Voices of the Faculty:
Changing the Culture of Academic Medicine

Presentation by DR. LINDA POLOLI
Recipient of the 2011 Association of American Medical Colleges
Women in Medicine and Science Leadership Development Award

APRIL 24, 2012
5:00 p.m. Reception, 5:30 p.m.Program

Countway Medical Library

As the Director and Principal Investigator, Dr. Pololi will present quantitative and qualitative data on the culture of academic medicine generated by:
The National Initiative on Gender, Culture and Leadership in Medicine: C – Change. She will address faculty discontent and attrition, the paucity of women in senior leadership, and failures in the recruitment and retention of minority faculty as well as themes of relationships, values, professionalism and leadership.

Dr. Linda Pololi, MB.BS. (Doctor of Medicine) from University of London is a Senior Scientist, at Brandeis University and a resident scholar at the Women’s Studies Research Center (WSRC). Prior to joining the WSRC, she was Vice Chancellor for Education and Professor of Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. She has served on the medical school faculties of Brown University, East Carolina University and the Universities of Illinois and Massachusetts. As professor of medicine she has designed and established innovative major courses for medical students and highly successful interdisciplinary faculty development and mentoring programs. As principal investigator and founding director for a U.S. Public Health Service funded National Center of Leadership in Academic Medicine, she developed and implemented effective model mentoring programs for faculty to enhance gender equity in academic medicine, including advancement into leadership positions. Dr. Pololi is the recipient of numerous grants and contracts. She has also served as consultant to medical schools and the U.S. Surgeon General’s Physician Professional Advisory Committee on developing mentoring programs. She is a facilitator with the American Academy on Communication in Healthcare and the Center for Courage and Renewal.

Following her presentation there will be a book signing:
Changing the Culture of Academic Medicine: Perspectives of Women Faculty. Lebanon, NH: Dartmouth College Press, 2010.

Program Sponsored by:
HMS/HSDM Joint Commission on the Status of Women
and HSPH Women, Gender and Health Concentration

 

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