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Supporting Academic Parents; Recommended Policies and Practices (NCFDD Webinar)
Date and Time
Tuesday, December 12, 2023 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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Location
Online/Virtual
Description
This webinar takes a two-pronged approach to assist both (1) individual faculty members who are parents and (2) academic institutions in better supporting academic parents. This webinar will also provide evidence-based recommendations to help individual parents successfully navigate their academic careers and the tenure process, while also presenting information that institutions and administrators can utilize to catalyze broader institutional change.
Facilitated by Cleopatra Abdou Kamperveen, PhD.
Register at: https://www.facultydiversity.org/webinars/supportingparents.
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Facilitator Biography:
Dr. Cleopatra is the founder and chief scientific officer of Superbaby Nutraceuticals and The Fertility & Pregnancy Institute whose mission is to unite families, fertility experts, and health insurers with a groundbreaking epigenetic toolkit to support their missions of extending healthy reproductive life and sculpting the next generation's health. Dr. Cleopatra is a scientist and retired tenured professor at USC. Her world-renowned Primemester Protocol combines epigenetics, psychoneuroimmunology, and functional mind-body practices that are backed by her 27 years of scientific research and practice. Dr. Cleopatra has scientifically studied tens of thousands of women and families, and has helped women in 43 countries on 6 continents have their superbabies. She has received nearly $3 million in grant funding from multiple arms of the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the National Institute on Standards Technology, and private foundations, including the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Dr. Cleopatra has been cited in nearly 2,000 scientific studies. Dr. Cleopatra is the recipient of the 2020 Most Courageous award from the Mindshare Collaborative for changing the face of fertility; and, inspired by her work, mindbodygreen removed the word “infertility" from its website. Dr. Cleopatra is a selected member of the Fulbright Specialists Roster.