OUR MISSION
- To support the advancement and leadership of women in academic medicine
- To promote education and research in women’s health
FOCUS-RELATED PUBLICATIONS
- Examining Faculty Awards for Gender Equity and Evolving Values
- The Brief CV Review: One Component of a Mosaic of Mentorship for Women in Academic Medicine
- Work-Life Policies for Faculty at the Top Ten Medical Schools
- Award Winning Women in Medicine Programs: Lessons in Building a Strong Professional Development Program for Women
- A Matter of FOCUS and Potential
Faculty Recognition Awards
FOCUS Award
for the Advancement of Women in Medicine
In 2004, FOCUS introduced the FOCUS Award for the Advancement of Women in Medicine. This award recognizes a faculty member (male or female) whose outstanding efforts and achievements have promoted women’s professional success, women’s healthcare, and/or women’s overall quality of life at Penn Medicine. All Penn medical faculty, excluding those who comprise the leadership of FOCUS, in any of the four “fulltime” faculty tracks (Tenure, Clinician-Educator, Research, and Academic-Clinician) and in any rank or department are eligible for nomination.
This award is presented during the annual FOCUS fall leadership mentoring conference and is also announced to all School of Medicine faculty. In addition to the institutional recognition that this honor brings, the awardee's name is added to the plaque that hangs alongside the Penn Medicine Awards of Excellence. Nominations and letters of support may be submitted by any member of the School of Medicine faculty (male or female).
Prior Award Recipients
2009
Judy A. Shea, PhD
Professor, Department of Medicine
Division of General Internal Medicine
Associate Dean for Medical Education Research
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2008
Jonni S. Moore, PhD
Professor, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Director,
Cancer Center Flow Cytometry and Cell Sorting Facility
Director,
Clinical Flow Cytometry Laboratory
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2007
Marjorie A. Bowman, MD, MPA
Professor and Chair, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health
Director, Center for Public Health Initiatives
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2006
Jo Buyske, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery
Chief, Department of Surgery
Penn Presbyterian Medical Center
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2005
Karin L. McGowan, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics
Director, Microbiology Laboratory
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
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2004
Lisa M. Bellini, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care
Vice Chair for Education and Inpatient Services
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Arthur K. Asbury Award
for Outstanding Faculty Mentoring
This annual faculty mentoring award was initiated by FOCUS in 1999 in order to create a visible and prestigious way to formally recognize the critical value of mentoring in academic medicine. In 2004, at the request of the Dean, the award became one of the School of Medicine Awards of Excellence, the Arthur K. Asbury Award for Outstanding Faculty Mentoring. FOCUS is pleased and honored by the evolution of this award to a permanent place among the other School of Medicine awards and to have been the foundation for this Award of Excellence for Mentoring.
As a FOCUS award from 1999- 2003, this mentoring award was given to a faculty member chosen from the entire School of Medicine community who, according to the collective opinion of the University of Pennsylvania women medical faculty, served as an exceptional mentor to other faculty. All faculty, male or female and of any rank or track, were eligible for nomination. The Directors and Co-Directors of FOCUS and the Leadership Mentoring Program were not eligible for this award. While the definition of an outstanding mentor is complex, the following paragraph is a beginning:
A mentor is a trusted guide who supports and facilitates a mentee's development towards the realization of his/her short and long-term career and life goals. A mentor educates, encourages, protects, and facilitates appropriate risk taking to teach the values and skills necessary to successfully navigate the organization. A mentor also opens access to institutional resources and helps the mentee to develop a network of relationships that might otherwise be unavailable to someone at that level of their career and, in so doing, may risk putting his/her own career “on the line.”
The recipient of the FOCUS Mentoring Award for Excellence received a plaque and a $1,000 monetary prize.
(As a School of Medicine Excellence Award since 2004)
2008
Caryn Lerman, PhD
Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Director, Tobacco Use Research Center
2007
Thomas A. Wadden, PhD
Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry
Director, Center for Weight and Eating Disorders
2006
Gary Koretzky, MD, PhD
Director of Signal transduction Program
Investigator,Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute
Leonard Jarett Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Chief, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine
2005
Steven M. Albelda, MD
William Paul Measey Professor of Medicine
Vice Chief, Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Division
Director of Lung Research
Co-Director, Thoracic Oncology Laboratories
2004
David A. Asch, MD, MBA
Robert D. Eilers Professor of Medicine and Health Care Management and Economics
Executive Director, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
Chief of the Health Services Research Service
Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center
(As a FOCUS Mentoring Award, 1999-2003)
2003
Allan I. Pack, MB, ChB, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Neurology, and Psychiatry
Chief, Division of Sleep Medicine
2002
Emma A. Meagher, MD
Assistant Professor, Medicine and Pharmacology
2001
Jane M. Lavelle, MD
Associate Professor, Pediatrics
2000
Helen Conrad Davies, PhD
Professor, Microbiology
1999 (a tie)
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD, MBA
Professor, Medicine; Director, Institute on Aging;
Chief, Geriatrics
Annemarie Weber, MD
Professor, Biochemistry and Biophysics