Sentences with phrase «woman chair of the department»

She then becomes the first female professor at the University and its first woman chair of the Department of Veterinary Anatomy.

Not exact matches

The faculty is currently 40 percent women — whereas «Cal - Tech recently made it into double digits,» said Klawe — and six out of seven department chairs are female.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

Legislator Dixon also met with Dr. Bonaccio and Dr. Christine Ambrosone, Chair of the Department of Cancer Prevention and Control, to hear an update on Roswell's research and screening efforts to prevent and treat breast cancer, helping more women beat this terrible disease.

Fiala, who was recently named chair of the Women's Equality Party created by Cuomo last year, served as Broome County Executive and commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles before retiring last year.

According to Page S. Morahan, former chair of the department of microbiology and immunology and current co-director of ELAM (an executive leadership program for women in academic medicine) at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a mentor can make a difference in two ways.

A chance meeting with the department chair in the hospital cafeteria turned into a discussion of an article Jackson had been reading about the use of bone densitometry to determine the risk of osteoporosis in postmenopausal women.

COPENHAGEN — Surely, one reason women scientists are relatively rare on university faculties — in academic leadership posts such as department chairs and deans, on the programs of scientific meetings, as experts interviewed by the media, on boards, and in other prominent positions — is that women are less visible than men.

She and Mack T. Ruffin IV, M.D., MPH, professor emeritus and chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at Penn State Hershey Medical Center, studied excessive drinking behavior in women from rural Appalachian Ohio because of a surprising lack of empirical data.

«The higher incidence of prolonged problems among women has been associated with a number of gender differences including physiological differences in the laryngeal system, differences in the endocrine system, and differences in pulmonary usage,» said Eric Hunter, the lead investigator and Associate Chair of Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders at the Michigan State University.

Women make up only 15 percent of permanent department chairs in medical schools and barely 16 percent of medical school deans.

«For the majority of women who undergo genetic testing, there is no explanation for their breast cancer predisposition,» said Professor Southey, from the Department of Clinical Pathology at the University of Melbourne and Chair of Precision Medicine at Monash University.

Sandra Schmid, chair of the Department of Cell Biology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, recently suggested in a Science Careers article, that improving institutional decision - making overall, would especially help women.

Instead of dilating and increasing blood flow to the heart during stress, in women the tiny blood vessels are constricted, leading to areas of reduced blood flow,» said Vaccarino, who is also chair of the department of epidemiology at the Emory University School of Public Health.

«Pulmonary fibrosis slowly robs patients of breath and finally life,» said Paul W. Noble, MD, professor and chair of the Department of Medicine and director of the Women's Guild Lung Institute at Cedars - Sinai.

«Drinking alcohol has a number of effects on your body that can impact your skin,» says board - certified dermatologist and study author Abrar A. Qureshi, MD, MPH, FAAD, chair of the department of dermatology at Brown University in Providence, R.I. «While alcohol has been linked to a variety of skin disorders, including psoriasis and acne, our research suggests that it's also associated with the development of rosacea in women.»

Their plan is not to force more hires but rather to meet with department chairs to create a strategy for increasing the pool of women candidates in each discipline, starting with chemistry and the two biology departments.

«We have assembled a great team of transplant surgeons and researchers here so we can offer patients in critical need of a lung transplant the highest level of care, with the expectation of the best possible outcomes for them,» said Paul Noble, MD, director of the Women's Guild Lung Institute at Cedars - Sinai and chair of the Department of Medicine.

Maureen G. Phipps, MD, holds the Chace - Joukowsky professorship, is chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and is assistant dean for Teaching and Research on Women's Health at Alpert Medical School.

With E. coli gaining resistance to the antibiotics that many women take to treat UTIs, or prevent recurring ones, the search for a vaccine takes on new urgency, says Harry Mobley, Ph.D., senior author of the new paper and chair of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at U-M.

For David Habin Song, MD, MBA, academic chair of the department of plastic surgery at Georgetown University School of Medicine and MedStar Health physician executive director for plastic surgery, the field of plastic surgery means saving limbs damaged by diabetes and using the most advanced techniques to help women who have had their breasts removed during cancer treatment.

James Allison, professor of immunology and chair of the Department of Immunology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Lieping Chen, United Technologies Corporation Professor in Cancer Research and professor of immunobiology, of dermatology and of medicine, Yale University Gordon Freeman, professor of medicine, Dana - Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School Tasuku Honjo, professor of immunology and genomic medicine, Kyoto University Arlene Sharpe, the George Fabyan Professor of Comparative Pathology, Harvard Medical School; senior scientist, department of pathology, Brigham and Women'Department of Immunology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Lieping Chen, United Technologies Corporation Professor in Cancer Research and professor of immunobiology, of dermatology and of medicine, Yale University Gordon Freeman, professor of medicine, Dana - Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School Tasuku Honjo, professor of immunology and genomic medicine, Kyoto University Arlene Sharpe, the George Fabyan Professor of Comparative Pathology, Harvard Medical School; senior scientist, department of pathology, Brigham and Women'department of pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital

«We're not sure why it's so much more prevalent in women — one thought is that hormones like estrogen make some women's brains more susceptible to sensations of pain,» says Abby Abelson, MD, chair of the department of rheumatic and immunologic diseases at the Cleveland Clinic.

«Currently, there is no drug available in the U.S. for the treatment of HSDD, and clinicians and patients are very interested in having access to an approved medication,» Dr. Bob Barbieri, chair of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Brigham and Women's Hospital told TIME.

«Bioidentical hormones have an obvious appeal to women seeking relief for menopausal symptoms, says Dr. Nanette Santoro, chair of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver and vice president of clinical science for the Endocrine Society.

In a 2011 study, women who ate 75 grams of dried apples every day for six months had a 23 percent decrease in bad LDL cholesterol, said study researcher Bahram H. Arjmandi, professor at and chair of the department of nutrition at Florida State University.

Once he arrives in Binghamton, Keith meets several of his fellow professors, including the sentimental department chair, Dr. Lerner (J.K. Simmons), who's also a former Navy Seal; his next door neighbor, Jim (Chris Elliott), who's a Shakespeare - reciting professor; and a sensitive women's studies professor, Mary Weldon (Allison Janney), who's easily insulted by the screenwriter's approach to both his professional and personal lives.

Her life was a series of firsts: the first woman to gain a Ph.D. in East and Central Africa; the first female chair of a department at the University of Nairobi; and the first African woman and the first environmentalist to receive the Nobel Peace Prize (2004).

In 1995, Mori became the first woman to be tenured at the GSD and, later, chair of the architecture department.

Dr. Liles was the first woman chair in three Alabama art departments: Birmingham - Southern College, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and The University of Alabama.

Her life was a series of firsts: the first woman to gain a Ph.D. in East and Central Africa; the first female chair of a department at the University of Nairobi; and the first African woman and the first environmentalist to receive the Nobel Peace Prize (2004).

They coordinate with the firm's Executive Committee, Department Chairs, Hiring Committee, Women's Forum, Director of Professional Development, Director of Business Development, and the Working Group on Associate Development and Retention to ensure that issues of diversity and inclusion are considered in recruiting, retaining, and advancing the firm's lawyers, and in the delivery of the highest quality legal services to our clients.