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one another to do it well. The Mentoring
Science Center [CTSC], because it’s
“ViewPoint,” page 4).
Academy is helping to instill the concept
actually an aim in our CTSC grant. That’s
“I am thrilled that Dean Freischlag
that collaboration among departments
relevant because the mentors of the CTSC
recognizes the value of mentoring.
and centers is essential in order to create
scholars partake of the curriculum in the
Her willingness to be so open about
an environment in which mentorship
workshops,” explained Schweitzer, who is how mentoring enhanced her career
flourishes.”
co-director of the CTSC Mentored Clinical development is really important and
The Mentoring Academy, which augResearch Training Program.
inspiring,” Schweitzer said.
ments existing department-based mentorThe Mentoring Academy is part of the
Callahan agrees, saying, “Dean
ship activities, asks each academic deFaculty Development Program, which
Freischlag is very supportive of allocating
partment to designate at least one faculty
operates through the Office of Academic
the resources, time and emphasis needed
member as a departmental mentoring
Personnel under the aegis of Edward
to enable mentorship to thrive within the
director (DMD); several research centers
Callahan, associate dean for academic
health system, because everyone involved
also have a mentoring director (CMD). UC personnel. He believes that the way in
benefits. When you mentor someone,
Davis Health System requires all assistant
which mentoring is being “woven into the the payback you gain can be even greater
and newly appointed associate professors
entire fabric of the health system,” as he put than the benefits the mentee derives, as
(in Academic Senate and Academic Federa- it, will be particularly beneficial to newly
a result of gaining a fresh perspective of
tion ranks) to designate a mentoring team
hired faculty members.
the work that you and they are doing,”
encompassing a mosaic of multidisCallahan asserted.
ciplinary expertise and insights.
Faculty members who
A mentoring team should
thrived in a mentoringinclude a designated primary
rich environment typically
mentor, a combination of mentors
advance to become effective
from within and outside the
mentors.
department, and a CMD for mentees
“That’s proven to be the
who have a strong association with
case for Julie Freischlag,
a research center. Ideally, a junior
our mentor-in-chief.
faculty member’s mentoring team
Good mentoring nurtures
should include at least one faculty
development of skills and
member with whom they do not
leadership,” Callahan said.
work in a clinical or research
“When we’re conducting
capacity, to offer insights about
a search for a department
general career development or
chair, we look for people
work-life balance. DMDs and CMDs
who already ‘get’ mentorship
help new faculty members identify
and who love developing the
Mentoring Academy team members (L-R, standing) Cheryl Busman, Ed
potential mentors and acquaint
careers of people who work
Callahan, Brent Seifert (and seated) Julie Schweitzer and Karen Lehman.
them with resources.
with them. That’s increasingly
Senior faculty members who
becoming a cornerstone of
wish to sharpen their mentoring skills in
“Mentoring is now being considered
how we recognize who has the best
research, clinical, teaching and leadership
from the point when a written position offer potential to be an effective chair.”
As Schweitzer retools the Mentoring
functions may enroll in the Mentoring
is made. Careful thought about identifying
Academy, she welcomes suggestions.
Academy’s workshop series, presented in
the appropriate mentor for candidates
“I want to hear from faculty members
collaboration with the Faculty Development helps make their landing smoother when
about what resources they need,
program. Schweitzer is contemplating
they arrive at UC Davis,” Callahan said.
about what topics they would like to
augmentation of the recurrent workshop
“We also see greater recognition of the
learn more, and about what we can
gatherings with a video conference option. need for our clinical and educational
The Mentoring Academy operates
faculty, as well as our researchers, to get the do to encourage greater sharing with
with two membership tiers: a regular
mentoring that they need and deserve. We one another,” Schweitzer said. “Judy
Turgeon did a wonderful job getting the
level, along with a master mentor level to
realize that mentoring should embrace all
recognize scholarly achievement. DMDs and aspects of people’s work, and not just their Mentoring Academy started, and now it
is here to serve the entire faculty.”
CMDs must be members of the Mentoring scholarship.”
Academy with master mentor status.
Julie Freischlag, vice chancellor and
Explore the Mentoring Academy website
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dean of the School of Medicine, has
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MENTORING GAINS MOMENTUM
Julie Schweitzer guides evolving Mentoring Academy program
As King Odysseus of Ithaca fought in
the decade-long Trojan War, his young
son, Telemachus, relied upon the
teaching and counsel of a wise old
friend of his father’s. Homer’s Odyssey
tells that the tutor’s name was Mentor.
From those origins in Greek mythology,
the word “mentor” became synonymous
with a wise, trusted, experienced senior
sponsor or adviser.
UC Davis Health System’s
Mentoring Academy is grounded in that
2,600-year-old legacy. Guided by newly
appointed director Julie Schweitzer, the
Mentoring Academy is the framework
through which mentorship platforms,
advocacy, curricula and other resources
are coordinated. Frederick J. Meyers,
now vice dean, conceived the Mentoring
Academy and in early 2011 appointed
Judith Turgeon to oversee its Central
Steering Committee and put the plan
into action. Working in collaboration
with her was Schweitzer, who
advanced to the director’s position this
past September, following Turgeon’s
retirement.
Under Schweitzer’s guidance, the
Mentoring Academy is undergoing
a recalibration and is gearing up for
increased enrollment due
to greater attention to
mentorship and growing
awareness about the
Mentoring Academy.
“I notice much
more interaction among
departments about
mentoring activities, much
of which occurs during
the workshops that the
Mentoring Academy hosts,”
said Schweitzer, a professor
of psychiatry and behavioral
sciences. The workshop
format encourages sharing of
best practices. “Historically
mentoring was siloed within
departments. But there
has been an investment in
infrastructure and culture
change, and we are gaining
Telemachus and Mentor (illustration by Pablo E. Fabisch,
recognition that mentoring is
public domain, from François Fénelon’s Les Aventures de
Télémaque, 1699)
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MARJAN SIADAT DIRECTS UC DAVIS ER RESIDENCY
AT KAISER SOUTH SACRAMENTO
Kaiser Permanente physician Marjan
Siadat enjoys practicing and teaching
UC Davis emergency medicine residents
about what she regards as the art
of medicine. Unlike family practice
physicians or specialists in urology,
pediatrics or oncology who develop
sustained relationships with their
patients, emergency room physicians
must immediately establish rapport that
cultivates candid communication with
patients and family members whom
they’ve never seen before.
Siadat, a Volunteer Clinical Faculty
member who is director of the UC Davis Ken Kelley and Marjan Siadat (courtesy photo)
emergency medicine residency rotation at
‘How old are you?’ Some of their questions
Kaiser’s South Sacramento Medical Center,
are not relevant to what’s going on. But I
has found her personable approach highly
understand, and I know that if they feel
effective in quickly instilling the trust of
comfortable enough to ask me personal
emergency room patients.
questions, I’m making a connection with
“To me, the art of medicine involves
them,” said Siadat, who joined Kaiser’s staff
sincere person-to-person interaction.
in July 2011.
Effective communication is very important
Kaiser’s South Sacramento emergency
in understanding the concerns of
room accommodates as many as 12
emergency room patients and their family UC Davis residents simultaneously on
members,” Siadat said.
varying shifts during four-week rotations,
“When I learn, for example, that a
which Siadat oversees. Kaiser supervising
patient has been experiencing discomfort
physicians assess the performance of each
for a couple of months, our conversation
resident. In addition to their clinical shifts,
focuses on understanding what made him the residents attend monthly conferences,
or her decide today to seek help. We’re not which Siadat plans and schedules.
always able to resolve problems completely
“I conduct some lectures, but I also
in the emergency room, but we can try
bring in other speakers relevant to topics
to address their immediate concerns. If
we encounter in the emergency room.
we don’t initially explain treatment or
Sometimes rather than formal lectures, we
discharge instructions that patients must
do small-group reviews or workshops,”
follow, they may return later with the
explained Siadat, who earned the UC
same problem or question,” Siadat said.
Davis Department of Emergency Medicine’s
Her voice exudes warmth, enthusiasm,
Academic Teacher of the Year Award for
encouragement.
2013–14, along with the praise of UC
“ER doctors do all sorts of things to
Davis Associate Professor David Barnes,
patients that they may not encounter in
M.D., director of the Emergency Medicine
a routine doctor’s office visit, and you’re
Residency Program.
asking them to trust you with a lot of
“Dr. Marjan Siadat joined our team
personal information about them. Many
as the associate program director for
patients, particularly if they’re older, in
our affiliated secondary training site
response may ask me personal questions:
and as the South Sacramento Kaiser ED
‘Are you married?’ ‘Do you have kids?’
rotation director in 2012. She has done
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A WELCOME TO NEW
FACULTY COLLEAGUES
BY JULIE A. FREISCHLAG, VICE CHANCELLOR AND DEAN
Diana Miglioretti
THE MENTORSHIP CULTURE
AT UC DAVIS
Tokihiro Yamamoto
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.
an exceptional job improving the
quality of education we provide to
our emergency medicine residents
by being regularly involved in
teaching conferences and as a bedside
educator,” Barnes said. “Dr. Siadat
helped develop our new emergency
department-based orthopedics rotation
and created our annual residentfaculty CPC [clinical pathologic case]
competition.”
Siadat, who received her M.D.
degree in 2007 from the University
of Illinois, Chicago, and completed
her emergency medicine residency
four years ago through Wayne State
University’s program at Detroit Receiving
Hospital, empathizes well with emergency
medicine residents.
“Because I’m not so far out of residency
myself, I can still remember which
procedures or protocols I found – or
still find – perplexing. I can relate to
the residents about questions they may
have, which helps when I plan lectures
or organize conferences. I pick topics
that I think are going to be important for
them or that they’ll find useful, especially
if they enter a community practice after
their residency training,” explained Siadat,
whose husband, Ken Kelley, served his
emergency medicine fellowship at UC
Davis and now is an assistant clinical
professor and ultrasound fellowship
director in the UC Davis Department of
Emergency Medicine. Although working
with residents requires a substantial time
commitment, Siadat says she benefits from
the experience.
“Working with residents prompts
me to stay on top of the literature, and
challenges me to come up with ways
to make discussion topics interesting,”
she said. Siadat has enrolled in The
Permanente Medical Group’s two-year
Emerging Leaders Program, as she
contemplates potential advancement into
administration.
Diana Miglioretti investigating
health service use patterns
radiotherapy. He anticipates that successful
application of his research will result in
reduction of toxicity from radiotherapy,
thereby increasing quality of life for lung
cancer patients.
Biostatistician Diana L. Miglioretti,
Ph.D., Dean’s Professor of Biostatistics in
the Department of Public Health Sciences,
has expertise in evaluation of screening
Other new colleagues
and diagnostic tests. She leads a program
n
project to develop risk-based breast cancer Piri Ackerman-Barger, Ph.D.,
R.N., an assistant adjunct professor
screening strategies that retain the benefits
of
internal medicine in the Betty Irene
of screening while minimizing potential
Moore
School of Nursing, is assistant
harms. This project uses the infrastructure
director
for the Master’s Entry Program
of the Breast Cancer Surveillance
in
Nursing.
She conducts research in
Consortium (BCSC), which has the nation’s
inclusion and equity in health care and
most comprehensive collection of breast
nursing education. She was instrumental
cancer screening data.
in developing a hybrid online and inMiglioretti also is studying radiation
person course enabling simultaneous
exposure from medical imaging, especially
enrollment of graduate nursing students
computed tomography, with the aim of
at UC Davis, UC Irvine and UC San
diminishing cancer risk by discouraging
Francisco.
unnecessary imaging and reducing
n Paul D. Allen, M.D., Ph.D., an adjunct
radiation exposure when imaging is
professor of anesthesia in the School of
medically indicated.
Medicine and of molecular biosciences
Tokihiro Yamamoto seeks to
in the School of Veterinary Medicine,
improve cancer radiotherapy
investigates calcium ion (Ca2+) signaling
in skeletal muscle, concentrating on how
Tokihiro Yamamoto, Ph.D., an assistant
protein-protein interactions of triadic
professor in the Department of Radiation
proteins govern excitation contraction
Oncology, is investigating advanced
coupling, and resting cytoplasmic
functional imaging technologies for
Ca2+. He heads an international
improving therapeutic gain of radiotherapy.
study of malignant hyperthermia, a
Yamamoto, who is affiliated with the UC
rare potentially lethal genetic disease
Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center,
triggered by volatile anesthetics and
specializes in medical physics and leads
succinylcholine.
several interdisciplinary research projects.
His current research focuses on
development and investigation of novel
pulmonary functional imaging technologies
based on computed tomography (CT)
and advanced image processing/analysis,
and on applications to lung cancer
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n
Mark P. Christiansen, Ph.D., PA-C,
is an assistant clinical professor and the
program director of the Master of Health
Services — Physician Assistant Studies
Program in the Betty Irene Moore School
of Nursing. Christiansen is a founding
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member of the School of Nursing
faculty, and is certified as a physician
assistant by the National Commission
on Certification of Physician Assistants
(NCCPA).
n
Why do we mentor? It’s a simple question
with many answers. Sometimes we meet
promising students, or young faculty, who
have not quite grasped how smart and
skilled they really are. Unwittingly, they
have created a ceiling that could stymie
their accomplishments.
As educators, we must help these
gifted students and colleagues grasp what
seems obvious to us: that this ceiling does
not actually exist. We do this to help our
mentees reach their full potential, but
there’s a lot more to it. The work we do is
both challenging and important — on a
societal level. As a community, we cannot
allow any potential to be wasted; we simply
don’t have that luxury.
When I reflect on my own career, I am
often struck by how deeply it has been
influenced by mentors. One of them, Dr.
Michael Zinner, who chairs the Department
of Surgery at Brigham and Women’s
Hospital, recently came to UC Davis to
speak about the value of mentorship. Dr.
Zinner knew me when I was a third-year
faculty member at UCLA and has mentored
me throughout my career. Quite often, that
support came in small doses. We might
discuss a difficult situation I had to work
through. At other times, his support helped
clarify a major life decision.
In 1998, I was contemplating returning
to UCLA as chief of Vascular Surgery.
It was a complicated decision. I had
conducted my residency there and was
going to be in charge of people who
trained me. Dr. Zinner talked me through
the pros and cons.
Ultimately, going back was a great
choice. The experience taught me
leadership skills. Though many of the
faculty were older and more senior, I
could still lead the team. And because I
Jonathan B. Ford, M.D., a boardcertified assistant clinical professor of
emergency medicine with expertise
in medical toxicology, is a clinical
emergency medicine and medical
toxicology consultant for UC Davis
Medical Center and the California
Poison Control System. He participates
in bedside education of medical
residents and students.
n
José A. Parés-Avila, DNP, R.N.,
N.P., a health sciences assistant clinical
professor in the Betty Irene Moore
School of Nursing specializing in
treatment of patients with HIV/AIDS,
is board-certified by the American
Academy of HIV Medicine. He works
to advance cultural inclusiveness in the
health professions, and is a research
associate with the U.S. Department of
Veterans Affairs’ Office of Public Health
Surveillance and Research.
n
Pulmonary and critical care medicine
specialist Michael Schivo, M.D., MAS,
practices general pulmonary medicine
with an emphasis on COPD. Schivo, an
assistant professor of clinical internal
medicine, is board-certified in internal
medicine, pulmonary diseases and
critical-care medicine. He is analyzing
volatile and nonvolatile organic
compounds from exhaled breath as a
potential means to complement existing
diagnostic methods for asthma, COPD
and bronchiectasis.
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was successful at UCLA, I could go on
to pursue the chair position at Johns
Hopkins and ultimately become vice
chancellor and dean at UC Davis.
Many mentors
We often talk about a mentor, but that
should actually be plural: mentors. Some
will support you early in your career.
Others will step in during the middle to
help you decide whether to change a job
or research focus — or not. Some mentors
help you through personal issues.
Julie A. Freischlag
However, the knowledge I gained from
Dr. Busuttil came as much from his attitude
as his words. He didn’t care that I was a
woman in a male-dominated discipline. He
saw a good resident who worked hard.
The ‘Year of the Mentor’
When I first came to UC Davis, I was
both pleased and impressed by the
culture of mentoring that has taken root
here. The Mentoring Academy, conceived
in 2010 and now led by Dr. Julie
Schweitzer, is a rich resource to expand
that culture.
And there are many who contribute,
“A mentor empowers a
such as Dr. David Acosta, associate vice
person to see a possible
chancellor of Diversity and Inclusion, who
is a great advocate for both mentoring and
future and believe it can
sponsoring young students and faculty.
be obtained.”
This culture comes from a fundamental
recognition that mentoring builds
— Shawn R. Hitchcock,
community and makes people more
successful. Mentees accomplish more and
Professor of chemistry,
ultimately stay longer at institutions where
Illinois State University
they have mentors.
But as much as mentorship is about
community, it’s also about us. Someone
recently asked me if I ever tired of helping
I was the sixth woman ever to get
people and promoting their careers. And I
her boards in vascular surgery and the
thought, my goodness, that’s why I come to
first woman on faculty at both UC San
work each day.
Diego and UCLA. But my experience is
There is such great joy in watching
hardly rare. A lot of our students and
gifted
people grow and be successful,
residents come from underrepresented
learning
how to teach and conduct research
backgrounds and different ethnic groups.
and take on leadership roles. It’s like
We all have something that makes us
watching your own children succeed. It
unique.
inspires me; it makes me feel younger.
My relationship with Dr. Ronald
But it also extends our reach. We
Busuttil, who now chairs the Department
can
promote our field through someone
of Surgery at UCLA, was formative. I
else, as mentees build on what we have
worked in his lab, and he mentored me
on how to conduct research and present accomplished. More often than not, they do
it even better than we did.
my work.
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MARJAN SIADAT DIRECTS UC DAVIS ER RESIDENCY
AT KAISER SOUTH SACRAMENTO
Kaiser Permanente physician Marjan
Siadat enjoys practicing and teaching
UC Davis emergency medicine residents
about what she regards as the art
of medicine. Unlike family practice
physicians or specialists in urology,
pediatrics or oncology who develop
sustained relationships with their
patients, emergency room physicians
must immediately establish rapport that
cultivates candid communication with
patients and family members whom
they’ve never seen before.
Siadat, a Volunteer Clinical Faculty
member who is director of the UC Davis Ken Kelley and Marjan Siadat (courtesy photo)
emergency medicine residency rotation at
‘How old are you?’ Some of their questions
Kaiser’s South Sacramento Medical Center,
are not relevant to what’s going on. But I
has found her personable approach highly
understand, and I know that if they feel
effective in quickly instilling the trust of
comfortable enough to ask me personal
emergency room patients.
questions, I’m making a connection with
“To me, the art of medicine involves
them,” said Siadat, who joined Kaiser’s staff
sincere person-to-person interaction.
in July 2011.
Effective communication is very important
Kaiser’s South Sacramento emergency
in understanding the concerns of
room accommodates as many as 12
emergency room patients and their family UC Davis residents simultaneously on
members,” Siadat said.
varying shifts during four-week rotations,
“When I learn, for example, that a
which Siadat oversees. Kaiser supervising
patient has been experiencing discomfort
physicians assess the performance of each
for a couple of months, our conversation
resident. In addition to their clinical shifts,
focuses on understanding what made him the residents attend monthly conferences,
or her decide today to seek help. We’re not which Siadat plans and schedules.
always able to resolve problems completely
“I conduct some lectures, but I also
in the emergency room, but we can try
bring in other speakers relevant to topics
to address their immediate concerns. If
we encounter in the emergency room.
we don’t initially explain treatment or
Sometimes rather than formal lectures, we
discharge instructions that patients must
do small-group reviews or workshops,”
follow, they may return later with the
explained Siadat, who earned the UC
same problem or question,” Siadat said.
Davis Department of Emergency Medicine’s
Her voice exudes warmth, enthusiasm,
Academic Teacher of the Year Award for
encouragement.
2013–14, along with the praise of UC
“ER doctors do all sorts of things to
Davis Associate Professor David Barnes,
patients that they may not encounter in
M.D., director of the Emergency Medicine
a routine doctor’s office visit, and you’re
Residency Program.
asking them to trust you with a lot of
“Dr. Marjan Siadat joined our team
personal information about them. Many
as the associate program director for
patients, particularly if they’re older, in
our affiliated secondary training site
response may ask me personal questions:
and as the South Sacramento Kaiser ED
‘Are you married?’ ‘Do you have kids?’
rotation director in 2012. She has done
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facultyROUNDS
viewPOINT
A WELCOME TO NEW
FACULTY COLLEAGUES
BY JULIE A. FREISCHLAG, VICE CHANCELLOR AND DEAN
Diana Miglioretti
THE MENTORSHIP CULTURE
AT UC DAVIS
Tokihiro Yamamoto
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.
an exceptional job improving the
quality of education we provide to
our emergency medicine residents
by being regularly involved in
teaching conferences and as a bedside
educator,” Barnes said. “Dr. Siadat
helped develop our new emergency
department-based orthopedics rotation
and created our annual residentfaculty CPC [clinical pathologic case]
competition.”
Siadat, who received her M.D.
degree in 2007 from the University
of Illinois, Chicago, and completed
her emergency medicine residency
four years ago through Wayne State
University’s program at Detroit Receiving
Hospital, empathizes well with emergency
medicine residents.
“Because I’m not so far out of residency
myself, I can still remember which
procedures or protocols I found – or
still find – perplexing. I can relate to
the residents about questions they may
have, which helps when I plan lectures
or organize conferences. I pick topics
that I think are going to be important for
them or that they’ll find useful, especially
if they enter a community practice after
their residency training,” explained Siadat,
whose husband, Ken Kelley, served his
emergency medicine fellowship at UC
Davis and now is an assistant clinical
professor and ultrasound fellowship
director in the UC Davis Department of
Emergency Medicine. Although working
with residents requires a substantial time
commitment, Siadat says she benefits from
the experience.
“Working with residents prompts
me to stay on top of the literature, and
challenges me to come up with ways
to make discussion topics interesting,”
she said. Siadat has enrolled in The
Permanente Medical Group’s two-year
Emerging Leaders Program, as she
contemplates potential advancement into
administration.
Diana Miglioretti investigating
health service use patterns
radiotherapy. He anticipates that successful
application of his research will result in
reduction of toxicity from radiotherapy,
thereby increasing quality of life for lung
cancer patients.
Biostatistician Diana L. Miglioretti,
Ph.D., Dean’s Professor of Biostatistics in
the Department of Public Health Sciences,
has expertise in evaluation of screening
Other new colleagues
and diagnostic tests. She leads a program
n
project to develop risk-based breast cancer Piri Ackerman-Barger, Ph.D.,
R.N., an assistant adjunct professor
screening strategies that retain the benefits
of
internal medicine in the Betty Irene
of screening while minimizing potential
Moore
School of Nursing, is assistant
harms. This project uses the infrastructure
director
for the Master’s Entry Program
of the Breast Cancer Surveillance
in
Nursing.
She conducts research in
Consortium (BCSC), which has the nation’s
inclusion and equity in health care and
most comprehensive collection of breast
nursing education. She was instrumental
cancer screening data.
in developing a hybrid online and inMiglioretti also is studying radiation
person course enabling simultaneous
exposure from medical imaging, especially
enrollment of graduate nursing students
computed tomography, with the aim of
at UC Davis, UC Irvine and UC San
diminishing cancer risk by discouraging
Francisco.
unnecessary imaging and reducing
n Paul D. Allen, M.D., Ph.D., an adjunct
radiation exposure when imaging is
professor of anesthesia in the School of
medically indicated.
Medicine and of molecular biosciences
Tokihiro Yamamoto seeks to
in the School of Veterinary Medicine,
improve cancer radiotherapy
investigates calcium ion (Ca2+) signaling
in skeletal muscle, concentrating on how
Tokihiro Yamamoto, Ph.D., an assistant
protein-protein interactions of triadic
professor in the Department of Radiation
proteins govern excitation contraction
Oncology, is investigating advanced
coupling, and resting cytoplasmic
functional imaging technologies for
Ca2+. He heads an international
improving therapeutic gain of radiotherapy.
study of malignant hyperthermia, a
Yamamoto, who is affiliated with the UC
rare potentially lethal genetic disease
Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center,
triggered by volatile anesthetics and
specializes in medical physics and leads
succinylcholine.
several interdisciplinary research projects.
His current research focuses on
development and investigation of novel
pulmonary functional imaging technologies
based on computed tomography (CT)
and advanced image processing/analysis,
and on applications to lung cancer
2
n
Mark P. Christiansen, Ph.D., PA-C,
is an assistant clinical professor and the
program director of the Master of Health
Services — Physician Assistant Studies
Program in the Betty Irene Moore School
of Nursing. Christiansen is a founding
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member of the School of Nursing
faculty, and is certified as a physician
assistant by the National Commission
on Certification of Physician Assistants
(NCCPA).
n
Why do we mentor? It’s a simple question
with many answers. Sometimes we meet
promising students, or young faculty, who
have not quite grasped how smart and
skilled they really are. Unwittingly, they
have created a ceiling that could stymie
their accomplishments.
As educators, we must help these
gifted students and colleagues grasp what
seems obvious to us: that this ceiling does
not actually exist. We do this to help our
mentees reach their full potential, but
there’s a lot more to it. The work we do is
both challenging and important — on a
societal level. As a community, we cannot
allow any potential to be wasted; we simply
don’t have that luxury.
When I reflect on my own career, I am
often struck by how deeply it has been
influenced by mentors. One of them, Dr.
Michael Zinner, who chairs the Department
of Surgery at Brigham and Women’s
Hospital, recently came to UC Davis to
speak about the value of mentorship. Dr.
Zinner knew me when I was a third-year
faculty member at UCLA and has mentored
me throughout my career. Quite often, that
support came in small doses. We might
discuss a difficult situation I had to work
through. At other times, his support helped
clarify a major life decision.
In 1998, I was contemplating returning
to UCLA as chief of Vascular Surgery.
It was a complicated decision. I had
conducted my residency there and was
going to be in charge of people who
trained me. Dr. Zinner talked me through
the pros and cons.
Ultimately, going back was a great
choice. The experience taught me
leadership skills. Though many of the
faculty were older and more senior, I
could still lead the team. And because I
Jonathan B. Ford, M.D., a boardcertified assistant clinical professor of
emergency medicine with expertise
in medical toxicology, is a clinical
emergency medicine and medical
toxicology consultant for UC Davis
Medical Center and the California
Poison Control System. He participates
in bedside education of medical
residents and students.
n
José A. Parés-Avila, DNP, R.N.,
N.P., a health sciences assistant clinical
professor in the Betty Irene Moore
School of Nursing specializing in
treatment of patients with HIV/AIDS,
is board-certified by the American
Academy of HIV Medicine. He works
to advance cultural inclusiveness in the
health professions, and is a research
associate with the U.S. Department of
Veterans Affairs’ Office of Public Health
Surveillance and Research.
n
Pulmonary and critical care medicine
specialist Michael Schivo, M.D., MAS,
practices general pulmonary medicine
with an emphasis on COPD. Schivo, an
assistant professor of clinical internal
medicine, is board-certified in internal
medicine, pulmonary diseases and
critical-care medicine. He is analyzing
volatile and nonvolatile organic
compounds from exhaled breath as a
potential means to complement existing
diagnostic methods for asthma, COPD
and bronchiectasis.
3
was successful at UCLA, I could go on
to pursue the chair position at Johns
Hopkins and ultimately become vice
chancellor and dean at UC Davis.
Many mentors
We often talk about a mentor, but that
should actually be plural: mentors. Some
will support you early in your career.
Others will step in during the middle to
help you decide whether to change a job
or research focus — or not. Some mentors
help you through personal issues.
Julie A. Freischlag
However, the knowledge I gained from
Dr. Busuttil came as much from his attitude
as his words. He didn’t care that I was a
woman in a male-dominated discipline. He
saw a good resident who worked hard.
The ‘Year of the Mentor’
When I first came to UC Davis, I was
both pleased and impressed by the
culture of mentoring that has taken root
here. The Mentoring Academy, conceived
in 2010 and now led by Dr. Julie
Schweitzer, is a rich resource to expand
that culture.
And there are many who contribute,
“A mentor empowers a
such as Dr. David Acosta, associate vice
person to see a possible
chancellor of Diversity and Inclusion, who
is a great advocate for both mentoring and
future and believe it can
sponsoring young students and faculty.
be obtained.”
This culture comes from a fundamental
recognition that mentoring builds
— Shawn R. Hitchcock,
community and makes people more
successful. Mentees accomplish more and
Professor of chemistry,
ultimately stay longer at institutions where
Illinois State University
they have mentors.
But as much as mentorship is about
community, it’s also about us. Someone
recently asked me if I ever tired of helping
I was the sixth woman ever to get
people and promoting their careers. And I
her boards in vascular surgery and the
thought, my goodness, that’s why I come to
first woman on faculty at both UC San
work each day.
Diego and UCLA. But my experience is
There is such great joy in watching
hardly rare. A lot of our students and
gifted
people grow and be successful,
residents come from underrepresented
learning
how to teach and conduct research
backgrounds and different ethnic groups.
and take on leadership roles. It’s like
We all have something that makes us
watching your own children succeed. It
unique.
inspires me; it makes me feel younger.
My relationship with Dr. Ronald
But it also extends our reach. We
Busuttil, who now chairs the Department
can
promote our field through someone
of Surgery at UCLA, was formative. I
else, as mentees build on what we have
worked in his lab, and he mentored me
on how to conduct research and present accomplished. More often than not, they do
it even better than we did.
my work.
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officeVISIT
MARJAN SIADAT DIRECTS UC DAVIS ER RESIDENCY
AT KAISER SOUTH SACRAMENTO
Kaiser Permanente physician Marjan
Siadat enjoys practicing and teaching
UC Davis emergency medicine residents
about what she regards as the art
of medicine. Unlike family practice
physicians or specialists in urology,
pediatrics or oncology who develop
sustained relationships with their
patients, emergency room physicians
must immediately establish rapport that
cultivates candid communication with
patients and family members whom
they’ve never seen before.
Siadat, a Volunteer Clinical Faculty
member who is director of the UC Davis Ken Kelley and Marjan Siadat (courtesy photo)
emergency medicine residency rotation at
‘How old are you?’ Some of their questions
Kaiser’s South Sacramento Medical Center,
are not relevant to what’s going on. But I
has found her personable approach highly
understand, and I know that if they feel
effective in quickly instilling the trust of
comfortable enough to ask me personal
emergency room patients.
questions, I’m making a connection with
“To me, the art of medicine involves
them,” said Siadat, who joined Kaiser’s staff
sincere person-to-person interaction.
in July 2011.
Effective communication is very important
Kaiser’s South Sacramento emergency
in understanding the concerns of
room accommodates as many as 12
emergency room patients and their family UC Davis residents simultaneously on
members,” Siadat said.
varying shifts during four-week rotations,
“When I learn, for example, that a
which Siadat oversees. Kaiser supervising
patient has been experiencing discomfort
physicians assess the performance of each
for a couple of months, our conversation
resident. In addition to their clinical shifts,
focuses on understanding what made him the residents attend monthly conferences,
or her decide today to seek help. We’re not which Siadat plans and schedules.
always able to resolve problems completely
“I conduct some lectures, but I also
in the emergency room, but we can try
bring in other speakers relevant to topics
to address their immediate concerns. If
we encounter in the emergency room.
we don’t initially explain treatment or
Sometimes rather than formal lectures, we
discharge instructions that patients must
do small-group reviews or workshops,”
follow, they may return later with the
explained Siadat, who earned the UC
same problem or question,” Siadat said.
Davis Department of Emergency Medicine’s
Her voice exudes warmth, enthusiasm,
Academic Teacher of the Year Award for
encouragement.
2013–14, along with the praise of UC
“ER doctors do all sorts of things to
Davis Associate Professor David Barnes,
patients that they may not encounter in
M.D., director of the Emergency Medicine
a routine doctor’s office visit, and you’re
Residency Program.
asking them to trust you with a lot of
“Dr. Marjan Siadat joined our team
personal information about them. Many
as the associate program director for
patients, particularly if they’re older, in
our affiliated secondary training site
response may ask me personal questions:
and as the South Sacramento Kaiser ED
‘Are you married?’ ‘Do you have kids?’
rotation director in 2012. She has done
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facultyROUNDS
viewPOINT
A WELCOME TO NEW
FACULTY COLLEAGUES
BY JULIE A. FREISCHLAG, VICE CHANCELLOR AND DEAN
Diana Miglioretti
THE MENTORSHIP CULTURE
AT UC DAVIS
Tokihiro Yamamoto
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.
an exceptional job improving the
quality of education we provide to
our emergency medicine residents
by being regularly involved in
teaching conferences and as a bedside
educator,” Barnes said. “Dr. Siadat
helped develop our new emergency
department-based orthopedics rotation
and created our annual residentfaculty CPC [clinical pathologic case]
competition.”
Siadat, who received her M.D.
degree in 2007 from the University
of Illinois, Chicago, and completed
her emergency medicine residency
four years ago through Wayne State
University’s program at Detroit Receiving
Hospital, empathizes well with emergency
medicine residents.
“Because I’m not so far out of residency
myself, I can still remember which
procedures or protocols I found – or
still find – perplexing. I can relate to
the residents about questions they may
have, which helps when I plan lectures
or organize conferences. I pick topics
that I think are going to be important for
them or that they’ll find useful, especially
if they enter a community practice after
their residency training,” explained Siadat,
whose husband, Ken Kelley, served his
emergency medicine fellowship at UC
Davis and now is an assistant clinical
professor and ultrasound fellowship
director in the UC Davis Department of
Emergency Medicine. Although working
with residents requires a substantial time
commitment, Siadat says she benefits from
the experience.
“Working with residents prompts
me to stay on top of the literature, and
challenges me to come up with ways
to make discussion topics interesting,”
she said. Siadat has enrolled in The
Permanente Medical Group’s two-year
Emerging Leaders Program, as she
contemplates potential advancement into
administration.
Diana Miglioretti investigating
health service use patterns
radiotherapy. He anticipates that successful
application of his research will result in
reduction of toxicity from radiotherapy,
thereby increasing quality of life for lung
cancer patients.
Biostatistician Diana L. Miglioretti,
Ph.D., Dean’s Professor of Biostatistics in
the Department of Public Health Sciences,
has expertise in evaluation of screening
Other new colleagues
and diagnostic tests. She leads a program
n
project to develop risk-based breast cancer Piri Ackerman-Barger, Ph.D.,
R.N., an assistant adjunct professor
screening strategies that retain the benefits
of
internal medicine in the Betty Irene
of screening while minimizing potential
Moore
School of Nursing, is assistant
harms. This project uses the infrastructure
director
for the Master’s Entry Program
of the Breast Cancer Surveillance
in
Nursing.
She conducts research in
Consortium (BCSC), which has the nation’s
inclusion and equity in health care and
most comprehensive collection of breast
nursing education. She was instrumental
cancer screening data.
in developing a hybrid online and inMiglioretti also is studying radiation
person course enabling simultaneous
exposure from medical imaging, especially
enrollment of graduate nursing students
computed tomography, with the aim of
at UC Davis, UC Irvine and UC San
diminishing cancer risk by discouraging
Francisco.
unnecessary imaging and reducing
n Paul D. Allen, M.D., Ph.D., an adjunct
radiation exposure when imaging is
professor of anesthesia in the School of
medically indicated.
Medicine and of molecular biosciences
Tokihiro Yamamoto seeks to
in the School of Veterinary Medicine,
improve cancer radiotherapy
investigates calcium ion (Ca2+) signaling
in skeletal muscle, concentrating on how
Tokihiro Yamamoto, Ph.D., an assistant
protein-protein interactions of triadic
professor in the Department of Radiation
proteins govern excitation contraction
Oncology, is investigating advanced
coupling, and resting cytoplasmic
functional imaging technologies for
Ca2+. He heads an international
improving therapeutic gain of radiotherapy.
study of malignant hyperthermia, a
Yamamoto, who is affiliated with the UC
rare potentially lethal genetic disease
Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center,
triggered by volatile anesthetics and
specializes in medical physics and leads
succinylcholine.
several interdisciplinary research projects.
His current research focuses on
development and investigation of novel
pulmonary functional imaging technologies
based on computed tomography (CT)
and advanced image processing/analysis,
and on applications to lung cancer
2
n
Mark P. Christiansen, Ph.D., PA-C,
is an assistant clinical professor and the
program director of the Master of Health
Services — Physician Assistant Studies
Program in the Betty Irene Moore School
of Nursing. Christiansen is a founding
facultyNEWSLETTER | Winter 2014–2015 | www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/facultydev
member of the School of Nursing
faculty, and is certified as a physician
assistant by the National Commission
on Certification of Physician Assistants
(NCCPA).
n
Why do we mentor? It’s a simple question
with many answers. Sometimes we meet
promising students, or young faculty, who
have not quite grasped how smart and
skilled they really are. Unwittingly, they
have created a ceiling that could stymie
their accomplishments.
As educators, we must help these
gifted students and colleagues grasp what
seems obvious to us: that this ceiling does
not actually exist. We do this to help our
mentees reach their full potential, but
there’s a lot more to it. The work we do is
both challenging and important — on a
societal level. As a community, we cannot
allow any potential to be wasted; we simply
don’t have that luxury.
When I reflect on my own career, I am
often struck by how deeply it has been
influenced by mentors. One of them, Dr.
Michael Zinner, who chairs the Department
of Surgery at Brigham and Women’s
Hospital, recently came to UC Davis to
speak about the value of mentorship. Dr.
Zinner knew me when I was a third-year
faculty member at UCLA and has mentored
me throughout my career. Quite often, that
support came in small doses. We might
discuss a difficult situation I had to work
through. At other times, his support helped
clarify a major life decision.
In 1998, I was contemplating returning
to UCLA as chief of Vascular Surgery.
It was a complicated decision. I had
conducted my residency there and was
going to be in charge of people who
trained me. Dr. Zinner talked me through
the pros and cons.
Ultimately, going back was a great
choice. The experience taught me
leadership skills. Though many of the
faculty were older and more senior, I
could still lead the team. And because I
Jonathan B. Ford, M.D., a boardcertified assistant clinical professor of
emergency medicine with expertise
in medical toxicology, is a clinical
emergency medicine and medical
toxicology consultant for UC Davis
Medical Center and the California
Poison Control System. He participates
in bedside education of medical
residents and students.
n
José A. Parés-Avila, DNP, R.N.,
N.P., a health sciences assistant clinical
professor in the Betty Irene Moore
School of Nursing specializing in
treatment of patients with HIV/AIDS,
is board-certified by the American
Academy of HIV Medicine. He works
to advance cultural inclusiveness in the
health professions, and is a research
associate with the U.S. Department of
Veterans Affairs’ Office of Public Health
Surveillance and Research.
n
Pulmonary and critical care medicine
specialist Michael Schivo, M.D., MAS,
practices general pulmonary medicine
with an emphasis on COPD. Schivo, an
assistant professor of clinical internal
medicine, is board-certified in internal
medicine, pulmonary diseases and
critical-care medicine. He is analyzing
volatile and nonvolatile organic
compounds from exhaled breath as a
potential means to complement existing
diagnostic methods for asthma, COPD
and bronchiectasis.
3
was successful at UCLA, I could go on
to pursue the chair position at Johns
Hopkins and ultimately become vice
chancellor and dean at UC Davis.
Many mentors
We often talk about a mentor, but that
should actually be plural: mentors. Some
will support you early in your career.
Others will step in during the middle to
help you decide whether to change a job
or research focus — or not. Some mentors
help you through personal issues.
Julie A. Freischlag
However, the knowledge I gained from
Dr. Busuttil came as much from his attitude
as his words. He didn’t care that I was a
woman in a male-dominated discipline. He
saw a good resident who worked hard.
The ‘Year of the Mentor’
When I first came to UC Davis, I was
both pleased and impressed by the
culture of mentoring that has taken root
here. The Mentoring Academy, conceived
in 2010 and now led by Dr. Julie
Schweitzer, is a rich resource to expand
that culture.
And there are many who contribute,
“A mentor empowers a
such as Dr. David Acosta, associate vice
person to see a possible
chancellor of Diversity and Inclusion, who
is a great advocate for both mentoring and
future and believe it can
sponsoring young students and faculty.
be obtained.”
This culture comes from a fundamental
recognition that mentoring builds
— Shawn R. Hitchcock,
community and makes people more
successful. Mentees accomplish more and
Professor of chemistry,
ultimately stay longer at institutions where
Illinois State University
they have mentors.
But as much as mentorship is about
community, it’s also about us. Someone
recently asked me if I ever tired of helping
I was the sixth woman ever to get
people and promoting their careers. And I
her boards in vascular surgery and the
thought, my goodness, that’s why I come to
first woman on faculty at both UC San
work each day.
Diego and UCLA. But my experience is
There is such great joy in watching
hardly rare. A lot of our students and
gifted
people grow and be successful,
residents come from underrepresented
learning
how to teach and conduct research
backgrounds and different ethnic groups.
and take on leadership roles. It’s like
We all have something that makes us
watching your own children succeed. It
unique.
inspires me; it makes me feel younger.
My relationship with Dr. Ronald
But it also extends our reach. We
Busuttil, who now chairs the Department
can
promote our field through someone
of Surgery at UCLA, was formative. I
else, as mentees build on what we have
worked in his lab, and he mentored me
on how to conduct research and present accomplished. More often than not, they do
it even better than we did.
my work.
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Science Center [CTSC], because it’s
“ViewPoint,” page 4).
Academy is helping to instill the concept
actually an aim in our CTSC grant. That’s
“I am thrilled that Dean Freischlag
that collaboration among departments
relevant because the mentors of the CTSC
recognizes the value of mentoring.
and centers is essential in order to create
scholars partake of the curriculum in the
Her willingness to be so open about
an environment in which mentorship
workshops,” explained Schweitzer, who is how mentoring enhanced her career
flourishes.”
co-director of the CTSC Mentored Clinical development is really important and
The Mentoring Academy, which augResearch Training Program.
inspiring,” Schweitzer said.
ments existing department-based mentorThe Mentoring Academy is part of the
Callahan agrees, saying, “Dean
ship activities, asks each academic deFaculty Development Program, which
Freischlag is very supportive of allocating
partment to designate at least one faculty
operates through the Office of Academic
the resources, time and emphasis needed
member as a departmental mentoring
Personnel under the aegis of Edward
to enable mentorship to thrive within the
director (DMD); several research centers
Callahan, associate dean for academic
health system, because everyone involved
also have a mentoring director (CMD). UC personnel. He believes that the way in
benefits. When you mentor someone,
Davis Health System requires all assistant
which mentoring is being “woven into the the payback you gain can be even greater
and newly appointed associate professors
entire fabric of the health system,” as he put than the benefits the mentee derives, as
(in Academic Senate and Academic Federa- it, will be particularly beneficial to newly
a result of gaining a fresh perspective of
tion ranks) to designate a mentoring team
hired faculty members.
the work that you and they are doing,”
encompassing a mosaic of multidisCallahan asserted.
ciplinary expertise and insights.
Faculty members who
A mentoring team should
thrived in a mentoringinclude a designated primary
rich environment typically
mentor, a combination of mentors
advance to become effective
from within and outside the
mentors.
department, and a CMD for mentees
“That’s proven to be the
who have a strong association with
case for Julie Freischlag,
a research center. Ideally, a junior
our mentor-in-chief.
faculty member’s mentoring team
Good mentoring nurtures
should include at least one faculty
development of skills and
member with whom they do not
leadership,” Callahan said.
work in a clinical or research
“When we’re conducting
capacity, to offer insights about
a search for a department
general career development or
chair, we look for people
work-life balance. DMDs and CMDs
who already ‘get’ mentorship
help new faculty members identify
and who love developing the
Mentoring Academy team members (L-R, standing) Cheryl Busman, Ed
potential mentors and acquaint
careers of people who work
Callahan, Brent Seifert (and seated) Julie Schweitzer and Karen Lehman.
them with resources.
with them. That’s increasingly
Senior faculty members who
becoming a cornerstone of
wish to sharpen their mentoring skills in
“Mentoring is now being considered
how we recognize who has the best
research, clinical, teaching and leadership
from the point when a written position offer potential to be an effective chair.”
As Schweitzer retools the Mentoring
functions may enroll in the Mentoring
is made. Careful thought about identifying
Academy, she welcomes suggestions.
Academy’s workshop series, presented in
the appropriate mentor for candidates
“I want to hear from faculty members
collaboration with the Faculty Development helps make their landing smoother when
about what resources they need,
program. Schweitzer is contemplating
they arrive at UC Davis,” Callahan said.
about what topics they would like to
augmentation of the recurrent workshop
“We also see greater recognition of the
learn more, and about what we can
gatherings with a video conference option. need for our clinical and educational
The Mentoring Academy operates
faculty, as well as our researchers, to get the do to encourage greater sharing with
with two membership tiers: a regular
mentoring that they need and deserve. We one another,” Schweitzer said. “Judy
Turgeon did a wonderful job getting the
level, along with a master mentor level to
realize that mentoring should embrace all
recognize scholarly achievement. DMDs and aspects of people’s work, and not just their Mentoring Academy started, and now it
is here to serve the entire faculty.”
CMDs must be members of the Mentoring scholarship.”
Academy with master mentor status.
Julie Freischlag, vice chancellor and
Explore the Mentoring Academy website
“The Mentoring Academy serves the
dean of the School of Medicine, has
(www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/mentoring) to
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MENTORING GAINS MOMENTUM
Julie Schweitzer guides evolving Mentoring Academy program
As King Odysseus of Ithaca fought in
the decade-long Trojan War, his young
son, Telemachus, relied upon the
teaching and counsel of a wise old
friend of his father’s. Homer’s Odyssey
tells that the tutor’s name was Mentor.
From those origins in Greek mythology,
the word “mentor” became synonymous
with a wise, trusted, experienced senior
sponsor or adviser.
UC Davis Health System’s
Mentoring Academy is grounded in that
2,600-year-old legacy. Guided by newly
appointed director Julie Schweitzer, the
Mentoring Academy is the framework
through which mentorship platforms,
advocacy, curricula and other resources
are coordinated. Frederick J. Meyers,
now vice dean, conceived the Mentoring
Academy and in early 2011 appointed
Judith Turgeon to oversee its Central
Steering Committee and put the plan
into action. Working in collaboration
with her was Schweitzer, who
advanced to the director’s position this
past September, following Turgeon’s
retirement.
Under Schweitzer’s guidance, the
Mentoring Academy is undergoing
a recalibration and is gearing up for
increased enrollment due
to greater attention to
mentorship and growing
awareness about the
Mentoring Academy.
“I notice much
more interaction among
departments about
mentoring activities, much
of which occurs during
the workshops that the
Mentoring Academy hosts,”
said Schweitzer, a professor
of psychiatry and behavioral
sciences. The workshop
format encourages sharing of
best practices. “Historically
mentoring was siloed within
departments. But there
has been an investment in
infrastructure and culture
change, and we are gaining
Telemachus and Mentor (illustration by Pablo E. Fabisch,
recognition that mentoring is
public domain, from François Fénelon’s Les Aventures de
Télémaque, 1699)
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“ViewPoint,” page 4).
Academy is helping to instill the concept
actually an aim in our CTSC grant. That’s
“I am thrilled that Dean Freischlag
that collaboration among departments
relevant because the mentors of the CTSC
recognizes the value of mentoring.
and centers is essential in order to create
scholars partake of the curriculum in the
Her willingness to be so open about
an environment in which mentorship
workshops,” explained Schweitzer, who is how mentoring enhanced her career
flourishes.”
co-director of the CTSC Mentored Clinical development is really important and
The Mentoring Academy, which augResearch Training Program.
inspiring,” Schweitzer said.
ments existing department-based mentorThe Mentoring Academy is part of the
Callahan agrees, saying, “Dean
ship activities, asks each academic deFaculty Development Program, which
Freischlag is very supportive of allocating
partment to designate at least one faculty
operates through the Office of Academic
the resources, time and emphasis needed
member as a departmental mentoring
Personnel under the aegis of Edward
to enable mentorship to thrive within the
director (DMD); several research centers
Callahan, associate dean for academic
health system, because everyone involved
also have a mentoring director (CMD). UC personnel. He believes that the way in
benefits. When you mentor someone,
Davis Health System requires all assistant
which mentoring is being “woven into the the payback you gain can be even greater
and newly appointed associate professors
entire fabric of the health system,” as he put than the benefits the mentee derives, as
(in Academic Senate and Academic Federa- it, will be particularly beneficial to newly
a result of gaining a fresh perspective of
tion ranks) to designate a mentoring team
hired faculty members.
the work that you and they are doing,”
encompassing a mosaic of multidisCallahan asserted.
ciplinary expertise and insights.
Faculty members who
A mentoring team should
thrived in a mentoringinclude a designated primary
rich environment typically
mentor, a combination of mentors
advance to become effective
from within and outside the
mentors.
department, and a CMD for mentees
“That’s proven to be the
who have a strong association with
case for Julie Freischlag,
a research center. Ideally, a junior
our mentor-in-chief.
faculty member’s mentoring team
Good mentoring nurtures
should include at least one faculty
development of skills and
member with whom they do not
leadership,” Callahan said.
work in a clinical or research
“When we’re conducting
capacity, to offer insights about
a search for a department
general career development or
chair, we look for people
work-life balance. DMDs and CMDs
who already ‘get’ mentorship
help new faculty members identify
and who love developing the
Mentoring Academy team members (L-R, standing) Cheryl Busman, Ed
potential mentors and acquaint
careers of people who work
Callahan, Brent Seifert (and seated) Julie Schweitzer and Karen Lehman.
them with resources.
with them. That’s increasingly
Senior faculty members who
becoming a cornerstone of
wish to sharpen their mentoring skills in
“Mentoring is now being considered
how we recognize who has the best
research, clinical, teaching and leadership
from the point when a written position offer potential to be an effective chair.”
As Schweitzer retools the Mentoring
functions may enroll in the Mentoring
is made. Careful thought about identifying
Academy, she welcomes suggestions.
Academy’s workshop series, presented in
the appropriate mentor for candidates
“I want to hear from faculty members
collaboration with the Faculty Development helps make their landing smoother when
about what resources they need,
program. Schweitzer is contemplating
they arrive at UC Davis,” Callahan said.
about what topics they would like to
augmentation of the recurrent workshop
“We also see greater recognition of the
learn more, and about what we can
gatherings with a video conference option. need for our clinical and educational
The Mentoring Academy operates
faculty, as well as our researchers, to get the do to encourage greater sharing with
with two membership tiers: a regular
mentoring that they need and deserve. We one another,” Schweitzer said. “Judy
Turgeon did a wonderful job getting the
level, along with a master mentor level to
realize that mentoring should embrace all
recognize scholarly achievement. DMDs and aspects of people’s work, and not just their Mentoring Academy started, and now it
is here to serve the entire faculty.”
CMDs must be members of the Mentoring scholarship.”
Academy with master mentor status.
Julie Freischlag, vice chancellor and
Explore the Mentoring Academy website
“The Mentoring Academy serves the
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MENTORING GAINS MOMENTUM
Julie Schweitzer guides evolving Mentoring Academy program
As King Odysseus of Ithaca fought in
the decade-long Trojan War, his young
son, Telemachus, relied upon the
teaching and counsel of a wise old
friend of his father’s. Homer’s Odyssey
tells that the tutor’s name was Mentor.
From those origins in Greek mythology,
the word “mentor” became synonymous
with a wise, trusted, experienced senior
sponsor or adviser.
UC Davis Health System’s
Mentoring Academy is grounded in that
2,600-year-old legacy. Guided by newly
appointed director Julie Schweitzer, the
Mentoring Academy is the framework
through which mentorship platforms,
advocacy, curricula and other resources
are coordinated. Frederick J. Meyers,
now vice dean, conceived the Mentoring
Academy and in early 2011 appointed
Judith Turgeon to oversee its Central
Steering Committee and put the plan
into action. Working in collaboration
with her was Schweitzer, who
advanced to the director’s position this
past September, following Turgeon’s
retirement.
Under Schweitzer’s guidance, the
Mentoring Academy is undergoing
a recalibration and is gearing up for
increased enrollment due
to greater attention to
mentorship and growing
awareness about the
Mentoring Academy.
“I notice much
more interaction among
departments about
mentoring activities, much
of which occurs during
the workshops that the
Mentoring Academy hosts,”
said Schweitzer, a professor
of psychiatry and behavioral
sciences. The workshop
format encourages sharing of
best practices. “Historically
mentoring was siloed within
departments. But there
has been an investment in
infrastructure and culture
change, and we are gaining
Telemachus and Mentor (illustration by Pablo E. Fabisch,
recognition that mentoring is
public domain, from François Fénelon’s Les Aventures de
Télémaque, 1699)
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