The mission of the Women’s Faculty Committee (WFC), of the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS), and its clinical partner UMass Memorial Health Care (UMMHC), is to address the needs of women faculty and to promote the status of women in the UMMS and UMMHC systems. For the past 12 consecutive years, one of the mechanisms by which the WFC identifies, recognizes, and supports accomplished women clinicians, researchers, educators, leaders and mentors of our community, is through an annual awards luncheon.