2023 AWAM Lead Award

AWAM is seeking nominations for a new prestigious DOM award for supporting and promoting women’s career advancement at Washington University School of Medicine – the first annual AWAM Leader in Empowerment and Development (LEAD) Award — to be presented after the upcoming 2nd Annual DOM Women in Medicine and Science Seminar, which will be held […]

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 […]