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Communication in Effective Leadership

January 14, 2025

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EST

Join panelists Anne Etgen and André Fenton as they share their perspectives on how to communicate for success in your future leadership role. With moderator Martha Dávila-García, these experts will discuss how to enhance your communication skills before embarking on the next steps of your leadership journey and bring about change in your field. This is your opportunity to ask any questions you may have about the challenges of communication related to leadership, including collaborations, negotiations, and conflict resolution.

Speakers

Anne M. Etgen, PhD

Anne M. Etgen, PhD, is currently professor emerita of neuroscience, psychiatry and behavioral sciences, obstetrics & gynecology and women’s health, and pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. During her career at Einstein, her research on steroid hormone action in the brain was funded by NIMH, NICHD, NINDS, NIA, and the National Science Foundation (NSF). She is a two-time MERIT awardee from NIMH and served as editor-in-chief of the journal Hormones and Behavior from 2004-2008. Etgen has also contributed to Einstein’s efforts to foster the training of faculty in the clinical and translational research arenas, working through institutional K-12 programs, the Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility fellowship program of the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Women’s Health, and as chair of the Scientific Advisory and Review Committee of Einstein’s Institute for Clinical and Translational Research. Etgen has won several awards and served on committees dedicated to training the next generation of neuroscientists and fostering diversity in the biomedical workforce. She now leads a national program called SEED (Scholarships to Enhance and Empower Diversity) aimed at enhancing the recruitment and retention of diverse early career neuroscientists into academic positions.

André Fenton, PhD

André Fenton, PhD, is a professor of neural science at New York University. He investigates the molecular, neural, behavioral, and computational aspects of memory. Fenton served as chair of the National Institute of Mental Health's Board of Scientific Counselors. He also organizes teams to develop ideas and tools with impact outside of academia. They implemented a CPAP-Oxygen helmet treatment for COVID-19 in Nigeria and other LMICs, and he founded a company that commercialized FDA-approved portable, easy-to-use wireless technologies for recording electroencephalograms (EEGs) to assess brain function in novel medical applications. Having recently developed an extremely inexpensive disposable EEG electrode and amplifier technology, as well as the information technology to allow everyone, everywhere to obtain a medically-valid EEG assessment, Fenton is working to enable LMICs to provide epilepsy and brain health assessment for people in low-resource communities and actively communicates science to the public, appearing in diverse media.

Martha I. Dávila-García, PhD, FASPET

Martha I. Dávila-García, PhD, received her PhD in biology and neurosciences from New York University in 1989. She joined the faculty of the pharmacology department at Howard University College of Medicine in 1999 and is presently an associate professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Director of Graduate Programs. Dávila-García’s research focuses on the reward-addiction pathways and on the consequences of nicotine exposure to synaptic plasticity, neuronal function, and the central control of cardiorespiratory function. Her lab also develops new compounds for nicotinic receptors. Dávila-García has been awarded several foundation awards and has been funded by the NIH, American Heart Association, and the Pharmaceutical Industries. Dávila-García has served as journal peer reviewer and NIH grant reviewer. She is a member of various scientific organizations such as ASPET, SfN, APS, NYAS, SONA, and FENS. She is a Harvard Macy Institute alumna. She was in the board of directors of SACNAS, was a member of Executive Committee-Neuroscience division for ASPET, she is the current chair of the Nominations and Leadership Steering Committee for AAAS, and she is one of the founders and an executive leader of the World Women in Neuroscience (WWN). Dávila-García, in collaboration with Robert P. Biney, has organized two IBRO-ARC sponsored schools in Africa on “Neuropharmacology Research and Drug Development.”

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