Past WiMS Events
Seventh Annual WiMS Event
March 25th, 2024
10:00-Noon: Unlocking Connections: Mastering the Art of Networking and Uncovering its Impact
Noon-1:00pm: Mastering the Academic Tightrope: Navigating the Work-Life Juggle and Rethinking the Notion of “Balance”
1:00-2:00pm: Networking Session
Presenter: Susanne Muehlschlegel, MD, MPH, FNCS, FCCM, FAAN, Professor PAR of Neurology and Anesthesiology/Critical Care Medicine, Neurosciences Critical Care Division, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Dr. Susanne Muehlschlegel is a Professor at the UMass Chan Medical School and practices as an attending in the Neuro-Intensive Care Unit. She is dedicated to improving the lives and outcomes of patients with neurological emergencies and their families through passionate care at the bedside, research and teaching.
Her research interests focus on studying outcomes after catastrophic neurological injuries, in particular moderate to severe traumatic brain injury, and improving the process of prognostication and goals-of-care decisions for neurocritically ill patients through Shared Decision Making. She holds funding from the NIH (Eunice Kennedy Shriver Institute/NICHD). She has previously been funded by the American Heart Association, Worcester Research Foundation and the UMASS Faculty Scholar award. She is currently the site-PI and co-investigator for several NIH-funded clinical trials on various diseases treated in the Neuro-Intensive Care Unit. She has previously designed and directed an investigator initiated Phase IIa trial using Dantrolene in Subarachnoid Hemorrhage.
Dr. Muehlschlegel is a Member of the Board of Directors for the Neurocritical Care Society, and additionally serves on several committees (Women in Neurocritical Care, Research fellowship grant taskforce committee, Research committee, and the NCS Annual Meeting “Fun Run for Research” Committee [chair]) in this society. She also serves as a fellow on the American Academy of Neurology. For several years she was councilor of the Critical Care and Emergency Neurology Section of the American Academy of Neurology and also served on its Executive Committee.
Dr. Muehlschlegel is an ad-hoc reviewer on grant applications for the National Institutes of Health and the Neurocritical Care Society Research Fellowship Grant, as well as multiple research journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, Neurology, STROKE, Neurocritical Care, Journal of Intensive Care Medicine, Journal of Neurotrauma, Journal of Neuroimaging, Neuroscience, PLOS Medicine, NEUROLOGY Clinical Practice, and several others.
She has been inducted as Fellow of the Neurocritical Care Society and Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine.
Besides being a neurointensivist and researcher, Dr. Muehlschlegel enjoys mentoring students, residents and junior faculty on career development locally and nationally, and has repeatedly lectured on this topic at national conferences.
Sixth Annual WiMS Event
March 29th, 2023
Topic: "Confronting and Overcoming the Dreaded Imposter Syndrome"
Presenter: Luanne Thorndyke, MD, Professor of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Location: Waitzer Hall, Room 200
Time: 9:30 - 11:30am
LuanneThorndyke, MD, is a nationally known faculty affairs leader, with a decade of leadership as the Vice Provost Faculty Affairs, University of Massachusetts Medical School. She is a faculty development scholar who has garnered competitive external grant awards and authored scholarly publications. Also, a distinguished educator who serves as faculty for the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) and national programs sponsored by the AAMC. She has over ten years of experience in oversight of institutional educational programs (CME oversight, quality assurance and accreditation) and professional development programming for faculty, post-docs and leaders. Dr. Thorndyke has expertise in policy and programmatic development, enriching professional/faculty growth, and furthering organizational strategic goals. She has provided oversight of campus governance, promotion/tenure and academic affairs, interprofessional educational leadership, and administration contributing to individual faculty advancement, organizational vitality and enhanced healthcare delivery.
Fifth Annual WiMS Event
September 17th, 2021
Part I: Mentors are Good, Sponsors are Better
Presenter: Elizabeth L. Travis, PhD, FASTRO, Associate Vice President for Women and Minority Faculty Inclusion, Marie Allen Fair, Professor in Cancer Research, University of Texas, MD Anderson Center, Houston
Part II: Promoting Inclusive Learning Environment Via Active Bystander Training: How Faculty Can Address Microaggressions
Presenter: Nicole Jacobs, PhD, Associate Dean of Diversity and Inclusion, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine
Fourth Annual WiMS Event: Leveraging Your Brand
June 5, 2020
Presenter: Angela Sharkey, MD | Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville and Professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences.
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Third Annual WiMS Event: Be the CEO of your Own Career
June 7, 2019
Presenter: Archana Chatterjee, MD | Chair, Department of Pediatrics and Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development, University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Second Annual WiMS Event: Interpersonal Communication Skills, Graceful Self-Promotion and Utilizing Temperaments to Enhance Your Leadership Capabilities
June 8, 2018
Presenter: Luanne Thorndyke, MD, FACP | Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs, University of Massachusetts, Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Group on Women in Medicine and Science Leadership Award (2013), and UMMS Outstanding Mentoring to Women Faculty Award (2016)
First Annual WiMS Event: Exploring Resiliency and Defining Success
June 2, 2017
Presenter: Patricia Numann, MD | Lloyd S. Rogers Professor of Surgery, Emeritus, SUNY Health Sciences Center, 2011-2012 President, American College of Surgeons