Mentorship program designed to advance women in academic surgery.

see her career unfolding in front of her. “I know the kind of future leader I will become because of Mary McCarthy, and I will be that leader because I am being groomed to do that,” said Dr. Tchorz, associate professor at Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine in Dayton, OH. Mary C. McCarthy, MD, FACS, a professor of surgery at Wright State, is Dr. Tchorz’ mentor through the Early Career Women Faculty Mentorship Program, jointly sponsored by the Women in Surgery Committee of the American College of Surgeons and the Association of Women Surgeons (AWS). The purpose of the program is to help early-career assistant professors achieve promotion and tenure. “The whole idea is to break the glass ceiling that still exists today,” said M. Margaret Kemeny, MD, FACS, director of the Queens Cancer Center; professor of surgery at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY; and Chair of the Women in Surgery Committee. by Lola Butcher Mentorship program designed to advance women in academic surgery