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IN THE NEWS:
WHCoE Funding Opportunities Page: Visit http://www1.wfubmc.edu/whcoe/Research/funding_opps.htm for the latest list of current women’s health research funding opportunities. The page is updated regularly, so be sure to bookmark it!
Winners of the Annual Mentoring Program Survey drawings: Congratulations to Dr. Mary Sorci-Thomas and Dr. Heather Furlong, each winners of a $75 gift certificate to Ombu Wood Fire Fusion restaurant! The winners were randomly drawn from the annual surveys completed and returned by those mentees & mentors who have been paired for a minimum of one year.
Excellence Triathlon Announcement: For 11 exciting years, the Women’s Health Center of Excellence for Research, Leadership, Education (WHCoE) has hosted the Excellence Triathlon. Due to changes in our vision, we have decided to pass the torch.
But don’t despair! Some familiar faces who have assisted us over the past several years have come together to form the group that will be hosting the first annual 36° North Sprint Triathlon http://www.36northtriathlon.com/Home.htm on June 7, 2009 at Tanglewood Park. This event will still benefit the WHCoE and will enable us to continue our work in promoting research and education in women’s health as well as leadership and professional development for all women in our community.
Thank you again to all of the volunteers, sponsors and athletes who have supported the Excellence Triathlon and the WHCoE in the past and we look forward to seeing you all at the 36° North Sprint Triathlon!! For any questions regarding this announcement, please contact Diana Cornelison at dcorneli@wfubmc.edu .
AAMC Early Career Women Faculty Seminar. Applications are now open!
July 11-14, 2009 - Ritz-Carlton Hotel - Washington, D.C. For information about the application process and financial assistance, please review the letter.
Women’s and Gender Studies presents: How a Female Journalist Challenged Power—and Succeeded by Anna Rubino, Author of Queen of the Oil Club: The Intrepid Wanda Jablonski and the Power of Information. Wednesday, February 25, 2009, 4:30 p.m., DeTamble Auditorium (Tribble Hall), Wake Forest University. More information can be found on their flier.
JAMA Call for Papers: JAMA will publish its annual theme issue on violence and human rights on August 5, 2009. They are encouraging authors to submit manuscripts reporting the results of original research on the causes, consequences, and prevention of violence and human rights abuses. All topics related to violence and human rights are of interest, but this year they specifically invite manuscripts on the health effects of violence at home, defining "home" as one's home country or family home."
Career Development as a Long-distance Hike. Janet Bickel. J Gen Intern Med. 24(1):118-21.
Find a Functional Mentor: Luanne Thorndyke, Maryellen Gusic, and Robert Milner
http://www.acphysci.com/aps/resources/PDFs/APS%200109_CareerWatch.pdf
The AAMC "Report on Medical School Faculty Salaries, 2007-2008" is now available. This is the AAMC's 44th review of full-time faculty compensation. The report presents the total compensation attributable to teaching, patient care, or research for more than 85,000 full-time medical school faculty. One-hundred twenty-seven medical schools submitted fiscal year 2008 data for the survey, which covers all sources of compensation: fixed/base salary, medical practice supplement, bonus/incentive pay, and uncontrolled outside earnings. The publication reports total compensation statistics for six faculty ranks across 79 departments/ specialties. The tables provide the 25th percentile and 75th percentile as well as the mean and median for each combination of faculty rank and faculty department/specialty. http://www.aamc.org/publications
Study finds persistence of diversity problems in academic medicine
A survey study believed to be one of first efforts to put hard numbers around long-held beliefs about diversity in medical school faculties has affirmed that awareness and sensitivity to racial and ethnic diversity are believed to be poor by most faculty. Johns Hopkins Univ., February 10, 2009
Position Announcements from ELAM
Regional Chair, Dept of Internal Medicine – Texas Tech U Health Science Center SOM, Amarillo
Associate Dean, Admissions – Wake Forest U SOM
Chancellor – West Virginia U Health Sciences Center
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