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December 2011
My book is still available!
My book, Mentoring and Diversity: Tips for Students and Professionals for Developing and Maintaining a Diverse Scientific Community (Springer) is available for purchase. The book will not only serve as a guidebook and resource for minority scientists, both students and faculty alike, but also be a source of information regarding issues surrounding the under representation of minorities in science.
During 2011, I continued to present Career Development Seminars at Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) around the country. These included Metropolitana University (Puerto Rico),Virginia State, Prairie View A & M (TX), North Carolina A & T, Bennett College for Women (NC), Albany State (GA), Texas Southern, University of Texas-Brownsville (Keynote Speaker), Fayetteville State University (NC) as well as being a panelist at the 3rd Annual Hopps Symposium held at Morehouse College.
Also, I was speaker at the Western region the National Association of Advisors for the Health Professions (NAAHP) Conference held at Stanford University as well as at the National Association of Medical Minority Educators (NAMME) annual conference, held in Marina Del Rey, CA. Additionally I presented at the 2011 Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) Conference in San Jose, CA and attended the Annual Biomedical Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS), held in St. Louis, MO.
As the CSUDH Pre-health Advisor, I made visits to Des Moines University and American University of Antigua (AUA). All of these activities were in addition to my teaching responsibilities at CSUDH, which includes courses of Endocrinology, Minority Health Disparities, Human Biology, Seminars in Biology/Biomedical Sciences, Biology Senior Project as well as my assignment as CSUDH Pre-health Advisor.
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Who am I - an educator, an academician, a scientist, a reproductive endocrinologist, a change agent, an activist? Actually, all of these describe who I am. As a result, my professional career has been devoted to two areas;
- Research in reproductive endocrinology, specifically the regulation of the female sexual cycle
- Commitment to the advancement of minorities in the pursuit of higher education, particularly in the sciences
These efforts have resulted in my recognition in the scientific community, e.g. tenure, grants, and publications as well as in the community dedicated to addressing the under representation of minorities, e.g. national advisory boards and positions in national societies that are committed to this goal (see CV).
More importantly, I am now at a stage where I provide valuable mentoring, advising and counseling to minority students interested in pursuing careers in the biomedical sciences, whether it be a PhD, MD, MD/PHD, DVM, PharmD, Physician Assistant, Nurse, etc..
The focus of this mentoring usually involves choices regarding careers, selection of schools, preparation of applications, organization of personal statements, and all else that is required for preparing for their career, and is done in person, when possible through campus visits and national conferences/meetings, but via email as well. Furthermore, this mentoring is at all stages of the "pipeline', i.e. K-12, community college, college, graduate and professional school as well as at different stages of the individual's career. I have seen this aspect of education, particularly for minority students in the sciences, to be one that is most needed and, at times, made least available.
As a result, for the past several years, I have been focusing a major component of my activities on this, primarily through visits to minority institutions where I spend 1-3 days making presentations regarding mentoring.
These include tips on preparation for careers, entry into graduate/ professional school, interviewing, choices of schools and personal statements. In addition, lectures regarding endocrinology, reproduction and health disparities are also included. During these visits, interactions occur with classes, groups (e.g. pre-health society), individual students as well as with faculty and administrators.
Contact and exchanges continue long after the visit through both email and various national conferences. I plan to continue these efforts and, in fact, have listed on this site, the presentations that I provide. Mechanisms for supporting these visits have included The Endocrine Society Short Course program and the FASEB MARC program.
In addition, I am developing a mechanism for accomplishing this independently (more to come). For anyone interested, please contact me through the contact address on this site.
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