TY - JOUR
T1 - Perspective
T2 - Sistas in science - Cracking the glass ceiling
AU - Starlard-Davenport, Athena
AU - Rich, Alisa
AU - Fasipe, Titilope
AU - Lance, Eboni I.
AU - Adekola, Kehinde
AU - Forray, Ariadna
AU - Steed, Mesia
AU - Fitzgerald, Ashley
AU - Walker, Scharri
AU - Pace, Betty S.
N1 - Funding Information:
This Perspective was written by participants of Cohort 5 of FTG-PRIDE (funded by NHLBI R25HL106365 to BSP) and reflects discussions from a peer mentor meeting via teleconference on February 10, 2018. The PRIDE Program supported a mentored training opportunity for SIS group members and co-authors. The FTG-PRIDE Program is sponsored by a National Heart Lung and Blood Institute grant to BSP (R25HL106365). AS-D is supported by funding from the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center (UTHSC), Center for Integrative and Translational Genomics, Methodist Mission, and UTHSC Collaborative Research Network Awards; EL is supported by grant K23HL133455 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and Collaboration and Innovation grant from Kennedy Krieger Institute, Johns Hopkins University.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2018/9/1
Y1 - 2018/9/1
N2 - In this perspective, we describe our experience as women of color scientists from diverse backgrounds and similar struggles embarking upon the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute-funded program called PRIDE (Programs to Increase Diversity among Underrepresented Minorities Engaged in Health-Related Research). Under the leadership of our mentor and friend, Betty Pace, MD, a renowned and successful African American physician-scientist, the PRIDE Program was designed to address the difficulties experienced by junior-level minority investigators in establishing independent research programs and negotiating tenure and full professor status at academic institutions. The strength of PRIDE's innovative formula was pairing us with external senior mentors and, importantly, allowing us to serve as peer mentors to each other. We believe this “Sister's Keeper” paradigm is one solution for women to overcome their limitations and extend understandings and best practices worldwide for science, medicine, and global health.
AB - In this perspective, we describe our experience as women of color scientists from diverse backgrounds and similar struggles embarking upon the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute-funded program called PRIDE (Programs to Increase Diversity among Underrepresented Minorities Engaged in Health-Related Research). Under the leadership of our mentor and friend, Betty Pace, MD, a renowned and successful African American physician-scientist, the PRIDE Program was designed to address the difficulties experienced by junior-level minority investigators in establishing independent research programs and negotiating tenure and full professor status at academic institutions. The strength of PRIDE's innovative formula was pairing us with external senior mentors and, importantly, allowing us to serve as peer mentors to each other. We believe this “Sister's Keeper” paradigm is one solution for women to overcome their limitations and extend understandings and best practices worldwide for science, medicine, and global health.
KW - PRIDE
KW - Underrepresented Minorities in Research
KW - Women in Science
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U2 - 10.18865/ed.28.4.575
DO - 10.18865/ed.28.4.575
M3 - Review article
C2 - 30405303
AN - SCOPUS:85055592295
SN - 1049-510X
VL - 28
SP - 575
EP - 578
JO - Ethnicity and Disease
JF - Ethnicity and Disease
IS - 4
ER -