The WHCoE Faculty Research Awards in Women’s Health are designed to reward and encourage the continued pursuit of excellence in women’s health research at Wake Forest University Health Sciences (WFUHS).
Award Criteria
Two awards will be given to eligible faculty applicants.
1.  New Investigator award will be presented to a faculty member who is early in his or her career and is conducting women’s health research in basic or clinical science at WFUHS for at least the past 3 years.  “New Investigator” is defined as a faculty member at the assistant professor level, regardless of time in rank.
2.  Mid-Career Investigator award will be presented to a faculty member who is independently conducting women’s health research in basic or clinical science at WFUHS for at least the past 3 years.  “Mid-career Investigator” is defined as faculty at the associate professor level, regardless of time in rank. 
For more information, please review the attached flier.

The WFU Professional Development Center is pleased to announce the first Leadership/Management Skills Series.   Topics include:

·         Moving from Boss to Coach – January 13

·         Crucial Conversations Workshop – January 22

·         Negotiation – January 28

·         Dealing with Change in the Workplace – February 12

·         Performance Management – February 19

For details, review the schedule.

The year 2010 will mark the 100th anniversary of Abraham Flexner's groundbreaking study of American medical education, "A Report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching." As the Flexner centenary provides a timely opportunity to look forward to the next 100 years, the journal Academic Medicine will publish a special collection of articles early in 2010. The journal is encouraging prospective authors to submit manuscript proposals for this collection. Proposals are due Jan. 15, 2009.  
  

The 4th Breastfeeding and Feminism Symposium: From birthplace to workplace

Thursday and Friday, March 26 - 27, 2009
The Symposium will build on the following principles addressed at the 2007 symposium:  

·   Because breastfeeding is an issue of  public health and an important aspect of reproductive health, as well as a reproductive right and a social and biological process, women must have the right of self-determination to breastfeed freely and without constraint;

·   It is important to re-orient the paradigm in which breastfeeding is viewed as  a “lifestyle choice” to a paradigm in which it is a “reproductive right” and a “social justice issue” so as to ensure the social, economic and political conditions necessary to promote success; and

·   Women’s decisions to breastfeed should not result in the loss of their economic security or any rights or privileges to which they are otherwise entitled.

The 2009 symposium brings a feminist lens to ensuring the social, economic and political conditions necessary to secure breastfeeding for all women from the birthplace to the workplace.

The Boston Globe reports, "Amid a deepening financial crisis that has sapped college endowments, college and university officials are grappling with the growing fear that the Wall Street turmoil could cast a shadow over nearly all their operations." The issues involve short and long term credit issues, reduced philanthropy, and possible diminished state subsidies. An article on the same issues appeared on the Chronicle of Higher Education's web site.    

An editorial in the journal DNA and Cell Biology notes that for many of the top prizes and fellowships in science, women appear to be overlooked. The editorial documents very low percentages of women winning key competitions or awards, and suggests that all journals use “double blind” peer review (in which the identities of both authors and reviewers are confidential), that program directors raise questions when finalists for prizes or honors don’t include women, and that selection committees periodically review their procedures to consider whether they are fair to all.

Position Announcements from ELAM

·         Chair, Dept of Medicine – Duke U SOM

·         Founding Chair, Dept of Medicine – The Commonwealth Medical College (PA)

·         Founding Chair, Dept of Obstetrics & Gynecology – The Commonwealth Medical College (PA)

·         Founding Chair, Dept of Psychiatry – The Commonwealth Medical College (PA)

·         Founding Chair, Dept of Surgery – The Commonwealth Medical College (PA)

·         Deputy Director – National Institute of Mental Health, NIH