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awards include a K12 in oncology and
developmental therapeutics, and a K12
in emergency medicine.
• California Institute of Regenerative
Medicine (CIRM) Stem Cell Training
Program is for pre-doctoral and
postdoctoral scholars and clinical
fellows to participate in stem cell
research.
• HHMI/IMBS – Howard Hughes Medical
Institute is for UC Davis graduate
students who have completed their
first year in a Ph.D. program and who
want a year of focused training in
translational research that includes
clinical immersion and transition
learning experiences.
• BIRCWH – Building Interdisciplinary
Research Careers in Women’s Health
is a K12 program that specializes in
women’s health research training for
Ph.D. and M.D. senior fellows and
junior faculty members.
Ester Carolina Apesoa-Varano, an
assistant professor at the Betty Irene
Moore School of Nursing, began the
BIRCWH program in February 2011 after
completing a postdoctoral fellowship in
psychiatry and graduating from UC Davis
with a Ph.D. in sociology.
“The BIRCWH program is giving me
the skills to be an independent researcher
in women’s health using non-traditional
and interdisciplinary collaborations,”
Apesoa-Varano said. “As a new faculty
member, I am gaining experience and
partnerships that would have taken
me years to acquire. I also gained skills
to translate research from bench to
publication and practice.”
Mind the gaps
These programs also help faculty
successfully navigate potential gaps in
funding and training, while becoming
increasingly successful independent
investigators simultaneously engaged
in collaborative research. Such
programs are important for mid-career
investigators who identify a new learning
need to expand an already successful
program of research, by acquiring new
methodological or content expertise.
K12 scholar Michael Minzenberg
received the 2009 Clinical Scientist
UC Davis Health System Pathways to Research Excellence
Schools of Health
degree granting
graduate groups and
programs: Clinical
Research, Nursing
Science and Health
Care Leadership,
Public Health, Health
Informatics, School
of Medicine
Training programs
such as T32, MCRTP,
K12, K32, K20, Stem
Cell Training Program,
HHMI/IMBS, BIRCWH
Progressive career
development as an
academic scientist and
researcher in health
care
Other related graduate groups in Pharmacology and Toxicology,
Integrative Physiology, Biomedical Engineering, Microbiology,
Disciplines in Food Science, Epidemiology, Nutritional Biology,
Neuroscience, Immunology, Psychology, Comparative Pathology
Development Award from the Doris
Duke Charitable Foundation for
his pioneering work in treating
schizophrenia. Amir Zeki, M.D.,
graduated from the MCRTP and
received a Fellow Career Development
Award from the American Thoracic
Society for his research examining the
role of statins in modulating airway
hyperactivity and remodeling.
“With a unified goal to facilitate
research that leads to better health,
the Clinical and Translational
Science Center integrates extensive
science with highly skilled teams,”
said Lars Berglund, senior associate
dean of research and CTSC director.
“Supporting highly skilled teams is
essential to this process.”
This model of interdisciplinary
collaboration for research training and
education also can be applied to health
sciences education and to clinical
excellence. The 2011–2016 Strategic
Plan anticipates that work groups
will create models for educational
excellence, as well as clinical care and
community service.
The long-term impact of investing
in our trainees and junior faculty is
significant and far-reaching – from
increasing the impact and quantity of
research excellence and funding, to
attracting the best and brightest and
keeping them with us to educate the
next generations. Everyone does better
with mentoring and coaching.
UC Davis Health System
Faculty Development Office
2921 Stockton Blvd., Suite 1400
Sacramento, CA 95817
Published by the Faculty Development Office
SPRING 2012
Workshops and other activities
(CALENDAR FROM PAGE 1)
June
7 Breakfast With the Vice Chancellor/Dean
8 Junior Career Leadership Program Graduation (JCLP)
April
10 Breakfast With the Vice Chancellor/
Dean
15 Education Components (MCLP)
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Published by the Faculty Development
Office, which administers and coordinates
programs that respond to the professional and
career development needs of UC Davis Health
System faculty members.
Event co-sponsors
13 Putting Together Your Academic
Packet (JCLP)
JCLP: Junior Career Leadership Program
20 Legal Issues (MCLP)
MCLP: Mid-Career Leadership Program
24 Workshop: Introduction to
MyInfoVault
28 Difficult Conversations (JCLP,
MCLP)
2921 Stockton Blvd., Suite 1400
Sacramento, CA 95817
(916) 703-9230
www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/facultydev
Frederick J. Meyers, M.D., M.A.C.P., is
executive associate dean of the School of
Medicine, and director of the Research
Education and Career Development
(RECD) program, Clinical Translational
Science Center.
May
Edward Callahan, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Academic Personnel
Acting Director, Faculty Development
1 Workshop: Using Technology in
Teaching
Cheryl Busman
Program Representative, Faculty Development
cheryl.busman@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
11 How to Give Feedback (JCLP)
18 Balancing: Personal and Academic
Career Planning (MCLP)
EditPros LLC
Writing and Editing
www.editpros.com
Heather M. Young, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N.,
is associate vice chancellor for nursing and
dean of the Betty Irene Moore School of
Nursing.
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You are invited! We encourage you to
enroll in one of the various workshops,
programs and events sponsored by the
Faculty Development Office. For more
event details and to register, visit www.
ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/facultydev/ and
click Enroll Online. (Event co-sponsors
are indicated within parentheses.)
Volunteer Clinical Faculty members are
also welcome and encouraged to attend
faculty development events.
19 The Leadership Circle Profile 360
Group Debrief (MCLP)
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6
MANY PATHWAYS FOR SUCCESS
UC Davis offers opportunities for an academic research trajectory
By Frederick J. Meyers, M.D., M.A.C.P., & affords opportunity for an academic
Heather M. Young, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N. research trajectory starting with our
graduate groups and training grants.
UC Davis has the best and brightest
The UC Davis Schools of Health are
health sciences students and junior
home to four primary graduate groups
faculty. It’s important for them to
with degrees conferred through the
have a variety of pathways tailored to
Office of Graduate Studies: Clinical
promote their success.
Research (M.S.); Nursing Science and
The fulfillment of professional asHealth-Care Leadership (M.S. and
pirations is the product of opportunity,
Ph.D.); Informatics (M.S.); and Public
experience and dedicated effort by an
Health (M.P.H.).
individual, but also requires support
Graduate groups constitute a
through mentorship and coaching.
distinctive hallmark for UC Davis,
Strategic investment in infrastrucbridging the gaps among disciplines to
ture by an
address cominstitution can
plex scientific
optimize the
problems in
availability of
unique and
opportunities
innovative
for talented
ways. Graduate
students
group faculty
and faculty
members cross
to improve
departments
knowledge,
and schools
skills, and
and define the
Frederick J. Meyers
Heather M. Young
exposure to a
very culture
wide array of
of the univerresources. This article illustrates one
sity. While other institutions struggle
example of a well-developed strategic
to incorporate interprofessional and
career pathway at UC Davis Health
interdisciplinary research in health
System – our clinical research training
sciences, UC Davis has embraced this
pathway, operating at the interface of
culture for decades and built a national
disciplines to enhance teamwork and
reputation based on collaboration.
innovation.
Students enrolled in these graduate
For scholars embarking on a career
groups
often are supported by training
in health sciences research, UC Davis
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facultyROUNDS
A WELCOME TO NEW
FACULTY COLLEAGUES
PSYCOANALYST KATHERINE FRASER
IS MENTOR FOR PSYCHIATRY RESIDENTS
The athletic coaches whose training
helped a teenage competitive swimmer
earn two Michigan state championships
and a collection of awards could not
have realized the far-reaching influence
of their guidance. Now decades later,
that former swimmer – psychoanalyst
Katherine Fraser, D.M.H. – has helped
improve the lives of many emotionally
disturbed adolescents, guided the
parents of children with developmental
or behavioral problems, treated men,
women and couples in psychotherapy,
and taught many early-career clinicians.
Fraser, a sole practitioner who
maintains her own office on Myrtle Street
in San Francisco but also sees patients
one day a week in an office on 21st Street
in Sacramento, is a member of the San
Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis
(SFCP). In addition, as a UC Davis Health
System volunteer clinical faculty (VCF)
member since 2006, Fraser is a clinical
supervisor in the UC Davis Department of
Psychiatry’s residency training program,
where she teaches and mentors psychiatry
residents engaged in their outpatient
clinical rotations.
Fraser recently helped conceive and
establish SFCP’s new Psychoanalytic
Psychotherapy Training Program (PPTP),
through which clinicians can undergo
advanced training to become more
effective psychoanalytic psychotherapists.
Two UC Davis residents, several
Department of Psychiatry graduates and
other local clinicians are participating
in the innovative program. Other SFCP
members, also UC Davis Volunteer
Clinical Faculty members, contribute
their time to teach, supervise and mentor
the clinical work of the participants.
Fraser began work related to
adolescents straight out of college when,
as a Teacher Corps intern, she was
assigned to work in an impoverished
junior high school in the Salinas Valley.
Her interest in psychology germinated
during that experience.
“Many of my students cold not
read and had other significant learning
disabilities as well. And you can’t be
involved in the learning difficulties of
children without becoming interested in
the psychological correlates,” she said.
After working as a reading disabilities
teacher in Berkeley, she enrolled at San
Francisco State University, where she
obtained a master’s degree in clinical
psychology. That paved the way for a
sequence of positions as a psychotherapist
– at a residential treatment facility for
adolescent girls; with the U.S. Peace
Corps working with developmentally
disabled students in Mauritius, an island
nation 600 miles east of Madagascar; and
then with the McAuley Neuropsychiatric
Institute at St. Mary’s Hospital in San
Francisco.
“Exposure and experience in different
mental health settings created a desire
for additional education and training.
Even now, the longer I practice and teach,
the clearer it becomes that the learning
never, never ends,” Fraser explained. She
facultyNEWSLETTER | Spring 2012 | www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/facultydev
viewPOINT
Karen Kelly
THE ESSENTIAL
THREE T’S OF
STUDENT
SUPPORT SERVICES
Nam Tran
Each edition of the Faculty Newsletter introduces several faculty colleagues who recently joined the UC Davis
Health System community. Watch for more new clinical and research staff members in the next issue.
enrolled in and graduated from UC San
Francisco’s novel Doctor of Mental Health
(D.M.H.) program, a component of
which was an M.S. degree in health and
medical sciences that also was awarded at
UC Berkeley with an emphasis on mental
health.
“The D.M.H. program was an
anomaly, established as an experiment
to create a better training model for
the practice of psychiatry,” Fraser said.
However, lasting just 10 years and after
graduating only 62 enrollees, UC made
the decision to dissolve the program
following a political battle for licensure.
Now licensed as a psychologist, Fraser
subsequently completed training as
a psychoanalyst at the San Francisco
Psychoanalytic Institute, which recently
was renamed the San Francisco Center
for Psychoanalysis (SFCP).
Fraser assesses the techniques of UC
Davis residents through observing videos
or reviewing written transcriptions of
their interaction with patients.
“We discuss the meaning of the
underlying dynamics and emotional
conflicts that are interfering with the
patient’s ability to achieve satisfaction
in their life or to fully participate in
important relationships,” Fraser said.
“In sports, good coaching is essential,
said Fraser, whose principal swimming
events were the 100-meter backstroke
and 200 meter breaststroke. “An
observant, experienced coach works to
improve athletes’ techniques, correct
errors of which they may be unaware,
and confront and surmount anxieties that
may interfere with performance.”
Although Fraser no longer swims
competitively, she still applies the lessons
she learned in the pool to help residents
and patients achieve their personal and
professional goals.
Karen Kelly is UC Davis Cancer’s
associate director for clinical
research
Thoracic oncologist Karen Kelly,
M.D., a professor of medicine, is the
associate director for clinical research at
the UC Davis Cancer Center. She is an
internationally recognized lung cancer
expert who has been at the forefront in
development of numerous clinical trials
evaluating anticancer agents to treat lung
cancer and novel compounds to prevent
lung cancer. She also is engaged in
developing biomarkers for screening and
early detection of lung cancer.
Kelly has written or co-written more
than 180 publications, including original
papers, reviews and book chapters. She
is a longstanding active member of the
American Society of Clinical Oncology
(ASCO), the Southwest Oncology
Group (SWOG) and the International
Association for the Study of Lung
Cancer (IASLC). She frequently lectures
worldwide about lung cancer and related
topics.
for an American Burn Association and
Department of Defense multicenter burn
sepsis PCR trial, which was awarded a
$1.8 million grant.
Traditional pathogen detection
techniques rely on culture growth, a
process that requires as many as three
days to identify destructive organisms.
Using polymerase chain reaction, Tran
and his colleagues have been able to
detect high-risk pathogens in about an
hour. Tran hopes his findings will help
refine antimicrobial therapy techniques
and thereby improve patient outcomes.
Tran also is studying the use of novel
biosensors for point-of-care testing in
critically ill burn patients.
Nam Tran investigates speedier
pathogen identification in burn
injuries
Pathologist Nam K. Tran, Ph.D., M.S.,
is investigating the use of molecular
detection techniques to rapidly identify
the pathogen that causes burn sepsis,
which is a severe response to infection.
Tran, an assistant adjunct professor in the
Department of Pathology and Laboratory
Medicine, is an authority in molecular
pathogen detection, whole blood analysis
and sepsis. He is principal investigator
2
expertise encompasses all aspects
of neuroradiology, including spinal,
brain and pediatrics. Board-certified
in diagnostic radiology, Nidecker is
a clinical assistant professor in the
Department of Radiology.
n
Samir J. Sheth, M.D., an assistant
professor of anesthesiology and
pain medicine, treats his patients
using multidisciplinary approaches,
including procedures, medications
and non-Western medicine. In his
neuropathic pain research, he is
preparing to investigate the use of
spinal cord stimulation and peripheral
nerve stimulation to treat chronic
neuropathic pain. The Department
of Pain Medicine presented its
Outstanding Teacher of the Year
award for 2010–11 to Sheth, who is
board-certified in pain medicine and
anesthesiology.
n
Elena O. Siegel, Ph.D., M.N., R.N.,
an assistant professor in residence
at the Betty Irene Moore School of
Nursing, is one of 12 nurse educators nationwide named a 2011 Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse
Faculty Scholar. Siegel won the competitive, three-year $350,000 grant to
examine the organizational and leadership factors that affect how quality
improvement measures are adopted,
implemented and sustained in nursing homes. Currently, Siegel teaches
core courses the Nursing Science and
Health-Care Leadership Graduate
Program, including a doctoral seminar
and Implementation Science.
Other new colleagues
n
n
Joseph D. Barton, M.D., an assistant
clinical professor of emergency
medicine who has a master of health
management systems (M.H.M.S.)
degree, is a full-time member of the
clinical faculty who teaches a fourthyear medical student elective in critical
care procedures and resuscitation.
Barton, who has expertise in simulation
medicine, conducts research on team
dynamics in critical resuscitations,
and on improving cardiopulmonary
resuscitation quality with high-fidelity
simulation.
Diagnostic neuroradiologist Anna
E. Nidecker, M.D., is interested in
diffusion tensor imaging and other
advanced and high-resolution magnetic
resonance imaging techniques,
particularly in imaging of children
and of the spine. Her clinical
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PATHWAYS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
BY LEON JONES
The long journey that transforms students
from medical school applicants to
licensed, practicing physicians is a process
not only of intensive learning, but also
of adaptation to multiple transitions.
All of us in the School of Medicine who
interact with students or help maintain
the infrastructure of the health system
participate in the medical education
process.
I begin my tenure as associate dean
for student affairs with the good fortune
of building upon the foundation of
excellence that my dedicated predecessor,
Jim Nuovo, established. We will continue
our work on the essential three T’s of
student support services: teamwork, trust
and transition guidance.
The “education team” concept that
Dean Claire Pomeroy and her colleagues
have instilled throughout the institution
is vital to student life services. My office
works closely with instructors of record
to identify students who are struggling
and to help resolve problems. We
work cooperatively with the Office of
Student Wellness, and refer students to
Counseling and Psychological Services
(C.A.P.S.).
A bedrock of trust is crucial in conducting student services. As a psychiatrist
by training, I assure students and faculty
colleagues of confidentiality in my discussions with them about professional and
personal matters. I’m here to listen to the
concerns of students, and to advocate for
them when appropriate.
3
The Office of Student Affairs exists to
offer students guidance to navigate the
numerous transitions they must make
during their education. The progression
from undergraduate education to the first
and second years of medical school, from
the basic science years to their clinical
year, to determination of a medical
specialty, along with preparation for the
licensing exam series, internship and
residency, are formidable milestones.
We do whatever we can to help students
strengthen their study skills, develop
a learning strategy and maintain a
functional work-life balance. In addition,
our office serves as a conduit through
which to convey student perspectives to
the school’s leadership team.
Our office has an open-door policy
for students and faculty members alike.
We are here to nurture the professional
growth of students, and to support our
faculty colleagues. We’re all working
together to do what’s best for our
students. My office is on the third floor
of the Education Building, and I look
forward to meeting you.
Associate Dean for Student Affairs Leon
Jones, M.D., is a clinical professor of
psychiatry and behavioral sciences and a
member of the UC Davis Health System’s
consultation liaison service. He joined
UC Davis last September as director of
academic services, and reports to Mark
Servis, M.D., senior associate dean, medical
education. You may call (916) 734-5612
for more information.
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grants that provide salary support
and a complementary structure that
ensures keen mentorship, stageappropriate curricula, and novel
research. This infrastructure enables
trainees and junior faculty to achieve
scholarship across a wide spectrum,
including basic sciences, clinical
trials with correlative laboratory
studies, comparative effectiveness
studies, translational research and
community-based participatory
research.
The Research Education and
Career Development (RECD)
program is an important resource for
scholars from all four health graduate
groups as well as from across the
entire UC Davis campus, providing
infrastructure and oversight for
scholars as they establish independent
and collaborative research careers
designed to improve health.
The programs housed within the
RECD offer opportunities at different
stages of career development with
potential funding to help cover costs.
The six programs are:
• T32 – Predoctoral Clinical
Research Training program is
for medical students and Ph.D.
students developing careers in
interdisciplinary clinical and
translational research.
• MCRTP – Mentored Clinical
Research Training Program is for
junior faculty, clinical and preclinical fellows, and postdoctoral
scholars.
• K12 – Mentored Interdisciplinary
Clinical and Translational Research
Fellowships are for junior faculty
with clinical professional degrees
who have completed a master’slevel research training program,
e.g. the MCRTP. Recent new
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facultyROUNDS
A WELCOME TO NEW
FACULTY COLLEAGUES
PSYCOANALYST KATHERINE FRASER
IS MENTOR FOR PSYCHIATRY RESIDENTS
The athletic coaches whose training
helped a teenage competitive swimmer
earn two Michigan state championships
and a collection of awards could not
have realized the far-reaching influence
of their guidance. Now decades later,
that former swimmer – psychoanalyst
Katherine Fraser, D.M.H. – has helped
improve the lives of many emotionally
disturbed adolescents, guided the
parents of children with developmental
or behavioral problems, treated men,
women and couples in psychotherapy,
and taught many early-career clinicians.
Fraser, a sole practitioner who
maintains her own office on Myrtle Street
in San Francisco but also sees patients
one day a week in an office on 21st Street
in Sacramento, is a member of the San
Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis
(SFCP). In addition, as a UC Davis Health
System volunteer clinical faculty (VCF)
member since 2006, Fraser is a clinical
supervisor in the UC Davis Department of
Psychiatry’s residency training program,
where she teaches and mentors psychiatry
residents engaged in their outpatient
clinical rotations.
Fraser recently helped conceive and
establish SFCP’s new Psychoanalytic
Psychotherapy Training Program (PPTP),
through which clinicians can undergo
advanced training to become more
effective psychoanalytic psychotherapists.
Two UC Davis residents, several
Department of Psychiatry graduates and
other local clinicians are participating
in the innovative program. Other SFCP
members, also UC Davis Volunteer
Clinical Faculty members, contribute
their time to teach, supervise and mentor
the clinical work of the participants.
Fraser began work related to
adolescents straight out of college when,
as a Teacher Corps intern, she was
assigned to work in an impoverished
junior high school in the Salinas Valley.
Her interest in psychology germinated
during that experience.
“Many of my students cold not
read and had other significant learning
disabilities as well. And you can’t be
involved in the learning difficulties of
children without becoming interested in
the psychological correlates,” she said.
After working as a reading disabilities
teacher in Berkeley, she enrolled at San
Francisco State University, where she
obtained a master’s degree in clinical
psychology. That paved the way for a
sequence of positions as a psychotherapist
– at a residential treatment facility for
adolescent girls; with the U.S. Peace
Corps working with developmentally
disabled students in Mauritius, an island
nation 600 miles east of Madagascar; and
then with the McAuley Neuropsychiatric
Institute at St. Mary’s Hospital in San
Francisco.
“Exposure and experience in different
mental health settings created a desire
for additional education and training.
Even now, the longer I practice and teach,
the clearer it becomes that the learning
never, never ends,” Fraser explained. She
facultyNEWSLETTER | Spring 2012 | www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/facultydev
viewPOINT
Karen Kelly
THE ESSENTIAL
THREE T’S OF
STUDENT
SUPPORT SERVICES
Nam Tran
Each edition of the Faculty Newsletter introduces several faculty colleagues who recently joined the UC Davis
Health System community. Watch for more new clinical and research staff members in the next issue.
enrolled in and graduated from UC San
Francisco’s novel Doctor of Mental Health
(D.M.H.) program, a component of
which was an M.S. degree in health and
medical sciences that also was awarded at
UC Berkeley with an emphasis on mental
health.
“The D.M.H. program was an
anomaly, established as an experiment
to create a better training model for
the practice of psychiatry,” Fraser said.
However, lasting just 10 years and after
graduating only 62 enrollees, UC made
the decision to dissolve the program
following a political battle for licensure.
Now licensed as a psychologist, Fraser
subsequently completed training as
a psychoanalyst at the San Francisco
Psychoanalytic Institute, which recently
was renamed the San Francisco Center
for Psychoanalysis (SFCP).
Fraser assesses the techniques of UC
Davis residents through observing videos
or reviewing written transcriptions of
their interaction with patients.
“We discuss the meaning of the
underlying dynamics and emotional
conflicts that are interfering with the
patient’s ability to achieve satisfaction
in their life or to fully participate in
important relationships,” Fraser said.
“In sports, good coaching is essential,
said Fraser, whose principal swimming
events were the 100-meter backstroke
and 200 meter breaststroke. “An
observant, experienced coach works to
improve athletes’ techniques, correct
errors of which they may be unaware,
and confront and surmount anxieties that
may interfere with performance.”
Although Fraser no longer swims
competitively, she still applies the lessons
she learned in the pool to help residents
and patients achieve their personal and
professional goals.
Karen Kelly is UC Davis Cancer’s
associate director for clinical
research
Thoracic oncologist Karen Kelly,
M.D., a professor of medicine, is the
associate director for clinical research at
the UC Davis Cancer Center. She is an
internationally recognized lung cancer
expert who has been at the forefront in
development of numerous clinical trials
evaluating anticancer agents to treat lung
cancer and novel compounds to prevent
lung cancer. She also is engaged in
developing biomarkers for screening and
early detection of lung cancer.
Kelly has written or co-written more
than 180 publications, including original
papers, reviews and book chapters. She
is a longstanding active member of the
American Society of Clinical Oncology
(ASCO), the Southwest Oncology
Group (SWOG) and the International
Association for the Study of Lung
Cancer (IASLC). She frequently lectures
worldwide about lung cancer and related
topics.
for an American Burn Association and
Department of Defense multicenter burn
sepsis PCR trial, which was awarded a
$1.8 million grant.
Traditional pathogen detection
techniques rely on culture growth, a
process that requires as many as three
days to identify destructive organisms.
Using polymerase chain reaction, Tran
and his colleagues have been able to
detect high-risk pathogens in about an
hour. Tran hopes his findings will help
refine antimicrobial therapy techniques
and thereby improve patient outcomes.
Tran also is studying the use of novel
biosensors for point-of-care testing in
critically ill burn patients.
Nam Tran investigates speedier
pathogen identification in burn
injuries
Pathologist Nam K. Tran, Ph.D., M.S.,
is investigating the use of molecular
detection techniques to rapidly identify
the pathogen that causes burn sepsis,
which is a severe response to infection.
Tran, an assistant adjunct professor in the
Department of Pathology and Laboratory
Medicine, is an authority in molecular
pathogen detection, whole blood analysis
and sepsis. He is principal investigator
2
expertise encompasses all aspects
of neuroradiology, including spinal,
brain and pediatrics. Board-certified
in diagnostic radiology, Nidecker is
a clinical assistant professor in the
Department of Radiology.
n
Samir J. Sheth, M.D., an assistant
professor of anesthesiology and
pain medicine, treats his patients
using multidisciplinary approaches,
including procedures, medications
and non-Western medicine. In his
neuropathic pain research, he is
preparing to investigate the use of
spinal cord stimulation and peripheral
nerve stimulation to treat chronic
neuropathic pain. The Department
of Pain Medicine presented its
Outstanding Teacher of the Year
award for 2010–11 to Sheth, who is
board-certified in pain medicine and
anesthesiology.
n
Elena O. Siegel, Ph.D., M.N., R.N.,
an assistant professor in residence
at the Betty Irene Moore School of
Nursing, is one of 12 nurse educators nationwide named a 2011 Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse
Faculty Scholar. Siegel won the competitive, three-year $350,000 grant to
examine the organizational and leadership factors that affect how quality
improvement measures are adopted,
implemented and sustained in nursing homes. Currently, Siegel teaches
core courses the Nursing Science and
Health-Care Leadership Graduate
Program, including a doctoral seminar
and Implementation Science.
Other new colleagues
n
n
Joseph D. Barton, M.D., an assistant
clinical professor of emergency
medicine who has a master of health
management systems (M.H.M.S.)
degree, is a full-time member of the
clinical faculty who teaches a fourthyear medical student elective in critical
care procedures and resuscitation.
Barton, who has expertise in simulation
medicine, conducts research on team
dynamics in critical resuscitations,
and on improving cardiopulmonary
resuscitation quality with high-fidelity
simulation.
Diagnostic neuroradiologist Anna
E. Nidecker, M.D., is interested in
diffusion tensor imaging and other
advanced and high-resolution magnetic
resonance imaging techniques,
particularly in imaging of children
and of the spine. Her clinical
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PATHWAYS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
BY LEON JONES
The long journey that transforms students
from medical school applicants to
licensed, practicing physicians is a process
not only of intensive learning, but also
of adaptation to multiple transitions.
All of us in the School of Medicine who
interact with students or help maintain
the infrastructure of the health system
participate in the medical education
process.
I begin my tenure as associate dean
for student affairs with the good fortune
of building upon the foundation of
excellence that my dedicated predecessor,
Jim Nuovo, established. We will continue
our work on the essential three T’s of
student support services: teamwork, trust
and transition guidance.
The “education team” concept that
Dean Claire Pomeroy and her colleagues
have instilled throughout the institution
is vital to student life services. My office
works closely with instructors of record
to identify students who are struggling
and to help resolve problems. We
work cooperatively with the Office of
Student Wellness, and refer students to
Counseling and Psychological Services
(C.A.P.S.).
A bedrock of trust is crucial in conducting student services. As a psychiatrist
by training, I assure students and faculty
colleagues of confidentiality in my discussions with them about professional and
personal matters. I’m here to listen to the
concerns of students, and to advocate for
them when appropriate.
3
The Office of Student Affairs exists to
offer students guidance to navigate the
numerous transitions they must make
during their education. The progression
from undergraduate education to the first
and second years of medical school, from
the basic science years to their clinical
year, to determination of a medical
specialty, along with preparation for the
licensing exam series, internship and
residency, are formidable milestones.
We do whatever we can to help students
strengthen their study skills, develop
a learning strategy and maintain a
functional work-life balance. In addition,
our office serves as a conduit through
which to convey student perspectives to
the school’s leadership team.
Our office has an open-door policy
for students and faculty members alike.
We are here to nurture the professional
growth of students, and to support our
faculty colleagues. We’re all working
together to do what’s best for our
students. My office is on the third floor
of the Education Building, and I look
forward to meeting you.
Associate Dean for Student Affairs Leon
Jones, M.D., is a clinical professor of
psychiatry and behavioral sciences and a
member of the UC Davis Health System’s
consultation liaison service. He joined
UC Davis last September as director of
academic services, and reports to Mark
Servis, M.D., senior associate dean, medical
education. You may call (916) 734-5612
for more information.
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grants that provide salary support
and a complementary structure that
ensures keen mentorship, stageappropriate curricula, and novel
research. This infrastructure enables
trainees and junior faculty to achieve
scholarship across a wide spectrum,
including basic sciences, clinical
trials with correlative laboratory
studies, comparative effectiveness
studies, translational research and
community-based participatory
research.
The Research Education and
Career Development (RECD)
program is an important resource for
scholars from all four health graduate
groups as well as from across the
entire UC Davis campus, providing
infrastructure and oversight for
scholars as they establish independent
and collaborative research careers
designed to improve health.
The programs housed within the
RECD offer opportunities at different
stages of career development with
potential funding to help cover costs.
The six programs are:
• T32 – Predoctoral Clinical
Research Training program is
for medical students and Ph.D.
students developing careers in
interdisciplinary clinical and
translational research.
• MCRTP – Mentored Clinical
Research Training Program is for
junior faculty, clinical and preclinical fellows, and postdoctoral
scholars.
• K12 – Mentored Interdisciplinary
Clinical and Translational Research
Fellowships are for junior faculty
with clinical professional degrees
who have completed a master’slevel research training program,
e.g. the MCRTP. Recent new
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officeVISIT
facultyROUNDS
A WELCOME TO NEW
FACULTY COLLEAGUES
PSYCOANALYST KATHERINE FRASER
IS MENTOR FOR PSYCHIATRY RESIDENTS
The athletic coaches whose training
helped a teenage competitive swimmer
earn two Michigan state championships
and a collection of awards could not
have realized the far-reaching influence
of their guidance. Now decades later,
that former swimmer – psychoanalyst
Katherine Fraser, D.M.H. – has helped
improve the lives of many emotionally
disturbed adolescents, guided the
parents of children with developmental
or behavioral problems, treated men,
women and couples in psychotherapy,
and taught many early-career clinicians.
Fraser, a sole practitioner who
maintains her own office on Myrtle Street
in San Francisco but also sees patients
one day a week in an office on 21st Street
in Sacramento, is a member of the San
Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis
(SFCP). In addition, as a UC Davis Health
System volunteer clinical faculty (VCF)
member since 2006, Fraser is a clinical
supervisor in the UC Davis Department of
Psychiatry’s residency training program,
where she teaches and mentors psychiatry
residents engaged in their outpatient
clinical rotations.
Fraser recently helped conceive and
establish SFCP’s new Psychoanalytic
Psychotherapy Training Program (PPTP),
through which clinicians can undergo
advanced training to become more
effective psychoanalytic psychotherapists.
Two UC Davis residents, several
Department of Psychiatry graduates and
other local clinicians are participating
in the innovative program. Other SFCP
members, also UC Davis Volunteer
Clinical Faculty members, contribute
their time to teach, supervise and mentor
the clinical work of the participants.
Fraser began work related to
adolescents straight out of college when,
as a Teacher Corps intern, she was
assigned to work in an impoverished
junior high school in the Salinas Valley.
Her interest in psychology germinated
during that experience.
“Many of my students cold not
read and had other significant learning
disabilities as well. And you can’t be
involved in the learning difficulties of
children without becoming interested in
the psychological correlates,” she said.
After working as a reading disabilities
teacher in Berkeley, she enrolled at San
Francisco State University, where she
obtained a master’s degree in clinical
psychology. That paved the way for a
sequence of positions as a psychotherapist
– at a residential treatment facility for
adolescent girls; with the U.S. Peace
Corps working with developmentally
disabled students in Mauritius, an island
nation 600 miles east of Madagascar; and
then with the McAuley Neuropsychiatric
Institute at St. Mary’s Hospital in San
Francisco.
“Exposure and experience in different
mental health settings created a desire
for additional education and training.
Even now, the longer I practice and teach,
the clearer it becomes that the learning
never, never ends,” Fraser explained. She
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viewPOINT
Karen Kelly
THE ESSENTIAL
THREE T’S OF
STUDENT
SUPPORT SERVICES
Nam Tran
Each edition of the Faculty Newsletter introduces several faculty colleagues who recently joined the UC Davis
Health System community. Watch for more new clinical and research staff members in the next issue.
enrolled in and graduated from UC San
Francisco’s novel Doctor of Mental Health
(D.M.H.) program, a component of
which was an M.S. degree in health and
medical sciences that also was awarded at
UC Berkeley with an emphasis on mental
health.
“The D.M.H. program was an
anomaly, established as an experiment
to create a better training model for
the practice of psychiatry,” Fraser said.
However, lasting just 10 years and after
graduating only 62 enrollees, UC made
the decision to dissolve the program
following a political battle for licensure.
Now licensed as a psychologist, Fraser
subsequently completed training as
a psychoanalyst at the San Francisco
Psychoanalytic Institute, which recently
was renamed the San Francisco Center
for Psychoanalysis (SFCP).
Fraser assesses the techniques of UC
Davis residents through observing videos
or reviewing written transcriptions of
their interaction with patients.
“We discuss the meaning of the
underlying dynamics and emotional
conflicts that are interfering with the
patient’s ability to achieve satisfaction
in their life or to fully participate in
important relationships,” Fraser said.
“In sports, good coaching is essential,
said Fraser, whose principal swimming
events were the 100-meter backstroke
and 200 meter breaststroke. “An
observant, experienced coach works to
improve athletes’ techniques, correct
errors of which they may be unaware,
and confront and surmount anxieties that
may interfere with performance.”
Although Fraser no longer swims
competitively, she still applies the lessons
she learned in the pool to help residents
and patients achieve their personal and
professional goals.
Karen Kelly is UC Davis Cancer’s
associate director for clinical
research
Thoracic oncologist Karen Kelly,
M.D., a professor of medicine, is the
associate director for clinical research at
the UC Davis Cancer Center. She is an
internationally recognized lung cancer
expert who has been at the forefront in
development of numerous clinical trials
evaluating anticancer agents to treat lung
cancer and novel compounds to prevent
lung cancer. She also is engaged in
developing biomarkers for screening and
early detection of lung cancer.
Kelly has written or co-written more
than 180 publications, including original
papers, reviews and book chapters. She
is a longstanding active member of the
American Society of Clinical Oncology
(ASCO), the Southwest Oncology
Group (SWOG) and the International
Association for the Study of Lung
Cancer (IASLC). She frequently lectures
worldwide about lung cancer and related
topics.
for an American Burn Association and
Department of Defense multicenter burn
sepsis PCR trial, which was awarded a
$1.8 million grant.
Traditional pathogen detection
techniques rely on culture growth, a
process that requires as many as three
days to identify destructive organisms.
Using polymerase chain reaction, Tran
and his colleagues have been able to
detect high-risk pathogens in about an
hour. Tran hopes his findings will help
refine antimicrobial therapy techniques
and thereby improve patient outcomes.
Tran also is studying the use of novel
biosensors for point-of-care testing in
critically ill burn patients.
Nam Tran investigates speedier
pathogen identification in burn
injuries
Pathologist Nam K. Tran, Ph.D., M.S.,
is investigating the use of molecular
detection techniques to rapidly identify
the pathogen that causes burn sepsis,
which is a severe response to infection.
Tran, an assistant adjunct professor in the
Department of Pathology and Laboratory
Medicine, is an authority in molecular
pathogen detection, whole blood analysis
and sepsis. He is principal investigator
2
expertise encompasses all aspects
of neuroradiology, including spinal,
brain and pediatrics. Board-certified
in diagnostic radiology, Nidecker is
a clinical assistant professor in the
Department of Radiology.
n
Samir J. Sheth, M.D., an assistant
professor of anesthesiology and
pain medicine, treats his patients
using multidisciplinary approaches,
including procedures, medications
and non-Western medicine. In his
neuropathic pain research, he is
preparing to investigate the use of
spinal cord stimulation and peripheral
nerve stimulation to treat chronic
neuropathic pain. The Department
of Pain Medicine presented its
Outstanding Teacher of the Year
award for 2010–11 to Sheth, who is
board-certified in pain medicine and
anesthesiology.
n
Elena O. Siegel, Ph.D., M.N., R.N.,
an assistant professor in residence
at the Betty Irene Moore School of
Nursing, is one of 12 nurse educators nationwide named a 2011 Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse
Faculty Scholar. Siegel won the competitive, three-year $350,000 grant to
examine the organizational and leadership factors that affect how quality
improvement measures are adopted,
implemented and sustained in nursing homes. Currently, Siegel teaches
core courses the Nursing Science and
Health-Care Leadership Graduate
Program, including a doctoral seminar
and Implementation Science.
Other new colleagues
n
n
Joseph D. Barton, M.D., an assistant
clinical professor of emergency
medicine who has a master of health
management systems (M.H.M.S.)
degree, is a full-time member of the
clinical faculty who teaches a fourthyear medical student elective in critical
care procedures and resuscitation.
Barton, who has expertise in simulation
medicine, conducts research on team
dynamics in critical resuscitations,
and on improving cardiopulmonary
resuscitation quality with high-fidelity
simulation.
Diagnostic neuroradiologist Anna
E. Nidecker, M.D., is interested in
diffusion tensor imaging and other
advanced and high-resolution magnetic
resonance imaging techniques,
particularly in imaging of children
and of the spine. Her clinical
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PATHWAYS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
BY LEON JONES
The long journey that transforms students
from medical school applicants to
licensed, practicing physicians is a process
not only of intensive learning, but also
of adaptation to multiple transitions.
All of us in the School of Medicine who
interact with students or help maintain
the infrastructure of the health system
participate in the medical education
process.
I begin my tenure as associate dean
for student affairs with the good fortune
of building upon the foundation of
excellence that my dedicated predecessor,
Jim Nuovo, established. We will continue
our work on the essential three T’s of
student support services: teamwork, trust
and transition guidance.
The “education team” concept that
Dean Claire Pomeroy and her colleagues
have instilled throughout the institution
is vital to student life services. My office
works closely with instructors of record
to identify students who are struggling
and to help resolve problems. We
work cooperatively with the Office of
Student Wellness, and refer students to
Counseling and Psychological Services
(C.A.P.S.).
A bedrock of trust is crucial in conducting student services. As a psychiatrist
by training, I assure students and faculty
colleagues of confidentiality in my discussions with them about professional and
personal matters. I’m here to listen to the
concerns of students, and to advocate for
them when appropriate.
3
The Office of Student Affairs exists to
offer students guidance to navigate the
numerous transitions they must make
during their education. The progression
from undergraduate education to the first
and second years of medical school, from
the basic science years to their clinical
year, to determination of a medical
specialty, along with preparation for the
licensing exam series, internship and
residency, are formidable milestones.
We do whatever we can to help students
strengthen their study skills, develop
a learning strategy and maintain a
functional work-life balance. In addition,
our office serves as a conduit through
which to convey student perspectives to
the school’s leadership team.
Our office has an open-door policy
for students and faculty members alike.
We are here to nurture the professional
growth of students, and to support our
faculty colleagues. We’re all working
together to do what’s best for our
students. My office is on the third floor
of the Education Building, and I look
forward to meeting you.
Associate Dean for Student Affairs Leon
Jones, M.D., is a clinical professor of
psychiatry and behavioral sciences and a
member of the UC Davis Health System’s
consultation liaison service. He joined
UC Davis last September as director of
academic services, and reports to Mark
Servis, M.D., senior associate dean, medical
education. You may call (916) 734-5612
for more information.
facultyNEWSLETTER | Spring 2012 | www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/facultydev
grants that provide salary support
and a complementary structure that
ensures keen mentorship, stageappropriate curricula, and novel
research. This infrastructure enables
trainees and junior faculty to achieve
scholarship across a wide spectrum,
including basic sciences, clinical
trials with correlative laboratory
studies, comparative effectiveness
studies, translational research and
community-based participatory
research.
The Research Education and
Career Development (RECD)
program is an important resource for
scholars from all four health graduate
groups as well as from across the
entire UC Davis campus, providing
infrastructure and oversight for
scholars as they establish independent
and collaborative research careers
designed to improve health.
The programs housed within the
RECD offer opportunities at different
stages of career development with
potential funding to help cover costs.
The six programs are:
• T32 – Predoctoral Clinical
Research Training program is
for medical students and Ph.D.
students developing careers in
interdisciplinary clinical and
translational research.
• MCRTP – Mentored Clinical
Research Training Program is for
junior faculty, clinical and preclinical fellows, and postdoctoral
scholars.
• K12 – Mentored Interdisciplinary
Clinical and Translational Research
Fellowships are for junior faculty
with clinical professional degrees
who have completed a master’slevel research training program,
e.g. the MCRTP. Recent new
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4
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awards include a K12 in oncology and
developmental therapeutics, and a K12
in emergency medicine.
• California Institute of Regenerative
Medicine (CIRM) Stem Cell Training
Program is for pre-doctoral and
postdoctoral scholars and clinical
fellows to participate in stem cell
research.
• HHMI/IMBS – Howard Hughes Medical
Institute is for UC Davis graduate
students who have completed their
first year in a Ph.D. program and who
want a year of focused training in
translational research that includes
clinical immersion and transition
learning experiences.
• BIRCWH – Building Interdisciplinary
Research Careers in Women’s Health
is a K12 program that specializes in
women’s health research training for
Ph.D. and M.D. senior fellows and
junior faculty members.
Ester Carolina Apesoa-Varano, an
assistant professor at the Betty Irene
Moore School of Nursing, began the
BIRCWH program in February 2011 after
completing a postdoctoral fellowship in
psychiatry and graduating from UC Davis
with a Ph.D. in sociology.
“The BIRCWH program is giving me
the skills to be an independent researcher
in women’s health using non-traditional
and interdisciplinary collaborations,”
Apesoa-Varano said. “As a new faculty
member, I am gaining experience and
partnerships that would have taken
me years to acquire. I also gained skills
to translate research from bench to
publication and practice.”
Mind the gaps
These programs also help faculty
successfully navigate potential gaps in
funding and training, while becoming
increasingly successful independent
investigators simultaneously engaged
in collaborative research. Such
programs are important for mid-career
investigators who identify a new learning
need to expand an already successful
program of research, by acquiring new
methodological or content expertise.
K12 scholar Michael Minzenberg
received the 2009 Clinical Scientist
UC Davis Health System Pathways to Research Excellence
Schools of Health
degree granting
graduate groups and
programs: Clinical
Research, Nursing
Science and Health
Care Leadership,
Public Health, Health
Informatics, School
of Medicine
Training programs
such as T32, MCRTP,
K12, K32, K20, Stem
Cell Training Program,
HHMI/IMBS, BIRCWH
Progressive career
development as an
academic scientist and
researcher in health
care
Other related graduate groups in Pharmacology and Toxicology,
Integrative Physiology, Biomedical Engineering, Microbiology,
Disciplines in Food Science, Epidemiology, Nutritional Biology,
Neuroscience, Immunology, Psychology, Comparative Pathology
Development Award from the Doris
Duke Charitable Foundation for
his pioneering work in treating
schizophrenia. Amir Zeki, M.D.,
graduated from the MCRTP and
received a Fellow Career Development
Award from the American Thoracic
Society for his research examining the
role of statins in modulating airway
hyperactivity and remodeling.
“With a unified goal to facilitate
research that leads to better health,
the Clinical and Translational
Science Center integrates extensive
science with highly skilled teams,”
said Lars Berglund, senior associate
dean of research and CTSC director.
“Supporting highly skilled teams is
essential to this process.”
This model of interdisciplinary
collaboration for research training and
education also can be applied to health
sciences education and to clinical
excellence. The 2011–2016 Strategic
Plan anticipates that work groups
will create models for educational
excellence, as well as clinical care and
community service.
The long-term impact of investing
in our trainees and junior faculty is
significant and far-reaching – from
increasing the impact and quantity of
research excellence and funding, to
attracting the best and brightest and
keeping them with us to educate the
next generations. Everyone does better
with mentoring and coaching.
UC Davis Health System
Faculty Development Office
2921 Stockton Blvd., Suite 1400
Sacramento, CA 95817
Published by the Faculty Development Office
SPRING 2012
Workshops and other activities
(CALENDAR FROM PAGE 1)
June
7 Breakfast With the Vice Chancellor/Dean
8 Junior Career Leadership Program Graduation (JCLP)
April
10 Breakfast With the Vice Chancellor/
Dean
15 Education Components (MCLP)
facultyNEWSLETTER
Published by the Faculty Development
Office, which administers and coordinates
programs that respond to the professional and
career development needs of UC Davis Health
System faculty members.
Event co-sponsors
13 Putting Together Your Academic
Packet (JCLP)
JCLP: Junior Career Leadership Program
20 Legal Issues (MCLP)
MCLP: Mid-Career Leadership Program
24 Workshop: Introduction to
MyInfoVault
28 Difficult Conversations (JCLP,
MCLP)
2921 Stockton Blvd., Suite 1400
Sacramento, CA 95817
(916) 703-9230
www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/facultydev
Frederick J. Meyers, M.D., M.A.C.P., is
executive associate dean of the School of
Medicine, and director of the Research
Education and Career Development
(RECD) program, Clinical Translational
Science Center.
May
Edward Callahan, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Academic Personnel
Acting Director, Faculty Development
1 Workshop: Using Technology in
Teaching
Cheryl Busman
Program Representative, Faculty Development
cheryl.busman@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
11 How to Give Feedback (JCLP)
18 Balancing: Personal and Academic
Career Planning (MCLP)
EditPros LLC
Writing and Editing
www.editpros.com
Heather M. Young, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N.,
is associate vice chancellor for nursing and
dean of the Betty Irene Moore School of
Nursing.
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You are invited! We encourage you to
enroll in one of the various workshops,
programs and events sponsored by the
Faculty Development Office. For more
event details and to register, visit www.
ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/facultydev/ and
click Enroll Online. (Event co-sponsors
are indicated within parentheses.)
Volunteer Clinical Faculty members are
also welcome and encouraged to attend
faculty development events.
19 The Leadership Circle Profile 360
Group Debrief (MCLP)
JUNE CONTINUED ON PAGE 6
5
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6
MANY PATHWAYS FOR SUCCESS
UC Davis offers opportunities for an academic research trajectory
By Frederick J. Meyers, M.D., M.A.C.P., & affords opportunity for an academic
Heather M. Young, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N. research trajectory starting with our
graduate groups and training grants.
UC Davis has the best and brightest
The UC Davis Schools of Health are
health sciences students and junior
home to four primary graduate groups
faculty. It’s important for them to
with degrees conferred through the
have a variety of pathways tailored to
Office of Graduate Studies: Clinical
promote their success.
Research (M.S.); Nursing Science and
The fulfillment of professional asHealth-Care Leadership (M.S. and
pirations is the product of opportunity,
Ph.D.); Informatics (M.S.); and Public
experience and dedicated effort by an
Health (M.P.H.).
individual, but also requires support
Graduate groups constitute a
through mentorship and coaching.
distinctive hallmark for UC Davis,
Strategic investment in infrastrucbridging the gaps among disciplines to
ture by an
address cominstitution can
plex scientific
optimize the
problems in
availability of
unique and
opportunities
innovative
for talented
ways. Graduate
students
group faculty
and faculty
members cross
to improve
departments
knowledge,
and schools
skills, and
and define the
Frederick J. Meyers
Heather M. Young
exposure to a
very culture
wide array of
of the univerresources. This article illustrates one
sity. While other institutions struggle
example of a well-developed strategic
to incorporate interprofessional and
career pathway at UC Davis Health
interdisciplinary research in health
System – our clinical research training
sciences, UC Davis has embraced this
pathway, operating at the interface of
culture for decades and built a national
disciplines to enhance teamwork and
reputation based on collaboration.
innovation.
Students enrolled in these graduate
For scholars embarking on a career
groups
often are supported by training
in health sciences research, UC Davis
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PATHWAYS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4
awards include a K12 in oncology and
developmental therapeutics, and a K12
in emergency medicine.
• California Institute of Regenerative
Medicine (CIRM) Stem Cell Training
Program is for pre-doctoral and
postdoctoral scholars and clinical
fellows to participate in stem cell
research.
• HHMI/IMBS – Howard Hughes Medical
Institute is for UC Davis graduate
students who have completed their
first year in a Ph.D. program and who
want a year of focused training in
translational research that includes
clinical immersion and transition
learning experiences.
• BIRCWH – Building Interdisciplinary
Research Careers in Women’s Health
is a K12 program that specializes in
women’s health research training for
Ph.D. and M.D. senior fellows and
junior faculty members.
Ester Carolina Apesoa-Varano, an
assistant professor at the Betty Irene
Moore School of Nursing, began the
BIRCWH program in February 2011 after
completing a postdoctoral fellowship in
psychiatry and graduating from UC Davis
with a Ph.D. in sociology.
“The BIRCWH program is giving me
the skills to be an independent researcher
in women’s health using non-traditional
and interdisciplinary collaborations,”
Apesoa-Varano said. “As a new faculty
member, I am gaining experience and
partnerships that would have taken
me years to acquire. I also gained skills
to translate research from bench to
publication and practice.”
Mind the gaps
These programs also help faculty
successfully navigate potential gaps in
funding and training, while becoming
increasingly successful independent
investigators simultaneously engaged
in collaborative research. Such
programs are important for mid-career
investigators who identify a new learning
need to expand an already successful
program of research, by acquiring new
methodological or content expertise.
K12 scholar Michael Minzenberg
received the 2009 Clinical Scientist
UC Davis Health System Pathways to Research Excellence
Schools of Health
degree granting
graduate groups and
programs: Clinical
Research, Nursing
Science and Health
Care Leadership,
Public Health, Health
Informatics, School
of Medicine
Training programs
such as T32, MCRTP,
K12, K32, K20, Stem
Cell Training Program,
HHMI/IMBS, BIRCWH
Progressive career
development as an
academic scientist and
researcher in health
care
Other related graduate groups in Pharmacology and Toxicology,
Integrative Physiology, Biomedical Engineering, Microbiology,
Disciplines in Food Science, Epidemiology, Nutritional Biology,
Neuroscience, Immunology, Psychology, Comparative Pathology
Development Award from the Doris
Duke Charitable Foundation for
his pioneering work in treating
schizophrenia. Amir Zeki, M.D.,
graduated from the MCRTP and
received a Fellow Career Development
Award from the American Thoracic
Society for his research examining the
role of statins in modulating airway
hyperactivity and remodeling.
“With a unified goal to facilitate
research that leads to better health,
the Clinical and Translational
Science Center integrates extensive
science with highly skilled teams,”
said Lars Berglund, senior associate
dean of research and CTSC director.
“Supporting highly skilled teams is
essential to this process.”
This model of interdisciplinary
collaboration for research training and
education also can be applied to health
sciences education and to clinical
excellence. The 2011–2016 Strategic
Plan anticipates that work groups
will create models for educational
excellence, as well as clinical care and
community service.
The long-term impact of investing
in our trainees and junior faculty is
significant and far-reaching – from
increasing the impact and quantity of
research excellence and funding, to
attracting the best and brightest and
keeping them with us to educate the
next generations. Everyone does better
with mentoring and coaching.
UC Davis Health System
Faculty Development Office
2921 Stockton Blvd., Suite 1400
Sacramento, CA 95817
Published by the Faculty Development Office
SPRING 2012
Workshops and other activities
(CALENDAR FROM PAGE 1)
June
7 Breakfast With the Vice Chancellor/Dean
8 Junior Career Leadership Program Graduation (JCLP)
April
10 Breakfast With the Vice Chancellor/
Dean
15 Education Components (MCLP)
facultyNEWSLETTER
Published by the Faculty Development
Office, which administers and coordinates
programs that respond to the professional and
career development needs of UC Davis Health
System faculty members.
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Packet (JCLP)
JCLP: Junior Career Leadership Program
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Frederick J. Meyers, M.D., M.A.C.P., is
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Medicine, and director of the Research
Education and Career Development
(RECD) program, Clinical Translational
Science Center.
May
Edward Callahan, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Academic Personnel
Acting Director, Faculty Development
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Teaching
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Program Representative, Faculty Development
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Volunteer Clinical Faculty members are
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MANY PATHWAYS FOR SUCCESS
UC Davis offers opportunities for an academic research trajectory
By Frederick J. Meyers, M.D., M.A.C.P., & affords opportunity for an academic
Heather M. Young, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N. research trajectory starting with our
graduate groups and training grants.
UC Davis has the best and brightest
The UC Davis Schools of Health are
health sciences students and junior
home to four primary graduate groups
faculty. It’s important for them to
with degrees conferred through the
have a variety of pathways tailored to
Office of Graduate Studies: Clinical
promote their success.
Research (M.S.); Nursing Science and
The fulfillment of professional asHealth-Care Leadership (M.S. and
pirations is the product of opportunity,
Ph.D.); Informatics (M.S.); and Public
experience and dedicated effort by an
Health (M.P.H.).
individual, but also requires support
Graduate groups constitute a
through mentorship and coaching.
distinctive hallmark for UC Davis,
Strategic investment in infrastrucbridging the gaps among disciplines to
ture by an
address cominstitution can
plex scientific
optimize the
problems in
availability of
unique and
opportunities
innovative
for talented
ways. Graduate
students
group faculty
and faculty
members cross
to improve
departments
knowledge,
and schools
skills, and
and define the
Frederick J. Meyers
Heather M. Young
exposure to a
very culture
wide array of
of the univerresources. This article illustrates one
sity. While other institutions struggle
example of a well-developed strategic
to incorporate interprofessional and
career pathway at UC Davis Health
interdisciplinary research in health
System – our clinical research training
sciences, UC Davis has embraced this
pathway, operating at the interface of
culture for decades and built a national
disciplines to enhance teamwork and
reputation based on collaboration.
innovation.
Students enrolled in these graduate
For scholars embarking on a career
groups
often are supported by training
in health sciences research, UC Davis
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