The Group on Women in Medicine and Science (GWIMS) Leadership Award recognizes outstanding individual faculty and organizational/program contributions to advancing women leaders in academic medicine and science. Since 1995, these prestigious awards have recognized over 75 individuals and organizations.
Any member of the academic medicine community may nominate individuals and/or organizations/programs for the award. The GWIMS Steering Committee strongly encourages nominations of leaders and programs that have significant impact on advancing women leaders in academic medicine and science. Nominations for established and emerging faculty leaders are encouraged.
Award Categories
There are four award categories. Before submitting an application, please fully review all category descriptions. Here are the 2024 Leadership Award winners:
Leadership Award for an Individual
Nominee has contributed to the advancement of women in medicine and science for 10 years or more of their career.
Kimberly J. Templeton, MD, FAAOS, FAOA, FAMWA is Professor of Orthopedic Surgery and Associate Dean for Continuing Medical Education at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kansas. She is also Vice-Chair for Faculty Development in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Sports Medicine. She received her MD from the University of Missouri in Columbia and completed her orthopedic surgery residency at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s in Chicago and oncology fellowship in the Harvard Combined Programs.
Dr. Templeton’s research looks at the effects of sex and gender in clinical medicine and in our profession. She is past president of the Kansas Orthopaedic Society, the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts, the US Bone and Joint Initiative, and the American Medical Women’s Association. She recently completed her term on the NIH Advisory Committee on Research on Women’s Health and is currently the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons delegate to the AMA, a member of the ACGME’s Orthopaedic Residency Review Committee, and a representative to the AAMC’s Council of Faculty and Academic Societies. Her long list of achievements impacting WIMS include working with her state’s medical board to develop a re-entry category of licensure and related state regulations, an effort particularly relevant to women physicians who choose to take time aware from the profession for childrearing, developing (and publishing) a study with the NBME on the impact of Step 1 on the wellbeing of women and URiMs, and serving as a senior author on a National Academy of Medicine discussion paper on burnout among women physicians.
Dr. Templeton has received numerous national awards including from the NBME, AMSA, the AMA Foundation, and AMWA, as well as the Bernadine Healy Award for Visionary Leadership in Women’s Health
Emerging Leadership Award for an Individual
Nominee has contributed to the advancement of women in medicine and science for fewer than 10 years of their career.
Mira Mamtani MD MSEd is Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine and since 2020 has served as associate director for FOCUS on Health & Leadership Women at the Univ of PA Perelman School of Medicine . She received her MD at Stony Brook University in 2009 and completed her EM residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in 2013.
Dr. Mamtani has published on gender disparities in authorship and in assessment and feedback with ongoing grant funding to study interventions to achieve equitable feedback among trainees and address sexual harassment in the workplace. As Associate Director of FOCUS, Dr. Mamtani conceptualizes and stewards programming for Penn’s annual FOCUS conferences and in response to conference-driven feedback created URSponsored, a sponsorship program to improve the career trajectory of PSOM URIM women faculty. Early survey data has shown an increased sense of belonging, perception of likelihood of promotion, and acquisition of leadership roles among participants. In 2023, Dr. Mamtani was awarded the PSOM Excellence Through Diversity Fund to optimize and expand this critical initiative.
Emerging Leadership Award for an Organization
The organization/program has contributed to the advancement of women in medicine and science for fewer than 10 years.
Since its inception in 2019, the Office of Gender Equity in Science (OGE) and Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has been implementing and overseeing a robust portfolio of programs in service of its mission to ensure all faculty and trainees can thrive regardless of their gender, gender identity, or gender expression.
OGE offers tiered-leadership support through programs, including Distinguished Scholars - professional development and funding support for five assistant professors with research careers and caregiving responsibilities/year to become associate professors, Mid-Career Women Faculty Development- six months of skills-based programming and a professional development stipend to six associate professors/year to facilitate promotion; 3) Learning as Leaders - six months of leadership development programming to a cohort of six women professors to become leaders; 4) Women’s Leadership Network- formal professional development and informal socializing/team-building for women deans and chairs. OGE’s Building Gender Equity Together initiative includes a series of solution-oriented, facilitated dialogues. Over 140 individuals identified strategies to support gender equity and Gender Equity Action Teams implemented including 1) metrics to track gender equity across departments; 2) campaigns to affirm taking caregiving leave; 3) improving access to family-friendly resources/policies.
OGE collaborates with NASEM on gender equity as Action Collaborative members and also participated in NASEM’s Committee Seeking Creative Solution to Work Life Challenges of STEMM Caregivers. Since its inception, the proportion of women chairs at Sinai has increased from 9% to 40% and the proportion of Deans who are women increased from 9% to nearly 60%.
Submission Requirements
Submitters are encouraged to compile all application materials ahead of time to expedite the submission process.
Helpful information to prepare a submission:
Application Review and Committee Notification
Under the leadership of the GWIMS Immediate Past Chair, all applications are reviewed in full by the GWIMS steering committee at the July steering committee meeting. Applicants are notified in early August of committee decisions.
Award Presentation
Recipients of the GWIMS Leadership Awards will be recognized at the GWIMS Leadership Award ceremony at Learn Serve Lead: The AAMC Annual Meeting in November.