To mark the 100th anniversary of Rosalind Franklin's birth, our 5th annual WiSH Symposium featured a new perspective on Dr. Franklin's contributions and posthumous treatment by the field. Women have advanced dramatically in STEM and healthcare professions, but there is further to go. The symposium will draw lessons from the past as we seek to understand and solve the ongoing under-representation of women in STEM and healthcare leadership, a loss of talent that today's global challenges can ill-afford.

Speakers

September 10, 2020, Keynote & Panelist: Robin E. Jensen, Professor of Communication, University of Utah - “Rosalind Franklin and Nature's Scientist”
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Panel Discussion: "Gender, STEM and Healthcare: Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future"

• Panelist: Archana Chatterjee, MD, PhD, Dean, Chicago Medical School, Vice President for Medical Affairs, 69É«ÇéƬMS
• Panelist: Elizabeth L. Travis, PhD, FASTRO, Associate Vice President, Women and Minority Faculty Inclusion, Mattie Allen Fair Professor in Cancer Research, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
• Panelist: Lise Loberg, PhD, DABT, PMP, Scientific Director, Emerging Technology Platforms, Development Sciences, AbbVie Inc.
• Moderator: Heather Kind-Keppel, EdD, Executive Director of Diversity and Inclusion, Deputy Title IX Coordinator, Office of Diversity and Inclusion, Division of Student Affairs and Inclusion, 69É«ÇéƬMS

Centennial Series

September 8, 2020: Dr. Sharmila Dissanaike & Dr. Paula Ferrada - "Celebrate Women in Surgery"

October 5-9, 2020: WHIG/Spectrum Reproductive Health Week - "PreP for HIV Prevention"

October 29, 2020: Carl Correll, PhD - "From DNA to viruses, how Dr. Franklin shaped our views"
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November 11, 2020: Tamara Alliston, PhD - "Multiscale mechanobiology of TGF-beta signaling in the skeleton"

 

 

December 10, 2020: Esther Choo, MD MPH - "From Concept to Action: Chasing Equity in Medicine"
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February 10, 2021: Namandjé N. Bumpus, PhD - "How Racism and Sexism Squash Talent and Slow Progress in STEM"
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March 24, 2021: Olga Anczuków-Camarda, PhD - "Alternative RNA Splicing Defects in Cancer: Molecular and Therapeutic Insights From Model Systems"
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March 29, 2021: Empowering Women Panel, Featuring Archana Chatterjee, MD, PhD; Danielle Candelario, PharmD, BCPS; Qeena C. Woodard, DPM, FACPM, FACFAS, CWS; Sarah J. Haag, PT, DPT, MS

April 12, 2021: Nichole Braddock Bromley - "Hidden Heroes: Being a Solution to Sexual Abuse and Trafficking

April 11, 2021: LaShyra "Lash" Nolen - "The Case for Anti-Racism Training in Medical Education"

 

April 20, 2021: Janet Shibley Hyde, PhD - "The Future of Gender and Sex in Science: Five Challenges to the Gender Binary" - 
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April 28, 2021: Lise Eliot, PhD - "On the Origins of Gender: Brain Sex Differences, Neuroplasticity and Women's Advancement in STEM"

 

 

May 13, 2021: Deborah Atherton Gerbert, MS, PA-C - "Women PAs through History"
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