Women's Leadership Training Award

W.L. Gore, Inc. has generously provided the Society for Vascular Surgery with a grant of $10,000 for leadership training for women vascular surgeons. If you are a woman vascular surgeon interested in applying for this award, please forward a letter of intent (no more than two pages) that indicates how you would use this award to advance your own personal leadership training and what your specific career goals are. Please also include a copy of your Curriculum Vitae (NIH short version is preferred). Send this information electronically to vascular@vascularsociety.org by March 3, 2008. The award will be presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Vascular Surgery in June 2008.

Examples of leadership training opportunities include personal leadership coaching, traveling to meet women leaders, or specific training programs such as:

I. Leadership training programs available specifically for women surgeons/leaders:

1. The Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic MedicineSM (ELAM) Program for Women (http://www.drexelmed.edu/elam/home.html) is the nation's only in-depth program focused on preparing senior women faculty (Associate Professor level with a leadership position) at schools of medicine and dentistry to move into positions of institutional leadership where they can effect positive change. ELAM is a year-long program that develops the professional and personal skills required to lead and manage successfully in today's complex healthcare environment, with special attention to the unique challenges facing women in leadership positions.

2. The Institute for Women’s leadership (http://www.womensleadership.com/) offers programs for all women interested in creating change in their environment (Women Leading Change, three day program) and Executives Leading Sustainable Change (ELSC, a four month program for women executives). These programs focus on the person as a leader and provide opportunities to create networks with women leaders across the country. Women executives from Fortune 500 companies, Academia, and Science and Technology.

3. The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) offers programs in professional development for women early in their career and mid-career faculty (www.aamc.org/members/wim/meetings). The AAMC programs are focused on career development for women in academic surgery.

II. Leadership programs targeted for leaders in medicine, higher education and health care at the AAMC website: (http://www.aamc.org/members/facultydev/facultyvitae/leadershipprograms).

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