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IN THE NEWS:
WHCoE Funding & Educational 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!
Translational Science Institute Seminar Series – Fall 2008
Birth Control has Long Term Effect on Hormone Exposure
Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine may be one step closer to understanding why past oral contraceptive use dramatically lowers the risk of ovarian and uterine cancers later in life. While studying the effect of post-menopausal dietary soy consumption on estrogen metabolism in cynomolgus monkeys, Latanya M. Scott, Ph.D., discovered that monkeys who had been given birth control earlier in life had a reduced amount of estrogen excreted in their urine. The research was done in collaboration with Xia Xu, Ph.D., and Timothy Veenstra, Ph.D. at Science Applications International Corporation-Frederick, Inc., in Frederick, Md., who have developed novel methods for analysis of urinary estrogens. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2008 17: 2594-2602.
The editors of Stroke are soliciting the submission of original manuscripts addressing a broad spectrum of topics addressing stroke in women from bench, clinical or population work. This call for papers is in recognition of current evidence reflecting sex differences in the etiology, risk, and treatment strategies in stroke. Stroke science in women is an emerging frontier of knowledge development.
Permanent Whitewater: Fluid Leadership in Chaotic Environments
By Gregory Shea and Robert E. Gunther
Overcoming Barriers to African American Participation in Research
The National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act of 1993 mandated that investigators working with human subjects actively recruit women and minority participants into clinical research studies. However, there were no established guidelines.
Biotech's Hidden Stepsister: The medical device industry, which grew as quickly as a teenager-now has some serious growing pains.
CALL FOR ACTION:
AWIS Accepting Nominations for STEM Positions in the Next Administration
The Association for Women in Science (AWIS) has been working with a number of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) organizations in a collective effort to gather names for qualified women to be appointed to high level STEM positions in the next Federal Administration.
The qualifications for these positions are:
· a formal background in a STEM discipline
· policy and management skills, and experience at high levels
· the capacity to use information and advice from the nation's scientific and engineering community
· the ability to design and operate research programs that contribute to the evolution of the new science and technology that can advance our country's scientific and economic interests
· an interest in serving the interests of the public in widely diverse areas such as energy, the environment, health care, national security
Send nominations to AWIS at awis@awis.org.
CCL’s Leading Effectively, October 2008: Articles include
• Shifting Gears: How to Successfully Move into a Strategic Role
• Warning Signs: Hotshot Leaders May Be Clueless
• Six Keys to Leading in Turbulent Times
The American Council on Education has released, "Minorities in Higher Education 2008 Twenty-third Status Report." The study finds that the percentage of young adults aged 25 to 29 and older adults aged 30 and above with at least an associate degree in 2006 was about the same, approximately 35 percent. For Hispanics and American Indians, young adults have even less education than previous generations. http://tinyurl.com/ACE-Report
The importance of evaluating the impact of programs, especially those programs designed to increase underrepresented minority students' access to medical education, requires persistent attention. As part of this effort, AAMC Diversity Policy and Programs (DPP) convened its third Diversity Research Forum: Successfully Evaluating Diversity Efforts in Medical Education, during the AAMC 2007 Annual Meeting. Its goal was to provide an overview of research and evaluation strategies used to successfully evaluate diversity efforts in medical education. The importance of evaluation design, implementation, and data collection were a central focus.
Med School Bucks National Trend by Reducing the Number of Doctors It Trains
Two innovative programs--the Pritzker Initiative and REACH--are transforming the curriculum at the Univ. of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine and attracting young physicians to practice in underserved communities.
Position Announcements from ELAM
· Chief, Infectious Diseases and Global Research – Stanford U SOM
· Deputy Director, Division of Clinical Research Resources - National Center for Research Resources, NIH
· Chair, Dept of Medicine – U Maryland SOM
· Associate Dean, Curriculum – U Missouri Columbia SOM
· Senior Associate Dean, Educational Affairs – U Florida COM
· Dean – U Kansas SOM at Wichita
· Chancellor – U Arkansas for Medical Sciences |