several scarves as a class project with the proceeds to benefit SELAM. This scarf project started with financial support from my ELAM Fellow Classmates and an initial donation from a well-known scarf designer to Philadelphia University. Each year, the senior class and graduate students participated in an award winning competition for the best scarf design. Over the years, SELAM benefited from the sale of more than 250 scarves at the Annual Meetings.

 

For the past few years initially at SELAM which is now WESH, I have served as the first Editor of WESH Spotlights. As Editor, I have had some wonderful opportunities to network with so many accomplished women leaders throughout the U.S.   

 

Leadership in Professional Organizations

 

First, I was elected as the President of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, Greater New York Chapter, which had over 2,200 members. During my two years of service, I created higher educational programs for nuclear medicine physicians and scientists and turned the organization around to be financially solid. Subsequently, the Society of Nuclear Medicine honored me as a Superb Educator with the prestigious Berson-Yalow Award, named after Rosalyn S. Yalow, PhD, who in 1977 received the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine and who with Solomon A. Berson, MD developed radioimmunoassay (RIA) techniques in the l950s. This award was heartwarming recognition of my value as a leader of a major professional organization; this peer-level confirmation of my skills reminded me of my effectiveness despite having dealt with so many years of challenges in a difficult professional environment.

 

Later, elected as the President of American College of Nuclear Physicians (ACNP), I strove to bring the organization from bankruptcy to solvency. I motivated teams of officers and ACNP members to initiate many new programs, such as "Residents As Future Leaders" which resulted in the first Nuclear Medicine Resident Organization in the U.S. Recently, the program expanded internationally to bring nuclear medicine residents from around the globe closer to share their scientific knowledge with each other. I created award winning scientific programs such as developing abstract presentations and writing up research findings for publication. To increase the value of membership, I negotiated with the several clinical nuclear medicine journals which increased the value of membership with physicians in Clinical Nuclear Medicine. Now many U.S. nuclear medicine residents enjoy free membership (along with a journal subscription) in the organization. Another innovation was the Mentorship Program, started eight years ago; each year the best mentors receive recognition and an award at the annual meeting. Additionally, for six years, I served as the Chief Editor of Scanner, a bimonthly publication.  Later the ACNP merged with the American College of Nuclear Medicine and adopted the new name American College of Nuclear Medicine (ACNM). It has been gratifying as a major contributor and supporter of these programs to see their success and their impact on the growth of the ACNM. Over the past ten years, I have been the recipient of many leadership awards and have continued to move the organization forward.

 

After my service as President of ACNM, I was elected as the President of the Correlative Imaging Council at the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. This Society has more than 19,000 members. In addition to developing several educational programs, I worked with board members to launch the Computerized Tomography (CT) Educational Course for nuclear medicine physicians. Thus far, over 4,000 physicians have been trained and certified. The President of the Society honored my work with the Presidential Distinguished Educator Award at the 2011 Annual Meeting in Miami Beach, Florida.

 

Leadership: Respecting Cultural Diversity and Heritage

 

A few years ago, I was elected as the Treasurer to the Iranian Cultural Society of America (Shabahang) in Philadelphia. Established for twenty years, the organization works to promote and enhance Persian culture, literature, poetry, and heritage in the Tri-State of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. Then I was elected as the President of Sabahang. Initially I was very reluctant to accept the position, because I was unsure about my current competence in the Persian arts and humanities since the last time I had studied Persian literature was in high school, many years ago. My high school major was science as I was very intent on going to medical school. After being encouraged to accept the office of President of Shabahang, I encountered many challenges; two important, early challenges were to strengthen the membership and re-establish the non-profit status.

 

We held a successful Fund Raising event to bring speakers from around the globe to our monthly meetings and establish an annual Scholarship Fund for university students obtaining various degrees. For the first time we created an Iranian Directory for Iranian and Iranian-American professionals and businesses in the area. The Young Chapter of Shabahang brought in concerts, movies, lectureships, and for the first time a traditional celebration of "Shab e Chahar Shanbeh Suri", which is the Fire Festival -  jumping over the fire. The event was held in a large Philadelphia park overlooking the city and the Museum of Art, on the last Tuesday evening in March before the arrival of Nowruz, the Persian New Year (March 20th).  More than 400 people enjoyed the Persian music, dance, food, and jumping (safely) over the fire with wishes for good health. The significance of the annual Fire Festival is to wish for enlightenment and happiness throughout the coming year. People leap over the flames, shouting: "Sorkhi-ye to az man; Zardi-ye man az" which means "Give me your beautiful red color; and take back my sickly pallor".

 

The Youth Chapter programs featured art, music, and a variety of talents of first-generation Iranians in the area. We established a quarterly publication, Peik (Shabahang News).

 

By the end of my term as President, we had reached out to Iranian and Iranian-Americans within a hundred mile radius. The budget of the organization had doubled. The nine monthly programs were outstanding and well-received. The four events of special celebration, Fall (Mehregan), Winter (the Yalda party), Spring (the Nowruz Celebration), and (the Sizdah Bedar picnic), were extremely successful and attended by hundreds of people. My two years of leadership invigorated the organization and the resulting enthusiasm of its members invigorated me. The valuable lesson I learned: "Accept the new challenges, learn about them and be creative to extend the organization beyond your comfort zone".

 

Reflecting...

 

Looking back, although my dream to chair a department or serve at the dean's level in a  medical school did not occur, the valuable lessons I have learned through my ELAM training and WESH networking as well as many efforts with colleagues at multiple national professional organizations have strengthened me and enriched my life. Though deep in my heart, I still miss my field of medicine, these leadership experiences have emboldened me to accept many new challenges big or small and, however I can, to move my profession and a variety of wonderful organizations such as WESH forward.

 

By:       Simin Dadparvar, MD

            Editor, WESH Spotlights

 

Prior to this new position, Dr. Pauly served for six years as the Associate Vice President for Health Affairs of Equity and Diversity at the University of Florida Health Science Center (consisting of six colleges: Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health and Health Professions, and Veterinary Medicine). She was a course director in the College of Medicine and practiced as an academic internist at the University of Florida. She is concluding her term as Chair of the Group on Women and Medicine and Science for the AAMC.

 

Elisabeth Kunkel, MD et al. (2013) set up major points to map steps for a new chair of a department in the recent Academic Psychiatry article, "Leadership considerations for executive vice chairs, new chairs, and chairs in the 21st century". The article discusses six important areas for current, new, and future chairs to commit their serious attention, time, and resources. The six areas are:

 

1. Mentorship;

2. Faculty Development;

3. Promotion;

4. Demonstrating value in each of the academic missions;

5. Marketing and communications; and

6. Barriers

 

Emphasis throughout the article highlights benchmarks in these areas in order to foster success for the goals and success of the faculty and department.  For clear explanations and concrete tips, read the full article at: 

 

Kunkel EJ, Lehrmann JA, Vergare MJ, Roberts LW. Leadership considerations for executive vice chairs, new chairs, and chairs in the 21st century.  Academic Psychiatry. 2013 Jul 1;37(4):254-60. doi: 10.1176/appi.ap.12010019. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23820911

 

Reported by:   Simin Dadparvar, MD, FACNM, FACR

                      Leilani Doty, PhD, WESH Communications Chair, Director, University of                                             Florida Cognitive & Memory Disorder Clinics, Gainesville, FL

NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF, a news and human rights journalist and, by the way, winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, states the case for including more women in senior executive positions in order to reap greater accomplishments. In his October 23, 2014 New York Times editorial, he suggests that more women leaders in the business world, politics, and the news media would expand the diversity of the high-level decision makers and outperform cohort-companies. He makes a special point of encouraging Twitter to diversify its Board of seven white males and identifies examples of companies whose diversifying has led to greater performance. Read Kristof's Op-Ed piece, "Twitter, Women and Power" at:

Elizabeth L. Travis, PhD, WESH immediate Past President, responded to The New York Times article, "She's (Rarely) the Boss", with a recommendation for sponsorship of women to help them move up into the C-suites.  Her brief opinion piece was published 2/4/13 online in the Letters to the Editor section. Below is the link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/05/opinion/sponsors-for-women.html?_r=0

7th Annual Leadership Institute for Women in Psychology

 

August 4-6, 2014, and March 25-26, 2015, Washington, DC.

Applications due March 17, 2014

 

 

The American Psychological Association Committee on Women in Psychology (CWP) announces its seventh annual Leadership Institute for Women in Psychology (LIWP) to be held on Monday, August 4, through Wednesday, August 6, 2014, and Wednesday, March 25 through Thursday, March 26, 2015, in Washington, DC. This year we are accepting approximately 20 mid-career women psychologists who work full time in academic or academic medical settings, and approximately 20 mid-career women psychologists who work primarily in clinical or consulting settings. Mid-career women psychologists in leadership roles in integrated primary care settings in academic health centers, public, community or private sectors are encouraged to apply as well.

 

This is a competitive process and modesty is not helpful in this regard. The applications for each group (a. academic/academic medical and b. clinical/consulting) are different. Please complete one application only, for the group with which you most clearly identify and for which you meet the eligibility criteria discussed below. (Can we put the link in here?)

 

The overall mission of the APA LIWP is to empower, prepare and support women psychologists as leaders to promote positive changes in institutional, organizational and practice settings as well as APA and State, Provincial and Territorial Associations (SPTA) governance, and increase the diversity, number and effectiveness of women psychologists as leaders. The program's mission supports APA's goal to advance psychology as a science and profession and as a means of promoting health, education and human welfare.

 

Note: the APA LIWP is open to mid-career* women psychologists in academic or academic medicine, and clinical or clinical consulting settings who are full APA members in good standing. Please review the Call for Applications for a complete list of eligibility criteria. There are two separate applications housed at the link, so be sure to complete the one for the track you identify with most. Check out the APA LIWP Frequently Asked Questions here:

http://www.apa.org/pi/women/programs/leadership/faq.aspx

 

*Mid-career is defined by the APA LIWP Executive Committee as being no more than twenty (20) years and no less than ten (10) years post-doctoral degree. If you are more than twenty years post-doctoral degree and feel you are "mid-career", please explain why in the appropriate section of the application.

 

Should you require additional information or assistance, please contact Wynter Oshiberu at 202-336-6044, or woshiberu@apa.org. 

 

Who should apply?

Mid-career (10-20 years post-doctoral degree**) women psychologists with demonstrated leadership experience, strengths and goals who are APA members in good standing and holding either full-time, paid faculty appointments at the associate professor or clinical associate professor level or above in academic or academic medicine settings.***  Or working 20 or more hours per week in clinical or consulting settings. If you are in a clinical setting, you must be a licensed psychologist to apply to the LIWP.  Women of color, lesbian and bisexual women, transgender women and women with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.

 

**If you are more than 20 years post-doctoral degree but view yourself as mid-career, you may apply but must provide careful justification for your application as a mid-career psychologist.

 

***If you are in an academic setting that does not have traditional faculty ranks and promotion processes, you may apply if you can provide an articulate justification for being at a career development state that is comparable to that of Associate Professor or Associate Clinical Professor, or greater.

 

Program components

The core curriculum includes highly interactive, skills-focused workshops with experts in the field:

            Leadership models

   Managing work-life balance

   Negotiation skills

   Fiscal, program and personnel issues

   Mentoring networks, including gender and diversity issues

   Mid-career management, goal Setting and planning

 

Previous institutes and Web seminars during the year have also addressed:

Sustaining and funding a research program

Strategic planning

Dealing with difficult people

Ethics from the leadership perspective

 

Applications and supporting materials (CV/resume and one letter of recommendation) are due by 5:00 p.m. EST on Monday, March 17, 2014. Please make sure you complete either the application for mid-career women in academic and academic medical settings or the application for mid-career women in clinical and consulting settings. Note that the applications have different questions, requirements and guidance for letters of recommendations.

 

If selected, the fee for participation in both the fall and spring programs is $600, which helps to defray costs of the program (faculty are entirely volunteer). Application to the program indicates you are making a commitment to participate fully, including completing surveys on an annual basis regarding career advancement and leadership training needs. Participants are also invited to Web seminars on leadership issues throughout the year and have access to a mailing list for LIWP participants, faculty and staff.

 

Selections will be announced by Friday, May 31, 2014.

 

For additional information, please visit our FAQ page to review frequently asked questions or contact the APA Women's Programs Office: via surface mail at American Psychological Association, 750 First St., NE, Washington, D.C. 20002-4242 or via phone at (202) 336-6044.

 

The American Psychological Association Leadership Institute for Women in Psychology 2013-2014 funders include the APA Women's Programs Office, the Women's Caucus of the APA Council of Representatives, the Society for the Psychology of Women and the APA Commission on Ethnic Minority Recruitment, Retention and Training in Psychology.

The GWIMS Steering Committee is pleased to announce the new GWIMS subcommittee members. We received a number of impressive applications, and we welcome the following ten new subcommittee members:

Adela Casas Melley, M.D., FACS, FAAP,

Joyce Fried,

Pascale Lane, M.D., and

Gloria Richard Davis, M.D.

Pamela Saunders, Ph.D.,

Andrea Seritan, M.D., and

Lori Wagner. M.D., M.A., F.A.C.P.

Amy Gottlieb, M.D.,

Kathryn Rexrode, M.D., M.P.H., and

Mary Lou Voytko, Ph.D.

2014 Unconscious Bias Learning Lab - Save the Date!

The AAMC and Cook Ross will hold two Unconscious Bias Learning Labs for the Healthcare Professions in 2014. Mark your calendars now!

March 12-14, 2014, in the Washington, DC Metro Area

October 7-9, 2014, in San Francisco, CA

The Lab is a 3-day evidence-based training led by Howard Ross of Cook Ross Inc., one of the nation's leading training consultants and author of ReInventing Diversity, in partnership with the AAMC. It is built specifically for academic medicine faculty and administrators. The Lab covers:

* How unconscious bias develops and how it influences perceptions.

* What impact bias is having on your own interactions and how to mitigate it.

* Cutting-edge interventions to take back to your institutions to effectively combat bias in recruitment, hiring, patient care, and more.

Learn about Dr. Valerie Romero-Legott's experience at the Learning Lab and how it has transformed her return to her job.

Washington, D.C., October 24, 2013-A record number of students applied to and enrolled in the nation's medical schools in 2013, according to data released today by the AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges). The total number of applicants to medical school grew by 6.1% to 48,014, surpassing the previous record set in 1996 by 1,049 students. First-time applicants, another important indicator of interest in medicine, increased by 5.5% to 35,727. The number of students enrolled in their first year of medical school exceeded 20,000 for the first time (20,055), a 3% increase over 2012.

"At a time when the nation faces a shortage of more than 90,000 doctors by the end of the decade and millions are gaining access to health insurance, we are very glad that more students than ever want to become physicians. However, unless Congress lifts the 16-year-old cap on federal support for residency training, we will still face a shortfall of physicians across dozens of specialties," said AAMC President and CEO Darrell G. Kirch, M.D. "Students are doing their part by applying to medical school in record numbers. Medical schools are doing their part by expanding enrollment. Now Congress needs to do its part and act without delay to expand residency training to ensure that everyone who needs a doctor has access to one."

The overall growth in medical student enrollment can be attributed, in part, to the creation of new medical schools as well as existing schools' efforts to expand their class sizes after the AAMC, in 2006, called for a 30% increase in enrollment to avert future doctor shortages. In 2013, 14 medical schools increased their class sizes by more than 10%. Four new medical schools welcomed their first classes this year, contributing to about half of the overall enrollment increase. Since 2002, medical schools have increased the number of first-year students by 21.6%.

The diversity of students applying to and enrolling in medical school remained relatively steady, with two notable gains. The number of first-time female applicants increased by 1,102 or 6.9%, after remaining flat in 2012. The number of Hispanics/Latinos attending medical school continued to increase, rising by 5.5% to 1,826 enrollees.

As in past years, the total number of men and women applying to and enrolling in medical school is fairly equally split, with male enrollees accounting for approximately 53 percent and female enrollees accounting for 47% of the 2013 class. In addition to the increase in first-time female applicants, the total number of men applying to medical school increased 5.8% from 24,338 applicants in 2012 to 25,760 male applicants in 2013.

The overall quality of this year's application pool remained strong, with nearly three-quarters of applicants reporting research experience and two-thirds reporting voluntary community service. This year's applicants reported an average undergraduate GPA of 3.54 and a combined median MCAT� score of 29.

The GWIMS Research and Product Development Subcommittee is proud to announce two new additions to the GWIMS Toolkit:

1. Workshop Preparation and Presentation by Drs. Carla Spagnoletti, Rachel Bonnema, Melissa McNeil, Abby Spencer, and Megan McNamara

2. How to Start and Maintain a Robust WIMS Organization by Drs. Julie Wei and Paige Geiger.

The toolkits should be shared with faculty and others. All GWIMS Toolkits can be found at: www.aamc.org/members/gwims/toolkit.

We are excited to share this year's new GWIMS Steering Committee members:

* Elizabeth Travis,PhD, FASTRO, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston,Tx

* Barbara Fivush MD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

* Amelia Grover, MD, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine

* Martha Gulati, MD, MS, FACC, FAHA, Ohio State University College of Medicine

* Luanne E. Thorndyke, M.D., F.A.C.P., Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs, University of Massachusetts Medical School

* The Task Force on Women's Academic Careers in Medicine of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Medicine 

The new members and the award winner of Women in Medicine and Science were recognized at the Awards Luncheon on Tuesday, November 5th at the 2013 AAMC Annual Meeting in Philadelphia to honor the award winners for their extraordinary contributions to advancing women leaders in academic medicine.