Summit for Women in Academic Medicine
Announcing the First Annual Summit for Women in Academic Medicine!
Dr. Gillian Hawker, Chair of Medicine, and Dr. Sharon Straus, Vice-Chair of Mentorship, Equity and Diversity invite female* faculty members to join us for a day of inspiration and action!
Hear from women leaders in medicine and a range of other disciplines, build your leadership skills, network with female colleagues and lend your voice to an action plan to increase gender equity within the Department of Medicine, across the Faculty of Medicine, and beyond.
Registration is now open to female faculty from all clinical departments in the Faculty of Medicine.
March 1, 2017
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Faculty Club
Register Now! (registration closed)
Agenda
8:00: Breakfast and check-in
9:00: Welcome
Dr. Gillian Hawker, Sir John and Lady Eaton Professor and Chair of Medicine
Dr. Sharon Straus, Vice-Chair of Mentorship, Equity and Diversity, Dept. of Medicine
9:15: Keynote: The Good Enough Leader
Dr. Trish Groves, Director of Academic Outreach, BMJ, Editor-in-Chief, BMJ Open, Honorary Deputy Editor, The BMJ
10:00: Break
10:15: Panel: Are you ready to be a leader?
Dr. Malika Sharma, Dept. of Medicine, moderator
Christine McLeod, Leadership and Performance Trainer, McLeod Enterprise Strategies
Dr. Pamela Valentine, Interim CEO, Alberta Innovates
Dr. Tammy Clifford, Vice-President, CADTH
Dr. Vianne Timmons, President, University of Regina
Dr. Cheryl Regehr, Vice-President and Provost, University of Toronto
11:15: Break
11:30: Panel: Mythbusters
Amy Kopelan, Bedlam Productions, moderator
Jessica Ching, Co-Founder, Eve Medical
Ellen DiVerniero, Head of Talent Management, Aetna
Teressa Moore-Griffin, Founder and CEO, Spirit of Purpose
Dr. Catherine Zahn, President and CEO, CAMH
12:30: Keynote: Meritocracy: Myth to Reality
Dr. Sarah Kaplan, University of Toronto Distinguished Professor of Gender & the Economy
1:15: Lunch
2:15: Introduction to Town Hall Discussion
Dr. Gillian Hawker
2:30: Town Hall: What barriers exist for women in medicine and how can the DoM address them?
Mary Ito, CBC, moderator
Dr. Caroline Chessex, DoM, facilitator
Dr. Lisa Richardson, DoM, facilitator
Dr. Reena Pattani, DoM, facilitator
Dr. Holly Witteman, Université Laval, facilitator
4:00: Response and closing statement
Dr. Gillian Hawker
Dr. Sharon Straus
4:30: Cocktails and Networking
Questions? Contact Lilian Belknap at lilian.belknap@utoronto.ca.
*The Department of Medicine interprets the word "female" as fully inclusive of all self-identified trans and cis women.