Sexism in the Academy, and How to Dismantle It

This event will be offered online. Zoom details below:

Topic: PFWF Event: Sexism in the Academy

Time: Apr 6, 2023 10:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

https://upenn.zoom.us/j/96103207856?pwd=empad3dMWHhZTUJFSjB4UjlPZVYvUT09

Meeting ID: 961 0320 7856

Passcode: 594638

About the Speakers:

Anita Allen

Anita L. Allen is the Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy. A graduate of Harvard Law School with a PhD from the University of Michigan in Philosophy, Allen is internationally renowned as an expert on philosophical dimensions of privacy and data protection law, ethics, bioethics, legal philosophy, women’s rights, and diversity in higher education. She was Penn’s Vice Provost for Faculty from 2013-2020 and chaired the Provost’s Arts Advisory Council.

Allen is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, the American Law Institute, the American Philosophical Society and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2018-19 she served as President of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association. From 2010 to 2017, Allen served on President Obama’s Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. Allen has served on the faculty of the School of Criticism and Theory, for which she is an advisor. She served a two-year term as an Associate of the Johns Hopkins Humanities Center, 2016-2018. She has been a visiting Professor at Tel Aviv University, Waseda University, Villanova University, Harvard Law and Yale Law, and a Law and Public Affairs Fellow at Princeton. She will visit the Government School at Oxford University in 2022, Fordham Law School in 2023 and Oxford’s University College as the Hart Fellow in 2024, when she will also deliver the H.L.A. Hart Memorial Lecture. She was awarded an honorary Doctorate from Tilburg University (Netherlands) in 2019 and from Wooster College in 2021. Allen was awarded the 2021 Philip L. Quinn Prize for service to philosophy and philosophers by the American Philosophical Association, the 2022 Founder’s Award by the Hastings Center for service to bioethics, and the 2022 Privacy Award of the Berkeley Law and Technology Center for groundbreaking contributions to privacy and data protection law.

A prolific scholar, Allen has published over a hundred and twenty articles and chapters, and her books include Unpopular Privacy: What Must We Hide (Oxford, 2011); Privacy Law and Society (Thomson/West, 2017); The New Ethics: A Guided Tour of the 21st Century Moral Landscape (Miramax/Hyperion, 2004); Why Privacy Isn’t Everything: Feminist Reflections on Personal Accountability (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003), and Uneasy Access: Privacy of Women in a Free Society (1988). Allen has given lectures all over the world, been interviewed widely, and appeared on television, radio and in major media.

She currently serves on the Board of the National Constitution Center, The Future of Privacy Forum and the Electronic Privacy Information Center, whose Lifetime Achievement Award she has received and whose board she has chaired. Allen has served on numerous other boards, editorial boards and executive committees including for the Pennsylvania Board of Continuing Judicial Education, the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, the Association of American Law Schools, the Maternity Care Coalition, the Women’s Medical Fund, and the West Philadelphia Alliance for Children. Professor Allen is a member of the Pennsylvania and New York bars, and formerly taught at Georgetown University Law Center and the University of Pittsburgh Law School, after practicing briefly at Cravath, Swaine & Moore and teaching philosophy at Carnegie-Mellon University.

At Penn, Allen is a faculty affiliate of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, the Africana Studies Department, the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law, the Center for Innovation, Technology and Competition and the Warren Center for Network and Data Sciences.

Antonia Villarruel

Antonia M. Villarruel, PhD, RN, FAAN, is the Margaret Bond Simon Dean of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and Director of the School’s WHO Collaborating Center for Nursing and Midwifery Leadership. As a bilingual and bicultural researcher, Dr. Villarruel has extensive research and practice experience with Latino populations, health promotion, and disparities. She currently co-leads the NIH funded Philadelphia Community Engagement Alliance to address COVID-19 Inequities (CEAL) a coalition to optimize the rollout and real-time evaluation of interventions focused on COVID-19 disparities across diverse populations within the Philadelphia region.

Dr. Villarruel holds many leadership positions. She is an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and the College of Physicians of Philadelphia; she serves as Chair of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) Culture of Health Program Advisory Committee, Chair of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellows Subcommittee for the Selection Review Process and Co-chair of the Strategic Advisory Council of the AARP/RWJ Future of Nursing Campaign for Action.

She has received numerous honors and awards including the 2021 Health Care Leader Award from the American Academy of Nursing, the Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame Award, the Globy Award for Educational Leadership from the Global Philadelphia Association, and the prestigious Ohtli Award from the government of Mexico. Dr. Villarruel earned an MSN from the University of Pennsylvania, and her PhD in nursing from Wayne State University.

Kristy Weber

Kristy Weber, MD is the Abramson Family Professor in Sarcoma Care Excellence in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn). Dr. Weber completed her orthopaedic residency training at the University of Iowa followed by a 2 year research/clinical fellowship in orthopaedic oncology at the Mayo Clinic. She initially joined the faculty at University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center and developed a robust orthopaedic oncology practice and a basic science research program related using murine models to characterize biologic mechanisms and targeted treatments of sarcoma and renal cell carcinoma metastases. Five years later, Dr. Weber was recruited to Johns Hopkins as Chief of Orthopaedic Oncology and Director of the Sarcoma Program. She co-directed an externally funded laboratory focused on breast and renal cell carcinoma metastasis to bone, and her team received the Kappa Delta national orthopaedic research award for this work. Dr. Weber was recruited to Penn in 2013 to serve as Vice-Chair of Faculty Affairs in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Director of the Sarcoma Program in the Abramson Cancer Center (ACC). She leads the continued growth of a high quality, multidisciplinary clinical sarcoma team as well as the development of a collaborative scientific team focused on targeted treatments for sarcoma across Penn Medicine, Penn Veterinary Medicine, and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). Her clinical excellence and professionalism has been recognized by selection for both the Penn Academy of Master Clinicians and the inaugural Duncan van Dusen Professionalism Faculty Award.

Dr. Weber is a recognized national and international leader who has served on Boards of Directors of orthopaedic and cancer organizations including the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), the American Orthopaedic Association (AOA), the Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS), and the Connective Tissue Oncology Society. She has served as President of the Musculoskeletal Tumor Society (MSTS) and the Ruth Jackson Orthopaedic Society (RJOS), Secretary of the Orthopaedic Research Society and Critical Issues Chair on the AOA Executive Committee. She spent four years as Chair of the AAOS Council on Research and Quality where she led or provided oversight for a portfolio that included clinical practice guidelines, evidence-based medicine, appropriate use criteria, patient safety, biomedical engineering, biological implants and the development of orthopaedic clinician-scientists. Dr. Weber served as the first woman president of the AAOS Board of Directors (2019). She is a founding member of the nonprofit, International Orthopaedic Diversity Alliance (IODA), and served as its inaugural President in 2021-22. Dr. Weber is committed to improving the culture and diversity of orthopaedic surgery and received the 2022 FOCUS award for the Advancement of Women in Medicine.

Carmen Guerra

Carmen Guerra, MD, MSCE is the Ruth C. and Raymond G. Perelman Professor of Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Guerra is a general internist and health equity researcher. She is also the Vice Chair of Diversity and Inclusion for the Department of Medicine and the Associate Director of Diversity and Outreach for the Abramson Cancer Center (ACC) where she also co-leads Community Outreach and Engagement.

Dr. Guerra and her team have led dissemination and implementation research of breast and colorectal cancer screening interventions, including patient navigation, and colorectal cancer “Screen to Save” and “Flu-FIT” programs, which have engaged more than 5,000 underserved, minority Philadelphia residents in cancer screening. These efforts contributed to the increase in colorectal cancer screening and screening mammography rates in Philadelphia.

At the national level, Dr. Guerra serves as the American Cancer Society (ACS) Board Scientific Officer for the National Board of Directors, and on several ACS committees including the Mission Outcomes, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Clinical Guideline Development Committees. She has authored numerous articles including the current American Cancer Society’s colorectal cancer screening guidelines, which reduced the starting age for screening to 45, the cervical cancer screening guidelines which allow for screening with HPV testing alone (without a Pap smear) and the current HPV vaccination guidelines. These publications widely influence current clinical practice.