Spotlight on Women in Medicine

Past Spotlights…

Date: Thursday, September 20, 2012
Time: 1 PM-5 PM
Location: 2nd Floor EPNEC, Seminar Room B on the School of Medicine campus

Refreshments will be provided. A poster session by members of this year’s Peer Mentoring Network Program.

In the symposium, Bess M. Marshall, M.D., Sharon Cresci, M.D., Carolyn Baum, Ph.D., OTR/L, FAOTA, Valeria Cavalli, Ph.D. and Mary C. Dinauer, M.D., Ph.D..

Date: Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Time: 9 AM-1 PM
Location: Schwarz Auditorium in the Maternity Building on the School of Medicine campus

A light lunch and refreshments will be provided. A poster session by members of this year’s Peer Mentoring Network Program.

Date: Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Time: 8:30 AM-1 PM
Location: King Center

A light lunch and refreshments will be provided.

In the symposium, Carolyn D. Runowicz, MD, professor of obstetrics & gynecology, Northeast Utilities Chair in Experimental Oncology and director of the Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Connecticut Health Center;Jennifer S. Lawton, MD, associate professor of surgery; Terrie E. Inder, MD, PhD, professor of pediatrics, of neurology and of radiology; Sheila A. Stewart, PhD, assistant professor of cell biology and physiology and of medicine; and Dayna S. Early, MD, professor of medicine.

Date: Friday, September 26, 2008
Time:9 AM-1 PM
Location: Holden Auditorium in the FLTC

A light lunch and refreshments will be provided.

In the symposium, Nerbonne; Mackinnon; Hershey; Mary E. Klingensmith, M.D., associate professor of surgery; and Robyn S. Klein, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of medicine, of pathology and immunology and of neurobiology, spoke about their research and about special issues and obstacles for women in their respective fields.

Date: Friday, October 26, 2007
Time: 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: FLTC

Reception to Follow in the Atrium

An afternoon of presentations from featured WUSM faculty and fellows (Jessica N. Boyd, M.D., M.P.H., Emily H.-Y. Cheng, M.D., Ph.D., Kelle H. Moley, M.D., Linda R. Peterson, M.D., Helen M. Piwnica-Worms, Ph.D.), focusing on their successes and the unique challenges they have faced as women in medicine and science.

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