Women Advancing & Achieving in Medicine (WAAM) is an organization of Baystate Health's women physicians and mid-level providers that was formed in September 2005 with the goals of refining its members' skills in the areas of:

• leadership

• mentorship

• scholarship

• networking.
  

WAAM memmbership has since grown to 900 women providers.

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AAMC Group on Women in Medicine and Science

The mission of the GWIMS is to advance the full and successful participation of women in all roles within academic medicine. The GWIMS will serve as a national forum to advance women's success in medicine and science by addressing

• gender equity

• recruitment and retention

• awards and recognition

• career advancement.

Baystate Medical Center has two institutional representatives to GWIMS: Lisa A. Patterson, MD, and Barbara A. Greco, MD

WAAM Leadership Committee

• Lauri Meade, Chair

• Lori Circeo, MD

• Kristin Dardano, MD

• Susan DeJoy, CNM, MSN

• Barbara Greco, MD

• Gerda Maissel, MD

• Grace Makari-Judson, MD

• Lisa Patterson, MD

• Barbara Stechenberg, MD

• Sherry Taylor, MD

• Jeannette Wolfe, MD

Resources

• AAMC Group on Women in Medicine and Science (GWIMS)