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Ellen S. More, PhD |
Ellen S. More, PhD, professor emeritus of psychiatry and the inaugural UMMS historian, will be the keynote speaker at the annual celebration of Women’s History Month at UMass Medical School. All members of the medical school and UMass Memorial Health Care community are invited to attend Dr. More’s presentation “Nevertheless She Persisted: Women in American Medicine—and at UMass Medical School” on Tuesday, Mar. 27.
A medical historian specializing in the history of the American medical profession, women physicians and medical education, More is also the founder of the Office of Medical History and Archives at the Lamar Soutter Library.
She will discuss the obstacles women have faced—and overcame—in the United States in the fields of medicine and biomedical sciences. Drawing on the research from her new book on the history of University of Massachusetts Medical School, Beating the Odds: The University of Massachusetts Medical School, A History 1962-2012, she will also describe how professional women at UMMS took up the challenge of overcoming gender disparities.
Attendees will receive a copy of the expanded hardcover edition of Beating the Odds, also now available from the publisher and at Amazon.com.
Sponsored by the Office of Diversity & Inclusion, the Professional Women’s Committee and the Women’s Faculty Committee, the event will be held on Tuesday, Mar. 27, in the Faculty Conference Room. Lunch will be available at 11:30 a.m. The presentation from noon to 1 p.m. will be followed by a book signing.
Registration is requested. For more information, call 508-856-5121 or email fernanda.gama@umassmed.edu.
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