National Leadership Workshop on Mentoring Women in Biomedical Careers

November 27–28, 2007, Natcher Conference Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland

Theme: “Mentoring is Everybody’s Business” – MRC Greenwood, Ph.D.

Purpose and Goals

Purpose:

Providing leadership in mentoring to sustain the advancement of women in biomedical careers

Goals:

  1. Provide attendees with innovative tools to improve or initiate effective mentoring programs in their institutions or organizations
  2. Define mentoring as it applies across the career span of women in biomedical research careers
  3. Determine best ways to evaluate the effectiveness of mentoring programs
  4. Learn lessons from established biomedical research mentoring programs
  5. Develop new models for successful mentoring programs
  6. Design new pathways for mentoring women in the private and public biomedical research sectors
  7. Construct leadership strategies for success in the global biomedical research environment

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