Department/Division Mentor Programs

Faculty Mentors Across Health Sciences

Department/Division Mentor Directors (DMDs) help their units shift away from a culture of ad hoc mentorship towards intentional, inclusive, and effective mentorship in all institutional contexts. DMDs guide faculty to use evidence-based best practices for mentoring junior faculty and trainees. DMDs assess the “health” of mentoring in their department/division and act as a liaison with the Office of Faculty Affairs (OFA).

Health Sciences Schools

Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health

DMDs
- Suzi Hong, PhD

Program Highlights
- Previous DMD, Dr. Andrea LaCroix, led a discipline-specific Grant Writing Course (GWC) for Population and Behavioral Health in collaboration with OFA

Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

DMDs
- Dionicio Siegel, PhD
- Jennifer Le, PharmD
- Joseph Ma, PharmD

Program Highlights
- Almost 100% of faculty are trained

School of Medicine Departments

Anesthesiology

DMD
- Ulrich Schmidt, MD, PhD, MBA

Mentor Facilitators
- Ulrich Schmidt, MD, PhD, MBA
- Kimberly Robbins, MD

Advisory Committee
- Alyssa Brzenski, MD

Program Highlights
- Mentoring retreat to solicit feedback from faculty
- iShare website with private folders for mentor-mentee pairs
- Jr. faculty wait 3-6 months before selecting mentors
- Mentor-mentee pairing outside divisions

More Information

Cellular and Molecular Medicine

DMDs
- Bruce Hamilton, PhD
- Kevin Corbett, PhD

Dermatology

DMD
- Lawrence Eichenfield, MD

Advisory Committee
- Richard Gallo, MD, PhD
- Tissa Hata, MD

Emergency Medicine

DMD
- Rick Clark, MD

Mentor Facilitator
- Stephen Hayden, MD

Advisory Committee
- Theodore Chan, MD
- Brian Snyder, MD
- Eddie Castillo, PhD, MPH

Program Highlights
- Delivered FMTP modules at regular faculty meetings
- Held info sessions for jr. faculty
- Organize peer-to-peer mentoring
- DMDs review CDPs

Family Medicine

Mentor Facilitator
- Sarah Merrill, MD

Medicine

DMD
- Joachim Ix, MD

Mentor Facilitators
- Darcy Wooten, MD, MS
- Edward Chao, DO
- Heather Hofflich, DO

Council of Mentors
- Gerry Boss, MD
- Luis Castellanos, MD, MPH
- Chantal Darquenne, PhD
- Francis Gabbai, MD
- Richard Garfein, PhD, MPH
- Charlie Goldberg, MD
- Simerjot Jassal, MD, MAS, FACP
- Kim Kerr, MD
- Susan Little, MD
- Jess Mandel, MD
- Alison Moore, MD, MPH
- Elaine Muchmore, MD
- Rebecca Sell, MD

Program Highlight
- Jr. faculty select mentors from published list of mentors; mismatches are rematched

Website

Neurosciences

DMDs
- John Ravits, PhD
- Irene Litvan, MD

Mentor Facilitator
- John Ravits, PhD

Advisory Committee
- James Brewer, PhD
- Sean Evans, PhD
- Hector Gonzalez, PhD

Neurological Surgery

DMD
- Joseph Ciacci, MD

Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Science

DMDs
- Varykina Thackray, PhD
- Gladys 'Sandy' Ramos, MD

Advisory Committee
- Emily Lukacz, MD
- Miles Wilkinson, PhD

Program Highlights
- All jr. faculty, including MSPs, are assigned mentoring teams (1 junior, 1 mid-level, and 1 senior faculty member)
- Mentor-mentees intentionally matched outside division
- Department meetings are extended by 1.5 hours for mentoring discussions

Ophthalmology

DMD
- Natalie Afshari, MD
- Don Kikkawa, MD

Advisory Committee
- Linda Zangwill, PhD
- Rahda Ayyagari, PhD
- Michael Goldbaum, MD
- William Freeman, MD
- Robert Weinreb, MD, PhD

Pathology

DMDs
- Jack Bui, MD, PhD

Mentor Facilitator
- Judith Varner, PhD

Advisory Committee
- Christina Sigurdson, PhD, DVM
- Andres Roma, MD
- Jay Desgrosellier, PhD
- Anne Hiniker, MD

Program Highlights
- Held 11 hours of mentor facilitator-led training for clinical and research faculty
- Implemented Grant Writing Course (GWC) in department
- Allow jr. faculty to choose mentor or assign mentors
- Established mentor-mentee pairs for all jr. faculty and held DMD meetings with pairs
- Invited speaker to discuss academic advancement with mentor-mentee pairs

Website

Pediatrics

DMD
- Ami Doshi, MD

Mentor Facilitator
- Kyung (Kay) Rhee, MD

Pharmacology

DMDs
- Alexandra Newton, PhD
- Bill Joiner, PhD

Psychiatry

DMD
- Joanna Jacobus, PhD

Mentor Facilitators
- Greg Appelbaum, PhD
- Mariana Cherner, PhD
- Victoria Risbrough, PhD
- Xianjin Zhou, PhD

Advisory Committee
- Laurie Lindamer, PhD
- Catherine Ayers, PhD
- Anne Bird, MD
- Robert Heaton, PhD
- Jeremy Hirst, MD
- Suzi Hong, PhD
- Joanna Horning
- Steve Huege, MD
- Carla Marienfeld, MD
- Sanjai Rao, MD
- Elizabeth Wrape, PhD
- Lisa Eyler, PhD

Program Highlights
- All jr. faculty assigned 2 mentors (career and academic)
- Many MSPs have transitioned to faculty roles
- Location-based mentoring rather than "division"-based
- Mentorship focused on promotion

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Radiation Medicine and Applied Sciences

DMD
- Jona Hattangadi-Gluth, MD

Program Highlights
- Mentorship program for Assistant professors
  - 1:1 matches
  - Mentor-mentee formal meetings at least 2x a year for at least 2 years
  - Mentorship topics vary; promotion must be a central theme. Discussions revolve around the CDP.

- Sponsorship program for Associate professors
  - Sponsorship teams (groups of 2-3 faculty) with at least 1 person outside the department, outside the university, national/international
  - Career Assessment of mid-level faculty
  - Example goals: foster new research collaborations, chair national committee, serve on NIH study section

Radiology

DMDs
- Nikdokht (Niky) Farid, MD
- Sean Tutton, MD

Advisory Committee
- Christine Chung, MD
- Alexander Norbash, MD
- Thomas Liu, PhD, MBA
- Nikdohkt Farid, MD

Program Highlights
- Deployed a formal peer mentoring program, Rad-WEL, that meets monthly and provides tools for jr. and mid-career faculty

Website

Surgery

DMD
- Sarah Blair, MD

Advisory Committee
- Jason Sicklick, MD
- Andrew Lowy, MD
- Mahmoud Malas, MD
- Sonia Ramamoorthy, MD
- Amanda Gosman, MD

Program Highlights
- Conducted faculty needs assessment
- Organized quarterly faculty development workshops via Zoom
- Assign jr. faculty 2 mentors
- Division Chiefs (or designees) meet with faculty 2x per year, once for salary review, once for academic and teaching review

Urology

DMD
- Jennifer Anger, MD, MPH

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Divisions with FMTP

Biomedical Informatics

DMDs
- Robert El-Kareh, MD
- Lucila Ohno-Machado, MD, PhD

Mentor Facilitator
- Robert El-Kareh, MD

Advisor
- Michael Hogarth, MD

Program Highlights
- 2-hr faculty mini-retreat on mentoring
- 2-hr trainee meetings (needs assessment, FMTP Toolkit)
- Quarterly mentoring activities at faculty meetings

General Internal Medicine

DMDs
- Lawrence Ma, MD
- Heather Hofflich, DO

Mentor Facilitators
- Edward Chao, DO
- Heather Hofflich, DO

Geriatrics, Gerontology and Palliative Care

DMDs
- EB Sladek, MD
- Veronica Gonzalez, MD
- Gary Buckholz, MD

Mentor Facilitator
- EB Sladek, MD

Advisory Committee
- Alison Moore, MD
- Roopali Gupta, MD
- Colin Thomas, MD, MPH
- Khai Nguyen, MD, MHS
- Simerjot Jassal, MD

Program Highlights
- Each jr. faculty, including MSPs, paired with sr. faculty
- Provide pairs with Mentorship Roadmap (abbreviated FMTP Toolkit) with yearly timelines
- CDPs are formalized and submitted
- Monthly check-ins at division meetings
- Review one mentorship tip at monthly division meetings
- Distributed survey regarding mentorship culture

Hospital Medicine

DMD
- Greg Seymann, MD

Advisory Committee
- Meghan Sebasky, MD
- Ian Jenkins, MD
- Dan Bouland, MD

Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health

DMD
- Sara Gianella Weibel, MD
- Darcy Wooten, MD, MS

Mentor Facilitator
- Darcy Wooten, MD, MS

Advisory Committee
- Davey Smith, MD, MS
- Maile Karris, MD
- Laura Bamford, MD
- Annie Cowell, MD, MPH
- Natasha Martin, PhD

Program Highlight
- Mentees select 3 mentors of interest; leadership selects the final pair

Nephrology

DMD
- Dena Rifkin, MD, MS