SciTS 2010 Conference: Sessions

Holly Falk-Krzesinski

Holly Falk-Krzesinski, Ph.D. is the Director Research Team Support (RTS) within NUCATS Institute, Dr. Falk-Krzesinski works with the RTS team and the rest of NUCATS to catalyze new clinical and translational multi- and interdisciplinary research initiatives; conduct, support, and disseminate research on the science of team science; and develop resources and tools to promote collaboration. She also serves as a conduit to translate empirical findings from team science research into evidence-based guidance to teams engaged in multi- and interdisciplinary clinical and translational research. Dr. Falk-Krzesinski has experience catalyzing and fostering a number of major cross-disciplinary, team-oriented translational research initiatives spanning structural genomics of infectious diseases to cancer nanotechnology to oncofertility to regenerative medicine.

Dr. Falk-Krzesinski is a Research Assistant Professor in the NUCATS Institute at the Feinberg School of Medicine and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, & Cell Biology in the Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences. She teaches Grantsmanship courses through Northwestern’s School of Continuing Studies and conducts grantsmanship, finding funding opportunities, and CV/resume/cover letter courses and workshops as a consultant.

Dr. Falk-Krzesinski is also Co-director, along with Professor Katherine Faber, of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Burroughs Wellcome Fund-sponsored Navigating the Professoriate Program, a professional development program for early career women faculty in STEM disciplines.

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Howard Gadlin

Howard Gadlin, Ph.D. has been Ombudsman and Director of the Center for Cooperative Resolution, at the National Institutes of Health since the beginning of 1999. Before that, from 1992 through 1998, he was University Ombudsperson and Adjunct Professor of Education at UCLA. He was also director of the UCLA Conflict Mediation Program and co-director of the Center for the Study and Resolution of Interethnic/Interracial Conflict. While in Los Angeles, he served as well as Consulting Ombudsman to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Prior to moving to Los Angeles Dr. Gadlin was Ombudsperson and Professor of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He currently serves as Chair of the Coalition of Federal Ombudsmen. Dr. Gadlin is past President of the University and College Ombuds Association and of The Ombudsman Association (TOA).

An experienced mediator, trainer and consultant, he has years of experience working with conflicts related to race, ethnicity and gender, including sexual harassment. At present he is developing new approaches to addressing conflicts among scientists. He is often called in as a consultant/mediator in “intractable” disputes. He has designed and conducted training programs internationally in dispute resolution, sexual harassment and multicultural conflict. He is the author, among other writings, of “Conflict, Cultural Differences, and the Culture of Racism,” and “Mediating Sexual Harassment.” He is the co-author of the “On Neutrality: What An Organizational Ombudsman Might Want to Know.” Recently he was Guest Editor of a Negotiation Journal section entitled “The Many, Different and Complex Roles Played by Ombudsmen in Dispute Resolution.”

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Michael R. Wasielewski

Michael R. Wasielewski, Ph.D. received his Bachelor of Science (1971) and Ph.D. (1975) degrees from the University of Chicago. Following his graduate work, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University. He then moved to the Argonne National Laboratory, where he rose through the ranks to become Senior Scientist and Group Leader of the Molecular Photonics Group. In 1994, he joined the faculty of Northwestern University, where he is currently Professor of Chemistry. He served as Chair of the Chemistry Department at Northwestern from 2001-2004. He is currently the Director of the Argonne-Northwestern Solar Energy Research Center, and also holds an appointment as Senior Scientist in the Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne. Prof. Wasielewski's research centers on light-driven charge transfer and transport in molecules and materials, photosynthesis, nanoscale materials for solar energy conversion, spin dynamics of multi-spin molecules, molecular materials for optoelectronics and spintronics, and time-resolved optical and electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy. His research has resulted in over 330 publications. Dr. Wasielewski was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1995, and has held numerous distinguished lectureships and fellowships. Among Prof. W asielewski’s recent awards are the 2008 Porter Medal for Photochemistry, the 2006 James Flack Norris Award in Physical Organic Chemistry of the American Chemical Society, and the 2004 Photochemistry Research Award of the Inter-American Photochemical Society.

She currently serves on advisory boards for several universities, the Engineering Directorate at NSF, and the National Institute of Bioimaging and Bioengineering of the National Institutes of Health. She also served two terms as president of the IEEE/Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, the largest professional society of bioengineers in the world.

Dr. Fouke is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and the Biomedical Engineering Society

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Teresa K. Woodruff

Teresa K. Woodruff, Ph.D. (Thomas J. Watkins Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Feinberg School of Medicine and Professor of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. Ph.D. 1983, Northwestern University). As a reproductive endocrinologist, Dr. Woodruff has spent the better part of her research career focusing on female reproductive health and infertility. To that end, she was made Chief of the newly created Division of Fertility Preservation at the Feinberg School of Medicine. Combining this effort with her work on two R01 NIH grants, a P01 grant and core facility, and her work as director of two NIH funded center grants (The Center for Reproductive Research (U54) and the Oncofertility Consortium (UL1), Dr. Woodruff has established a team of oncologists, fertility specialists, social scientists, educators and policy makers to translate her research to the clinical care of women who will lose their fertility due to cancer treatment. To describe this effort, she coined the term oncofertility, a word that is now officially recognized as a new 'slang' term in the English language. She edited the first book on this topic called Oncofertility (Springer, 2007) where the scope of the problem and current technology, clinical practice tables, procedural guidelines and patient stories are collected. She has been a tireless advocate for gender specificity in clinical trials in an effort to better understand the effects that technologies and procedures have on women and is the Founder and Director of the Institute for Women’s Health Research. As an educator and mentor, she works hard to encourage young women to pursue careers in the sciences, and has developed the Oncofertility Saturday Academy in conjunction with the Young Women’s Leadership Charter School as a way to involve high school girls in college level science. She serves on the Endocrine Society Council and the Society for the Study of Reproduction Board of Directors. Her awards include the Distinguished Teaching Award (2000), the Mentor of the Year Award (2009) and the Distinguished Woman in Medicine and Science (2009) from Northwestern University. She was also honored by the Alumnae of Northwestern University with their Distinguished Alumnae Award (2008). She has been honored nationally with awards from the American Women in Science (AWIS) (2008) Innovator Award, the American Medical Women Association (AMWA) Gender Equity Award (2009), and the “Speaking of Women's Health” Distinguished Service Award (2007). She was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2005) and awarded the Endocrine Society’s Richard E. Weitzman Memorial Award (2000).

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Question and Answer Session

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