WEBINAR SERIES—Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Breaking the Glass Ceiling in Leadership Positions

This webinar will facilitate a transparent conversation with APS members with senior leadership experience about navigating leadership roles at APS and beyond. The panel will share their stories about what helped them prepare for leadership positions, with a focus on addressing:

• how members get elected to APS Council,
  how to break the stereotypes of imposter syndrome when applying for leadership positions and during service, and
• what member-leaders learn in these roles.
  

Moderator

Sandra Spadoni is the director of governance and leadership at the American Physiological Society (APS). She earned her BS in political science from the University of Maryland and worked as a paralegal and legal secretary at various law firms, and has experience in constitutional law at the U.S. Supreme Court level. Spadoni also worked in the executive office of the American College of Cardiology. She serves as staff liaison to the APS Council, the Nominating and Committee on committees and oversees the development and delivery of Society governance standards and services, member leader onboarding and training while managing day-to-day governance operations.

Panelists

Patricia Molina, MD, PhD, FAPS, is the Richard Ashman PhD Professor and head of the Department of Physiology at Louisiana State University (LSU). She is also director of the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Center of Excellence at LSU. Molina was the 88th president of APS (2015–2016) and is the current treasurer of IUPS. Her research focuses on the impact of alcohol and drug abuse on the cardiovascular, metabolic and immune consequences of acute traumatic injury and hemorrhagic shock and of HIV/AIDS.

Dexter Lee, PhD, is an associate professor of physiology at Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, D.C. He is also co-director of the Research Centers at Minority Institutions professional development program and is co-director of the Georgetown-Howard Universities Centers for Clinical and Translational Sciences TL1 program. Lee earned his doctorate in physiology from the University of Missouri-Columbia.