Susan K. Pingleton, MD, FACP, Master Fellow, ACCP, Joy McCann Professor of Women in Medicine and Science, Director, Quality and Professional Development, Continuing Medical Education, Department of Medicine and 2010-11 KU School of Medicine Promotion & Tenure Committee Chair
Dr. Susan K. Pingleton was named the newest recipient of the University of Kansas Joy McCann Professorship for Women in Medicine on July 1st by Barbara Atkinson, MD, Executive Vice Chancellor, KU Medical Center and Executive Dean, KU School of Medicine. Dr. Pingleton's term will run July 1, 2010 through June 30, 2013. Dr. Pingleton is one of four women in the United States who hold the honor of being a Joy McCann Professor in Women in Medicine.
In her presentation to the selection committee Dr. Pingleton pointed out how current data demonstrate the need for such a program. Recently, the AAMC’s Women in US Academic Medicine: Statistics and Benchmarking, 2008-2009 report demonstrated significant increases not only in female medical students but also female faculty in medicine and science. Currently, almost 1 in 2 junior faculty are now women and of all women faculty, 50 percent are assistant professors. Therefore not only do we have increasing members of female faculty, but they are congregated at the assistant professor level. University-specific data from the same AAMC report shows a promotion gap at KU for tenure track female faculty compared to the national averages. Also, a gap exists between the proportions of female faculty in the basic sciences compared to the proportion of female faculty in clinical science. Lastly, our data shows a higher percent of female faculty departures than the percent of female faculty new hires.
Dr. Pingleton’s vision for the McCann Professorship is to develop successful and satisfied women faculty in medicine and science at the University of Kansas so that the highest quality of women are recruited, promoted and retained. We are most fortunate not only to have an endowed professorship for women in medicine and science but also have support and resources for a presence of WIMS. Dr. Julie Wei, the new President of WIMS, has already begun undertaking significant programs to expand the services and options available to the female faculty through the organization. It is the intent of Dr. Pingleton to collaborate with and further support WIMS through the resources of her professorship. One example is the work she will do toward the development of a formal mentoring program for all female faculty to ensure their academic career is successful and satisfying at the University of Kansas.
"We are grateful for her continued contributions to KU Medical Center, and are excited about the leadership she will provide for the University of Kansas Women in Medicine and Science Organization." ~ Dr. Barbara Atkinson
Background
Joy and Robert Daugherty, MD made a $500,000 gift to the Kansas University Endowment Association in 2003 on behalf of the University of Kansas School of Medicine Women in Medicine and Science (WIMS) Program. The gift, administered through the Joy McCann Foundation funds a professorship for women in medicine and science. There are only four like it in the United States.
The award recognizes a faculty member who demonstrates outstanding leadership and mentoring of students, residents, and fellow faculty members.
The award is given for a period of three years and is renewable for a maximum of six years. Twenty-five percent (25%) of the award from the professorship is in addition to the recipient’s regular income and is to be used for programming support. Seventy-five percent (75%) of the award must be used to develop and fund women’s programs that will accomplish the overall goals of: increasing the visibility of women, integrating women fully at all levels of the faculty and enhancing collaboration among women and various programs at the University of Kansas School of Medicine.
Recipients are named as the Program Consultant of the Women in Medicine and Science (WIMS) Organization at KU-SOM, and are asked to provide a “vision” to the WIMS Executive Committee by August 1st each year for projects or programs that will be carried out by the WIMS organization for the term of the professorship. (Money for these activities will come from the Joy McCann Professorship award as defined in the professorship gift to KUMC endowment..) In addition, the recipient of this Professorship shall serve on the WIMS Executive Committee.
The primary criterion for selection will be evidence of mentoring and leadership in medicine (including: teaching, research and patient care) or science, with priority for the recruitment or retention of excellent women faculty members.
The income from the Daugherty Professorship fund will be used to support the recipient’s program for three years. After this term, an individual may be awarded the professorship once again for a maximum of six years. The income from the fund should not replace a state salary but should be provided in addition to normal compensation.
Original Professorship Announcement, 2003
1st Joy McCann Professorship sponsored "Visiting Professor" (details & photos)
2003 - 2006 Kimberly Templeton, MD, Associate Professor, November 7, 2003 Investiture and Press Release
2007 - 2010 Yu-Jui Yvonne Wan, Ph.D. Professor, Pharmacology, Toxicology & Therapeutics and Director of The Liver Center
Support for the KU Women in Medicine and Science (WIMS) organization comes from the KU School of Medicine state budget and the Joy McCann Professorship. Both budgets are limited in what they can provide. To maintain a beneficial and fully supportive series of programs for 250 women faculty members in the School of Medicine, expand into programs for our colleagues in the Schools of Nursing and Allied Health, plus the young woman residents, fellows, post-docs and medical students, funding for infra-structure as well as programs is sorely needed.
The only way our Organization will survive in this current economy is through the support of those who believe in our mission. No contribution is too small and all contributions are greatly appreciated. .
WIMS Mission Statement, Goals & By-Laws
Thank you.
10.4.2010
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