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Anne Klibanski Visiting Scholars Award
 
Applications are now being accepted by the Center for Faculty Development for the Anne Klibanski Visiting Scholars Award 2024-2025.

-- Applications due Friday, May 17, 2024 --
About the Award
The Center for Faculty Development’s Anne Klibanski Visiting Scholars Award was specifically created to provide focused opportunities in speaking, coaching, and networking for women faculty. Given its success, it has continued; there are currently 4 cohorts of Anne Klibanski Scholars, and we are now launching the 5th call for applications. This award will be presented to women faculty who have shown exceptional promise as future leaders and whose careers will specifically benefit from speaking and networking opportunities at the national or international level. The award provides the opportunity to serve as a “virtual” Visiting Professor and give Grand Rounds at a national or international institution, organized through the scholar’s “champion,” a senior member of the MGH faculty. It is the hope of the program that this opportunity will facilitate connections with collaborators and/or mentors at the host institution(s). Anne Klibanski Scholars will also build connections with each other, network with colleagues at MGH, and receive dedicated coaching, training, and peer mentoring support:
  • Sponsorship from a senior MGH faculty member, the Scholar’s “champion.”
  • Two individual sessions with career coach Charlene Grabowski, executive coach and member of Pathfinder Strategies team, and access to lectures offered to past scholars, including leadership challenges, leading people, and change management fundamentals.
  • Four group coaching sessions led by a trained MGH faculty coach with a small cohort of Anne Klibanski scholars to explore and evaluate individual needs and goals in a collaborative, communal space of support.
  • Lecture forums:
  1. A welcome session with an introductory seminar/workshop. This will include education on how best to give presentations, explain their work to a lay audience, and self-promote. 
  2. Four sessions dedicated to improving speaking skills. In these sessions, Klibanski scholars will give 15-minute lectures and receive immediate focused feedback from each other and senior faculty mentors. These sessions will offer a unique and unparalleled opportunity to learn from each other in a safe and constructive environment and practice how best to give a talk.
  • Additional ad hoc offerings on professional development skills.

Please note that this award does not fund research or protected time.
 
When is the deadline?  
Application deadline: Friday, May 17, 2024 – 11:59 PM
 
How do I learn more?
“The Anne Klibanski Visiting Scholars Program gives space for faculty to hone their
brand, take time to think about ways to expand their reach and impact, and build community with other amazing women faculty.”
--Shannon Scott-Vernaglia, 2021-22 Anne Klibanski Scholar
CURRENT ANNE KLIBANSKI SCHOLAR
ACHIEVEMENTS

The Center for Faculty Development takes this opportunity to congratulate our current cohort of Anne Klibanski Scholars on their many successes over the course of this academic year 2023-24: 

67 and still counting: number of invited presentations our 29 scholars have received to date, across the nation and world, including at 
  • University of Nairobi
  • 3rd American-Taiwan conference organized by the Taiwan Association of Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • 2023 European Society for Medical Oncology Congress, Madrid, Spain
  • Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology, Hammersmith Campus, Imperial College London
  • Apollo Cancer Center, Chennai, India
  • Seoul National University Hospital special lecture course
  • Arthur and Sandra Irving Cancer Immunology Innovation retreat, American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Boston
  • American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting
  • Invited to speak in person at UC San Diego and DOM UCSF Grand Rounds

Promotion and promotion consideration to HMS Assistant and Associate Professor
 
Awards and other recognition
  • MGH ECOR Martin Prize for Fundamental Research
  • Inaugural MGH David Holtzman award, for "someone that embodies the values of David Holtzman: science, medicine, innovation, compassion"
  • MGH CFD Rising Mentoring Award
  • Brendan Kelly Award, Medicine-Pediatrics Program Director Association, National Award for Associate Program Directors
  • 2024 Women Scientists Innovation Award for Cancer Research
  • Greek International Women Award (GIWA)
  • Endocrine Society - Outstanding Abstract Award
  • Research to Prevent Blindness Physician-Scientist Award
  • ACOG (American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists) Chair of District I (involves all the New England States, Montreal, the Atlantic Provinces, and Chile); in that role also serve on the ACOG Board of Directors

Visit the Anne Klibanski Visiting Scholars Award Recipients page, which is updated regularly.

We also take this opportunity to thank our stellar Anne Klibanski Scholar champions, who have sponsored our scholars for presentation opportunities, wielding their impressive national and international networks. 
Anne Klibanski, MD, President and CEO of Mass General Brigham and former Director of the Center for Faculty Development, has been a strong supporter and advocate for women physicians and scientists at MGH. Among many other initiatives, she was instrumental in establishing the MGH Backup Childcare Center and the Claflin Distinguished Scholar Awards, which support the careers of women scientists at MGH at a critical period in their careers when childrearing responsibilities might otherwise reduce their productivity
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