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Department/Division Mentor Programs

​​​Faculty Mentors Across Health Sciences

Department/Division Mentor Directors (DMDs) guide faculty in their units 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

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

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  • Program Highlights
    • Almost 100% of faculty are trained
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School of Medicine Departments

Anesthesiology

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  • Mentor Facilitators
    • Ulrich Schmidt, MD, PhD, MBA
    • Kimberly Robbins, MD
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  • Advisory Committee
    • Alyssa Brzenski, MD
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  • 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

Cellular and Molecular Medicine

Dermatology

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  • Advisory Committee
    • Richard Gallo, MD, PhD
    • Tissa Hata, MD
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Emergency Medicine

  • DMD
    • Rick Clark, MD
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  • Mentor Facilitator
    • Stephen Hayden, MD
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  • Advisory Committee
    • Theodore Chan, MD
    • Brian Snyder, MD
    • Eddie Castillo, PhD, MPH
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  • Program Highlights
    • Delivered FMTP modules at regular faculty meetings
    • Held info sessions for jr. faculty
    • Organize peer-to-peer mentoring
    • DMDs review career development plans (CDPs)
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Family Medicine

  • Mentor Facilitator
    • Sarah Merrill, MD

Medicine

  • Mentor Facilitators
    • Darcy Wooten, MD, MS
    • Edward Chao, DO
    • Heather Hofflich, DO
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  • 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
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  • Program Highlight
    • Jr. faculty select mentors from published list of mentors; mismatches are rematched

Neurosciences

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  • Mentor Facilitator
    • John Ravits, PhD
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  • Advisory Committee
    • James Brewer, PhD
    • Sean Evans, PhD
    • Hector Gonzalez, PhD
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Neurological Surgery

Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences

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

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

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  • Mentor Facilitator
    • Judith Varner, PhD
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  • Advisory Committee
    • Christina Sigurdson, PhD, DVM
    • Andres Roma, MD
    • Jay Desgrosellier, PhD
    • Anne Hiniker, MD
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  • 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

Pediatrics

  • Mentor Facilitator
    • Kyung (Kay) Rhee, MD
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Pharmacology

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Psychiatry

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

Psychology

  • Mentor Facilitators
    • Christina Gremel

Radiation Medicine and Applied Sciences

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  • 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.
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    • 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
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Radiology

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  • Advisory Committee
    • ​Christine Chung, MD
    • Alexander Norbash, MD
    • Thomas Liu, PhD, MBA
    • Nikdohkt Farid, MD
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  • Program Highlights
    • Deployed a formal peer mentoring program, Rad-WEL, that meets monthly and provides tools for jr. and mid-career faculty

Surgery

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

"actions express priorities"

 -mohandas (mahatma) ghandi

Divisions with FMTP

Biomedical Informatics

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  • Mentor Facilitator
    • Robert El-Kareh, MD
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  • Advisor
    • Michael Hogarth, MD
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  • Program Highlights
    • 2-hr faculty mini-retreat on mentoring
    • 2-hr trainee meetings (needs assessment, FMTP Toolkit)
    • Quarterly mentoring activities at faculty meetings
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General Internal Medicine

  • DMDs
    • Lawrence Ma, MD
    • Heather Hofflich, DO
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  • Mentor Facilitators
    • Edward Chao, DO
    • Heather Hofflich, DO
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Geriatrics, Gerontology and Palliative Care

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  • Mentor Facilitator
    • EB Sladek, MD
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  • Advisory Committee
    • Alison Moore, MD
    • Roopali Gupta, MD
    • Colin Thomas, MD, MPH
    • Khai Nguyen, MD, MHS
    • Simerjot Jassal, MD
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  • Program Highlights
    • Each jr. faculty, including MSPs, paired with sr. faculty
    • Provide pairs with Mentorship Roadmap (abbreviated FMTP Toolkit) with yearly timelines
    • Career development plans (CDPs) are formalized and submitted
    • Monthly check-ins at division meetings
    • Review one mentorship tip at monthly division meetings
    • Distributed survey regarding mentorship culture
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Hospital Medicine

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  • Advisory Committee
    • Meghan Sebasky, MD
    • Ian Jenkins, MD
    • Dan Bouland, MD
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Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health

  • DMD
    • Sara Gianella Weibel, MD
    • Darcy Wooten, MD, MS​
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  • Mentor Facilitator
    • Darcy Wooten, MD, MS
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  • Advisory Committee
    • Davey Smith, MD, MS
    • Maile Karris, MD
    • Laura Bamford, MD
    • Annie Cowell, MD, MPH
    • Natasha Martin, DPhil
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  • Program Highlight
    • Mentees select 3 mentors of interest; leadership selects the final pair
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Nephrology