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