Where there's a WiL, there's a way
An International alliance dedicated to the promotion
of leadership of female lymphoma clinicians and researchers.
WiL mission Statement
“WiL is committed to supporting and advocating for greater leadership of women in lymphoma globally”
Initiatives
advocacy
Networking
Networking
We advocate for and promote equal representation at conferences, on panels, leadership committees and in research and we promote opportunities for WiL globally and celebrate the successes of our members.
Networking
Networking
Networking
We encourage networking, and engagement for WiL through dedicated meetings at major conferences and information sharing via our newsletters, webinars and website.
Education
Networking
Education
We facilitate education of WiL through our dedicated webinar lecture series and events run by our internationally renowned WiL members as well as promote activities run by our members.
Women in Lymphoma: Our Mentoring Mission
"If you can see it, you can be it."
Mentoring and role models are essential in every career path. Many of us have female trainees keen to lead research/clinical service/teaching programmes and seeing other women in these roles has inspired them to follow a similar path.
It is essential for all our junior lymphoma colleagues to see women in leadership roles within lymphoma. This not only helps the “you cannot be what you cannot see” hurdle but also leads to productive diversity on decision making boards.
A key focus of Women in Lymphoma (WiL) is to mentor other women, encouraging them to put themselves forward for career progression opportunities. By highlighting other women’s achievements through WiLing Wednesdays - a high-level education programme - it allows identification of clear role models and mentors. Through this popular educational series across lymphoma histologies, we hope to show that these leading WiL are not exceptional but should be the norm.
Nonetheless, the majority of lymphoma leaders internationally are male and mentorship is not a gender-restricted exercise. Emerging women need male mentors too, and senior women in lymphoma seek to mentor young men as well as women.
In 2021, Women in Lymphoma will be encouraging the involvement of leading men in lymphoma, as champions of change, to work with WiL on initiatives to identify and reduce barriers which may prevent women choosing or being for a leadership path in lymphoma.
Women in Lymphoma is seeking to harness the potential of all emerging lymphoma leaders, both male and female for the improvement of lymphoma research and patient care.
WiLing Wednesdays
SERIES 4 - October/november 2021
WiLing Wednesdays live webinar educational series
Series 4 – INDOLENT LYMPHOMA
Wednesdays October 6, 13, 20, 27 & November 3, 2021
· Join WiL around the world in our 4th live educational webinar series
with leading and emerging WiL presenting and discussing challenging aspects
of contemporary management of lymphoma.
· Open to all clinicians, researchers and educators in lymphoma and associated fields.
· Sessions on Zoom are free and open to clinicians, researchers and
educators in lymphoma and associated fields.
· Registration for each session via registration links below
or please contact wil@snowdome.org.au
· Session times shown in local time of presenters
and for you in your local time after registration.
UTC - Universal Time Coordinated. www.timeanddate.com
· All six sessions will be recorded and available after each session
SESSION 1 - Wednesday October 6, 2021
Presenters - Lady Nicola Mendelsohn (Founder, Follicular Lymphoma Foundation)
& Dr Jessica Okosun (Cancer Research UK, Barts Cancer Centre)
Session 1 RECORDING LINK
SESSION 2 - Wednesday October 13, 2021
Presenters - Dr Carla Casulo (University of Rochester Medical Center, NY)
& Dr Sally Barrington (King's College, London)
Session 2 RECORDING LINK
SESSION 3 - Wednesday October 20, 2021
Presenters - Dr Astrid Pavlovsky (FUNDALEU, Buenos Aires)
& Dr Kim Linton (University of Manchester, UK)
Session 3 RECORDING LINK
SESSION 4A - Wednesday October 27, 2021
CAREER DEVELOPMENT with male WiL Change Champions & their Mentees Moderators - Dr Kate Cwynarski, Dr Kim Linton & Dr Astrid Pavlovsky
- Dr Andrew Davies (University of Southampton)
+ Dr Jemma Longley & A/Prof Harriet Walter
- Prof Jude Fitzgibbon (Cancer Research UK) + Dr Jessica Okosun
- Dr Christopher Flowers (MD Anderson Cancer Centre)
+ Carla Casulo MD & Loretta Nastoupil MD
SESSION 4A RECORDING LINK
SESSION 4B - Wednesday October 27, 2021
CAREER DEVELOPMENT with male WiL Change Champions & their Mentees Moderators - Dr Gareth Gregory & A/Prof Eliza Hawkes
- Dr Christian Steidl (BC Cancer Research) + Dr Clémentine Sarkozy
- Dr David Weinstock (Dana-Faber Cancer Institute) + Caron Jocobson MD
Session 4B Recording Link
SESSION 5 - Wednesday November 3
Presenters - Prof Catherine Thieblemont – Hôpital Saint Louis – Paris
& Prof Monique Minnema – UMC Utrecht, the Netherlands
Session 5 Recording Link
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Newsletter ... WiLing Wednesdays April/May 2021
Featured WiL
DR CAMILLE GOLFIER
Dr Camille Golfier is an MD working in Lyon Sud Hospital, Lyon, France. She is an expert on lymphoid malignancies.
Student of well-known French haematologist, Professor Gilles Salles (MD, PhD, Lyon, France), Camille completed her medical degree at Lyon University and her physician training in Dijon and Lyon Sud Hospitals.
Aligned with comprehensive care, Camille gained a palliative care degree during her training. She also completed a Masters 2 degree in Science working on epigenetics in T-cell lymphoma with Professor Bachy (MD, PhD, Lyon, France).
Camille is currently involved in a number of clinical trials in lymphoid neoplasms as a member of the independent clinical lymphoma research network - The Lymphoma Study Association (LYSA).
FEATURED Women in lymphoma
Please contact us at wil@snowdome.org.au if you or a colleague would like to be featured here.