Minutes of the meeting of the
Faculty Council of the Faculty of Medicine held on Monday, April 26, 2004 at
4:00 p.m.
In the
Chair: Dr. Gerald D. Fischbach
Non-Voting
Present: Brown-Nevers,
Castaldi, Colten, Enochs, Giesow, Greenup, Hutcherson, Jennette, Kessin-G,
Kornfeld, Lewis, Lewy, Loweff, Merten, Molholt, Nolting, Rubinstein, Spotnitz, Szmulewicz,
Tenenbaum, Wolgemuth.
Non-Voting
Absent: Bayne,
Bell, Benson, Blaner, Bodur, Bollinger, Brinkley, Charon, Crowley, Davis,
Drusin, Falk-Kessler, Franck, Frantz, Frommer, Gasparis, Gipson, Granick,
Goldberg, Green, Harris, Herman, Housepian, Jacobson, Jordan-Davis, Karlin,
Kass, Kessin-R, Kirby, Lantigua, Leach, Lemieux, Lewy, Moore, Nicholson,
O’Connor, Riley, Robin, Rosner, Rubin, Santoni, Sohn, Spilker, Szmulewicz,
Wagner, Walton, Warren, Weinberger, White, Yandolino.
Voting
Present: Alexandropoulos,
Amory, Anzalone, Braun, Brown, Cimino, Collins, Connolly, D’Armiento, Driscoll,
Estes, Fink, Fischbach, Grant, Herbert, Kass-R,
Kaufman, Kelly-K, Kriegstein, Kronenberg,
Lebwohl, Ludwig, Malaspina,
Marks, McKinley, Pitt, Rao, Rozenshtein,
Sheth, Singh, Starren,
Truman, Wardlaw.
Voting
Absent: Alderson,
Allikmets, Arkow, Atzrott, Barlow, Barrett, Barsanti,
Benson, Berman, Bestor, Bickers, Bigliani,
Bornia, Brenner, Brittenham,
Brown-S, Budorick, Burke, Calame,
Capps, Chalazonitis, Chang, Chrisomalis,
Close, Cohen, Comer, Corwin, Costantini, Covey, Croen, Curry, Daines, D’Alton, Dauer, Davidson, Deckelbaum, DiLorenzo, DiMauro, Ditkoff, Dodd, Downey, Dulchin, Elkind, Emala, Figurski, Fisch, Flynn, Freed, Garrett, Gershon,
Gilliam, Gingrich, Ginsberg, Glick, Gliklich, Goland, Gottesman, Granowetter, Grissler, Gurland, Hall, Haskal, Herman, Heyer, Hirsch, Honig, Hripcsak,
Johnston, Kaiser, Kaplan, Karlin, Kelly-R, Killackey, Klink, Klitzman, Knipp, Koester, Kohn, Krasna,
Lee, Leibel, Lesser, Levitt,
Lieberman, Lieberman, Link, Lowe, , Luban, MacDermott, Marboe, Markowitz-B, Markowitz-G, Maron, Matti-Orozco, Mayeux, McKiernan, Mercado, Mercer, Meyers, Middlesworth, Mosca, Nobler,
Olsson, Palmer-A, Palmer-J, Papp, Pardes,
Parsons, Patterson, Pedley, Rader, Ramirez, Ratan, Racaniello, Riordan,
Robin, Rose, Rothman, Saiman, Schandler,
Schiff, Shelanski, Shortliffe,
Silverstein, Smith-L, Smith-S, Solomon, Sordillo,
Sparrow, Spitzer, Srinivasan, Stein, Stiller, Storper, Strauch, Strauss, Streck, Thys, Tuckfelt,
Van Heertum, Walsh, Weidenbaum,
Westhoff, Wheaton, Whittington, Wood, Wuu, Zou.
1.
Approval of the March 22,
2004 Minutes - - The
minutes were approved.
2. New Business
A. Report of the Executive Committee of the Faculty Council
-Dr. Jeanine D’Armiento: Assistant Professor of Medicine
The Executive Committee discussed the
following matters:
·
Faculty Participation – The Executive Committee has discussed and made plans to
encourage more faculty participation in the meetings and the discussion of
issues such as the status of women at P&S. Recommendations are being
solicited for the Nominating Committee to prepare a slate for election to the
Executive Committee. In order to increase communication, the Executive
Committee is recommending that email be used as the official medium for
communication.
B. The Status of Women in Medical Science
at P&S:
- Dr. Joanna
Rubinstein, Associate Dean for Institutional Affairs
Dr. Rubinstein presented data that
described the distribution of women faculty at P&S as compared with
national averages and AAMC findings. Of 2000 faculty members, 41% are women. In
the 16 clinical departments, women represent 41% of total faculty and
approximately the same in the basic science departments. This is higher than
the average of U.S. medical school. Women represent only 18% of full professors
in the clinical departments and 28% in the basic science departments. The
average for P&S is 20% which is better than the national average. A smaller
proportion of women are represented in the higher academic ranks.
The proportion of women decreases
as rank increases. The highest proportions of women with full professorial
titles are in two clinical departments, Pediatrics and Obstetrics-Gynecology;
and four clinical departments have no women faculty. The basic science
departments range from higher proportions in Anatomy and Cell Biology to lower
proportions and Biochemistry and Pharmacology.
Success rates
for academic progress were reviewed. 7.4% of all women in clinical departments
make it to the professorial rank and 24% of men; or only 1/3 of women faculty
progress to professor as compared with men. The proportion of women with tenure
is lower in the clinical departments than in the basic science departments. Finally
we have two women chairs of clinical departments and no women chair in the
basic science departments.
- Dr. Linda Lewis, Senior Associate Dean,
Student Affairs
Dr. Lewis described a pilot study to
compare faculty career development in three departments, Anesthesiology,
Neurology and Pediatrics, including demographics, education, promotion,
productivity, support, mentoring, responsibility, leadership, influence, and
recommendations for correction of perceived deficiencies. The faculty was
surveyed in the three departments in the 2002-2003 academic year. There were
176 responses from the 341 members of the full-time faculty in these
departments.
The conclusions were:
Women earn less than men, no matter the
rank.
Younger women earn less than younger
men.
Women are paid less than men in
Pediatrics.
Women progress more slowly than men in
academic rank.
Childbearing has an effect on women’s academic progress.
Full-time child care enables women to
progress more quickly in salary and rank.
Mentoring is needed.
Feedback is needed.
Protected time is needed.
Faculty development on all levels is
needed.
The recommendations from this pilot
study were:
1. Faculty development is needed for
all faculty members.
2. Men and women have many issues in
common with progression through the academic ranks.
3. Every department should review their
own department for the issues identified.
4. A task force for implementation
should be appointed.
5. Central administration should
assure opportunities and correction of the deficiencies.
-Dr. Lisa Mellman,
Associate Clinical Professor, Psychiatry & Assistant Dean:
Dr. Mellman reported on a recent
retreat sponsored by the Department of Psychiatry in collaboration with the
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. The retreat was developed to: provide
a forum for women faculty to meet and talk about shared issues; present data
about women faculty in the department and compare that data with the data for
men in department and nationally; inform participants about promotion; and
develop an action plan to address the issues. Invitations were extended to
women faculty at the MD and Ph.D. levels, the Executive Committee in
Psychiatry, and one representative from every department at P&S. 65 people
attended the forum.
The program included the following
presentations:
·
-Data on women at P&S,
national data and from the Department of Psychiatry
- Brief summaries of the status of women in
research, in clinical care and in leadership
- Comments were provided from the Dean.
- Orientation on the academic promotion
process
·
Findings:
-women
advance more slowly than men
-fewer
women at the associate and professor levels
-women
are under-represented on policy-making and important committees including COAP.
-women have less access to information
-search
committees do not often include or consider women
-women
tend to be less aggressive in negotiating salary and compensation
-women
tend to wait to be tapped for promotion
-women
do not always let go of responsibilities they have and enjoy doing resulting in
additional work
-women
publish less often and submit fewer grants than men; publications are lengthier
-career
paths are less linear because of child-rearing and other family responsibilities
and part-time
-little
access to national meeting and career development
-no
oversight in terms of career development and goal setting
-both men and women can be excellent
mentors; multiple mentors are often advisable. Mentoring should be institutionalized
in the departments and should include evaluation and compensation.
-women with full-time child care are
more productive; CUMC child care services are inadequate.
Solutions:
-
conduct annual departmental
report cards on the issues
-
provide orientation for new
employees on promotion and a promotion meeting for all faculty members
-
increase representation on
important committees
-
establish programs for skill
building (grants writing, publishing, media training)
-
increase access to child care
-
review all faculty members
yearly for career development
-
annual poster session for young
faculty
-
formalize and fund a mentoring
process
-
fund attendance at national
meetings
Following these presentations, Dr. D’Armiento chaired a discussion about the following topics: recommended
and mandatory reviews for faculty (annual or stated periods), information to
faculty within each department regarding promotion, review of academic tracks
for promotion, child care facilities at CUMC and at the Columbia School, salary
levels and criteria for setting salaries.
It was decided to create a task force
to meet and develop a priority list of recommendations for report back to the
Faculty Council at the end of the summer.
A.
Committee
on Appointments and Promotions (COAP) Membership
Appointments and Promotions
.
The nominations, which were approved
by the appropriate faculty committees, and the Committee on Academic
Appointments and Promotions, and which were distributed to the Faculty Council
members at today=s meeting, were placed before the Faculty Council for
consideration. A closed ballot was taken and the nominations were approved with
27 in favor and 1 opposed.
The meeting was adjourned at 5:00 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Gerald D. Fischbach, M.D.
Executive Vice President for Health
and Biomedical Sciences and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine