Women and Leadership

Opportunities for Development of Women Leaders

Joy McCann Professorship

In June 2005 the University of Massachusetts Medical School received an endowment from the Joy McCann Foundation to establish a Joy McCann Professorship for Women in Medicine. The purpose of the Professorship is to identify and reward female faculty leadership in medical education, research, patient care and community service. The Professor will also have demonstrated outstanding mentoring and leadership. The recipient shall hold this Professorship for 3 years.  It is accompanied by a salary stipend of approximately $25,000 per year. The explicit intent of the Joy McCann Foundation is that this stipend is to be used to encourage, inspire, and reward the recipient. 

Our current Joy McCann Professor is Dr. Patricia D. Franklin, Director, Orthopedic Clinical and Outcomes Research.  Her term will expire in June 2011.

Criteria for the Joy McCann Professorship Award:

The successful candidate:

1. Is a fulltime female academic physician (MD) and faculty member of the UMMS and/or the UMMHC, with at least 5 years of fulltime service as an academic physician.
2. Has documented evidence of providing mentoring and leadership in the medical profession.
3. Has served as a mentor and role model to other faculty in teaching, research and/or clinical care.
4. Has served as an effective advisor to medical students and/or residents.
5. Has demonstrated leadership at the local or national level.
6. Uses the Professorship to promote the success of women faculty, residents and students.

Professorship Responsibilities:

In addition to promoting the success of women faculty, residents and medical students, during her 3 year tenure, the Joyce McCann Professor will be expected to:

1. Become an active member of the Women’s Faculty Committee
2. Become an active member of the Women's Leadership Working Group
3. Report annually on progress to the Women’s Faculty Committee
4. Report annually on progress to the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs
5. Report annually on progress to the Joy McCann Professorship Program
6. Report annually all activities and expenditures to the Office of Research

 

AAMC Early Career Women Faculty Seminar

The Association of American Medical Colleges' (AAMC) offers a seminar for Early Career Women Faculty.  This four-day professional development seminar is designed for women assistant professors and focuses on academic medicine career building, skills in curriculum vitae development and basic management skills. Attendees are encouraged to develop their social network through the career mapping sessions. The seminar is targeted primarily at physicians. CME credit is offered.  

Seminar objectives:

• To assist participants in creating an agenda for working toward professional development goals;
• To provide participants with insights into the realities of building a career in academic medicine, into key ways in which academic medicine is changing, and into leadership qualities demanded by these realities and changes;
• To help participants to expand their network of colleagues and role models and to bring new energy to their networking; and
• To assist participants in identifying the skill areas on which they most need to work and give them a start in developing them.

Next meeting: to be announced.

 

AAMC Mid Career Women Faculty Seminar

The Association of American Medical Colleges' (AAMC) offers a seminar for Mid-Career Women Faculty.   This four-day professional development seminar is designed for women associate or full professors with clear potential for advancement to departmental and institutional leadership. CME credit is offered.

Seminar objectives:

• Develop career plans to advance along a path to leadership;
• Enhance skill in communication, especially with public audiences and media;
• Improve knowledge of institutional finance and departmental budgeting processes;
• Strengthen selected skills such as negotiation, conflict, personnel and time management; and
• Expand networks of mentors and colleagues in academic medicine

Next meeting: December 6-9, 2008, Scottsdale, AZ.  Enrollment is now open and the application deadline of Friday, August 22, 2008.  The full program and application materials are available now on the AAMC meetings website: http://www.aamc.org/meetings/wim/midwim/2008/start.htm 

 

Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine_SM Program for Women 

The Office of Faculty Affairs and the Women's Faculty Committee are seeking nominates for senior women faculty to apply for the Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) Program for Women 2009-2010 Class.  The Women's Faculty Committee will forward its recommendation to the Dean of the appropriate school for their support of the faculty's application. 

The ELAM Program is a year-long, time intensive opportunity for senior women to progress into leadership positions.  If you have questions about it, please go to their website at http://www.drexelmed.edu/elam/home.html, or contact Dr. Michele Pugnaire who is an ELAM alum, or the Office of Faculty Affairs.

Committees and Programs

Women's Faculty Committee

The purpose of the Women's Faculty Committee is to serve in an advisory capacity to the Chancellor regarding issues relevant to women faculty, with the support of the Offices of Faculty Affairs and Diversity and Equal Opportunity. The committee has direct input in the following areas: 

 The Women's Faculty Committee 2008 Outstanding Achievements Award Recipients are:

• Sarah Stone Excellence in Education Award
  Judy Savageau, MPH, Research Associate Professor of Family Medicine & Community Health
• Outstanding Community Service Award
  Jean King, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry
• Women in Science and Health Achievements Award
  Jane Lian, PhD, Professor of Cell Biology
  Janet Stein, PhD, Professor of Cell Biology
• Excellence in Clinical Services Award
  Gertrude Manchester, MD, Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, Primary Care
  Paulette Seymour-Route, PhD, Dean, Graduate School of Nursing
• Outstanding Mentoring Award
  C. Robert Matthews, PhD, Chair & Professor Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology

 

Women's Leadership Working Group of the Women's Faculty Committee

Women’s Leadership Working Group assesses existing national norms for women in academic medical schools, assesses UMMS and UMass Memorial Health Care (UMMHC) needs, and reviews the UMMS data on rank and tenure and leadership positions for both male and female faculty members.  In September, the WFC co-chairs presented their findings to the UMMS/UMMHC Leadership Council, along with strategies to enhance the efforts made to increase the number of women in tenured positions, at senior academic rank and in institutional leadership roles.