Melissa Gilliam, MD: "Gender & Racial Diversity in Medical Leadership"

5812 S. Ellis Avenue,Chicago IL 60637

14 December, 2022

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Melissa Gilliam, MD: "Designing for Academic Success: Gender and Racial Diversity in Academic Medical Leadership" As Ohio State’s executive vice president and provost, Dr. Melissa L. Gilliam is the chief academic officer of one of the largest and most comprehensive universities in the country. She leads an academic enterprise that includes 15 colleges, more than 7,500 faculty members and more than 67,000 students on campuses in Columbus, Lima, Mansfield, Marion, Newark and Wooster. A scholar, physician, educator, and academic leader, Dr. Gilliam joined Ohio State from the University of Chicago, where she was vice provost, the Ellen H. Block Distinguished Service Professor of Health Justice, and professor of obstetrics and gynecology and pediatrics. At the University of Chicago, Dr. Gilliam has focused on academic excellence, supporting faculty at all stages of their careers, and issues involving diversity and inclusion. 40 Years of MacLean Center Lecture Series In 1981, Mark Siegler and Richard Epstein organized a year-long interdisciplinary lecture series on Medical Innovation and Bad Outcomes: Legal, Social and Ethical Responses. The success of that initial lecture program and of the book based upon the lectures, demonstrated that there was great interest at the University of Chicago in creating a sustainable interdisciplinary forum to discuss health-related subjects with colleagues from across campus. Each year since, the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics has organized an annual lecture series to examine the ethical aspects of one key health-related issue. Recent annual lecture series topics have included: Reproductive Ethics; Organ Transplantation; Pediatric Ethics; Global Health; Health Care Disparities; Pharmaceutical Innovation and Regulation; End of Life Care; Neuroethics; Trauma, Violence and Trauma Surgery; The Doctor-Patient Relationship; Ethics and the COVID-19 Pandemic; and the History of Medicine and Ethics. Gender Equity and Ethics After 173 years following the first woman receiving a medical degree (1849) and five years since medical school enrollments achieved gender parity (2017), women and intersectional physicians have still not acquired gender equity in medicine. Over the years, the MacLean Center has hosted a series of superb lectures as a venue to explore current and historical medical advancements. The theme for the 2022-2023 41st Annual MacLean Center Public Lecture Series is “Gender Equity and Ethics.” Planned by Dr. Mark Siegler, Director of the Bucksbaum Institute, Dr. Peter Angelos, Director of the MacLean Center, Vineet Arora, Dean for Medical Education, and Dr. Julie Oyler, Chair of the Department of Medicine Women’s Committee. This year’s seminar will bring together women, allies, and other scholars from throughout the U.S. to review how gender equity has transformed the face of medicine and uncover where work still needs to be done. The specific themes we hope to develop over the course of this series will be: professional development including leadership, mentorship and sponsorship, gender equity including salary equity, promotion and academic advancement, and the intersectional experience in medicine from personal and professional burnout to finding a personal and professional balance. We hope to show how far gender equity has come, and we will demonstrate how far gender equity still has to go. We are eager for you to join us in thoughtful discussion as we study and learn from top scholars in gender equity. We can think of no better tribute to four decades of the MacLean Center’s work to elevate women and their allies as we look ahead to the future of gender equity in medicine and ethics. Please join us in-person (Billings Hospital Room P-117) for the 41st Annual Public Lecture Series. RSVP here on Eventbrite to receive reminders & updates from the organizers. Click here to learn more about the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics.