Past Sessions

Speaker: Susie Calkins, PhD
Date: June 12, 2024
Topic/Article: "Doing science, doing gender: Using history in the present" by Alexandra Rutherford (2020)

Speaker: Amanda Simanek, PhD, MPH
Date: May 1, 2024
Topic/Article: The Awesomest 7-Year Postdoc or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Tenure-Track Faculty Life

Speaker: Yvette Castaneda, PhD
Date: April 3, 2024
Topic/Article: Demystifying How Academic-Community Partnerships Use Reflexivity and Praxis to Promote Participatory Research Principles of Equity and Justice, Chapter 5

Speaker: Holly Hunsberger, PhD
Date: February 7, 2024
Topic/Article: Sex differences in biological aging and the association with clinical measures in older adults.

Speaker: Lise Eliot, PhD
Date: January 10, 2024
Topic/Article: Career & Family (2021 book by Claudia Goldin, this year's Nobel prize winner in Economics)

Speaker: Biana Kotlyar, MD
Date: December 6, 2023
Topic/Article: Why So Many Women Physicians Are Quitting

Speaker: Nutan Vaidya, MD
Date: November 1, 2023
Topic/Article: The Gender Difference in Depression: Are Elderly Women at Greater Risk for Depression Than Elderly Men

Speaker: Hector Rasgado-Flores, PhD
Date: September 6, 2023
Topic/Article: Gender Differences and Role of Families in Latinx Students' Science Education and Careers 

Speaker: Jaime Vantrese, PhD
Date: April 13, 2023
Topic/Article: "Effects of psychological stress on adverse pregnancy outcomes and nonpharmacologic approaches for reduction: an expert review," by Trayler et. al 2020. 

Speaker: Lucy Hammerberg, MD
Date:  February 9, 2023
Topic/Article: Prevalence, Bias, and Rank List Impact of Illegal Questions in Surgical Specialty Residency Interviews

Lauren M. Theiss, MD, John C. Prather, MD, John R. Porterfield, MD, Britney Corey, MD, Herbert Chen, MD, Gerald McGwin, PhD, Michael D. Johnson, MD, and Steven M. Theiss, MD

Speaker: Nutan Vaidya, MD
Date: January 12, 2023
Topic/Article: Dressing the Part: Gender Differences in Residents’ Experiences of Feedback in Internal Medicine

Maxime Billick, MD, James Rassos, MD, MHPE, and Shiphra Ginsburg, MD, MEd, PhD

Speaker: David Mueller, PhD
Date:  December 8, 2022
Topic/Article: Ni C, Smith E, Yuan H, Larivière V, Sugimoto CR. The gendered nature of authorship. Sci Adv. 2021 Sep 3;7(36):eabe4639. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abe4639. Epub 2021 Sep 1. PMID: 34516891; PMCID: PMC8442765.

Ross, M.B., Glennon, B.M., Murciano-Goroff, R. et al. Women are credited less in science than men. Nature 608, 135–145 (2022).

Speaker: Holly Hunsberger, PhD
Date:  November 10, 2022
Topic/Article: Safdar B, Naveed S, Chaudhary AMD, Saboor S, Zeshan M, Khosa F. Gender Disparity in Grants and Awards at the National Institute of Health. Cureus. 2021 Apr 23;13(4):e14644. doi: 10.7759/cureus.14644. PMID: 34046277; PMCID: PMC8141289.

Taffe MA, Gilpin NW. Racial inequity in grant funding from the US National Institutes of Health. Elife. 2021 Jan 18;10:e65697. doi: 10.7554/eLife.65697. PMID: 33459595; PMCID: PMC7840175.

Speaker: Lise Eliot, PhD
Date: September 8, 2022
Topic/Article: Gender bias in academia: A lifetime problem that needs solutions.