Events and Opportunities

Upcoming events:    

We offer events throughout the year featuring speakers, workshops, and networking. Our events aim to promote leadership, career development, wellness, and more among our women physicians and scientists.


Thursday, May 11th at 5:30-6:30pm
Empowering your time: How to do more of what matters most.
Tufts WiMS will be hosting Christina Shenvi, MD, PhD, MBA to provide tips on time management.

Thursday, June 26th (evening).
Save the date for CV-building workshop. Tufts WiMS will be running a workshop to help build and update our CVs. More details on this virtual webinar to come.

 

The Tufts MC WiMS Committee heartily congratulates Tamara Vesel, MD, former two-term WiMS Committee member, on receiving the 2023 Magnani Award.

The Tufts MC WiMS Committee heartily congratulates Tamara Vesel, MD on receiving the 2023 Magnani Award.

Upcoming Professional Opportunities

The OEA is taking applications for their next featured seminar, OEA Educational Management & Leadership Seminar, by Maria Blanco, EdD. The goal of the seminar is to assist TUSM faculty with their educational leadership roles by reviewing concepts and practical approaches related to leadership and management while providing a venue for the faculty to reflect on their current educational leadership roles, share leadership challenges and receive peer's feedback. It will be hosted via Zoom on Tuesdays, May 9, 16, 23 and 30, 2023; 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. To apply to the program, please send an email by Monday, April 24, 2023, to emily.nuttall@tufts.edu with the following information:

  • Name, Academic Title, and email address
  • Academic Institution and department affiliation
  • Current teaching responsibility/ies (e.g., precepting, small group teaching, lecturing)
  • Brief statement of interest outlining what you hope to gain from this experience
  • Any scheduling conflicts for the dates outlined above

The Natalie V. Zucker Research Center for Women Scholars will be accepting applications for its twenty-fourth annual grant awards. Candidates must be engaged in basic or clinical biomedical research related to human health at Tufts or the major Tufts-affiliated hospitals. Junior faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and residents are eligible. Individual awards of up to $10,000 will be given for basic, clinical, or translational research projects, which may include travel and training, or up to $5000 for only travel and training. The grant period is one year, with the earliest start date being July 1, 2023.

The deadline for submission of applications is Monday, May 1, 2023. More information can be found at Natalie V. Zucker Research Grant.

 

Past events:

WiMS members celebrated a fantastic Wellness Week planned by the Work-life Balance and Wellness Sub-committee.

WiMS members celebrate Wellness Week

 

Thank you to all who attended our WiMS Spring Social and Mentorship Awardee Reception!

WiMS 2022

Mayo Clinical Proceedings (9/13/22), Changes in Burnout and Satisfaction With Work-Life Integration in Physicians During the First 2 Years of the COVID-19 Pandemic https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36229269/

Chest article by WiMS Committee member, Dr. Sasha Yakhind, Breathing Under Water https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36344116/

NYT article (11/30/22), What It Really Takes to Breastfeed a Baby https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/11/30/well/family/breastfeeding-nursing-formula.html

Science article (10/13/22), Women researchers are cited less than men. Here's why—and what can be done about it. https://www.science.org/content/article/women-researchers-cited-less-men-heres-why-what-can-done

JAMA Surgery (7/10/2019), Recognizing and Reacting to Microaggressions in Medicine and Surgery https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamasurgery/article-abstract/2738043

JGIM (October 2022), Primary Care Physician Gender and Electronic Health Record Workload. Female PCPs spend 20% more time in the EHR inbasket and 22% more time on notes than do their male colleagues. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34993875/

Harvard Business Review (2/11/22), Stop Telling Women They Have Imposter Syndrome https://hbr.org/2021/02/stop-telling-women-they-have-imposter-syndrome

Dr. Debra Lerner shared Five ways to improve your work habits in the new year with Tufts Now. https://now.tufts.edu/2022/12/20/five-ways-improve-your-work-habits-new-year

Doximity Op-Med (12/16/22) Show Us Your Data: Barriers to Advocacy for Physician Mothers in Crisis https://opmed.doximity.com/articles/show-us-your-data-barriers-to-advocacy-for-physician-mothers-in-crisis

Harvard Macy Institute Blog (1/31/23), The Problem of 'Too Much on My Plate' and What to do About it. Thanks to Dr. Neha Sharma (former Tufts WiMS chair) for sharing! https://harvardmacy.org/blog/too-much-on-my-plate

Speaker: Kathryn Sarnoski, MD, "Contract Negotiation: Tips & Tricks”
March 21, 2022

Speakers: Laura Grubb, M.D., MPH and Christiane Dammann, M.D., "Demystifying the TUSM Promotions Process”
February 7, 2022

Speaker: Ellen Zane, “Leadership Pearls Part II”
1-2:30pm on 11/16/21

Speaker: Dr. Sasha Shillcutt, “Between Grit and Grace: Leading as a Woman”
6 pm to 7pm on June 2, 2021 (Zoom)

#HeForShe: Recruiting Men in the Fight for Gender Equity and Inclusion
Speaker: Dr. Michael Sinha and Dr. Stephanie Mueller
noon to 1 pm on April 12, 2021 (Zoom)

Workforce and Patient Care Disparities in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Speaker: Dr. Julie Silver
9-10 am on April 14, 2021 (Zoom)

WiMS and OWL Leadership Session with Ellen Zane, Management Pearls: Important Lessons Learned Along the Way
1-2pm on February 25, 2021 (via Zoom)

Speaker: Nupur Amin “Setting Boundaries”
December 7, 2020

Promotion Process Overview Workshop
5:30-7pm on November 30, 2020

Special Speaker: Kara Curry, MD on The Hidden Culture of Female to Female Physician Hostility  
June 9, 2020

Special Speaker: Irina Buhimschi, MD Inventorship, Patients, and Intellectual Property: Why Women in Particular Should Care 
May 18, 2020 (via Zoom)

Special Speaker: Israela Abdah Brill-Cass, Esq. 
Professional Powerhouse: Workplace Negotiation and Navigation
December 5, 2019

WiMS Mentorship Series 
Topics have included the role of peer mentorship, wellness, and work-life integration
September 7, 2016; April 23, 2018; November 7, 2019

Tufts Medical Grand Rounds. Women in Academic Medicine: Evidence Based Strategies for Equity
Dr. Laura Baecher-Lind
November 1, 2019

Annual WiMS' Pearls of Wisdom Round Table Event with Feedback from Attendees of the AAMC/HMS/AMA Leadership Conferences
March 23, 2017; March 29, 2018; August 29, 2019, July 29, 2020, September 23, 2021

Standing Up for Yourself without Knocking Others Down (aka managing challenging conversations at work and elsewhere)
Israella Brill-Cass, Boston Law Collaborative
September 26, 2016; June 11, 2019

Tufts Medical Grand Rounds. Challenges Faced by Female Physicians: A Cross-Specialty Panel Discussion
Sajani Shah, MD; Dallas Reed, MD; Deborah Blazey-Martin, MD, MPH; Karen Freund, MD, MPH; Josephine Hernandez, MD; Craig Best, MD, MPH
February 1, 2019

Dr. Paula Gutlove: Negotiating Leadership Success- Skills and Strategies
October 10, 2018

Elizabeth Goss: Career Navigation while Managing your Visa
August 2, 2018

Helen Boucher, MD: Non-linear Career Path
July 24, 2018

Margaret Roberts, PhD: Leadership and Personality
May 31, 2018

Dr. Rachel Buschbaum: Presentation Matters
May 22, 2018

Dr. Barbarajean Magnani: Highlighting Her Journey to Chair and Pathologist-in-Chief
April 5, 2018

WorkSmart Negotiation Workshop 
In collaboration with the City of Boston and the American Association of University Women (AAUW)
June 20, 2016; September 15, 2016; March 7, 2017; February 27, 2018

Predicting Your Leadership Success: A Checklist to Inventory your Skills and Readiness
Deborah Saltman, MD, PhD
November 1, 2017

How to Initiate a Job Search and Prepare your CV and Cover Letter
October 5, 2017

Eradicating Microaggressions in your Workplace
Ranna Parekh, MD, MPH, Director of the Division of Diversity and Health Equity.
September 28, 2017

Leading Change Workshop
Maria Blanco, Ed.D, Associate Dean for Faculty Development, TUSM
August 8, 2017

Tufts Academic Promotion Workshop
June 6, 2017

Speaker: Nora Yousif, “Wealth Management”
1/12/22

Book Club: The Queen of All Poisons
5-6pm on December 9, 2020 

Fitness and Nutrition Presentation by Dr. Mithila Vullaganti: Maintaining our baseline and interrupting the collateral impacts of COVID-19 crisis on our health
April 30, 2020 

Mindfulness with Ashley Norwood 
June 25, 2018; July 15, 2019

Annual WiMS Week of Wellness
Various events including clothing donation, yoga, meditation, emergency kit assembly, and social luncheon.
December 5-9, 2016; December 11-15, 2017; December 10-14, 2018; December 16-20, 2019, December 7-11, 2020, December 14-17, 2021

Yoga 
Instructors have included Angela Caggianelli, MPH & Tracy Affonso 
May 17, 2017; November 8, 2017; Spring & Summer 2018

WiMS Family Picnic
October 9, 2017; April 28, 2018 

Work-Life Balance Workshop
Dr. Mary Ahn, UMass Medical School
August 29, 2016, December 7-9, 2020

Speaker: Dr. Carmen De Miguel, “Social Media and the Modern Scientist”
March 8, 2022

Screening & Discussion of the film "Picture a Scientist"
Screening 3/5 to 3/7 with Discussion on March 8, 2021 from noon to 1pm

Personal Branding Workshop with Christine Fiske
January 21, 2021

Women in Medicine Month Remote Trivia & Social
September 17, 2020

National Women's Physician Day Event
February 25, 2019; Feb 3, 2020

Annual Women in Medicine Month Wine Tasting and Networking Social 
June 28, 2017; September 13, 2018; September 11, 2019, September 23, 2021

Annual Women in Medicine Month Tabling Event
September 7, 2018; September 10, 2019