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Sally Bowler-Hill, MA, MSIS, PMP is the Manager of Administrative Operations at the UNM Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center, where she oversees the library’s business operations including budget, finance, purchasing, HR, facilities, strategic planning, and communications. She also leads the library’s Assessment Team, which aims to create a culture of continual process and service improvement linked to the library’s strategic planning.
Varina Kosovich (she/her) is a Library Information Specialist at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center. As a librarian working in Public Services, she strives to create dynamic spaces and provide practical resources for library users. Her twelve years of library experience is informed by social justice approaches and intersectional feminism.
Amanda L. Collar (she/her) is an MD-PhD candidate at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. Her professional interests include infectious diseases, women’s health and reproductive justice, and health policy and advocacy with a Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) lens. She recently completed her PhD dissertation research in the laboratory of Dr. Kathryn M. Frietze, where she investigated human antibody response to natural urogenital Chlamydia trachomatis infection, engineered and developed novel prophylactic vaccine candidates for chlamydia infection, and investigated sexual behaviors regarding sexual enrichment aids of women using a mixed methods approach. She is currently leading a scholarly project focused on menstrual equity within the UNM Health Sciences Center and is active in both the New Mexico and National American College of Physicians, where she works to advance meaningful health policy.
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Krista Salazar, PharmD, PhC
COP DEAI Director
HSC Inclusive Excellence Council Executive Officer
White Coats for Black and Indigenous Lives, Coalition Member,
Associate Clinical Professor of Pharmacy Practice,
University of New Mexico College of Pharmacy
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March 23, 2023
12:00 – 1:00 PM MST
Eve Espey, MD MPH
Chair, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Family Planning Fellowship Director, UNM
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March 30, 2023
1:00 – 2:00 PM MST
Speaker:
Gina Urias-Sandoval, MBA
Chief of Staff
Office of the HSC EVP for Health Sciences & UNM Health Systems CEO
Moderator:
Kathleen Lopez Reyes, MD, MSCR
Assistant Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI)
University of New Mexico School of Medicine (UNM SOM)
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Moderator:
Michelle A. Ozbun, PhD
The Maralyn S. Budke Endowed Professor of Viral Oncology
Professor and Chief of Scholarship and Mentoring
Director of Diversity, Inclusion & Equity
Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
The University of New Mexico School of Medicine
Speaker:
Jennifer Grandis, MD
Distinguished Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and Associate Vice Chancellor for Clinical and Translational Research at UCSF, where I also direct the Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), UCSF
Dr. Jennifer R. Grandis is a physician scientist whose research is focused on elucidating and targeting key signaling pathways and genomic alterations in head and neck cancer with the goals of enabling precision medicine studies. She has leveraged her access to head and neck cancer (HNC) patients and their biospecimens to optimize translational research studies that include developing novel therapies in the laboratory for clinical application as well as generating and interrogating relevant preclinical models to determine the underlying mechanism of clinical findings. In her institutional roles at the University of Pittsburgh and since 2015, at UCSF, she has facilitated collaborations between clinicians and investigators with an emphasis of developing a robust research infrastructure to support clinical and translational cancer studies. She has published over 380 papers in the peer-reviewed literature and she has been continuously funded by the NIH since joining the faculty in 1993. Dr. Grandis is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation the Association of American Physicians and the National Academy of Medicine. She is an American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professor. More recently, she led a nationwide, multi-institution, qualitative research study to determine the impact of gender on careers in academic medicine.
Dr. Grandis will present her background for her study on gender equity and the results, focusing on the peer-reviewed publications to date.
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Hosted by UNM Health Sciences Office for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.
Moderator:
Veronica Plaza, MD, MPH
Department of Spanish and Portuguese | Research Assistant Professor, FCM; Senior Fellow, RWJF Center for Health Policy |University of New Mexico
Speaker:
Pilar Ortega, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Departments of Medical Education and Emergency Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago; Founder & Immediate-Past President, Medical Organization for Latino Advancement; President & Founder, National Association of Medical Spanish
Dr. Pilar Ortega is an Emergency Physician and a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Chicago Departments of Emergency Medicine and Medical Education, where she directs and teaches the Medical Spanish program for the College of Medicine, as well as a longitudinal course to prepare all medical students to effectively communicate with patients with diverse linguistic backgrounds.
Dr. Ortega wrote the textbook and clinical case book in the series, Spanish and the Medical Interview, and is the Founder and President of the National Association of Medical Spanish (NAMS), a non-profit interdisciplinary association that aims to improve health communication for Spanish-speaking populations. She is also Co-Founder and Immediate-Past President for the Medical Organization for Latino Advancement (MOLA), a non-profit professional organization that aims to address health disparities for Latinx communities and advance the careers of Latinx students and health professionals.
Some of Dr. Ortega’s recognitions have included her selection by the 2017 Crain’s Chicago Business 40 under 40, as a 2019 recipient of Spain's Royal National Academy of Medicine’s Award for Health Information, Communication and Dissemination, and as a 2020 Stemmler Fund grantee by the National Board of Medical Examiners. Dr. Ortega is principal investigator on several national studies to evaluate the effectiveness of medical language education and develop assessment tools to appropriately evaluate the bilingual skills of physicians and trainees.
She obtained her BA in Philosophy from the Johns Hopkins University, her MD from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, completed Emergency Medicine Residency at the University of Chicago, and is currently pursuing a Masters in Graphic Medicine from the Universidad Internacional de Andalucía. Dr. Ortega is a nationally and internationally recognized author, speaker, and clinician scientist focusing on preparing medical students, physicians, and health systems to care for linguistically and culturally diverse patient populations.
Learning objectives:
At the conclusion of the presentation, attendees will be able to:
Hosted by UNM Health Sciences Office for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.
Thursday, March 17
12:00 – 1:00 PM MST
Moderator:
Melissa Gonzales, PhD
Professor, School of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine
Associate Vice Chancellor for Research and Evaluation, Office for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Division of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Preventive Medicine
Speaker:
Anna M. Nogar, PhD
Associate Professor
Associate Chair
Department of Spanish & Portuguese
University of New Mexico
Dr. Anna María Nogar is Associate Professor of Hispanic Southwest Studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of New Mexico. Her published books include the prizewinning texts Quill and Cross in the Borderlands: Sor María de Ágreda and the Lady in Blue, 1628 to the Present (University of Notre Dame 2018), A History of Mexican Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2016), and Sisters in Blue/Hermanas de azul (University of New Mexico, 2017), as well as Colonial Itineraries of Contemporary Mexico (University of Arizona Press, 2014) and the forthcoming A History of Mexican Poetry and A History of the Mexican Novel (both Cambridge UP). In fall 2021, she published El feliz ingenio neomexicano: Felipe M. Chacón and Poesía y prosa, a book on the work of 19th-century bilingual nuevomexicano poet Felipe Maximiliano Chacón, with the University of New Mexico Press.
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Hosted by UNM Health Sciences Office for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.
Moderator:
John Paul Sánchez MD, MPH (He, Him, El)
Executive Associate Vice President, Health Sciences Center, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), UNM, Interim Executive Diversity Officer, Professor with Tenure & Vice Chair DEI, Emergency Medicine , University of New Mexico School of Medicine (UNM SOM)
Speaker:
Amanda Collar
MD-PhD Candidate | Class of 2024
University of New Mexico School of Medicine
Mandy is an MD-PhD Candidate (Class of 2024) currently completing her dissertation research project in the Frietze Lab, where she leads projects to investigate protective antibody epitopes in response to natural urogenital Chlamydia trachomatis infection and engineering prophylactic vaccine candidates against chlamydia. Mandy's goal is to become a physician-scientist in the field of infectious diseases. Her professional interests include infectious diseases, sexually transmitted infections, women's health and reproductive rights, health policy and advocacy, and JEDI (justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion) work. She currently holds a position on the Council of Student of Members for the National American College of Physicians where she has recently authored a resolution to research period poverty within the U.S. and remove taxation on menstrual products. She is currently leading a project under the supervision of Dr. Romero-Leggott to investigate the availability of menstrual products on HSC campus to address menstrual equity.
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Hosted by UNM Health Sciences Office for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.
Moderator:
Tryphenia B. Peele-Eady, PhD
Associate Dean for Equity, Inclusion, and Faculty | College of Education and Human Sciences (COEHS)
Director | COEHS Multicultural Education Center
Presidential Co-Program Chair | AERA 2022 Annual Meeting
Program Chair | AERA Research Focus on Black Education SIG (#085)
Speaker:
Kirsten Pai Buick, PhD
Professor of Art History, Department of Art
Associate Dean of Equity and Excellence, CFA
Chair of The Department of Africana Studies
I have taught at UNM since 2001. I received my BA in Art History with a double major in Italian Literature from the University of Chicago. I received my MA and PhD in Art History from the University of Michigan. My areas of research, teaching, and publication encompass the visual and material culture of the first British Empire, art of the United States, women as patrons and collectors, landscape representation, and African American art. I have published extensively on U.S. art history and lecture nationally and internationally. Session Description: I will present the background for my study on gender equity and the results, focusing on the peer-reviewed publications to date.
Black people have always held an ambivalent and often ambiguous position relative to “American freedom,” which becomes clear in the approaches that Black women artists have taken to the issue of monuments and memorials. From Mary Edmonia Lewis to Nona Faustine, they have revealed the true cost of liberty.
Learning Objectives
Hosted by UNM Health Sciences Office for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.
Presented by Reina Davis
Trivia competition about women in activism, music, media, and more!
Hosted by UNM Women's Resource Center
Join us for a fun virtual dance party!
Hosted by UNM LGBTQ Resource Center, UNM Women's Resource Center
More information forthcoming.
Hosted by UNM Truman Health Services, UNM Women's Resource Center
Presented by Dr. Shannon Withycombe
This talk will explore how medical developments, legal challenges, social policies, and demographic changes have shaped the meaning of motherhood in America in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It will describe early obstetrical narratives about race and childbirth, medical attention to and neglect of enslaved Black women, state and federal bans on fertility control, and early public health prenatal programs. The history of reproduction in this country is one deeply embedded in the history of race and understanding these roots can better inform us about modern racial disparities in health and medicine.
Hosted by HSC Office for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Discussion of the relationship between queer justice and feminism.
Hosted by UNM LGBTQ Resource Center
Moderated by Laura Helmuth
Featuring Dr. Jennifer Doudna, Dr. Raychelle Burks, Dr. Jane Willenbring, Dr. Eva Pietri
Explore more about the documentary film, Picture A Scientist. This panel discussion will focus on:
Viewing the film prior to attendance is highly recommended.
Picture a Scientist
"PICTURE A SCIENTIST chronicles the groundswell of researchers who are writing a new chapter for women scientists. Biologist Nancy Hopkins, chemist Raychelle Burks, and geologist Jane Willenbring lead viewers on a journey deep into their own experiences in the sciences, ranging from brutal harassment to years of subtle slights. Along the way, from cramped laboratories to spectacular field stations, we encounter scientific luminaries - including social scientists, neuroscientists, and psychologists - who provide new perspectives on how to make science itself more diverse, equitable, and open to all.
Sponsored by ProQuest, Scientific American, ro*co films, and FILM PLATFORM
Presented by Felina Ortiz DNP, RN, CNM & Martina Granado CNM, MSN
Discuss the history of curandera-parteras in New Mexico and the impact they have made for midwifery today.
Hosted by HSC Office for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Presented by Tk King, Ed Fancovic, Bunnie Cruse, Francisco Galarte, Kathryn Stuenkel and Dr. Cameron Crandall
This panel features practitioners and community members who will discuss clinical and educational efforts to promote inclusion of transgender health at UNMSOM.
Hosted by HSC Office for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and Feminist Research Institute
Presented by Sonya Renee Taylor
Sonya Renee Taylor is the Founder and Radical Executive Officer of The Body is Not An Apology, a digital media and education company with content reaching half a million people each month. Sonya is a dynamic visionary and global thought leader bringing nuance, compassion and innovative approaches to some of the world's most challenging social issues.
Hosted by WRC Main, UConn Women's Center, Georgia College Women's Center, Women's Resource & Action Center, Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality UMass Dartmouth, University of Virginia, Women's Center at Virginia Tech
Presented by Carolyn Montoya, Joanna Fair, Jamie Silva-Steele, Alisha Parada, Eleanor Chavez, Sarah Ghiorse (moderator/framer)
“The COVID-19 pandemic has represented a novel battleground, as the first in which women have taken center stage, not only in their roles as physicians, respiratory therapists, nurses, and the like, but also by serving in leadership positions and facilitating innovations in science, technology, and policy. Yet, the pandemic has exacerbated multiple pain points that have disproportionally impacted women in health care, including shortages in correctly sized personal protective equipment and uniforms, inadequate support for pregnant and breastfeeding providers, and challenges associated with work-life balance and obtaining childcare.” — “Women on the Frontline: A Changed Workforce and the Fight Against COVID-19” by Rabinowitz, Loren Galler MD; Rabinowitz, Danielle Galler MD, MM
And from NewMexicoWomen.org’s Report “Gender Justice at the Heart of New Mexico’s Pandemic Recovery”:
The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare, in the most devastating of ways, existing structural inequalities throughout our state. These existing inequities mean that self-identifying women, tribal communities, communities of color, the LGBTQIA community, and rural and immigrant communities throughout the state are being disproportionately impacted by the crisis…
The disproportionate manner in which COVID-19 is impacting various communities across New Mexico reveals preexisting structural inequalities along lines of race, gender, and socio-economic class. Our layered history of colonization and structural racism in New Mexico have resulted in health inequities that have led to the Native American community bearing the brunt of the impact of the pandemic. Further, across the country, deeply entrenched systems of patriarchy and structural racism mean that women of color are more likely to be doing essential jobs than anyone else, whether as cashiers, home healthcare aides, or emergency room nurses. Women—especially women of color—are the front lines tackling this national crisis. Indeed, “The work they do has often been underpaid and undervalued—an unseen labor force that keeps the country running and takes care of those most in need, whether or not there is a pandemic.”
Questions for Panelists:
Hosted by UNM HSC Office for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and UNM Women's Resource Center
Faculty, staff, learners step up every day. A shero steps up to lead. This might be a custodian, a medical student, resident or fellow, an Administrative Assistant or a Dean, to name a few. A leader is defined by actions and not titles. Now is the time to tell our stories.
Examples of leadership could include:
Four awards will be handed out and the recipients recognized as leaders this year.
Sponsored by the HSC Office for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Presented by Reina Davis
Panel discussion of how food has been revolutionary for women and our communities featuring WOC leadership from our main campus ethnic centers.
Hosted by UNM Women's Resource Center
UNM representatives:
Amy LeviVice Chancellor of Academic Affairs for the Health Sciences Center
Leah L. Albers Endowed Professor of Midwifery
Amylevi@salud.unm.edu
505-272-5598
Barbara Rodríguez
Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, Office of the Provost
Professor of Speech and Hearing Sciences
svp@unm.edu
Elizabeth Hutchison
Associate Vice President for Equity and Inclusion, Division for Equity and Inclusion
Professor of History
ehutch@unm.edu
505-301-6469
HOLLABACK trainings
Bystander intervention at workplace
https://www.ihollaback.org/bystander-intervention-in-the-workplace/
Street harassment
https://www.ihollaback.org/stand-street-harassment/