| Women in endocrinology |
See below for our latest newsletter, feel free to leave a comment.
President ANN E. TAYLOR, M.D. taylorae@live.com
Secretary-Treasurer JINGJING KIPP, Ph.D. Department of Biological Sciences DePaul University
Nominating Committee ANN E. TAYLOR, M.D. taylorae@live.com
Program Committee SHANNON WHIRLEDGE, Ph.D. MSC Yale University School of Medicine Development Committee MELANIE SCHORR HAINES, MD Neuroendocrine Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School Mentoring Committee GAYATHRI DEVI, Ph.D. Departments of Surgery, Pathology Duke Cancer Institute Duke University School of Medicine Awards Committee JENNIFER W. HILL, PhD Dept. of Physiology & Pharmacology Dept of Obstetrics-Gynecology U. of Toledo College of Medicine & Life Sciences JenniferW.Hill@utoledo.edu
Membership Committee MABEL TORIBIO, MD Metabolism Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School
Communications Committee GERALYN MESSERLIAN, Ph.D. Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Alpert Medical School at Brown University |
NEWSLETTER Quarter 1 2024
Dear members of Women in Endocrinology,
We are delighted to kick off our quarterly newsletter. This will help us keep in touch with issues, get feedback from our members, and encourage new participation. We are actively planning several activities during The Endocrine Society Annual Meeting and hope to see you there. (see below)
We are looking for members who would like to participate in WE Committees. Please reach out to me or Committee Chairs if you are interested in serving. Committee participation is a great way to learn leadership skills, network with peers, and give back to women.
We are starting to discuss revising the WE mission, as we now represent more than half of all endocrinologists and our needs have changed from validation to equity in pay, promotion, and work life balance.
I would appreciate your thoughts about how we should be involved in women’s health issues, with the shocking overturn of Roe v Wade, the Alabama Supreme court ruling that embryos should be considered children, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/02/21/us/alabama-supreme-court-embryo-ruling.htmland, and the appalling recent rise in maternal mortality https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/maternal-mortality/2021/maternal-mortality-rates-2021.htm.
Take a look at American Women in Science (AWIS). I’ve been extremely impressed by their data based reports about all women in science https://awis.org. As a member ($150/yr) I get weekly useful news briefs.
Lastly, I would like to give a shout out to Peer Mentoring. We all should now have women colleagues and we can each help each other. This newsletter will be posted on our website, and we will create a Forum that you can use to comment and post your own responses and content.
Best, Ann |
COMMITTEE REPORTS
NOMINATING COMMITTEE submitted 13 nominations for Laureate awards by the Jan 20 deadline. I am very proud of the work this committee did to identify new candidates and submit a large number of packages. We are always looking for new candidates to nominate so please let me know of ANY ideas.
The PROGRAM COMMITTEE is pleased to announce that our Women in Endocrinology Annual Meeting will be held on Saturday June 1, 2024, from 6:45pm to 10:00pm at the Boston Convention Center. Our keynote speaker for the meeting, Dr. Ashley Whillans will be providing a presentation entitled, "Scientific Strategies to Reclaim Time & Live a Happier and More Productive Life." We look forward to seeing many of you there and recognizing this year's Women in Endocrinology Awardees.
The DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE has increased in membership and plans to increase sponsorship of the Women in Endocrinology annual meeting so that WE can continue to deliver an excellent program.
The MENTORING COMMITTEE is excited to announce the Professional Development Series session co-sponsored by Women in Endocrinology at ENDO 2024 on Monday, June 3, at 4:30- 6:00 PM on Obtaining Leadership Skills and Positions. In addition, the Mentoring Committee is looking for trainee members to serve. If you are interested in joining, please send your LOI and biosketch to gayathri.devi@duke.edu.
The AWARDS COMMITTEE is well into evaluating the excellent submissions for this year's Mentoring and Young Investigator awards. We hope to notify awardees by April 1st. Please note that we are still accepting nominations for the Agnes Schonbrunn Award for Distinguished Service. Nominations are due by April 1st. Further details can be found here: https://wie.wildapricot.org/Agnes-Schonbrunn-Award-for-Distinguished-Service
The MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE has been overseeing membership renewals at the end of last year/ start of this year along with approval of new WE memberships. Our committee also has been handling any inquires to WE via our organization’s primary contact email address (WIE@wildprict.org). Please feel free to reach out with any questions! We have also been providing email updates to our membership regarding our organization’s activities.
The COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE has updated the WE website with this year's leaders and added photos! Log on to get to know the team! Feel free to send corrections or missing headshots to gmesserlian@wihri.org. We also welcome professional news from our members for posting! Share career milestones or general news about professional development for committee consideration. Be sure to join us on twitter as well @Women_in_Endo!