Women Faculty Programs
With leadership and faculty, cultivating an inclusive culture
where women physicians and scientists choose to be.
Women Faculty Programs is committed to recruiting, advancing and retaining a diverse faculty of women by:
- Ensuring that policies do not inadvertently disadvantage women
- Creating a better work-life environment
- Nominating women faculty for prizes and awards
- Increasing number of women leaders
- Providing career development and mentoring programs
- Reviewing faculty salaries annually
- Hosting women physicians and scientists to give scientific and women-in-science talks
- Promoting institution-wide gender-balanced participation
- Reviewing status of women faculty annually
Women Leading the Way
Marina Konopleva, M.D., Ph.D. - February
Dr. Konopleva, associate professor of Leukemia, received the 2011 Faculty Scholar Award.
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Highlights
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Carol Etzel, Ph.D.
associate professor of EpidemiologyDr. Etzel received the 2011 Faculty Scholar Award
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Marina Konopleva, M.D., Ph.D.
associate professor of LeukemiaDr. Konopleva received the 2011 Faculty Scholar Award.
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Therese Bevers, M.D.
professor of Clinical Cancer PreventionDr. Bevers received the 2011 Faculty Achievement Award in Cancer Prevention.
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Diane Bodurka, M.D.
professor of Gynecologic Oncology & Reproductive MedicineDr. Bodurka received the 2011 Faculty Achievement Award in Education.
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Nancy Perrier, M.D.
professor of Surgical OncologyDr. Perrier have been awarded the 2012 American College of Surgeons James IV International Travel Award.
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Eugenie Kleinerman, M.D.
division head, PediatricsDr. Kleinerman was inducted into The Greater Houston Women's Chamber of Commerce Hall of Fame.
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Guillermina Lozano, Ph.D.
Chair, GeneticsDr. Lozano was selected as the 6th annual recipient of the 2011 AACR-MICR Jane Cooke Wright Lectureship.
Dr. Lozano was also elected as Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Dr. Zwelling has an in-depth conversation with Dr. Travis and Dr. Chandra about the importance of women in science and academic medicine and stereotypes, challenges, and solutions to closing the gender gap that currently exists in American science. This is part of the Cancer Newsline podcast series.
Women in Science – part 1
Women in Science – part 2
Metrics Matter
Periodic analysis of data relevant to status of women faculty at MD Anderson
Does gender of a leader make a difference? (pdf)
