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URL:https://womenshealthresearchcluster.com/events/aug-2-2022-measures-suc
 cess-science-moving-towards-more-equitable-metrics/
SUMMARY:Measures of Success in Science- Moving Towards More Equitable Metri
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DESCRIPTION:\n\n&nbsp\;\nSeminar Title: Measures of Success in Scien
 ce- Moving Towards More Equitable Metrics\nPresenter: Dr. Rulan Parekh\,
  Professor\, University of Toronto\, Vice President Academics\, Women's 
 College Hospital\n\nDr. Rulan S. Parekh is Vice President\, Academics\, Wo
 men’s College Hospital\, Staff Nephrologist at Women’s College Hospita
 l and Hospital for Sick Children and Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine 
 in the Departments of Medicine\, Paediatrics\, Epidemiology and Health Pol
 icy and Management Evaluation at the University of Toronto.\n\nDr. Rulan P
 arekh is a clinician-scientist\, and an international leader in clinical e
 pidemiology and translational research in kidney disease. Her work has rev
 ealed novel genetic risk factors leading to kidney disease and increased r
 isk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality for children and adults with
  kidney disease. At the University of Michigan\, Dr. Parekh was uniquely t
 rained in Pediatrics and Internal Medicine with subspecialty training in b
 oth Pediatric and Adult Nephrology and research training\, completing her 
 Master’s in Biostatistics and Study Design. She subsequently went on to 
 post-doctoral training at Johns Hopkins University and joined the faculty 
 in 2000. She successfully competed for an NIH Career Development Research 
 Award and the American Society of Nephrology Carl W. Gottschalk Award for 
 young investigators\, establishing successful research programs in the gen
 etics and cardiovascular complications of kidney disease.\n\nIn 2008\, she
  returned to her native Canada and accepted a faculty position at the Univ
 ersity of Toronto (UofT) and a Scientist position within the SickKids Rese
 arch Institute and now Women’s College Hospital. Since 2000\, Dr. Parekh
  has maintained a record of sustained NIH and CIHR funding. She has signif
 icant productivity with more than 175 published manuscripts\, over 11\,738
  citations\, and a stellar track record of training and mentoring 80 stude
 nts and post-doctoral trainees. She has received several awards\, includin
 g the National Kidney Foundation of Maryland Award\, Advising\, Johns Hopk
 ins Bloomberg School of Public Health Mentoring\, and Teaching Research Aw
 ard\, and was elected into academic honor societies such as the American S
 ociety of Clinical Investigation\, the Association of American Physicians\
 , the Pediatric Academic Society\, and the American Pediatric Society. Dr.
  Parekh previously held a Canada Research Chair in Chronic Kidney Disease 
 Epidemiology and now holds the F.M. Hill Chair in Health System Solutions.
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CATEGORIES:Women’s Health Seminar Series
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