Journal of women's health
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Journal of women's health · Aug 2023
Leadership Development in Early Career Scientists: Themes and Feedback from Executive Coaching and Mindful Leadership Training.
Background: Career development is essential for all academic stages, but particularly critical for the growth and retention of early career scientists. In addition to scientific technical training, professional skill development is crucial for the upward transition from postdoctoral trainee to early faculty member and beyond. Building leadership skills, specifically, is an important component of professional development, and the evaluation and reporting of professional development are important to improve and enhance the impact of programs. ⋯ The findings of this program evaluation highlight the value of communication skills for navigating precarious situations, building self-efficacy and intentionality in making and holding boundaries for an individual's time and energy. Further, the individualized small group format of the activities allowed for deeper introspection and peer to peer connection. Conclusion: The identification of common themes within the Mayo Clinic program provides guidance to other academic environments on areas where they can support their early career scientists.
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Journal of women's health · Aug 2023
Microvascular Aging and Eicosanoids-Women's Evaluation of Systemic Aging Tenacity ("You are never too old to become younger!") Specialized Center of Research Excellence on Sex Differences Career Enhancement Core: Building the Future.
The objective of the National Institutes of Health Office of Research in Women's Health (NIH/ORWH) Specialized Center of Research and Career Enhancement (SCORE) program is to expedite the development and application of new knowledge that affect women, to learn more about the etiology of these diseases, and to foster improved approaches to treatment and/or prevention. Each SCORE has a Career Enhancement Core (CEC) that serves to meet the career enhancement needs of translational science in the study of sex differences. The Microvascular Aging and Eicosanoids-Women's Evaluation of Systemic aging Tenacity (MAE-WEST) ("You are never too old to become younger!") Specialized Center of Research Excellence (SCORE) on Sex Differences will study pro- and anti-inflammatory responses and small vessel aging traits. ⋯ The MAE-WEST SCORE has developed our own unique CEC for providing novel educational, networking, funding opportunities, and translation to practice support. The developed best practices have found novel ways to enhance studies of women's health and SABV. We welcome visitors on-site and virtual to share with the broader academic and practicing community.
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Journal of women's health · Aug 2023
Establishment of a Private Foundation-Academic Partnership to Promote Careers of Early-Stage Investigators Examining the Influence of Sex and Gender on Health and Health Care.
Biological sex and gender-based constructs contribute significantly to the diversity of disease outcomes and treatment responses across the life course. To promote research considering sex and gender, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) launched the Specialized Centers of Research Excellence (SCORE) on sex differences program. The Career Enhancement Core (CEC) of the Johns Hopkins SCORE on Sex and Age Differences in Immunity to Influenza (SADII) partnered with the Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine, which matched NIH funding to support seed grants. ⋯ All awardees noted challenges with their progress related to the COVID-19 pandemic and supply chain delays and shared suggestions for improving the programming of the CEC. They also highlighted the multiple ways the awards had helped them gain pilot data toward larger grants, build collaborative relationships, and present at the annual SCORE symposium. We describe a model and evidence supporting a private-academic collaboration to support the careers of early-stage investigators conducting research related to sex and gender.
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Journal of women's health · Aug 2023
Developing Researchers with Expertise in Sex as a Biological Variable through SCORE Career Enhancement Core Center Programs.
There is a critical need for interdisciplinary and translational scientists to apply sex as a biological variable (SABV) research to address knowledge gaps in the health of women. In 2018, the Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) partnered with several National Institute of Health (NIH) Institutes and Centers to expand the Specialized Centers of Research (SCOR) Excellence (SCORE) Programs (together referred to as SCOR/E) with an important feature-the Career Enhancement Core (CEC). The SCORE CEC mentors early career investigators to become the next generation of biomedical and behavioral researchers focused on SABV and women's health. ⋯ At Yale University, 12 pilot projects funded by the SCOR/E Programs resulted in 14 extramural grants, amounting to an $80 return on every $1 invested in "seed" funding. So far, our SCOR/E Programs have resulted in 129 publications, 83% of which were first-authored by trainees, and 100% of trainees continued research careers with an emphasis on SABV. Finally, we provide recommendations on how biomedical scientists can apply SABV in their studies of major medical conditions in an interdisciplinary and integrative way.