About WINS
WINS MISSION
To educate, inspire, and encourage women neurosurgeons to realize their professional and personal goals, and to serve neurosurgery in addressing the issues inherent to training and maintaining a diverse and balanced workforce.
WINS GOALS
WINS aims to promote professional growth and development, while striving to establish a platform that facilitates meaningful exchanges and global interaction among women surgeons. We are committed to fostering an environment supportive of personal values and individual differences. Our unwavering dedication is focused on maintaining the highest standards of competence and ethical behavior.
Why Join WINS?
Women in Neurosurgery is committed to supporting the professional and personal needs of female neurosurgeons at various stages in their career – from residency through retirement. Since our founding in 1989, WINS has worked hard to improve the representation of women in neurosurgery in organized medicine and specifically neurosurgery. We have encouraged and helped to fund scholarships for residents to national meetings with the specific objective of promoting the professional growth and advancement of our members. By working together, and with organizations like the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and the Congress of Neurosurgeons, WINS hopes to realize the valuable potential for women in neurosurgery.
Although interests and lifestyles of WINS members are diverse, each woman shares a commitment to excellence in neurosurgery. We invite you to join us as a member of Women in Neurosurgery. To apply, please click on the MyAANS to login using your username and password. Once in MyAANS, select “My Section Applications” from the left navigation tab and follow the instructions to apply to the WINS Section.
WINS MISSION
Mission Statement: To educate, inspire, and encourage women neurosurgeons to realize their professional and personal goals, and to serve neurosurgery in addressing the issues inherent to training and maintaining a diverse and balanced workforce.
WINS GOALS
- To promote professional growth and development.
- To enhance and facilitate interaction among women surgeons throughout the world.
- To foster an environment supportive of personal values and individual diversity.
- To advance the highest standards of competence and ethical behavior.
History of Women
in Neurosurgery
Women in Neurosurgery (WINS) is excited to honor trailblazing innovators in neurosurgery.
As a right hand to Harvey Cushing, MD, Louise Eisenhardt, MD was the first neuropathologist and kept records on all of his surgical pathology specimens.
Who hasn't heard of Frances Conley, MD? Having been a pioneering force in the recognition of the problems women pursuing medical careers face.
Rarely in life do you meet a person whose hard work, determination, ambition and willingness to help others profoundly affects your life
Dr. Ruth Kerr Jakoby was born in Palo Alto, California. She attended Barnard College of Columbia University, receiving her B.A. in 1949.
Dr. Carole Miller was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree with Honors in History at the Ohio State University.
Dr. Joan Venes attended Downstate Medical Center of the State University of New York, graduating in 1966.
Merylee Elizabeth Werthan, M.D. received an A.B. with Honors from Vassar College.
