Registration now open for 3rd NIH Regional Meeting! Registration is now open for the third regional meeting entitled Moving into the Future - New Dimensions and Strategies for Women’s Health Research for the National Institutes of Health. As well as covering heath issues throughout the lifespan, this meeting will continue the conversation on women’s careers in science that has taken place at the previous two meetings. Recommendations from these meetings include improvements to child care and family leave policies; emphasis on the importance of “leveling the playing field ” and mentoring; including women of color and their unique challenges in all discussions; focusing efforts on both early career and advanced leadership training; and continuing to support research on the barriers that oppose as well as the interventions that promote women’s success in biomedical careers. While the discussion at the upcoming meeting will build on previous recommendations, it is hoped that participants will bring with them truly innovative suggestions and “outside the box” ideas. The theme of the upcoming working group will be careers in dentistry, bioengineering, and other non-M.D. disciplines. The meeting is being co-hosted by the NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health, the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, and Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island. It will take place on September 21-23 at the Women & Infants Education Center in Providence, RI. The deadline for hotel reservations is August 27, 2009. For more information, we direct you here: http://www.orwhmeetings.com/movingintothefuture/BrownUniv/ ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ Call for Poster Abstracts! Women's Health 2010 calls for Poster Abstracts! The 18th Annual Congress will take place March 26-28, 2010 in Washington, DC. You are invited to submit an abstract by December 1, 2009. For more information, we direct you here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=_2bjdR31YX4LcEGoIAyqtjlw_3d_3d For questions about abstract submissions, contact Danielle Terrell at whabstracts@gmail.com ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ New book! Professor Emeritus Neena Schwartz's new autobiography, A Lab of My Own, will be released this Fall. For more information on Dr. Schwartz, please visit http://www.northwestern.edu/neurobiology/faculty/nbs/index.htm ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ | 
