Angela Michelle Byars-Winston is a professor of Internal Medicine at the

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. She was the first African American to achieve the rank of tenured Full Professor of medicine at the

. She studies the impact of culture on career development, in particular for women and minorities in STEM. She is a Fellow of the

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and was one of

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's Champions of Change. __TOC__

Early life and education

Byars-Winston earned her bachelor's (1991) and master's (1992) degree at

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. She completed a predoctoral clinical fellowship at the

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. She attended

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, specialising in

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. Her 1996 dissertation placed her on the national policy-making stage. She was one of only two black PhD students in the School of Education at Arizona State University in the fall of 1992.

Career

Byars-Winston joined the

as a KL2 scholar in 1997. She joined the School of Medicine in 2011 and became interested in whether people bring their identity to the foreground of their college experience. Byars-Winston and her colleagues, Christine Pfund and Janet Branchaw, were awarded a $1.4 million R01

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(NIH) grant to investigate how mentors define diversity and developing ways to measure the impact of mentored research experiences on career outcomes. Byars-Winston is also part of a national team which was awarded $19 million from the NIH to organize a National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN). She has investigated how to measure mentoring interventions. She has also conducted a longitudinal study that monitored how the relationships between undergraduate mentees and their mentors in the biological sciences impact their academic outcomes. One of the approaches to meet the skills gap in the

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is to engage ''A''frican Americans, ''L''atino/as, South East ''A''sians, and ''N''ative ''A''mericans ('ALANA') with science and engineering subjects. Byars-Winston used social cognitive career theory to examine how ethnicity influenced academic self-efficacy and outcomes. She has identified several barriers to the progression of ALANA investigators, including the marginalization of interests, apartheid within academia and

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s. Byars-Winston demonstrated that race and ethnicity impact career expectations more than aspirations. She launched the ''Training and Education to Advance Minority Scholars in Science'' program (TEAM-Science) and Culturally Aware Mentoring (CAM) programs, which look to embed self-reflective dialogue about race and ethnicity in science. She is working with the

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to examine the effectiveness of programs that look engage individuals marginalized in STEM fields.

named Byars-Winston as one of the

' Champions of Change in 2011. The

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established a ''Educate to Innovate'' campaign, which looked to improve the engagement of young people with science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). She is a member of th
National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity
STEM Equity Pipeline National Advisory Board and Wisconsin Career Development Association Executive Committee. She won the

''Outstanding Woman of Color Award'' in 2014. In 2016 Byars-Winston was a visiting professor at

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, where she ran a series of mentoring workshops. She published the ''Promising Practices for Strengthening the Regional STEM Workforce Development Ecosystem''. In 2017 Byars-Winston became the first African American to achieve the rank of tenured Full Professor of medicine at the

. She was elected to the

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Board of Higher Education and Workforce (BHEW). In 2022, Byars-Winston won the ACTS (Association for Clinical and Translational Science) Clinical and Translational Research Distinguished Educator Award for Mentorship Innovation to acknowledge her dedication to mentoring researchers and improving the quality and inclusivity of clinical translational research.

References

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