The Einstein Postdoctoral Association (EPA) was founded in 1996 at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York as one of the first Postdoctoral Associations in the US. Its founding was highly encouraged and supported by Dean Purpura and the founding postdoctoral scholars were Dr. Fiona Pixley and Dr.
Paula Cohen. Fiona Pixley, now Associate Professor at the University of Western Australia, says about the founding process: ‘We called a [postdoc] meeting by putting flyers up throughout the research buildings and expected a handful of attendees.