The Office for Women’s Careers (OWC) at MGH is a branch of the Center for Faculty Development (CFD) and was created to foster a gender equitable environment to assure that women faculty will be given the same opportunity as men faculty to succeed in research and clinical careers at MGH.

Mission

The OWC, Office for Women's Careers, facilitates the career advancement of women faculty at MGH. Areas of emphasis for this office are to:

• Increase the number of women faculty promoted by academic criteria.
• Increase the number of women faculty in leadership positions.
• Increase retention and job satisfaction of women faculty.
• Develop programs to promote career development and work life balance.
• Provide individual counseling, advice and support.

OWC Advisory Council

Originally formed in September of 1993 by honorary trustee Jane D. Claflin, The Women in Academic Medicine (WAM) Committee at the MGH provided the original impetus for the creation of the Office for Women's Careers. The WAM Committee has been renamed the OWC Advisory Council. The OWC Advisory Council is comprised of administrative and faculty leaders and meets twice a year to provide oversight and review OWC priorities and activities.
Members include:

Stephen Calderwood, MD Jane Claflin, Hon. Trustee Ann-Christine Duhaime, MD Jean R. Elrick, MD Peter T. Greenspan, MD Dina Hirshfeld-Becker, PhD Anne Klibanski, MD Donna Lawton, MS David N. Louis, MD

Elena Olson, JD May Pian-Smith, MD Nancy Rigotti, MD Jerrold Rosenbaum, MD Joan A. Sapir, EdM, MBA Isaac Schiff, MD Naomi Simon, MD Ann Skoczenski, PhD

Peggy Slasman Theodore Stern, MD Erin Tracy, MD, MPH Rochelle Walensky, MD Andrew Warshaw, MD Debra Weinstein, MD Jeanine Wiener-Kronish, MD Anne Young, MD, PhD

OWC Committee

The OWC Committee is comprised of early- and mid-career women faculty, meets three times a year and takes a more active role in helping to identify needs and to design and implement activities.
Members include:

Marylyn Addo, MD, PhD Alexy Arauz-Boudreau, MD Lori Berkowitz, MD Rebecca Brendel, MD, JD Sherri-Ann Burnett-Bowie, MD Alice Flaherty, MD, PhD Alison Friedmann, MD

Anna Greka, MD, PhD Emily Hyle, MD Anne Kasmar, MD Donna Lawton, MS Kerri Palamara, MD Nancy Rigotti, MD Natalia Rost, MD

Ann Skoczenski, PhD Aliyah Sohani, MD Antonia Stephen, MD Anne Thorndike, MD, MPH Sarah Wakeman, MD Deborah Wexler, MD Karen Winkfield, MD, PhD Joanna Yeh, PhD