Mothers Leading Science Program

Mothers Leading Science (MLS) is a year-long career development program for research-intensive female faculty in the health sciences who are raising school-age and/or young children.

It is a program designed to address the lack of representation of women in senior leadership, the high rates of attrition of female scientists and the challenges of women in academic health sciences research at the intersections of career, gender, and motherhood.

The purpose of this group is to foster professional and personal growth as leaders, provide peer mentoring, integrate the roles of scientist, woman, and mother, and build a network of peers for ongoing support throughout their careers.

Recognizing the role of parenthood and family care for many researchers, MLS will offer an annual Tips and Strategies seminar open to the University through the CTSI Career Development Seminar Series.

Program overview

One year formal programming, followed by annual retreat and consultation
Cohort size: 8-12
Focus on modest pre-work and vital cohort conversations
Eligibility:
- Health sciences research-intensive faculty (⩾50% protected research time)
- Identify as female
- Mother of school-age and/or younger children
- Priority given to current and former CTSI and BIRCWH Scholars, and diverse/underrepresented faculty in the health sciences.

If you are interested in the MLS program but do not meet eligibility/availability criteria, please sign up for this interest list. We will contact you should we expand the program beyond research-intensive female faculty.

MLS is a collaboration of CTSI, Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health (BIRCWH) program, and the Center for Women in Medicine and Science.

Contact

[email protected]
612-625-2022

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Research mentors

August 13, 2021	Application deadline
December 2021	Two-hour kickoff meeting
January - May 2022	Two meetings monthly, 60 min each
Between May - June 2022 (dates TBD)	Two-day Retreat: Brené Brown Dare to Lead™ (DTL)
June - November 2022	One meeting monthly, 90 min
Annual	Annual retreat with networking with other MLS cohorts and breakouts for each cohort to reconnect and renew

Mothers Leading Science Program

Current Cohort

Emilyn Alejandro, PhD

Alicia Allen, PhD, MPH

Anne Bantle, MD

Kristina Burrack, PhD

Forum Kamdar, MD, FACC

Julie Ostrander, PhD

Megan Paulsen, MD

Radha Rajasingham, MD

Elizabeth Rogers, MD, MAS

Rebecca Shlafer, PhD, MPH

Sonya Wang, MD

Anna Zilverstand, PhD

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