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MSTP Women's Forum at Northwestern
University
The women MSTP students at Northwestern University meet off-campus
once or twice per year to discuss the particular challenges they
will face balancing family life and career. The NU Women's Forum also has invited the women
MSTP students at the University of Chicago to join them.
2007-2008
Lisa Satlin, M.D., Director of the Mount Sinai MSTP
Tracy Gertler (Grad2) and Maya Srikanth (Grad1) are organizing the first MSTP Women's Forum for 2007-2008 on Wednesday, March 19, 2008. The speaker will be Lisa Satlin, M.D., Director of the MSTP at Mount Sinai Medical School. Click here to read about Dr. Satlin's research and to read her CV.
2006-2007
Tracy Gertler (Grad1) and Sarah Umetsu (Grad1) organized the MSTP Women's Forum for 2006-2007 on Thursday, March 8, 2007 at 7:00 PM in Wieboldt Hall, Room 248. The speaker was Jackie Jeruss, M.D., Ph.D., who completed her M.D. at the University of Vermont in 1997 and began her residency at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. In 2000, she put her residency on hold in order to pursue a Ph.D. and worked as a predoctoral student in the Woodruff lab from 2001-2003, as a research fellow of the American College of Surgeons and of the National Cancer Institute Oncogeneis and Developmental Biology Training Grant. Her dissertation was entitled "The Role of Activin in Mammary Gland Development and Breast Cancer Progression." After completing her Ph.D., she pursued a surgical residency. To read more about Dr. Jeruss' research, click here.
2005-2006
Sarah Umetsu (M2) organized the MSTP Women's Forum for 2005-2006 on Tuesday, February 7, 2006 at 7:00 PM at her home. The speaker was Amy Paller, M.D., Professor and Chair of the Dermatology Department at Northwestern University. Dr. Paller is renowned for both her research on the growth and mobility of kertinocytes and for her clinical practice as a pediatric dermatologist. To read more about Dr. Paller in the Northwestern University, click here.
Amy Paller, M.D.
2004-2005
Amanda Bass (Grad 2) and Siri Sonty (Grad 3) organized the first MSTP Women's
Forum for 2004-2005 on Tuesday, January 18, 2005 at Siri Sonty's home. The
speaker was Janet Rowley, M.D., Professor, Department of Medicine and Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology at the University of Chicago and recipient of the Albert Lasker Clinical Medicine Research Prize for 1998. Dr. Rowley shared the award for clinical research with Peter Nowell, M.D., Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and Alfred Knudson, M.D., Ph.D., former President of the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia. The award celebrated their combined discoveries of the genetic alterations that cause cancer in humans and that allow for cancer diagnosis in patients at the molecular level.
Janet Rowley, M.D.
2003-2004
Amanda Bass (Grad 1) and Ciara Martin (Grad 3) organized the first MSTP Women's
Forum for 2003-2004 on Tuesday, March 2 at Ciara Martin's home. The
speaker was Elizabeth McNally, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Department of Medicine, Section on Cardiology, at the University of Chicago.
The second NU MSTP Women's Forum
was held on Wednesday, June 30, 2004, at Kelly O'Hara's home. The speaker was Lucy Godley, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine, Section of Hematology/Oncology at the University of Chicago.
2002-2003
In 2002-2003 Marsha Ritter-Jones (Grad 2) and Ciara Martin (Grad 2)organized the
MSTP Women's Forum on Tuesday, March 4 at Ciara Martin's home. The
speaker was Elizabeth
Berry-Kravis, M.D., Ph.D., a pediatric neurologist and Director
of the Fragile X Clinic at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical
Center.
Elizabeth Berry-Kravis, M.D., Ph.D.
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