3rd Annual Career Development Course

Friday, October 5, 2007

Choosing and Negotiating for Your Academic Job
Panel Chair: Jason Fleming, MD

Choosing your first academic job – Cord Sturgeon, MD

Negotiating for what you need to succeed – Sonia Sugg, MD

Evaluating an academic job offer – Todd Tuttle, MD

Chairman’s perspective on new faculty recruitment – Jeff Matthews, MD

Developing Your Academic Program
Panel Chair: Louis Nguyen, MD, MBA, MPH

Choosing your research path – Caprice Greenberg, MD, MPH

Balancing clinical and research responsibilities – Alan Dackiw, MD, PhD

Keeping your career on course by setting and achieving goals – Mary Klingensmith, MD

How to choose the right mentor and become an effective mentor – Kevin Staveley-O'Carroll, MD, PhD

Saturday, October 6, 2007

Keynote Speaker
Self-actualization: a surgical perspective – Robert Udelsman, MD, MBA

Leading Your Lab
Panel Chair: Scott Gallagher, MD

Management skills and work flow in the lab – Fiemu Nwariaku, MD

Research to manuscripts: the ethics of authorship – Michael Sarr, MD

Professionalism, Conflict Resolution & Emotional Intelligence – Steven Libutti, MD

Writing Effective Grant Applications
Panel Chair: Lawrence Kim, MD

Grant application and biosketch strategies – Robert Thompson, MD

Fatal flaws and how to avoid them – Martin Hauer-Jensen, MD, PhD

Career development awards – Louis Nguyen, MD, MBA, MPH

Transitioning from a K award to an R01 – Joseph Cullen, MD

Becoming an Effective Teacher
Panel Chair: Alessandro Fichera, MD

Characteristics of excellent teachers: how to be effective in the limited work hour environment – Loretto Glynn, MD

Effective lectures – Margaret Schwarze, MD

Building a teaching portfolio – Hilary Sanfey, MB ChB

Getting Promoted
Panel Chair: Mark Cohen, MD

Knowing the criteria for promotion and tenure – Herb Chen, MD

Planning an effective strategy for getting promoted – Terry Lairmore, MD

How important is tenure? – Paul Terranova, PhD

Developing a peer network – Nipun Merchant, MD