2023 LEAD Award Recipients

Congratulations to the recipients of the inaugural AWAM Leaders in Empowerment and Development (LEAD) Award! The awards were developed to recognize outstanding faculty members in the Department of Medicine who help advance women’s career development, in all ways, including being a sponsor, mentor, advocate, or formative example. This year’s award winners, Amanda K. Verma, MD […]

AWAM Leaders in Empowerment and Development (LEAD) Awards

Description The AWAM LEAD awards was announced at the 2nd Annual DOM Women in Medicine and Science Seminar, (which was held on Friday April 28th, 2023). Nominations for the LEAD Awards will be accepted until June 9, 2023. Awards will be announced in late June. The awards are open to all DOM faculty and will be awarded […]

2023 AWAM Lead Awards – Call for Nominations

The AWAM LEAD awards will be announced at the upcoming 2nd Annual DOM Women in Medicine and Science Seminar, which will be held on Friday April 28th, 2023, from 8:00 am to 1:00 pm. Nominations for the LEAD Awards will be accepted until June 9, 2023. Awards will be announced in late June. The awards are open […]

Update on AWAM

Advancing Women in Academic Medicine (AWAM) has been working closely with Dr. Fraser and division chiefs in the department to develop a departmental leadership statement and to create a more standardized form for annual faculty reviews to improve transparency and consistency in evaluations. The new leadership statement reinforces the importance of our people as our […]

Career Advancement and Leadership Skills for Women in Healthcare

We received an overwhelming response of applications for attending the virtual Harvard Medical School Career Advancement and Leadership Skills for Women in Healthcare conference from November 1-3. Unfortunately, we were not able to fund participation of all of the applicants. As stated in the application, this year we decided to accept applications on a first come, first serve basis. […]

Update on AWAM

Welcome to Advancing Women in Academic Medicine (AWAM)!  AWAM is a new program that works to achieve equitable career advancement for women fellows and faculty within the Department of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine. We officially launched our efforts in fall 2020 with a series of virtual listening sessions to hear directly from […]