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Joy McCAnn Professorship Awardees

Current Recipient  

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2023-2026

Dr. Jeannette Wolfe

Goal: Provide professional women, across all three medical campuses, access to  extensive peer mentoring and a professional development curriculum.

Past Recipients

Jennifer Reidy MD

2020-2023

Dr. Jennifer Reidy

Goal: Equip women leaders to communicate effectively, strategically and authentically via simulation practice (Equip Program).  

Heather Forkey

2017-2020

Dr. Heather Forkey

GoalApply the “science of stress” as a lens to understand how healthcare providers are impacted by stressors of the modern healthcare environment and how those physiologic changes can result in burnout and secondary traumatic stress.

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2014-2017

Dr. Tiffany Moore Simas

Goal: to create a project focused on mid-career women and leadership, Empowering Mid-career Professional Women for Executive Roles (EMPOWER Summit).

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2011-2014

Dr. Julia Andrieni

Goal: to create an easily accessible continuum of academic mentors: REACT NOW (Researchers, Educators, Administrators, Clinicians, & Trainees Network of Women)

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2008-2011

Dr. Patricia Franklin

Goal: To support the advancement of women at UMass Chan through data and research.

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2005-2008

Dr. Linda Weinreb

Goal: To catalyze a process that would result in institutional steps to increase advancement and mentoring opportunities for women scientist/physicians.