The Women's Faculty Development Caucus was established in 1989 to address the disparity between the growing numbers of women in medicine and the lack of women in leadership positions within academic medicine. The mission is to inspire, encourage, and enable women physicians and scientists to realize their professional and personal goals. Our professional development efforts have resulted in an expanding organization that is addressing the needs of all College of Medicine faculty members. We provide leadership training, mentoring/advising, and networking opportunities. All women faculty
are members who receive regular notices of meetings, mentoring/advising, networking opportunities, and publications.
The active committees are 1) WIT or Women in Training 2) Research 3)
Publications 4) Professional Development and 5) Mentoring.
The Women's Caucus was founded in 1989 as a professional development and mentoring program to help women advance to leadership positions. The cofounders were by Debra H. Fiser, M.D., a longtime pediatrics faculty member and chairman of the Department of Pediatrics who was named COM dean
in 2005 and Teresita Angtuaco, M.D., a professor of radiology. Both are previous winners of the Outstanding Woman Faculty Award.
Events, News & Updates
Drs. Linda L. W. Worley and Sara Tariq
Linda L.M. Worley, M.D., professor of psychiatry and
obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
(UAMS) College of Medicine has received the 2008 Outstanding Woman Faculty Award.
The award, which honors mentorship, leadership and achievement, was presented at
the eighth annual Women’s Faculty Development Caucus awards dinner on April 3.
More than 70 women faculty members attended.
Worley, who also is medical director for the UAMS Student
and College of Medicine Faculty Wellness Program, was nominated by a former
student and former resident at UAMS. Both lauded Worley’s professionalism,
energy, scholarly work, leadership and warmth. Worley was recruited to the UAMS
Department of Psychiatry faculty in 1992. She played a key role in fostering the
innovative and nationally recognized ANGELS program, which provides telemedicine
consults by maternal-fetal specialists at UAMS with doctors of high-risk
pregnancy patients in rural Arkansas. Her work with ANGELS DREAM, an educational
campaign designed to reduce the stigma associated with perinatal depression, has
led to improvements in depressed mother’s pregnancy outcomes.
Worley has won multiple awards for her clinical
achievements, including the prestigious national American Psychiatric
Association Gold Award in recognition of a model clinical program for pregnant
women. She received national grants for her research and initiatives in
mental health and has national leadership positions in the Academy of
Psychosomatic Medicine, the American Psychiatric Association and has served as
president of the Association for Academic Psychiatry. She has published more
than 20 peer-reviewed articles, has authored four book chapters and has been
invited to speak at many local and national meetings.
She served as the president of the UAMS Women’s Faculty
Development Caucus, which was founded in 1989 as a professional development and
mentoring program to help women advance to leadership positions. Since launching
its formal mentoring program in 1996, the caucus has matched more than 80 junior
women faculty members with mentors. In 1997, the Association of American Medical
Colleges awarded the organization the first ever Women in Medicine Leadership
Award in recognition of its professional development activities.
2008 Nominees for Outstanding Woman Faculty:
Brenda Booth, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry
Stacie M. Jones, M.D., associate professor of
pediatrics
Paula Roberson, Ph.D., professor and chair of
biostatistics
Deborah Simmons, M.D., associate professor of
medicine
Linda L. M. Worley, M.D., professor of psychiatry
The Annual Multi-Specialty Panel Discussion for M1 - M3 students is March
5 from 4 PM - 5:45 pm in COPH Pauly WIM
Committee Invitation Flyer for Students Slideshow of Event ________________________________________________________________ 2007 Outstanding Woman Faculty Award
Jeannette M. Shorey II, MD, associate professor, internal medicine and associate dean, CME and Faculty Affairs is the 2007 recipient of the 7th annual Outstanding Woman Faculty Award. The award which honors mentorship, leadership, scholarship and achievement was presented at the annual Women’s Faculty Development Caucus (WFDC) dinner March 22 at Trios restaurant in Little Rock. More than 70 women faculty members attended the event. Cindy Kane, Ph.D., last year’s Outstanding Woman Faculty Award winner presented the four finalists after reading their nominations letters.
Congratulations to the 2007 nominees: Mary Aitken, M.D., M.P.H., an associate professor of pediatrics and the incoming WFDC president Lee Lee Doyle, Ph.D., professor emeritus, obstetrics and gynecology Paulette Mehta, M.D., professor, internal medicine Carmelita Pablo, M.D., associate professor and chair of the Department of Anesthesiology
Jeannette M. Shorey, M.D., associate professor, internal medicine, associate dean, CME and Faculty Affairs
ADVISING/MENTORING PROGRAM Since launching its formal mentoring program in 1996, the caucus has matched more than 80 junior women faculty members with mentors. In 1997, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) awarded the organization the first ever Women in Medicine Leadership Award in recognition of its professional development activities.
If you are a junior faculty member in need of a career planning mentor, contact
Glenda J. Cooper.
