[Womeninmedicine] some timely coverage in today's AAMC news-

[Weisz, Ora Anna]

Victor Dzau, MD, president of the NAM, co-wrote a perspective in NEJM calling on leaders in academic medicine to commit to a systemwide change of culture and climate to prevent sexual harassment and communicate to faculty, administration, students, and trainees that sexual harassment will not be tolerated. The perspective also touched on the recommendations from the NASEM report on sexual harassment and elaborated on ways institutional leaders can create a social climate that reduces and prevents harassment.
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Another perspective in NEJM co-written by Esther Choo, MD, MPH, and Dara Kass, MD, also commented on the NASEM report and highlighted the inadequacy of medicine's current approach to mitigating the widespread inequity and harassment of women. Dr. Choo is an associate professor of emergency medicine at the OHSU School of Medicine, and Dr. Kass is an assistant professor at Columbia University Medical Center.
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MedPage Today discussed both NEJM perspectives and expanded on the need for sexual harassment in medicine to be dealt with on a systemic level. The 2019 CFAS Spring Meeting in April will address sexual harassment in academic medicine in a plenary session.
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Inside Higher Ed covered the backlash at Yale School of Medicine over news that Michael Simons, MD, a professor of medicine who sexually harassed a postdoctoral researcher, was awarded an endowed chair.
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ASBMBToday, a publication from the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, a CFAS-member society, covered the efforts of several women in science who are taking on sexual harassment in an article, "Not One More Generation." The piece also describes recommendations and organizational efforts at a national level to address harassment.
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Ora A. Weisz, PhD | Professor of Medicine, Professor of Cell Biology
Vice Chair of Faculty Development,  Department of Medicine
Associate Dean for Faculty Development,  University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Assistant Vice Chancellor for Faculty Excellence, University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences
Renal-Electrolyte Division | 978.1 Scaife Hall | 3550 Terrace St. | Pittsburgh PA 15261
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