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Suggested Citation:"Session I: Welcoming Remarks and Opening Keynote AddressWelcoming Remarks." National Research Council. 2004. Achieving XXcellence in Science: Role of Professional Societies in Advancing Women in Science: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10964.
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SESSION I
Welcoming Remarks and Opening Keynote Address

Suggested Citation:"Session I: Welcoming Remarks and Opening Keynote AddressWelcoming Remarks." National Research Council. 2004. Achieving XXcellence in Science: Role of Professional Societies in Advancing Women in Science: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10964.
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Suggested Citation:"Session I: Welcoming Remarks and Opening Keynote AddressWelcoming Remarks." National Research Council. 2004. Achieving XXcellence in Science: Role of Professional Societies in Advancing Women in Science: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10964.
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Welcoming Remarks

Vivian Pinn, M.D.

Director, Office of Research on Women’s Health

Associate Director, Research on Women’s Health

National Institutes of Health

Let me welcome each one of you to the opening session of our AXXS conference. By now, all of you are familiar with our acronym, the A–double X chromosome–S, for Achieving Excellence in Science. We are pleased about the work that has been accomplished.

One of the mandates of the Office of Research on Women’s Health at the National Institutes of Health is to increase opportunities for the recruitment, retention, advancement, and reentry of women into biomedical careers. We were delighted when some of the women scientists at NIH asked us to work with them to increase attention to women’s careers through professional societies. It was because of the ideas of people like Sue Shafer (then deputy director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, NIGMS), Pam Marino (also at NIGMS), and others that this effort became one of our most successful.

The topic of women in biomedical careers is extremely important for the health of the profession, and for science. For the men in the audience, a lot of things that we want to look at in terms of developing the careers of women actually are applicable to the careers of men. But we do want an opportunity to focus specifically on the careers of women.

At our first meeting, AXXS ’99, we mainly focused on basic science professional organizations. So much was accomplished by AXXS ’99—not only the Web site and the report, but also recommendations, which are very valuable for the professional societies.1 Today’s keynote speaker, Carola Eisenberg, has

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The Web site can be found at www4.od.nih.gov/axxs/default.htm. Also see Achieving XXcellence in Science: Advancing Women’s Contributions to Science through Professional Societies, NIH Publication No. 00-4777 (Washington, D.C.: National Institutes of Health, 2000).

Suggested Citation:"Session I: Welcoming Remarks and Opening Keynote AddressWelcoming Remarks." National Research Council. 2004. Achieving XXcellence in Science: Role of Professional Societies in Advancing Women in Science: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10964.
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served as co-chair of our task force on women in biomedical careers, has been a charter member of our advisory committee for research on women’s health at the National Institutes of Health, and has been working with us since the very beginning. I’m delighted she is here this evening to give us a wonderful kickoff for our AXXS 2002 conference. She will be introduced by Dr. Sally Shaywitz, professor of pediatrics at the Yale University School of Medicine, a member of the Institute of Medicine, and chair of the steering committee for the workshop.

Suggested Citation:"Session I: Welcoming Remarks and Opening Keynote AddressWelcoming Remarks." National Research Council. 2004. Achieving XXcellence in Science: Role of Professional Societies in Advancing Women in Science: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10964.
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Suggested Citation:"Session I: Welcoming Remarks and Opening Keynote AddressWelcoming Remarks." National Research Council. 2004. Achieving XXcellence in Science: Role of Professional Societies in Advancing Women in Science: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10964.
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Suggested Citation:"Session I: Welcoming Remarks and Opening Keynote AddressWelcoming Remarks." National Research Council. 2004. Achieving XXcellence in Science: Role of Professional Societies in Advancing Women in Science: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10964.
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Suggested Citation:"Session I: Welcoming Remarks and Opening Keynote AddressWelcoming Remarks." National Research Council. 2004. Achieving XXcellence in Science: Role of Professional Societies in Advancing Women in Science: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10964.
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This report is the proceedings of a July 2002 workshop of the Committee on AXXS 2002: A Workshop for Clinical Societies to Enhance Women's Contributions to Science and their Profession. The workshop gathered representatives of clinical societies and identified ways to enhance the participation of women scientists in the clinical research workforce. This workshop was a follow-up to the AXXS 1999 conference sponsored by the Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which focused on how scientific societies could contribute to the enhancement of women's careers in science.

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