Dean Nancy Andrews, M.D., Ph.D. to Speak on Work-Life Balance at AMWA's 98th Annual Meeting on March 15-17 in NYC!
Nancy C. Andrews, M.D., Ph.D.
AMWA’s 98th Annual meeting is our largest networking event of the year and it will take place March 15-17, 2013 at the New York Palace Hotel. If you aren’t registered yet, register now and bring a friend!
This year we are honored to hear Dean Nancy Andrews speak about work life balance as a woman in medicine. Nancy Andrews has been Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Duke University School of Medicine since October 2007. She is also a Professor of Pediatrics andPharmacology & Cancer Biology.
Dr. Andrews received her BS and MS degrees in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistryfrom Yale University. As a student in the Harvard-MIT MD-PhD Program she earned her PhD from MIT along with her MD from Harvard Medical School. She completed her residency and fellowship in Pediatrics and Hematology/Oncology at Children’s Hospital Boston and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Dr. Andrews spent her entire professional career at Harvard before she moved to Duke. She was the George Richards Minot Professor of Pediatrics, Senior Associate in Medicine at Children’s Hospital, and a Distinguished Physician of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Dr. Andrews was director of the Harvard-MIT MD-PhD Program from 1999 to 2003 and dean forBasic Sciences and Graduate Studies at Harvard Medical School from 2003 to 2007.
Dr. Andrews was also an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute for 13 years. She maintains an NIH-funded research laboratory studying mouse models of human diseases. Her laboratory’s contributions include discovery of the iron transporter DMT1, establishing the role of the transferrin receptor in vivo, and elucidation of the pathogenesis of hemochromatosis, anemia of chronic disease and iron-refractory iron deficiency anemia (IRIDA). They have developed more than 30 mouse models, many of which have been used by investigators around the world to study iron homeostasis in vivo.
Among other honors, Dr. Andrews received the E. Mead Johnson Award and the Samuel Rosenthal Prize for her research accomplishments. She was the 2010 recipient of the Vanderbilt Prize for Biomedical Science and the 2011 Award for Mentoring in Basic Sciences from the American Society of Hematology. She served as the 2009 President of the American Society of Clinical Investigation and as a founding board member of the Rosalind Franklin Society. Dr. Andrews was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and to membership in both the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was profiled by Newsweek magazine in 2008 as one of ten notable women leaders.
We look forward to hearing Dean Andrews speak about work life balance at AMWA's 98th Annual Meeting. Join us for a weekend of education, rejuvenation and reflection at the stunning 5-star hotel in the heart of Manhattan. High quality CME sessions will keep you abreast of new changes within the field of medicine, with a special focus on gender specific medicine and women’s health. You will also gain practical insights regarding medical legal issues, negotiation, career advancement, practice management, and career-life balance. There will be abundant opportunities for mentoring and networking. A special dinner cruise along the Hudson River will celebrate AMWA’s 98th Anniversary in style. AMWA invites you and your colleagues to attend this meeting and learn from pre-eminent women physician leaders of today and tomorrow!
We look forward to helping you advance your career at AMWA’s 98th Annual meeting. Learn more about the conference itinerary and register here! Let us know how we can help you this year!
