National Leadership Workshop on Mentoring Women in Biomedical Careers

November 27–28, 2007, Natcher Conference Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland

Theme: “Mentoring is Everybody’s Business” – MRC Greenwood, Ph.D.

Final Agenda

DAY 1: Tuesday, November 27, 2007
8:00–8:30	Registration
8:30–9:00	Welcome and Introductions (0:00:00 in VideoCast of Day 1) Vivian W. Pinn, M.D., Associate Director for Research on Women’s Health, and Director, Office of Research on Women’s Health, National Institutes of Health Lawrence A. Tabak, D.D.S., Ph.D., Director, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health Mary Clutter, Ph.D., Former Assistant Director for the Biological Sciences, National Science Foundation, Workshop Planning Committee Co-Chair MRC Greenwood, Ph.D., Professor, University of California - Davis and Chancellor Emerita, University of California - Santa Cruz, Workshop Planning Committee Co-Chair
9:00–9:30	Conference Preamble: New Paradigm for Mentoring (0:18:35 in VideoCast of Day 1) MRC Greenwood, Ph.D., Professor, University of California - Davis and Chancellor Emerita, University of California - Santa Cruz
9:30–10:15	Opening Keynote Address (0:37:40 in VideoCast of Day 1) Introduction Barbara Alving, M.D., Director, National Center for Research Resources, National Instititues of Health OPENING KEYNOTE – On Belay: Ready to Climb France Córdova, Ph.D., President, Purdue University
10:15–10:30	Break
10:30–12:15	Panel: Models of Successful Mentoring (1:35:50 in VideoCast of Day 1) Moderator: Mary Clutter, Ph.D., Former Assistant Director for the Biological Sciences, National Science Foundation Panelists: MentorNet: Ten Years of Success and Lessons Learned Carol Muller, Ph.D., Founder, President, and Chief Executive of MentorNet ELAM Program: Mentoring at the Senior Level Page S. Morahan, Ph.D., Co-Director, Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM), Drexel University College of Medicine Mentoring through ADVANCE: Speed Mentoring and ADEPT Sue V. Rosser, Ph.D., Professor and Dean of Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, Georgia Institute of Technology Mentoring the Next Generation of Faculty Researchers: The UC Davis BIRCWH Program Claire Pomeroy, M.D., M.B.A., Vice Chancellor of Human Health Sciences and Dean, School of Medicine, University of California – Davis Working on Women in Science (WOWS): An Initiative to Recruit, Retain, and Promote Women at UNC Patricia Byrns, M.D., Associate Dean, Office of Research and Faculty Development, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Turning Dreamers into Doctors: Best Practices in Mentoring Future Health Care Professionals Lynne Holden, M.D., President, Mentoring in Medicine, and Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Audience Discussion
12:15–1:45	*Lunch (on own) with Posters and Table-Talk*
1:45–3:30	Panel: Transforming Leadership in Mentoring: Challenges for Developing and Sustaining Leadership (3:22:00 in VideoCast of Day 1) Moderator: Shirley Malcom, Ph.D., Head of the Directorate for Education and Human Resources Programs, American Association for the Advancement of Science Panelists: Mentoring as a Component of Institutional Transformation Susan Bryant, Ph.D., Vice Chancellor for Research, University of California - Irvine Cracking the Glass Ceiling in Academic Medicine Eve Higginbotham, M.D., Dean and Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs, Morehouse School of Medicine Incentives for Mentoring: Transforming Institutional Culture Linda McCauley, Ph.D., Associate Dean for Nursing Research, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing Letting the Girls into the Clubhouse Sharon Turner, D.D.S., J.D., Dean and Professor of Oral Health Practice, College of Dentistry, University of Kentucky Responders: Luisa N. Borrell, D.D.S., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University College of Dental Medicine Kristen Mitchell, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, University of Texas Medical Branch Audience Discussion
3:30-3:45	Reflections from NIH Director and Charge to Workshops (5:12:30 in VideoCast of Day 1) Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., Director, National Institutes of Health
3:40–5:15	Concurrent Workshops Can Mentoring be Taught: Training of Mentors and Mentees Chair: Gene Orringer, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Executive Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs & Faculty Development, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill Co Chair: Morris Weinberger, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Healthcare Quality Management, Department of Health Policy and Administration, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill Determining Gaps in Mentoring Programs and Developing Novel Models for Successful Mentoring Chair: Hannah A. Valantine, M.D., M.R.C.P., F.A.C.C., Senior Associate Dean for Diversity & Leadership and Professor of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine Co Chair: Christy I. Sandborg, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics and Chief of Medical Staff of Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Stanford University School of Medicine, and Chair, Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance Co-chair: Linda McLaughlin, Director of Academic Affairs and Faculty Development, Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine Insights into Mentoring in Biomedical Careers from Social Science Research Chair: Molly Carnes, M.D., Professor, Medicine and Industrial & Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin - Madison Co-Chair: Linda Pololi, M.B.B.S., M.R.C.P., Senior Scientist, PI of the National Initiative on Gender, Culture, and Leadership in Medicine: C-Change, Brandeis University Co-Chair: Ruth Fassinger, Ph.D., Professor and Interim Chair, Department of Counseling and Personnel Services, College of Education, University of Maryland - College Park Co-Chair: Cecilia Ford, Ph.D., Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison Logic Model for Evaluating Mentoring Chair: Joseph F. West, Sc.D., President, Westwell Group, Consulting and Research Co-Chair: Jeanne C. Sinkford, D.D.S., Ph.D., Associate Executive Director and Director of the Center for Equity and Diversity, American Dental Education Association Mentoring in Clinical Departments Chair: Phoebe Leboy, Ph.D., President-Elect of Association for Women in Science, and Professor of Biochemistry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Co-Chair: Jeremy Boss, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine Co-chair: Carol Hampton, M.M.S., Associate Dean for Faculty and Instructional Development, Office of Faculty Affairs, School of Medicine; Director of Leadership, Institute for Women’s Health, Virginia Commonwealth University Co-Chair: Scott Hultgren, Ph.D., Helen L Stoever Professor of Microbiology, Washington University School of Medicine Mentoring Minority Women in Biomedical Research Chair: Evelynn M. Hammonds, Ph.D., Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity, Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University Co-Chair: Joan Reede, M.D., M.P.H., M.S., Dean for Diversity and Community Partnership, Harvard Medical School
5:15–6:00	Posters and Recess
DAY 2: Wednesday, November 28, 2007
8:30–8:45	Welcome
8:45–9:30	Keynote Address (0:2:44 in VideoCast of Day 2) “Mentoring in the Biomedical Sciences: What is the definition of success?” Introduction Joan Schwartz, Ph.D., Assistant Director of Intramural Research, Office of Intramural Research, National Institutes of Health Mentoring in the Biomedical Sciences: What is the definition of success? Gail Cassell, Ph.D., Vice President for Scientific Affairs and Distinguished Lilly Research Scholar for Infectious Diseases, Eli Lilly and Company
9:30–9:45	Break
9:45–11:45	Concurrent Workshops (continued from Day 1)
11:45–1:00	Lunch (on own) with Posters
1:00–1:25	Workshop Reports and Recommended Strategies (0:58:30 in VideoCast of Day 2) Workshop I with Panel and Audience Response (PDF, 6 pages) Receiving Panel: Lawrence A. Tabak, D.D.S., Ph.D., Director, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health, Chair of Mentoring Subcommittee, NIH Working Group on Women in Biomedical Careers Mary Clutter, Ph.D., Former Assistant Director for the Biological Sciences, National Science Foundation, Workshop Planning Committee Co-Chair MRC Greenwood, Ph.D., Professor, University of California - Davis and Chancellor Emerita, University of California - Santa Cruz, Workshop Planning Committee Co-Chair Valarie Clark, M.P.A., Director of Faculty Development, Association of American Medical Colleges Nancy Nielsen, M.D., Ph.D., President-Elect of the American Medical Association and Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences Walter Schaffer, Ph.D., Senior Scientific Advisor for Extramural Research, Office of Extramural Research, National Institutes of Health
1:25–1:45	Perspectives on Approaches to Eliminating Bias and Barriers (1:17:15 in VideoCast of Day 2) Raynard S. Kington, M.D., Ph.D., Deputy Director, National Institutes of Health
1:45–3:30	Workshop Reports and Recommended Strategies (1:37:04 in VideoCast of Day 2) Workshop II with Panel and Audience Response Workshop III with Panel and Audience Response Workshop IV with Panel and Audience Response Workshop V with Panel and Audience Response Workshop VI with Panel and Audience Response
3:30–4:00	Closing Summary: Lessons Learned and Actions for the Future (3:15:28 in VideoCast of Day 2) Comments from NIH Working Group on Women in Biomedical Careers Lawrence A. Tabak, D.D.S., Ph.D., Director, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health, Chair of Mentoring Subcommittee, NIH Working Group on Women in Biomedical Careers Barbara Alving, M.D., Director, National Center for Research Resources, National Institutes of Health, Chair of Best Practices Workshop Subcommittee, NIH Working Group on Women in Biomedical Careers Comments from Planning Committee Co-Chairs Mary Clutter, Ph.D., Former Assistant Director for the Biological Sciences, National Science Foundation MRC Greenwood, Ph.D., Professor, University of California - Davis and Chancellor Emerita, University of California - Santa Cruz Final Remarks Vivian W. Pinn, M.D., Associate Director for Research on Women’s Health, and Director, Office of Research on Women’s Health, National Institutes of Health
4:00	Adjourn

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