“Writing for Success in Science and Medicine”

Martha Montello, Ph.D. – Speaker
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
11:30am – 1:00 p.m.
School of Medicine
Theater C

Objectives:

• Identify 10 essential steps for successful writing in science and medicine
• Examine editors’ reasons for why manuscripts are rejected
• Distinguish between a study and a story

Target Audience:

• Faculty who want to enhance their publication success
• Departments and programs that wish to further their publication presence and coach faculty for scholarly achievement

Martha Montello, Ph.D. is a Lecturer for the Center for Bioethics and the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.  She teaches narrative ethics and literature and medicine for medical students, fellows, and physicians at Harvard and also teaches resident in the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Residency Program in Primary Care and Population Health.  Professor Montello is Editor-in-Chief of the Johns Hopkins University Press Journal Perspectives in Biology and Medicine.  In Kansas City, she is founding director of the Medical Writing Center at Children’s Mercy Hospital.  Her scholarship has been published widely in journals such as The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Hastings Center Report, New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of Clinical Ethics, Annals of Internal Medicine, Academic Medicine, New Orleans Review, and the Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science. 

The E. Grey Dimond, M.D., Take Wing Award is the School of Medicine’s annual honor given to a graduate who has demonstrated excellence in his or her chosen field and exceeded the expectations of peers in the practice of medicine, academic medicine or research. Personal achievements and community or public service are also considered for the award, which is presented during graduation week.

The Take Wing winner receives an engraved Take Wing statue and round-trip paid transportation and expenses to Kansas City to accept the award. The winner also presents the E. Grey Dimond, M.D., Take Wing Lecture and makes a brief speech to that year’s graduating class during commencement ceremonies.

History

Take Wing is a bronze sculpture cast from a small carving made in 1952 by the late E. Grey Dimond, M.D., provost emeritus for the health sciences, from a piece of driftwood he found on the beach while visiting Carmel, Calif. His daughter Lark had the sculpture enlarged and cast in bronze. That sculpture stands in front of the UMKC School of Medicine, encouraging students and alumni to “take wing” and soar to new heights in their careers after they leave the school.