September is Women in Medicine Month

Women in Medicine Month

Each year our office sponsors a lecture in commemoration of Women in Medicine month to recognize and celebrate the growing number and influence of women in the profession. Women in Medicine month is an opportunity to engage the women faculty in intellectual discussions about issues that affect women nationally.

Title of Talk: Prospects for Innovation: Opportunities and Challenges Ahead
Speaker: Susan Hockfield, PhD
President, MA Institute of Technology & Professor of Neuroscience
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Date: September 17, 2007
Time: 12 - 1:00 pm
Location: Thier Conference Room, Thier Building, 1st floor

Light refreshments will be served.

RSVP to womens.careers@partners.org by Wed, Sep 12

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(open to all)

Other Women in Medicine Month events:

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Brigham and Women's Hospital -

Title of Talk: Massachusetts Health Care Reform: The Perspective from Women's Health
Speaker: Judy Ann Bigby, MD
Secretary for the Executive Office of Health and Human Services
for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and Associate Professor
of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Date: Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Time: 5 - 6:00 pm
Location: BWH, Bornstein Auditorium, 75 Francis Street
A reception will follow at 6:00pm in the Peter Bent Brigham Rotunda, 15 Francis Street

RSVP to bwhwomenscareers@partners.org by Fri, Sep 14

Inn at Longwood Medical

Title of Talk: Women Physicians in the Arts: "Regenerating the Mind and Spirit"
Moderated by Tenley Albright, MD
Panelists and Performers:
    Elissa Ely, MD, Psychiatry - Boston Globe columnist
    Mona Bleiberg Bennett, MD - photographer
    Members of the Longwood Symphony Orchestra:
      - Terry Buchmiller, MD - violinist
      - Sandy Mong, MD - violinist
      - Alanna Morris, MD - cellist
      - Lisa Wong, MD - violinist/violist

Date: Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Time: 12 - 1:30 pm
Location: Longwood Hall, The Inn at Longwood Medical, 342 Longwood Avenue

Lunch will be served.

RSVP to ofd@childrens.harvard.edu