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Changing Landscape of Academic Women's Health Care in the United States

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Since the 1970s, many leaders in biomedical research have warned about a looming national shortage of new physician investigators but evidence, especially for Women’s Health, has been largely indirect or anecdotal. This chapter discusses the number of junior physician investigators, in either patient-oriented or basic science research, who are present in departments and who are needed to maintain a research mission.

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For their valuable assistance in the preparation of this manuscript: Janine A. Clayton, M.D., Deputy Director, ORWH; Nida H. Corry, Ph.D., AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow, ORWH; Joslyn Yudenfreund Kravitz, Ph.D., Special Assistant to the Director, ORWH; and Joan Davis Nagel, M.D., M.P.H., Director of Interdisciplinary Research Programs, ORWH.

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  1. Office of Research on Women’s Health, Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20817-5484, USA

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  2. Consultant to Office of Research on Women’s Health, formerly Chief of Women’s Programs, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Potomac, MD, USA

    Mary C. Blehar

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Pinn, V.W., Blehar, M.C. (2011). Interdisciplinary Women’s Health Research and Career Development. In: Rayburn, W., Schulkin, J. (eds) Changing Landscape of Academic Women's Health Care in the United States. International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, vol 48. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0931-7_4

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