"Perspective: Sistas In Science - Cracking the Glass Ceiling" by Athena Starlard-Davenport, Alisa Rich et al.

Faculty Publications

Title

Perspective: Sistas In Science - Cracking the Glass Ceiling

Authors

Athena Starlard-Davenport, Department of Genetics, Genomics and Informatics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN.
Alisa Rich, Department of Anatomy & Physiology/Department of Biostatistics & Epidemiology, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX.
Titilope Fasipe, Department of Pediatrics, Section Hematology, Baylor College of Medicine; Texas Children's Cancer & Hematology Centers, Houston, TX.
Eboni I. Lance, Department of Neurology and Developmental Medicine, Kennedy Krieger Institute; Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
Kehinde Adekola, Department of Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.
Ariadna Forray, Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.
Mesia Steed, Department of Biological Sciences, Winston Salem State University, Winston Salem, NC.
Ashley Fitzgerald, Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University Shreveport, Shreveport, LA.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2018

Abstract

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.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

Ethnicity & disease

First Page

575

Last Page

578

Recommended Citation

Starlard-Davenport, A., Rich, A., Fasipe, T., Lance, E. I., Adekola, K., Forray, A., Steed, M., & Fitzgerald, A. (2018). Perspective: Sistas In Science - Cracking the Glass Ceiling. Ethnicity & disease, 28 (4), 575-578. https://doi.org/10.18865/ed.28.4.575

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