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Anne M. Etgen, PhD

Anne M. Etgen, PhD is currently professor emerita of neuroscience, psychiatry and behavioral sciences, obstetrics & gynecology and women’s health, and pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. During her career at Einstein, her research on steroid hormone action in the brain was funded by NIMH, NICHD, NINDS, and NIA as well as the National Science Foundation (NSF). She is a two-time MERIT awardee from NIMH, served as editor-in-chief of the journal Hormones and Behavior from 2004−08, and co-edited the volume “Molecular Mechanisms of Hormone Actions on Behavior.” Etgen has also mentored scientists at multiple levels of career development both locally and nationally. She contributed to Einstein’s efforts to foster the training of faculty in the clinical and translational research arenas, working through institutional K12 programs, the Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility fellowship program of the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Women’s Health, and as chair of the Scientific Advisory and Review Committee of Einstein’s Institute for Clinical and Translational Research. Nationally, she was a member of the NINDS Neuroscience Training study section from 2000−16, and has been on numerous other career development and fellowship review panels for NSF and NIH. She served as director of the Graduate Division of Biomedical Sciences at Einstein from 1997−2001. Because of her commitment to fostering diversity in the biomedical workforce, she was a member of APA's Training Advisory Committee for the Diversity Program in Neuroscience from 1999-2010; in 2009, the APA recognized her efforts in this area with a Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2012, she received the Society for Neuroscience’s (SfN) Bernice Grafstein Award for Mentoring. Etgen co-chaired the Professional Development Committee of the SfN from 2008−11. At that time, she was also co-PI on a grant to SfN from the NSF, “Department Chair Training to Increase Women in Neuroscience (IWIN)”, whose goal is to improve the recruitment, retention, and climate for women and minority faculty in neuroscience-related disciplines throughout the country. She has been a faculty member in MBL’s SPINES course since 2000 and currently serves on the advisory boards for the SfN’s Neuroscience Scholars Program and the University of Washington’s BRAINS (Broadening the Representation of Academic Investigators in Neuroscience). For the past seven years, she has also been a grant coach for the National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN). 

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