Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)
Founded in 1876 and based in Washington, D.C., the AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) is a not-for-profit association dedicated to transforming health care through innovative medical education, cutting-edge patient care, and groundbreaking medical research. Its members are all 151 accredited U.S. and 17 accredited Canadian medical schools; nearly 400 major teaching hospitals and health systems, including 51 Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers; and more than 80 academic societies. Through these institutions and organizations, the AAMC serves the leaders of America’s medical schools and teaching hospitals and their more than 173,000 full-time faculty members, 89,000 medical students, 129,000 resident physicians, and more than 60,000 graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in the biomedical sciences.

Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)

Group on Women in Medicine and Science (GWIMS)
In August 2009, the AAMC's Board of Directors approved the creation of the Group on Women in Medicine and Science (GWIMS). This action established the longstanding Women in Medicine program as a formal AAMC professional development group, congruent with other AAMC groups.

The mission of the GWIMS is to advance the full and successful participation of women in all roles within academic medicine, and to provide a venue for women to participate in advancing the AAMC mission to improve the nation’s health. The GWIMS aims to serve as a national forum to advance women's success in medicine and science by addressing: gender equity, recruitment and retention, awards and recognition and career advancement. 

Group on Women in Medicine and Science (GWIMS)

GWIMS - Learning Opportunities

The Early Career Women Faculty Leadership 
Development Seminar
The AAMC has cancelled all planned in-person meetings through June 30, 2021 as the health and safety of their constituents and staff remains their top priority. Attendees of the July 2020 seminar were notified and refunded in full. GWIMS is committed to finding safe and effective alternative ways to bring together the academic medicine community and appreciate your patience as they consider options. At this time, they are planning to hold the July 2021 offering. They will update their website as soon as additional information becomes available. To learn more about cancelled meetings, please visit their Coronavirus Updates page.

Coronavirus Updates

The Mid Career Women Faculty Leadership
Development Seminar  
The AAMC has decided to cancel all planned in-person meetings through June 30, 2021 as the health and safety of their constituents and staff remains their top priority. They are committed to finding safe and effective alternative ways to bring together the academic medicine community and appreciate your patience as they consider options. At this time, a date and location for the December 2021 seminar has not yet been determined. They will update their website as soon as additional information becomes available. To learn more about cancelled meetings, please visit their Coronavirus Updates page.

Coronavirus Updates

The Rhode Island Medical Women's Association seeks to recognize the special needs of women in medicine and female patients and to help meet the challenges of tomorrow.

RIMWA Board of Directors

President
Reena Bhatt, MD

Immediate Past President
Rachel Sullivan, MD

Treasurer
Marlene Cutitar, MD

Secretary
Vacant

Board Members
Elaine Fain, MD
Darlene Gabeau, MD
Nancy Littell, MD
Tracy Madsen, MD
Joyce Monac, MD
Barbara Roberts, MD
Diane Siedlecki, MD
Latha Sivaprasad, MD

Public Affairs
Frances P. Conklin

Learn more about RIMWA

The American Medical Women's Association is an organization which functions at the local, national, and international level to advance women in medicine and improve women's health. They achieve this by providing and developing leadership, advocacy, education, expertise, mentoring, and strategic alliances.

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The Hedwig van Amerigen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) Program for Women is a national leadership training program aimed at preparing senior women faculty for the highest administrative ranks at academic health centers. ELAM is a core program of the Institute of Women's Health and Leadership at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia, PA. The program seeks candidates at the associate professor or full professor level who demonstrate the greatest potential for assuming leadership positions within the next five years. Candidates must also have the support of their Dean, Chair, and institution.

For more information, please visit their website; call 215-991-8240; send an email or call the Office of Women in Medicine and Science at 401-863-2450/7960.

ELAM Program

The Academy of Women's Health is an interdisciplinary, international association of physicians, nurses, and other health professionals who work across the broad field of women's health, providing up-to-date advances and options in clinical care that will enable the best outcomes for women patients. The Academy's focus includes the dissemination of translational research and evidence-based practices for disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment for women across the lifespan.

For more information, please visit their website.

Academy of Women's Health

Advancing Care through Person-Specific Research, Education and Advocacy 

Emergency physicians have the unique opportunity to inform the study of sex-and-gender-specific acute clinical care and are positioned to translate research into lifesaving outcomes. In 2010, the department of emergency medicine at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University established a division of women’s health in emergency care (WHEC) and a two-year WHEC fellowship to train a new generation of physicians in sex and gender-specific emergency medicine. The division includes Brown emergency medicine faculty members and a multidisciplinary panel of advisors from the medical school and other institutions around the country.

In 2014, WHEC updated its name to the division of sex and gender in emergency medicine (SGEM) to align itself with growing research in sex differences and the national emphasis on examining the health of women and men to help understand diseases.

SGEM Mission

To establish educational and research endeavors that promote sex-and-gender-specific medicine and women’s health as it relates to the practice of emergency medicine.

To learn more, please visit the SGEM website.

Sex and Gender in Emergency Medicine (SGEM)

The vision of the Sex & Gender Women's Health Collaborative is to foster integration of a sex and gender approach into medical education to improve healthcare for all. The mission of SGWHC is to bring together content from medical institutions, professional organizations, government entities, and others whose short term aim is to improve the clinical care of women; create a comprehensive, digitally accessible repository of evidence-based-sex-and gender-specific resources and content; promote an understanding of the impact that sex and gender have on individual health status, clinical outcomes, and healthcare systems; and to facilitate inclusion of sex and gender sensitivity into medical curricula and the training of future physicians.

Please visit Sex & Gender Women's Health Collaborative website for more information.

Sex & Gender Women's Health Collaborative

RI Bio is southeastern New England’s life sciences industry group. They are dedicated to galvanizing collaboration and growth among life sciences companies, hospitals, universities, sources of capital and governmental partners. RI Bio helps stakeholders secure resources to support the life sciences community and provide members with  access to regional/industry news, events, materials and supplies, workspaces, growth partners, training, and more.

RI Bio

500 Women Scientists is a grassroots organization started by four women who met in graduate school and maintained their friendships and collaborations after their paths took them to different places. Immediately following the November 2016 election, they published an open letter re-affirming their commitment to speak up for science and for marginalized communities in science. More than 20,000 women of STEM and supporters from more than 100 countries have signed in support of 500 Women Scientists, pledging to build an inclusive scientific community dedicated to training a more diverse group of future leaders in science and to use the language of science to bridge divides and enhance global diplomacy.

500 Women Scientists

NOWPA is a service, social, & professional organization dedicated to the support and education of women osteopathic physicians. Founded in 1904 under the name Delta Omega, NOWPA strives to serve and educate its members by fostering a network with other professionals through mentorship programs, community service, social events and guest speakers.