Program Mentors

In the second half of the program, each National Center of Leadership in Academic Medicine (NCLAM) junior faculty member is matched with a senior faculty mentor to work on a Professional Development Contract (PDC) that encompasses a major part of their personal strategic plan. In 26 years, over five hundred faculty have participated as mentors from departments within the Health Sciences School of Medicine, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Longevity Science, as well as other schools within UC San Diego.

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).

Department of Anesthesiology

Dan Lee, MD, PhD, Professor

Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine

Lawrence Goldstein, PhD, Emeritus Professor
Bing Ren, PhD, Professor
Gene Yeo, PhD, MBA, Professor

Department of Dermatology

Richard Gallo, MD, Interim Chair, Professor

Department of Emergency Medicine

Colleen Campbell, MD, Professor
Theodore Chan, MD, Department Chair, Professor
Richard Clark, MD, Professor
Stephen Hayden, MD, Professor
Chris Tomaszewski, MD, MS, MBA, Professor

Department of Family Medicine

Matthew Allison, MD, Professor; NCLAM Alumni
Wael Al-Delaimy, MD, PhD, Professor
Maria Rosario Araneta, PhD, MPH, Professor
Michael Criqui, MD, MPH, Professor Emeritus
Anthony C. Gamst, PhD, Professor (Family Medicine and Public Health and Neurosciences)
Ted Ganiats, MD, Professor
Erik Groessl, PhD, Associate Professor
Sonia Jain, PhD, Professor
Deborah Kado, MD, MS, Professor
Hillary Klonoff-Cohen, PhD, Professor
Richard Kronick, PhD, Professor
Lisa Madlensky, PhD, Professor; NCLAM Alumni
Margaret McCahill, MD, Professor
Marianne Mckennett, MD, Clinical Professor
Paul Mills, PhD, Professor (Family Medicine and Public Health and Psychiatry)
Kevin Patrick, MD, MS, Professor
Ruth Patterson, PhD, Professor
John Pierce, PhD, Professor
Lee Ralph, MD, Professor
Andrew Ries, MD, MPH, Special Advisor to the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Professor (Medicine and Family Medicine and Public Health)
Natalie Rodriguez, MD, Professor
Gordon Saxe, MD, Professor
Josepth Scherger, MD, Professor
Ming Tai-Seale, PhD, MPH, Professor
Denise Von Muhlen, MD, PhD, Professor
Deborah Wingard, PhD, Professor; NCLAM Co-Founder
Ronghui Xu, PhD, Professor

Department of Medicine

Seema Aceves, MD, PhD, Professor
Zia Agha, MD, Professor
Fotis Asimakopoulos, MD, Professor
Bill Auger, MD, Professor
Denise Barnard, MD, Professor
Kim Barrett, PhD, Professor
Jacob Bailey, MD, MA, Assistant Clinical Professor
Constance Benson, MD, Professor
Daniel Blanchard, MD, Professor
Gerry Boss, MD, Professor
Daniel Bouland, MD, Professor
Antonino Catanzaro, MD, Professor
Dennis Carson, MD, Professor
Webster K. Cavenee, PhD, Distinguished Professor
Antoine Chaillon, MD, PhD, Associate Professor
John T. Chang, MD, Associate Professor
Ju Chen, PhD, Professor
Neil Chi, MD, PhD, Professor
James W. Covell, MD, Professor
Ruth Covell, MD, Professor Emeritus
Laura Crotty Alexander, MD, Associate Professor
Leonard Deftos, MD, Professor
Michelle Devor, MD, Professor
Tim Dresselhaus, MD, Professor
Wolfgang Dillmann, MD, Professor
Lars Eckmann, MD, Professor
Steven Edelman, MD, Professor
Neil Farber, MD, Professor
Gary Firestein, MD, Professor
John Fontanesi, PhD, Professor
James H. Fowler, PhD, Professor (Medicine and Political Sciences)
Lawrence Friedman, MD, Professor
Francis Gabbai, MD, Professor
Richard Garfein, PhD, MPH, Professor
John Garvie, MD, Professor
Mark Ginsberg, MD, Professor
Charlie Goldberg, MD, Professor
Shawn Harrity, MD, Professor
Robert Henry, MD, Professor
Stephen Howell, MD, Professor
Joachim Ix, MD, Professor
Arthur Kavanaugh, MD, Professor
Kenneth Kalunian, MD, Professor
Carolyn J. Kelly, MD, Professor
Brian Kwan, MD, SFHM, Clinical Professor
Susan Lee, MD, Professor
Leslie Lenert, MD, MS, Professor
Wilbur Lew, MD, Professor
Susan Little, MD, Professor
Rohit Loomba, MD, MHSc, Professor
Tony Lopez, MD, Professor
Alan Maisel, MD, Professor
Jess Mandell, MD, Professor
Natasha Martin, DPhil, Professor
Chris Mathews, MD, MSPH, Professor
Gregory A. Maynard, MD, Professor
Thomas McAfee, MD, Professor
Andrew McCulloch, PhD, Distinguished Professor (Medicine and Bioengineering)
Gita Mehta, MD, Professor
Ravindra Mehta, MD, Professor
Allen McCutchan, MD, Professor
Marlene Millen, MD, Professor
Elaine Muchmore, MD, Professore
Constance Nagi, MD, Professor
Robert Naviaux, MD, PhD, Professor (Medicine and Pediatrics)
Shamim Nemati, PhD, Associate Professor
Daniel O'Connor, MD, Professor
Lucia Ohno-Machado, MD, PhD, Professor
Barbara Parker, MD, Professor
Jacqueline Parthemore, MD, Professor Emeritus
Sandip Patel, MD, Professor
Renate Pilz, MD, Professor
Thomas Savides, MD, Clinical Professor
Amy Sitapati, MD, Professor
Cecilia Smith, DO, Professor
Davey Smith, MD, Professor
Maria Savoia, MD, Dean of Medical Education, Professor
Robert Steiner, MD, Professor
Stephanie Strathdee, PhD, Professor
Daniel Sweeney, MD, Clinical Professor
Marc Riedl, MD, Professor
Robert Ryder, MD, Professor
Nissi Varki, MD, Professor
Peter Wagner, MD, Emeritus Professor
Angela Wang, MD, Professor
Linda Wasserman, MD, Professor
Stephen Wasserman, MD, Professor
Nicholas Webster, PhD, Professor
Darcy Wooten, MD, MS, Professor
Bruce Zuraw, MD, Professor

Department of Neurosciences

Anders Dale, PhD, Professor
Ronald Ellis, MD, PhD, Professor; NCLAM Alumni
Richard Haas, MD, Professor
Santosh Kesari, MD, PhD, Professor
Edward H. Koo, MD, Professor
Mark Kritchevsky, MD, Professor Emeritus
Eliezer Masliah, MD, Professor
Brett Meyer, MD, Professor
William Mobley, MD, PhD, Professor
Rema Raman, PhD, Professor (Neurosciences and Family Medicine and Public Health)
John Ravits, MD, Professor
Doris Trauner, MD, Professor (Neurosciences and Pediatrics)
Mark Tuszynski, MD, PhD, Professor
Erik Viirre, MD, PhD, Professor (Neurosciences and Surgery)

Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, & Reproductive Sciences

Sarah Averbach, MD, Professor
Jeffrey Chang, MD, Professor
Pamela Deak, MD, Professor; NCLAM Alumni
D. Yvette LaCoursiere, MD, Professor
Emily (Mimi) Lukacz, MD, Professor
Pamela Mellon, PhD, Professor; NCLAM Leadership Council Member
Thomas Moore, MD, Professor
Charles Nager, MD, Professor
Steve Plaxe, MD, Professor
Angela Scioscia, MD, Professor

Department of Ophthalmology

Todd Coleman, PhD, Professor (Bioengineering and Ophthalmology)
Linda Zangwill, PhD, Professor; NCLAM Alumni

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery

Henry Chambers, MD, Professor
Richard Lieber, PhD, Professor
Sam Ward, PhD, Professor

Department of Otolaryngology

Charles Coffey, MD, FACS, Professor

Department of Pathology

David Bailey, MD, Professor
Stephen Baird, MD, Professor Emeritus
Peter Ernst, DVM, PhD, Professor
Kurt Benirschke, MD, Professor Emeritus
Colin Bloor, MD, Professor
Nigel Calcutt, PhD, Professor
Donna Hansel, MD, PhD, Professor
Brian Herndier, M.D, PhD, Professor
Jonathan Lin, MD, PhD, Associate Professor
Henry Powell, MD, DSc, Professor
G. Diane Shelton, DVM, PhD, Professor
Sharon Reed, MD, Professor
Subhojit Roy, MD, PhD, Associate Professor

Department of Pediatrics

Gretchen Bandoli, PhD, Associate Professor
Vikas Bansal, PhD, Associate Professor
Kerri Boutelle, PhD, Professor
Shelia Broyles, PhD, Professor Emeritus
Jane C. Burns, MD, Professor
Christina Chambers, PhD, MPH, Professor (Pediatrics and Family Medicine and Public Health)
Sandra P. Daley, MD, Professor Emeritus
Michael Gottschalk, MD, PhD, Professor
Sheila Gahagan, MD, MPH, Professor
Sanjeet Hedge, PhD, Professor
Doris Howell, MD, Professor Emeritus
Marilyn Jones, MD, Professor
Nancy Kaufman, MD, Professor
Cynthia L. Kuelbs, MD, Professor
Albert La Spada, MD, Professor
Kenneth Lyons Jones, MD, Professor
Krishelle Marc-Aurele, MD, Professor
Phillip Nader, MD, Professor Emeritus
Sanjay Nigam, MD, Professor (Pediatrics and Cellular and Molecular Medicine)
Victor Nizet, MD, Distinguished Professor, NCLAM Leadership Council Member
Jeff Schwimmer, MD, Professor
Martin Stein, MD, Professor Emeritus
Tony Wynshaw-Boris, MD, PhD, Professor

Department of Pharmacology

Jack Dixon, PhD, Distinguished Professor (Pharmacology, Cellular & Molecular Medicine, and Chemistry & Biochemistry)
Tony Hunger, PhD, Professor; Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Alexandra Newton, PhD, Professor
Robert Tukey, PhD, Professor

Department of Psychiatry

Gregory Brown, PhD, Professor
Colin Depp, PhD, Associate Professor NCLAM Leadership Council Member & NCLAM Alumni
David Deitch, PhD, Emeritus Professor
Joel Dimsdale, MD, Professor
Igor Grant, MD, Professor
Alana Iglewicz, MD, Professor
Terry Jernigan, PhD, Professor
Patricia Judd, PhD, Professor
Kathleen Kim, MD, Professor
John Landsverk, PhD, Emeritus Professor
Carla Marienfeld, MD, Professor
Jack Maser, PhD, Professor
Caroline Nievergelt, PhD, Professor
Barbara Parry, MD, Professor
Thomas Patterson, PhD, Professor
William Perry, PhD, Professor
Marc Schuckit, MD, Professor
David Segal, PhD, Professor
Murray Stein, MD, Distinguished Professor
Elizabeth Twamley, PhD, Professor

Department of Radiation Medicine and Applied Sciences

Loren K. Mell, MD, Associate Professor; NCLAM Alumni
James Murphy, MD, MS, Associate Professor; NCLAM Alumni, NCLAM Leadership Council

Department of Radiology

Richard Buxton, PhD, Professor
Christine B. Chung, MD, Professor
Lawrence Frank, PhD, Professor
Linda Olson, MD, Professor Emeritus
David Vera, PhD, Professor
Eric C. Wong, MD, PhD, Professor (Radiology and Psychiatry)

Department of Surgery

Jay Doucet, MD, FACS, Professor
Santiago Horgan, MD, Professor
Larry Marshall, MD, Professor Emeritus
Andrew Lowy, MD, Professor
Kristin Mekeel, MD, Professor
Geoffrey Noel, PhD, Professor
Georgia Sadler, PhD, Professor
Allen Ryan, PhD, Professor

Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Longevity Science

Samantha Hurst, PhD, MA, Clinical Professor
Richard Garfein, PhD, MPH, Professor
Victoria Ojeda, PhD, MPH, Professor

Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Charles Daniels, PhD, Professor
Williams Ettouati, DPharm, Director of Industry Relations and Development
Åsa Gustafsson, PhD, Professor (Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacology)
Tracy Handel, PhD, Professor
Jan Hirsch, BSPharm, PhD, Professor
James McKerrow, PhD, MD, Distinguished Professor (Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pathology)
Ana Pajor, PhD, Professor
Deborah Spector, PhD, Distinguished Professor (Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Cellular & Molecular Medicine)

Additional Schools at UC San Diego

Bonnie Kaiser, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Ken Loh, PhD, Professor, Department of Structural Engineering, Jacobs School of Engineering
Matthew Lovett-Barron, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology
Ryshawn Peer, MBA, Senior Strategy Manager, UC San Diego Health
Kit Pogliano, PhD, Distinguished Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, School of Biological Sciences
Elizabeth Simon, MD, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Jacobs School of Engineering
David Schkade, PhD, Professor, Department of Economics and Strategic Management; Rady School of Management

External Mentors

Karen Garman, EdD, President of Healthcare Education, Leadership & Performance, Inc.
Daniel Masys, MD, Professor, Biomedical Informatics; Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Lawrence Palinkas, PhD, Professor, School of Social Work; University of Southern California