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.

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)

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.

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.

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