JLM-BioCity invites you to:

“Women Leaders in Healthcare: Fixing the Gender Imbalance in Health Care Leadership.”

Azrieli College of Engineering, Bldg 3, Room c-102

“In many industries the percentage of women filling entry-level positions is quite low. Life sciences is a little different. Women fill 50% of the industry’s entry-level positions. Yet, according to a study conducted by MassBio and LiftStream and others, they make up only 20% of leadership teams and of boards.”

Program:
Greetings and Opening remarks:
– Yaron Suissa, CEO, JLM-BioCity
– Prof. Rosa Azhari, President, Azrieli College of Engineering
– Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem in charge of Foreign Relations
– Noa Yaffe, Program Manager, Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Authority, Azrieli Academic College of Engineering, ASPIRE Acceleration and exposure for Women to the world of entrepreneurship

Panelists:
• Nurit Tweezer-Zaks MD, MBA, (Moderator) Operating Partner at aMoon Fund
• Deborah E. Shalev, PhD, Head Dept. of Pharmaceutical Engineering, Azrieli College of Engineering
• Deborah Amsallem, PhD, Senior R&D Scientist, Argaman technologies
• Avivit Cahn, MD, Attending physician, Diabetes Unit, Endocrinology Depart. Hadassah University Hospital
• Inbal Landsberg, PhD, Director, Business Development, Life Sciences, Ramot

JLM-BioCity is delighted to announce that this event is sponsored by the Azrieli College of Engineering, Atobe and the OJC.

RVSP to reserve your place on this Meetup page.
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The event will take place in room c-102 bldg 3 at Azrieli College of Engineering.
Background:
The pharma and biotech industry continues to struggle to make progress with gender diversity and still experiencing a shortage of women in leadership positions.
As reported by women, many barriers limit women’s career progression in healthcare:
• Unconscious bias against hiring and promoting women and young mothers.
• The need to be 100% qualified or overqualified before put up for a position.
• Lack of boldness to express the desire to be promoted.
Woman Leaders, such as Sara Kenkare-Mitra (PhD), SVP of development sciences at Genentech, and Kate Knobil (MD), former CMO at GlaxoSmithKline provide some guidance. They advise, “make sure that your supervisor and the people around you know where you want to go and what your ambitions are. Don’t be shy to ask for help and ask for ways to develop in the direction you want to.”
Individual companies and industry groups have come up with programs to help move women up the ladder.

JLM-Biocity invites you to our coming event where Israeli women leaders in healthcare will discuss and share the hurdles and their advice for men & women bio-professionals on how to fix the imbalance.

Kindly be advised that we ask for a 20 Shekel donation at the door.
(We are all volunteers, and this small contribution assists us to further promote JLM-Bio ecosystem).