Career Paths in Public Health and at the CDC, featuring Dr. Rochelle Walensky and Dr. Debra Houry Career Paths in Public Health and at the CDC, featuring Dr. Rochelle Walensky and Dr. Debra Houry May 4, 2023 7:00 PM – 7:45 PM ET via Zoom Please register here This is a free program! Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine® (ELAM) invites you to join us for an online conversation with Rochelle P. Walensky, MD, MPH, Director of the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and Debra Houry, MD, MPH (ELAM 2014), Chief Medical Officer and Deputy Director for Program and Science of the CDC. Hear about their leadership journeys and learn about career paths in public health and at the CDC. There will be a Q & A period. If you have questions in advance, please email them to Barbara Overholser at bro29@drexel.edu. A Zoom link will be sent closer to the program date. ELAM is the premier leadership training program for women faculty in academic medicine, dentistry, public health and pharmacy. The year-long part-time fellowship program is dedicated to developing the professional and personal skills required to lead and manage in today's complex health care environment, with special attention to the unique challenges facing women in leadership positions. Our new program - Executive Leadership in Health Care -is structured for women with aspirations to executive-level health system roles. We're grateful for the contributions to our Legacy Fund by our ELUMs and supporters which made this program possible. If you would like to support future programming like this, please consider a donation to our Legacy Fund

Trust us when we say this is an great course for all women in medicine and Dr. Julie Silver is amazing. It's online live streaming so no reason not to attend! If cost is a barrier, ask your department/chair/supervisor if there are department funds to help defray the cost. Also contract Harvard CME to see if it is possible to get a discount on the course fee (it doesn't hurt to try!) Register using this link: https://womensleadership.hmscme.com/

Source: WomenInMedicine(WIMS) Newsletter Feb 14, 2023 Dr. Shrilene Obuobi is a Ghanaian-American physician, cartoonist, and author. Her book On Rotation: A Novel, released in June 2022, was one of Teen Vogue's 25 Books by Black Authors We Can’t Wait to Read in 2022. It's been met with a lot of excitement -- even New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot says, "I personally couldn't get enough." Dr. Nneka Unachukwu's Made for More: Physician Entrepreneurs Who Live Life and Practice Medicine on Their Own Terms is the peer resource she wish she had when she started her practice in 2010. Released in January, the book chronicles the journeys of over forty physician-entrepreneurs as they overcame fear, self-doubt, and other barriers as they found success in building private practices, nonprofits, and more. Dr. Shrilene Obuobi (right) is currently a cardiology fellow in Chicago. Dr. Nneka Unachukwu (left), or Dr. "Una" as she is fondly called by her colleagues & patients is a board-certified pediatrician and fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Source: American Medical Women's Association Black women physicians’ stories have gone untold for far too long, leaving gaping holes in American medical history, in women’s history, and in Black history. It’s time to set the record straight. Medical student Jasmine Brown began researching Black women physicians at Oxford University when she was a Rhodes scholar. Her debut book, Twice as Hard, creates a new class of role models and establishes a lineage of Black women doctors whose accomplishments are both important and inspirational. In this moment of national reckoning about the American systems that have upheld racism and sexism, Jasmine Brown has written the first history of Black women physicians in the United States. Jasmine Brown is a medical student at Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and was previously a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University. Brown has long been involved in advocacy work. While in college, at Washington University in St. Louis, she founded the Minority Association of Rising Scientists, working to provide minority students with resources to get involved in research as well as a community to support them along the way. It was her childhood dream to help increase the number of underrepresented minorities in science and medicine. Through her debut book and outreach efforts, she plans to do just that. www.jasminebrownauthor.com

Advice from Black women academics. Not focused on medicine but there may be valuable insights relevant in medicine. Keep this book on your radar, especially if you are a Black woman in leadership! Dear Department Chair Letters from Black Women Leaders to the Next Generation Edited by Stephanie Y. Evans, Stephanie Shonekan, and Stephanie G. Adams; with a Foreword by Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole Subjects: Women's Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Education PAPERBACK Available September 2023 ISBN: 9780814350744 Pages: 176 Size: 5x8 Illustrations: 0 illustrations$24.99 To Preorder: https://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/dear-department-chair Practical and candid, this book offers actionable steps to help Black women leaders create meaningful success. The reflections and recommendations of the Black women in academic leadership who have contributed these letters to this collection to forge a critical and transformative analysis of race, gender, and higher education leadership. With insights from humanities, social sciences, art, and STEM, this essential resource helps to redefine the academy to meet the challenges of the future. Dear Department Chair is comprised of personal letters from prominent Black women department chairs, deans, vice provosts, and university presidents, addressed to current and future Black women academic professionals, and offers a rich source of peer mentorship and professional development. These letters emerged from Chair at the Table, a research collective and peer-mentoring network of current and former Black women department chairs at colleges and universities across the U.S. and Canada. The collective’s works, including this volume, serve as tools for faculty interested in administration, current chairs seeking mentorship, and upper-level administrators working to diversify their ranks. Published by: Wayne State University Press

Prescription for Admission; A Doctor's Guide for Navigating the Hospital, Advocating for Yourself and Having a Better Hospitalization. Diva Doc Dr. Monique Nugent has written a patient facing book to help people understand what goes on during an acute hospitalization and how to get the most out of their time in the hospital. For more information on purchasing the book: https://www.amazon.com/Prescription-Admission-Navigating-Advocating-Hospitalization/dp/B0BNK78MJ3 Congratulations Dr. Nugent! Click this link for more information on Dr. Nugent: https://drmoniquenugent.com/

Free Webinar presentation Top Five Strategies You Need to Know to Defend a Board Complaint Wednesday, January 25, 2023, Noon-1:00 PM With a few keystrokes, frustrated patients, their concerned family members, and even colleagues can file complaints online more easily and quickly, jeopardizing your license and your career. Understanding how to respond to a Board complaint to avoid a cascade of preventable mistakes will help protect your reputation and livelihood. Presenter: Megan Grew Pimentel, JD Principal, Adler, Cohen, Harvey, Wakeman, & Guekguezian The virtual webinar is sponsored by Mercantile Financial, an MMS Corporate Partner. Learn more and Register This event is hosted by MMS Membership Services, with Bill Howland as facilitator.

Source: The Steve Fund in collaboration with Harvard Black Alumni Society(HBAS) The Steve Fund & Mental Health Resources Recent headlines have been difficult to digest and we want to make sure you're taking care of yourself. In partnership with The Steve Fund, HBAS would like to share resources with you, which are geared toward the Black Community and Beyond. Resources for the Black Community and Beyond Steve Fund (stevefund.org), Text STEVE to 741741 to connect with trained crisis counselor 24/7 Roberta's House (robertashouse.org) – grief Black Mental Health Alliance (blackmentalhealth.com) - mental health professionals Boris L. Henson Foundation (borislhensonfoundation.org) – mental health and reducing stigma in the black community BEAM (Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective) (https://www.beam.community/) Black Psychiatrists of America (https://www.blackpsychiatrists.org/) Association of Black Psychologists (abpsi.org) African American Therapists (https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/african-american) Hurdle (https://www.hurdle.health/) Ayanatherapy (www.ayanatherapy.com) Therapy for Black Girls (https://providers.therapyforblackgirls.com/) Therapy for Black Men.org (https://therapyforblackmen.org/) National Queer and Trans People of Color Network (https://nqttcn.com/en/ ) The Steve Fund is the nation’s leading organization focused on supporting the mental health and emotional well-being of young people of color and is named in honor of our late friend Steve Rose AB '06. We invite you to register for The Steve Fund's upcoming events, including Celebrating Black Young Women and Girls as Bosses and Ceatives.