Dr. Frances Conley, who received national attention last summer when she resigned from Stanford University's School of Medicine because of what she described as a sexist environment there, will deliver two public talks Monday, Jan. 13, at the University of California, Davis, and at the UC Davis Medical Center (UCDMC) in Sacramento. Conley will deliver "Confessions of an Academic Maverick" at noon in MU II on the UC Davis campus. "Women in Academic Medicine: Is There Room at the Top?" will be presented at 4 p.m. in the UCDMC Cancer Center auditorium. Both talks are free and open to the public. Last June, Conley resigned her joint position as a full professor of neurosurgery at Stanford and chief of neurosurgery at the Palo Alto Veterans Administration Hospital, saying she could not tolerate the school's sexist climate any longer. In an editorial written shortly after her resignation, Conley said that despite her achievements and prominent positions, she lacked personal dignity. "I was tired of being condescendingly called 'Hon' by my peers, of having my honest differences of opinion put down as a manifestation of premenstrual syndrome, of having my ideas treated less seriously than those of the men with whom I work," Conley wrote. "I resigned because of a subtle sexism that, while not physically harmful, is extremely pervasive and debilitating." Conley withdrew her resignation in September after colleagues convinced her that conditions would not change without her help. However, she has vowed not to tolerate the same hostile climate. "Under no circumstances will I put up with what I did in the past," she said. "If the environment there is not changed by the steps they're taking now to improve things, I will be history once again." Conley's appearance is sponsored by the UC Davis Women's Resources and Research Center and the School of Medicine.