Propel Careers – Future in Life Science Event Series

Propel Careers, MassBio, and the MassBioEd  together organize this Futures in Life Science program bringing together experts across a wide range of disciplines and functional areas within the life science industry, who will detail their roles and provide context for the audience to gain understanding of the skills, aptitudes, competencies, and personalities that thrive in their particular fields. Attendance for this program is open to current graduate students, post doctoral fellows, and medical residents who are interested in careers in the life sciences industry.  The goal of these events is to profile the various career paths including business and commercial, consulting, research and development, clinical, medical affairs, and regulatory, bioinformatics and systems biology, reimbursement, pharmacoeconomics, and patient advocacy, and finance, legal and operations. http://www.propelcareers.com/index.cfm/events/

February 19th, 2013

Futures in Life Science Series - Consulting Career Paths in the Life Science Industry

Location: MassBio Offices, 300 Tech Square, 8th Floor, Cambridge MA 02139

Time: 5:30-8:00pmTo Register, Click Here: http://fils22013-eorg.eventfizz.com/

RC Live LunchMonday, Feb. 25, 12:00-1:00PM, Carrie Hall

RC LIVE Lunches are open to all researchers at BWH. Come each month to hear the latest news from community leaders, ask your questions and stay for a free lunch. This month’s speakers are Richard Pearse, PhD, resource navigator with eagle-i, a free, web-based application that makes it easy to discover resources available at participating universities, and Betty Carbunari, discussing HMS Foundation Funding.

Please register online - http://www.brighamandwomens.org/View/EventDetails.aspx?eventID=50728

Demystifying Promotions:HMS/HSDM CV & Narrative Workshop

 

Register Online & Bring Your CVThursday, March 14, 4 -6 pm, Carrie Hall

 The CFDD Demystifying Promotions Seminar Series is designed for faculty to gain knowledge

about the academic promotions process at Harvard Medical School.  

Please visit our Demystifying Promotions Website: www.brighamandwomens.org/medical_professionals/career/cfdd/EventsandPrograms/DemystifyingPromotions.aspx 

Apply for our CV Consultation Service: www.brighamandwomens.org/medical_professionals/career/cfdd/EventsandPrograms/CV.aspx Speaker:Carol Bates, MD, Assistant Dean for Faculty Affairs, HMS

   Lunch/Refreshments will be provided.  The Harvard Medical School is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Harvard Medical School designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits(tm). Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in this activity.Course Director: Barbara Bierer, MD

Tell Congress to Stop Sequestration! If sequestration goes into effect on March 1st, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Science Foundation (NSF) face an immediate budget cut of approximately five percent.

Please email your Senators and Representative today to urge them to continue – not cut – essential funding for the NIH and NSF and other federal research agencies.

Go to:http://capwiz.com/faseb/issues/alert/?alertid=62385281

You can use information from FASEB’s new NIH congressional district and state factsheets, as well as our NSF factsheets in your email messages. Sending an email to your elected officials is easy and only takes a few minutes using the link above.

Center for Faculty Development & DiversityCALL FOR NOMINATIONS!

Brigham and Women's HospitalFaculty Development & Diversity Awards

Award categories include:Senior Faculty Mentor AwardJunior Faculty Mentor AwardClinical Teacher AwardEducational Program Leadership AwardEducational Research AwardResearch Collaboration AwardResearch Community Service AwardResearch Innovation AwardResearch Leadership AwardCommunity Service AwardDiversity and Inclusion Service AwardContribution to Faculty Development & Diversity Award

BWHC Faculty Development and Diversity Awards will be awarded annually to BWH faculty in recognition of achievement in one, or more, of the four pillars of academic life: clinical care, research, education and community service.

Nominations & letters of support are due by February 28, 2013.

More information and instructions:www.brighamandwomens.org/CFDD/CFDDAwards

BWH DermatologyResearch Presentation ScheduleFebruary 22 Paula Videira/ Sackstein Lab

March 1 Widlund Lab

March 8 Schatton Lab

March 15 Tian Lab