The Pennsylvania Medical Society's Women Physicians Section invites you to a CME event! Learn more and register at www.pamedsoc.org/WPS. 

Val Ackerman is an American sports executive, former lawyer, and former basketball player. She is the current commissioner of the Big East Conference. She is best known for being the first president of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), serving from 1996 to 2005. Ackerman was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2011. She has had a long and accomplished career in the sports industry and is one of the few executives in sports who has held leadership positions in both men’s and women’s sports at the collegiate, professional, national team and international levels. 

Commissioner Ackerman attended the University of Virginia as one of the school's first female student-athlete scholarship recipients. She graduated with high distinction with a degree in political and social thought in 1981 and played one year of professional basketball in France before earning a law degree from UCLA in 1985.

She started her legal career as a corporate and banking associate and joined the National Basketball Association as a staff attorney in 1988. She was as an executive at the NBA for eight years, serving as special assistant to NBA Commissioner David Stern and Director (and later) vice president of Business Affairs before being named the WNBA's first President in 1996.

Commissioner Ackerman lives in New York City with her husband. They have two daughters.

CME:

The Pennsylvania Medical Society (PAMED) is accredited by the Accreditation Council on Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

PAMED designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 credits™. Physicians should claim credit commensurate with their participation in the activity.

No one involved in the planning or delivery of this activity has any relevant financial relationships to disclose. All potential conflicts of interest have been mitigated.