Early-Career Faculty Mentoring Program
Overview
Created in 2020, the Office of Faculty Affairs and Faculty Development’s Early-Career Faculty Mentoring Program supports junior faculty and their mentors in building meaningful mentoring relationships. The program complements and builds upon the work being done by department chairs and division chiefs to support the career development and advancement of junior faculty. This program seeks to:
- connect junior faculty and mentors in effective, goal-driven relationships;
- facilitate the exploration of early career professional opportunities and mentoring networks;
- identify potential areas for early career focus and engagement with scholarly work/scholarship;
- support junior faculty’s preparation for a meaningful first annual review; and
- support junior faculty’s preparation for promotion and tenure processes and mentorship next steps.
Program Details
To participate in the program, junior faculty and their department-assigned mentors must commit to:
- attend in-person workshops and participate in virtual meetings (mentees attend all sessions; mentors attend “dyad” sessions only);
- complete pre-session and post-session assignments;
- meet monthly or “as needed” as a mentoring dyad and document meeting outcomes;
- complete program evaluations.
The program will focus on a monthly mentoring topic built around the themes of Connect, Explore, Engage, and Advance. Sample topics include:
Connect
- Effective mentoring strategies
- Mentoring across differences
- Effective communication and engaging in difficult conversations
Explore
- Building a mentoring network
- Exploring types of mentoring (mentor as coach and sponsor)
- Identifying, exploring, and engaging with early career paths/professional opportunities
Engage
- Work-life integration and wellness
- Time management/priority setting
- Defining, narrowing, or expanding scholarly focus
Advance
- Preparing for your first promotion
- Maximizing the annual review for advancement and development
- Ending or “handing off” a mentoring relationship and initiating new mentorship
The annual program is held from October-May. Monthly 90-minute sessions are facilitated by faculty development leaders and other content experts and are held 7:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. on the following dates:
- Thursday, October 19, 2023 (mentees and mentors)
- Building a Successful Mentoring Relationship
- Thursday, November 9, 2023 (mentees and mentors)
- Communication and Common Mentorship Issues
- Thursday, December 14, 2023 (mentees and mentors)
- Coaching, Sponsorship, and Developmental Networks
- Thursday, January 11, 2024 (mentees only)
- Prioritizing/Responding to Early-Career Opportunities
- Thursday, February 8, 2024 (mentees only)
- Early-Career Scholarship
- Thursday, March 14, 2024 (mentees and mentors)
- Early-Career Promotion and Tenure
- Thursday, April 11, 2024 (mentees only)
- Preparing for a Meaningful Annual Review
- Thursday, May 9, 2024 (mentees and mentors)
- Handing Off Mentorship/Initiating New Mentorship
- Thomas Albert, MD, Assistant Professor of Family Medicine
(MENTOR: Sean Reed, MD, Associate Professor of Family Medicine) - Kristin Taylor Anderson, PhD, Assistant Professor of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology
(MENTOR: Victor Engelhard, PhD, Professor of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology - Katherine Donowitz, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
(MENTOR: Lynn McDaniel, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics) - Lauren Ehrlich, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences
(MENTOR: Heather Bruschwein, PsyD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences) - Alissa Higinbotham, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurology
(MENTOR: Binit Shah, MD, Associate Professor of Neurology,) - Danielle Johnson, DO, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
(MENTOR: Vanessa Gregg, MD, Associate Professor Obstetrics and Gynecology) - Stephen Lockey, MD, Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
(MENTOR: Frank Shen, MD, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery) - Summer Scavone, MD, Assistant Professor of Family Medicine
(MENTOR: John Gazewood, MD, Associate Professor of Family Medicine) - Claire Scrivani, MD, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
(MENTOR: Paola Gehrig, MD, Professor and Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology) - Jie Shen, PhD, Assistant Professor of Public Health Sciences
(MENTOR: Roger Anderson, PhD, Professor of Public Health Sciences) - Jennifer Turpen, DO, Assistant Professor of Medicine
(MENTOR: Joshua Barclay, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine) - Marina Weiler, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences
(MENTOR: Kim Penberthy, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences) - Alexandra Wood, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurology
(MENTOR: Kathryn Xixis, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurology) - Tian Zhang, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
(MENTOR: Jeffrey Smith, PhD, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics)
- Samina Afreen, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine
(MENTOR: Sue Brown, MD, Professor of Medicine) - Eric Dowling, MD, Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery
(MENTOR: Jonathan Garneau, MD, Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery) - Jeffrey Craig, MD, Assistant Professor of Pathology
(MENTOR: Elizabeth Courville, MD, Associate Professor of Pathology) - Paul Gallo, MD, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
(MENTOR: Michael Mazzeffi, MD, MPH, Professor of Anesthesiology) - Saima Hanif, MBBS, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
(MENTOR: Melissa Schoelwer, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics) - John Matson, MD, Assistant Professor of Radiology and Medical Imaging
(MENTOR: Aditya Sharma, MBBS, Associate Professor of Medicine,) - Hitesh Patel, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine
(MENTOR: Kyle Enfield, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, and Timothy Scialla, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine) - Marieta Pehlivanova, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry And Neurobehavioral Sciences
(MENTOR: Bruce Greyson, MD, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences) - Priyanka Singla, MBBS, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
(MENTOR: Lynn Kohan, MD, Professor of Anesthesiology) - Racheal Smetana, PsyD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry And Neurobehavioral Sciences
(MENTOR: Donna Broshek, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences) - Anne-Louise Stewart, MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry And Neurobehavioral Sciences
(MENTOR: Jennifer Payne, MD, Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences) - Bon Q. Trinh, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pathology
(MENTOR: Adam Goldfarb, MD, Professor of Pathology) - Arthi Venkat, MD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology
(MENTOR: Peter Netland, MD, PhD, Professor and Chair of Ophthalmology) - Susan Walters, MD, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
(MENTOR: Amanda Kleiman, MD, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology)
- Jennifer Andrews, DO, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (MENTOR: Rachel Moon)
- Jonathan Curley, MD, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology (MENTOR: Robert Thiele)
- Ashley Garneau, MD, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology (MENTOR: Mo Tiouririne)
- Ariana Greenwell, MD, Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology (MENTOR: William Thomas Brand)
- Michael Hadeed, MD, Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery (MENTOR: David Weiss)
- Christine Ibilibor, MD, Assistant Professor of Urology (MENTOR: Tracey Krupski)
- Nicholas Larkey, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pathology (MENTOR: James Gorham)
- Alyssa Mixon, DO, Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (MENTOR: Regan Royer)
- Steven Philips, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine (MENTOR: James Bergin)
- Jeffrey Shije, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurology (MENTOR: Goran Rakocevic)
- Brian Wentworth, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine (MENTOR: Helmy Siragy)
- Hanna Zaraket, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine (MENTOR: Mark Okusa)
- Caitlin Anderson, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (MENTOR: Laura Shaffer)
- Sanja Arandjelovic, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine (MENTOR: Peggy Shupnik)
- Emily Ayers, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine (MENTOR: Craig Portell)
- Michael Ayers, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine (MENTOR: Todd Villines)
- Andrew Barros, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine (MENTOR: Julia Scialla)
- Carrie Cowardin, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (MENTOR: Sean Moore)
- Michael Cusick, MD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology (MENTOR: Brian Conway)
- Christopher Ennen, MD, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology (MENTOR: Chris Chisholm)
- Esteban Figueroa, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine (MENTOR: Anne Tuskey)
- Molly Flannagan, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery (MENTOR: Jeff Young)
- Jonathan Garneau, MD, Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology (MENTOR: Mark Jameson)
- Laura Homewood, MD, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology (MENTOR: Leigh Cantrell)
- Marcus Hook, MD, Assistant Professor of Radiology and Medical Imaging (MENTOR: Reza Daugherty)
- Behnam Keshavarz, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine (MENTOR: Jeffrey Wilson)
- Enrica Marchi , MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine (MENTOR: Craig Portell)
- Christopher McLaughlin, MD, Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology (MENTOR: Paul Read)
- Rebecca Mullan, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine (MENTOR: Katherine Coffey-Vega)
- Nicolas Ortiz, MD, Assistant Professor of Urology (MENTOR: Ray Costabile)
- Laura Parsons, MD, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology (MENTOR: Carrie Sopata)
- Janaki Patel, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine (MENTOR: Andrew Parsons)
- Gloria Sheynkman, PhD, Assistant Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics (MENTOR: John Bushweller)
- Nancy Vilar MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology (MENTOR: Peter Netland)
- Bowen Wang, PhD, Assistant Professor of Surgery (MENTOR: Lian Guo)
- Rachel Weiss, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine (MENTOR: Paul Helgerson)
- Justin Weppner, DO, Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (MENTOR: Alan Alfano)