The Wayne State University School of Medicine Women in Medicine and Science (WIMS) welcomes all members of our community to join us for a special interactive discussion: 

Finding Your Path Forward: Lessons from a Career Journey Toward Flourishing 

In times of uncertainty and rapid change, reconnecting with our purpose, core values, and with one another can be powerful grounding. Through interactive reflection and stories of real-life experiences, explore how character, caring, and practical wisdom can offer a path toward flourishing, even (and especially) in turbulent times. Leave with practical insights and renewed energy to navigate complexity with authenticity and agency.

 Learning Objectives

• Examine lessons and takeaways from pivotal moments over the course of a career journey in academic medicine.
• Reflect on your values, identity, and purpose and articulate how they inform your approach to learning/teaching, clinical practice, or leadership.
• Evaluate and apply practical strategies that contribute to shaping flourishing-centered cultures that elevate everyone. 

Guest Speaker:

Kimara Ellefson, MBA, Ed.D.

Kimara Ellefson is a visionary leader, culture strategist and consultant, and frequent keynote speaker on leadership, organizational development, and systems change. As the national director of strategy and partnerships for the Kern National Network for Flourishing in Health (KNN), Kimara partners with medical schools and healthcare organizations across the country to identify opportunities to shape organizational cultures of human flourishing and inspire action at multiple institutional levels. She also provides leadership for the KNN program office, developing strategic plans that have enabled the KNN to grow from a network of seven founding medical schools to a vibrant movement of healthcare organizations engaged in various ways. Her research interests include leadership development for flourishing grounded in Feminist Relational Theory (FRT), praxis and community. Her work aims to explore whether a new paradigm for leadership and followership could support Ecosystem-Wide Flourishing (EWF) across the health ecosystem.

Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest: This program is not related to specific diseases or conditions but rather deal exclusively with non-clinical medical education. Therefore, there are no potential conflicts of interest with ineligible companies as defined by ACCME and there is no need to identify, disclose or mitigate commercial conflicts of interest.

Planning Committee Members: Basim Dubaybo, M.D. (Activity Director), Teena Chopra, M.D., Radhika Gogoi, Ph.D., Kate Laimbeer and Kailah Weatherspoon have no commercial/financial relationships.

Target Audience: Wayne State University School of Medicine faculty, staff, medical students, fellow and residents

The Wayne State University School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Wayne State University School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit (s) TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.