Minority Faculty Career Development Webinar Series

Please see this exciting and free training opportunity:

Minority Faculty Career Development Webinar Series

AAMC’s Diversity Policy and Programs (DPP) has launched the webinar series for junior faculty in academic medicine. Please join us for the second webinar of the series:

Building Your Research-based Career

Friday, March 8, 2013
2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. EST

Featuring :
Cato T. Laurencin, M.D., Ph.D., University Professor, Albert and Wilda Van Dusen Distinguished Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Professor of Chemical, Materials and Biomolecular Engineering, The University of Connecticut.

The webinar is intended to provide practical, concrete advice about building your research-based career by “Cultivating the 4Ms.” There are four key ingredients for success in building a research career:

Me (you): Developing a personal armor for success is the most important overall determinate for your future.
Money: From your first academic appointment contract to seeking funding for grants, "there is nothing going on but the rent".

Mentors (and collaborators): Developing a group of mentors that you can count on for help and assistance is critical for a successful career. As multi investigator grants become more and more the norm, selecting and cultivating reliable collaborators assumes great importance.

Management: (Priorities/Time): How do you best manage priorities? One must decide what the priorities are overall and work to maximize success for them. Real contributions in science come about through bold ideas, disseminated widely, and through work in creating change at the regional and/or national levels.

Brief Expert Bio:
Dr. Laurencin is the Albert and Wilda Van Dusen Distinguished Endowed Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Connecticut. In addition, he is one of two designated University Professors currently at the school.

An elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering, he has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation for over 20 years. Currently, he is the PI or Co PI on 6 major federal grants from NIH, NSF and the Department of Defense. A practicing orthopaedic surgeon, Dr. Laurencin is a husband and father of 3 children. He most recently was awarded the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Mentor Award (February, 2013) for his work in developing the careers of students and faculty.

To submit questions before the webinar, email Lily May Johnson at lmjohnson@aamc.org by 11:00 a.m. on March 8.

Register Today! There is no registration fee for the webinar.