Purpose of Mentorship
 Recognize faculty talents and expand upon them
 Prepare next generation of clinical and translational
research
 Ensure retention of faculty
 Sustain a culture of academic achievement
History of Mentorship at CNMC
 Initiated formal one-on-one program in 2000
 Success as evidenced by increase in numbers
 K and K-like awardees in increasing number of mentored awards
 Trainees and graduates of Master Teachers, IPPCR, K30 (DCCRTC)
programs, attendance at ASAP courses
 Federal and other peer reviewed grants/contracts
 Leadership in discipline specific organizations especially APS/SPR
With Growth in Faculty
A New Approach Needed
 Gap analyses and White Paper (2006) done with help of
annual SAC review, Working Groups and K retreat
recommendations
- Transition from mentored (K) to independent (R) investigators
critical to growth and reputation
- Conflicting demands: clinical versus “academic” time
- Paucity of midlevel faculty mentors
- Infrastructure for clinical research limits achievement
Task Force Recommendations
 Establish “next generation” of mentoring through
Master Mentor Group
 Recognize mentorship as part of annual goals and
objectives process
 Establish Bench-to-Bedside Professorial Rounds
- integration of COEs and CRI
 Focus ASAP curriculum
 Increase networking opportunities for K awardees
Master Mentor Group: Who are they?
 Established in 2008
 Consists of 16 CRI and COE midlevel and senior faculty
with funded clinical and translational research and
history of successful mentorship
 Responsive to concept of interdisciplinary research
and integration of clinical and research enterprise
 Meet every other month
Master Mentor Group Activities
 Participate in ASAP lectures, K30 curriculum and
advise on modifications of same
 Orchestrate annual K retreat
 Annually, orient fellows to CRI resources and graduate
students to clinical opportunities
 Participate in “sourcing” mentors at and outside of
CNMC and developing mentorship teams
 Future
- tools for mentees, like Individual Academic Career Plan (IACP)
- pre-grant submission reviews
- fellows “concept” and feasibility review
Team Science and Mentorship:
Guiding Principles
 Individual creativity preserved while taking advantage
of team synergy
 Motivation for and support of collaborative approach to
answering questions
 Communication is key
 Integrity, trust, respect and sharing regardless of
“status”
Team Science and Mentorship: Common
attributes / disparate constructs
 Top down, one on one “guidance” subsumed by peer
to peer interactions
 Communication, integrity, trust, respect and sharing is
the same
 Too soon to tell how mentee will flourish in team
science environment
Team Science and Mentorship: Options
 Team mentorship – common in K awards
 Peer to peer mentorship – great for critiquing grants,
manuscripts and some academic “way funding”
 Multiple mentors for different aspects of academic life –
scientific, career, work life balance, etc.
Practical Aspects of Mentorship: Tools
Individual Academic Career
Development Plan (IACD)
Planned Academic Programming, 2010
Event
Presenter
Date(s) and Time
Where
Who
Team Science Colloquia;
Bench to Bedside to
Better Health. The Role
of Team Science
Dr. Ann Bonham, Chief Scientific
Director, AAMC
January 7
12:00-1:00pm
6th Floor Conference
Room
Junior Investigators and
faculty
David B. Wilde, M.D., Ph.D.
Medical Office, Division for Clinical
Research Resources
National Center for Research Resources
National Institutes of Health
February 11
12:00-1:00pm
6th Floor Conference
Room
Junior Investigators and
faculty
Ronald J. Sokol, MD
Program Director, Clinical Translational
Research Center
April 7 or 8 (TENTATIVE)
6th Floor Conference
Room (TENTATIVE)
Junior Investigators and
faculty
GWU’s Tenure “expectations”
Dr. Brian J. McGrath, Associate Vice
President for Faculty and Educational
Resources, GWU
January 26
1:00-2:00
Auditorium, 2nd floor
Tenure track faculty
WATCH Brown Bag Lunch - Time
Management
Dr. Marie Bernard, Deputy Director,
National Institute on Aging / NIH
February 24
12:00-1:00pm
Lab Library
Female faculty
DCCRTC K30 Grants writing
workshops
(now on ASAP portal)
Varies
January 12 and 26
February 9 and 23
March 9 and 23
April 6 and 20
May 4 and 18
June 1 and 15
All sessions 9:00am-12N
Lab Library
Fellows, Junior
investigators
WATCH Grand Rounds
Barbara E. Bierer, M.D.
Professor of Medicine, Medical School
Senior Vice President, Research
Director, Center for Faculty
Development and Diversity, Brigham
and Women's Hospital
April 21
8:00-9:00am
Auditorium, 2nd floor
Faculty and others
interested
Breaking the Glass Ceiling
Revision # 1 (1/25/10)
Planned Academic Programming, 2010
(cont’d)
Event
Presenter
Date(s) and Time
Where
Who
Annual CRI Research Day
April 22-23
Atrium
Everyone
“K” Retreat
Friday, May 14, 2010
Dr. Luban’s home
By invitation
K SIG I: The new NIH grant and
grading system
Drs. Mendel Tuchman, Jill Joseph and
Naomi Luban
January 29
12:00-1:00
Goldberg Center Conf
Room 1.5 West Wing
K and K-like awardees
present and future
K SIG II: How to develop the
educational / mentorship section
of a K award
Drs. Pamela Hinds and Naomi Luban
and Tina Cheatwood (from GWU)
March 12
12:00-1:00
Goldberg Center Conf
Rm 1.5 West Wing
K and K-like awardees
present and future
K SIG III: How to collaborate
Drs. Stephen Teach, Edward Connor
and Jill Joseph
April 16
1:00-2:00
Goldberg Center Conf
Room 1.5 West Wing
K and K-like awardees
present and future
Revision # 1 (1/25/10)
Planned Academic Programming, 2010
Need / Opportunity / Content
PIBear (CTSA Portal)
or ASAP
Publishing Timeline
Registry of mentors and social networking on
PI Bear
Dec 2010
New Faculty Resource Booklet posting
April 2010
Searchable functions
September 2010
Boilerplate language from successful grants
Spring 2010
Link to successful CNMC grants
http://report.nih.gov
Future Academic Programming
 Increase core statistical, grant writing and editing
support (CRI center specific)
 Online posting of key sections of grants including
facilities, education section and “model” grants
 Improve distance learning capabilities
 Develop scenario based leadership training curriculum
 Establish communications skills training
 Develop new tracks with defined expectations for
clinician educator, clinician investigator
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should choose 'no' -- this will load a
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modules, as well as slides where
applicable.
As of today we are operating in realtime with LEND and ASAP modules,
and are working to get slides and
menus posted for DCCTRC.
12/7/09