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IN THE NEWS:
WHCoE Funding & Educational Opportunities Page: for the latest list of current women’s health research funding opportunities, visit wfubmc.edu/whcoe/Research/funding_opps.htm. The page is updated regularly, so be sure to bookmark it!
Call for Abstracts and Applications: The AAMC Mid Career Women Faculty Professional Development Seminar is now accepting applications for the 2009 program, which is scheduled for December 5-8, 2009, at the Westin Kierland Resort and Spa in Scottsdale, Arizona. Designed for women associate or full professors with clear potential for departmental and institutional leadership, the seminar's objectives are to:
• Visualize potential paths to leadership and develop career plans to advance towards that vision;
• Improve knowledge of institutional finance and departmental budgeting processes;
• Strengthen selected skills such as negotiation, communication, conflict, personnel and time management; and
• Expand networks of mentors and colleagues in academic medicine.
Applicants are asked to submit a current curriculum vitae with their online application. The full program and application materials are available at: http://www.aamc.org/meetings/wim/midwim/2009/start.htm. This program is often oversubscribed, so we encourage you to apply early!
If you have any questions about the program, please contact Jennifer Leadley at jleadley@aamc.org. For questions about logistics, please contact Meghann Shinners at mshinners@aamc.org.
“BUILD A Mind, build a life” CHILDREN’S BOOK DRIVE
The Carter G. Woodson Charter School in Winston-Salem has no library for their students! All donations are for the creation of the Library & Enrichment Center, benefiting the students and families in this underprivileged neighborhood.
The Women’s Health Center of Excellence for Research, Leadership, Education (WFUSM) and the Community Law & Business Clinic (WFU Law School) are collecting gently used books -kindergarten thru 12th grade levels.
Book donation drops are located at the
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Women’s Health Center of Excellence
2000 W. 1st St, Piedmont Plaza II, Suite 101 |
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Community Law & Business Clinic
8 W. Third St, Suite 100A |
For more information, please contact Diana Cornelison at dcorneli@wfubmc.edu or 713-4222
The Mindset of a Problem-Finder: In What You Don't Know: How Great Leaders Prevent Problems Before They Happen, author Michael A. Roberto aims to help leaders identify problems before they become major disasters. He discusses why problems go undetected for so long, how to spot patterns across an organization and how to avoid the "isolation trap" that prevents senior executives from seeing problems that are festering beyond their control, among other topics. Roberto, a management professor at Bryant University in Smithfield, R.I., wrote an earlier book entitled, Why Great Leaders Don't Take Yes for an Answer. http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/2285.cfm
How 'Go/No Go' Thinking Can Stop Innovation Dead in its Tracks: In Unlocking Opportunities for Growth: How to Profit from Uncertainty While Limiting Your Risk, authors Alexander B. van Putten and Ian C. MacMillan offer a tool they call Opportunity Engineering (OE), which shows companies how to engineer the risk out of uncertain opportunities in order to pursue more high-payoff innovations. OE, the authors note, is both a tactical approach and a mindset. It provides a specific way of valuing opportunities, using proprietary software that enables companies to plug in the parameters of a project and determine its potential quickly. http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/2287.cfm
Harnessing Networks to Create Value and Identify New Opportunities
As the recent financial crisis has showed so dramatically, networks exist everywhere. Global inter-linkage of loans and mortgages -- which were intended to distribute risk -- actually ended up spreading it far and wide. Similar network-based impacts are at work in fields as diverse as information security and supply chain management. But while networks create new risks, they also generate new opportunities, write Paul R. Kleindorfer, Yoram (Jerry) Wind and Robert E. Gunther in their new book, The Network Challenge: Strategy, Profit and Risk in an Interlinked World. In an interview with Knowledge@Wharton, Kleindorfer and Wind discuss the themes of many of the 28 essays in their book. http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/2289.cfm
The Center for Creative Leadership's July Newsletter has a number of items of interest. http://www.ccl.org/leadership/enewsletter/2009/JULissue.aspx Highlights include:
Leading for Tomorrow: Win or lose talent with today's decisions
How Do You Adapt to Change?
Strategic Learning: The Secret to Implementing Strategy
Creating a Leading Culture
A Crisis Refresher: Leading well in times of trouble
Call for Abstracts, Applications and Nominations: The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island and the Office of Research on Women’s Health of the NIH are sponsoring a regional workshop on gaps in women’s health research at WIH September 21-23, 2009 in Providence, RI. This conference/workshop is open to scientists, public health policy experts and community organizations focused on research in women’s health and sex/gender research.
The third in the series of regional meetings to provide input to the Office of Research on Women’s Health of the NIH that will create an agenda for women’s health research for the next decade will be held at Women & Infants Hospital September 21-23, 2009. Proposed topics include lifespan issues from preconception to the frail elderly. The format of each of the regional scientific workshops is designed to promote an interactive discussion involving women’s health advocates, leading scientist from across the Nation, public policy experts, healthcare providers, and the general public. Individuals representing the full spectrum of academic institutions, professional associations, advocacy organizations, or the healthcare facilities interested in biomedical and behavioral research on women’s health and sex/gender issues, or individuals wishing to present their personal opinions on these issues are encourages to provide both written and public testimony at each of the regional meetings. Scientific panels and concurrent workshops will address a wide range of topics from the interplay of research and health care to specific areas of research. For more information go to the ORWH website: orwh.od.nih.gov/news.html#prov
Position Announcements from ELAM
Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tufts University School of Medicine and and Ob/Gyn-in-Chief at Tufts Medical Center |