Praised by colleagues for being an excellent role model for female faculty, medical students, and residents, Becky is also renowned for her honesty and fairness in handling individual work-life issues. She has also encouraged and facilitated professional training and educational opportunities for employees and residents. She inspires those who follow in her footsteps to strive for personal excellence, for academic integrity and rigor, for compassionate and thorough care of patients, and for contributing to an environment that is healthy and supportive. As principal investigator of the College of Public Health s Arizona Tobacco Information Network, Pamela s vision is to lead her unit to excellence by providing superior tobacco information services statewide, and to carry out quality tobacco-related research. Having been both a working college student and a working mother, Pamela is sensitive to employees needs, and actively encourages them to balance their work and personal lives.
Staff feel supported to take classes, finish degrees and advance technologically.
She is lauded for promoting creative, flexible work schedules, accommodating family and medical leave requests, and implementing a compassionate leave policy. In addition, she actively facilitates staff members professional and personal development by encouraging staff training on topics ranging from cultural sensitivity to management and computer skills. Pamela is also a champion for salary and compensation equity. She passionately advocated for salary equity for her staff at the state level, persisting in spite of roadblocks and doing much of the necessary research herself. She was ultimately successful in obtaining equity pay increases and position reclassifications for 15 of her employees.