MSTP Women's Forum at Northwestern University

The women MSTP students at Northwestern University meet twice each year to discuss the particular challenges they face balancing family life and careers. The NU Women's Forum also has invited the women MSTP students at the University of Chicago to join them and the women PSTP Scholars (residents in research tracks at Northwestern) to join them.

2008-2009

Dorothy Sipkins, M.D., Ph.D.

MSTP students Maya Srikanth (Grad 2) and Robin Skory (Med1) are organizing the first MSTP Women's Forum for 2008-2009 on Tuesday, January 7, 2009 in Wieboldt Hall's Fireside Room (3rd floor) and RSVP is requested. The speaker is Dorothy Sipkins, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Medicine, Hematology-Oncology at the University of Chicago, who in 2007 received an NIH New Innovator Award for her research on defining the molecular characteristics of tissue niches that foster the survival and regeneration of both normal and cancerous hematopoietic stem cells.

2007-2008

Lisa Satlin , M.D.	Rachel Swart , M.D., Ph.D.

Tracy Gertler (Grad2) and Maya Srikanth (Grad1) organized the first MSTP Women's Forum for 2007-2008 on Wednesday, March 19, 2008. The speaker was Lisa Satlin , M.D., Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the MSTP at Mount Sinai Medical School. Click here for a photo of the group and here to read about Dr. Satlin's research and to read her CV. They also organized the second MSTP Women's Forum for 2007-2008 on Monday June 2, 2008. The speaker was alumna Rachel Swart, MD, PhD (MSTP Class of 2003) who currently is an Assistant Professor of Medicine-Oncology at the University of Arizona. Click here for a photo of the goup.

2006-2007

Jacqueline Jeruss, M.D., Ph.D.

Tracy Gertler (Grad1) and Sarah Umetsu (Grad1) organized the MSTP Women's Forum for 2006-2007 on Thursday, March 8, 2007 at 7:00 PM in Wieboldt Hall, Room 248. The speaker was Jackie Jeruss, M.D., Ph.D., who completed her M.D. at the University of Vermont in 1997 and began her residency at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. In 2000, she put her residency on hold in order to pursue a Ph.D. and worked as a predoctoral student in the Woodruff lab from 2001-2003, as a research fellow of the American College of Surgeons and of the National Cancer Institute Oncogeneis and Developmental Biology Training Grant. Her dissertation was entitled "The Role of Activin in Mammary Gland Development and Breast Cancer Progression." After completing her Ph.D., she pursued a surgical residency. To read more about Dr. Jeruss' research, click here.

2005-2006

Sarah Umetsu (M2) organized the MSTP Women's Forum for 2005-2006 on Tuesday, February 7, 2006 at 7:00 PM at her home. The speaker was Amy Paller, M.D., Professor and Chair of the Dermatology Department at Northwestern University. Dr. Paller is renowned for both her research on the growth and mobility of kertinocytes and for her clinical practice as a pediatric dermatologist. To read more about Dr. Paller, click here.

Amy Paller, M.D.

2004-2005

Amanda Bass Zubek (Grad 2) and Siri Sonty (Grad 3) organized the first MSTP Women's Forum for 2004-2005 on Tuesday, January 18, 2005 at Siri Sonty's home. The speaker was Janet Rowley, M.D., Professor, Department of Medicine and Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology at the University of Chicago and recipient of the Albert Lasker Clinical Medicine Research Prize for 1998. Dr. Rowley shared the award for clinical research with Peter Nowell, M.D., Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and Alfred Knudson, M.D., Ph.D., former President of the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia. The award celebrated their combined discoveries of the genetic alterations that cause cancer in humans and that allow for cancer diagnosis in patients at the molecular level.

Janet Rowley, M.D.

2003-2004

Amanda Bass (Grad 1) and Ciara Martin (Grad 3) organized the first MSTP Women's Forum for 2003-2004 on Tuesday, March 2 at Ciara Martin's home. The speaker was Elizabeth McNally, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Department of Medicine, Section on Cardiology, at the University of Chicago.

The second NU MSTP Women's Forum was held on Wednesday, June 30, 2004, at Kelly O'Hara's home. The speaker was alumna Lucy Godley, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine, Section of Hematology/Oncology at the University of Chicago.

Elizabeth McNally, M.D., Ph.D.	Lucy Godley, M.D., Ph.D.

2002-2003

In 2002-2003 Marsha Ritter-Jones (Grad 2) and Ciara Martin (Grad 2)organized the MSTP Women's Forum on Tuesday, March 4 at Ciara Martin's home. The speaker was Elizabeth Berry-Kravis, M.D., Ph.D., a pediatric neurologist and Director of the Fragile X Clinic at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center.

Elizabeth Berry-Kravis, M.D., Ph.D.