For this Faculty Feature, we spoke with Liang-I Kang, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Anatomic and Molecular Pathology.

Click on any of the links below for information & registration details. We encourage you to participate.

Faculty Lounge: Peer Check-In
Topic: Less Meet in your academic diet
December 11, 12:05 - 12:50 pm
West Building, 3rd floor conference room (library)
Register and make your lunch choice by Friday December 6

Rights and Responsibilities Relevant to Balancing Professional and Family Obligations
January 8, 2025, 12:05 - 12:50 pm via Zoom
Panel:
HR Representative to be announced
Amy Dunnegan, WashU Medicine Family Care Facilitator
Bethany Miller, Director, Graduate Medical Education

February 23, 2025 from 1-4 pm

Faculty, Fellows & Residents Gather your Teams!
Tables of 8-plus ones are welcome
Don't have 8? No problem. We will help fill your table. .

Location: Blueberry Hill Duck Room
6504 Delmar Blvd in The Loop

Registration open after the new year.
Sponsored by The Office of Faculty Development and the Office of Education.

Empathetic Leadership in a Collaborative Environment
March 12, 12:05 - 12:50 via Zoom
Presented by Jennifer Heemstra, PhD
Chair and Professor of Chemistry

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Book Discussion
January 22, 4:05 - 4:50 pm via Zoom
10 copies of the book are available to those who will attend the discusion. Contact Janet Braun to request a copy.

About the Book:
For Glory Edim, that “friend of my mind” is books. Edim, who grew up in Virginia to Nigerian immigrant parents, started the popular Well-Read Black Girl book club at age thirty, eventually reaching a community of half a million readers. But her own love of books stretches far back.
 
Edim’s father moved back to Nigeria while she was still a child, marking the beginning of a series of traumatic changes and losses for her family. What became an escape, a safe space, and a second home for her and her brother was their local library. Books were where Edim found community, and as she grew older she discovered authors and ideas that she wasn’t being taught about in class. Reading wherever and whenever she could, be it in her dorm room or when traveling by subway or plane, she found the Black writers whose words would forever change her life: Nikki Giovanni, through children’s poetry cassettes; Maya Angelou, through a critical high school English teacher; Toni Morrison, while attending Morrison’s alma mater, Howard University; Audre Lorde, on a flight to Nigeria. In prose full of both joy and heartbreak, Edim recounts how these writers and so many others taught her how to value herself by helping her to find her own voice when her mother lost hers, to trust her feelings when her father remarried, and to create bonds with other Black women and uplift their stories.
 
Gather Me is a glowing testament to how the power of representation in literature can gather the disparate parts that make us who we are and assemble them into a portrait of discovery.

WashU Medicine's Office of Diversity Equity & Inclusion training & professional development:

Training is available on a individual or group level, in person and by Zoom. View available programs

The focus of their training is to support the School of Medicine community in developing a greater awareness, understanding, commitment and action framework regarding diversity, equity and inclusion.

The training programs are designed to give participants the tools to:

*Work together to create a climate of mutual respect in the workplace
*Attract and develop a diverse and talented student body and workforce
*Recognize the value of diversity, equity and inclusion
*Address the unconscious bias that leads to health disparities

WashU Night with the Blues!

Save the date: 2025 WashU Night with the Blues
Jan. 27 and Feb. 23, 2025, at the Enterprise Center

Purchase tickets for one of the two 2025 WashU Night with the Blues! All WashU ticket holders will receive a St. Louis Blues and WashU cobranded hat. View event details online here. 

•    Jan. 27, 2025, against the Vancouver Canucks | 6:30 p.m.
•    Feb. 23, 2025, against the Colorado Avalanche | 5 p.m.