Virginia Kneeland Frantz Society Lectures
The mission of the Virginia Kneeland Frantz Society for Women Faculty (VKFS) is to serve, support, and celebrate the advancement of careers of women at all ranks in the academic health sciences at CUMC. As part of it's mission, VKFS offers and sponsors several programs that focus on the needs of women faculty at CUMC. An annual lecture open to all CUMC students, faculty and staff that focuses on gender nuances in the professional work place.
Past VKFS Lectures:
"Women and Leadership in the 21st Century University-
A Colloquium of Women Deans at Columbia University"
Monday, March 7, 2016
Alumni Auditorium
Columbia University Medical Center
Sponsored by:
The Virginia Kneeland Frantz Society for Women Faculty, P&S
Moderator:
Lee Goldman, MD
Executive Vice President and Dean of the Faculties of Health Sciences and Medicine
Chief Executive of the Columbia University Medical Center
Panelists:
Amale Andraos, MArch
Dean of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Bobbie Berkowitz, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN
Dean of the School of Nursing
Mary C. Boyce, PhD
Dean of Engineering at the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Linda Fried, MD, MPH
Dean of the Mailman School of Public Health
Merit E. Janow, JD
Dean of the School of International and Public Affairs
Alondra Nelson, PhD
Dean of Social Science in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Jeanette Takamura, PhD, MSW
Dean of the School of Social Work
Materials:
Recording
A Special Lecture with Claire Shipman
"The Science and Art of Confidence: What Women Need to Know"
Thursday, December 3, 2015
Alumni Auditorium
Columbia University Medical Center
Sponsored by:
The Virginia Kneeland Frantz Society for Women Faculty, P&S
Speaker:
Claire Shipman
Senior National Correspondent for ABC's Good Morning America and Co-author of the New York Times Bestsellers: "The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance- What Women Should Know" and "Womenomics"
The CUMC Leadership Forum
"The Intersection of Gender and Leadership: Perspectives and Strategies for Success"
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Hammer Health Sciences Center, HSC 401, 4th Floor
Columbia University Medical Center
Sponsored by:
The Virginia Kneeland Frantz Society for Women Faculty, P&S
Speakers:
Margaret Wood, MD, FRCA
EM Papper Professor of Anesthesiology
Chair, Department of Anesthesiology
Richard Mayeux, MD
Gertrude H Sergievsky Professor of Neurology, Psychiatry and Epidemiology
(in the Sergievsky Center and Taub Institute)
Chair, Department of Neurology
Director, Sergievsky Center
Co-Director, Taub Institute
Michael Shelanski, MD, PhD
Delafield Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology
(in Neuroscience and in the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain)
Chair, Department of Pathology and Cell Biology
“Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection”
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Alumni Auditorium, 650 West 168th St, 1st Floor
Columbia University Medical Center
Sponsored by:
The Virginia Kneeland Frantz Society for Women Faculty, P&S
Speaker:
Debora Spar, PhD
President of Barnard College
"A Special Lecture and Panel Discussion focused on Women and Leadership in the Health Sciences"
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Alumni Auditorium, 650 West 168th St, 1st Floor
Columbia University Medical Center
Sponsored by:
The Virginia Kneeland Frantz Society for Women Faculty, P&S
The Office of Academic Affairs, P&S
Keynote Speaker:
Robin J Ely
Warren Alpert Professor of Business Administration
Senior Associate Dean for Culture and Community
Harvard Business School
Panelists:
Katherine Phillips, PhD
Paul Calello Professor of Leadership and Ethics in the Faculty of Business
Columbia University
Janice Clements, PhD
Vice Dean for Faculty and Professor and the Mary Wallace Stanton Professor of Faculty Affairs
Professor of Comparative Medicine, Neurology, Pathology and joint appointment Molecular Biology & Genetics
Johns Hopkins University
Elaine Larson, PhD, RN, FAAN, CIC
Associate Dean for Research
Anna C. Maxwell Professor of Nursing Research
Mary D’Alton, MD
Willard C Rappleye Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Department Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Columbia University
Margaret Wood, MD
EM Papper Professor of Anesthesiology
Department Chair of Anesthesiology
Columbia University
Special Lecture on Women Leadership in Academic Medicine
“Are We Ready for a Woman in Charge? Maintaining Leadership in Surgery”
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Amphitheater 1
Columbia University Medical Center
Sponsored by:
The Virginia Kneeland Frantz Society for Women Faculty, P&S
The Office of Academic Affairs, P&S
Speaker:
Julie Ann Freischlag, MD
The William Stewart Halsted Professor
Chair, Department of Surgery
Surgeon – in – Chief
The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions