Excellence Award in Gender Equity in Medicine and Science (GEMS)

The Center for Women in Medicine and Science (CWIMS) Salary, Resource and Leadership Equity Action Group presents the annual Excellence Award in Gender Equity in Medicine and Science (GEMS) to two departments who actively engage in events and programs promoting gender equity and met field/department-specific gender representation benchmarks based on AAMC 2019 data. The Department of Microbiology and Immunology, with Ashley Haase, MD as professor and head of the department was presented with the 2020 Basic Science Department GEMS Award, and the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine with  Leslie Morse, DO, professor and head of the department, received the Clinical Department GEMS Award.