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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">Victor Dzau, MD, president of the NAM, co-wrote a perspective in
<em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">NEJM</span></em> 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.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">Another perspective in
<em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">NEJM</span></em> 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.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">MedPage Today</span></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444"> discussed both
<em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">NEJM </span></em>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.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">Inside Higher Ed</span></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444"> 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.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">ASBMBToday</span></em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#444444">, 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.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;color:black">_____________________________________________________________________</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black">Ora A. Weisz, PhD | Professor of Medicine, Professor of Cell Biology
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black">Vice Chair of Faculty Development, Department of Medicine</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black">Associate Dean for Faculty Development, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black">Assistant Vice Chancellor for Faculty Excellence, University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black">Renal-Electrolyte Division | 978.1 Scaife Hall | 3550 Terrace St. | Pittsburgh PA 15261</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black">Tel: 412-383-8891 | Email:
<a href="mailto:weisz@pitt.edu"><span style="color:blue">weisz@pitt.edu</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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