Mentorship
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Our Wednesday mentoring meetings include the Sunrise Mentoring Meeting and Lifestyle Research Collaboratory. The one-hour meetings include researchers interested in lifestyle/behavior research. These meeting aims to offer ideas and feedback on planned research from an interdisciplinary perspective. For grant proposals, this may include discussion about study conceptualization and design, specific aims, methodological issues, partial drafts, and reviewer responses. We also provide input on manuscript development including structure and responding to reviewer comments. Individuals who present may return to future meetings, periodically, for ongoing support leading to submission of their work.
Themed Seminar Series
My Path to Leadership
1/26/2022: Dr. Luisa DiPietro, DDS, PhD Professor, UIC Scientific Director for the Chicago Biomedical Consortium, Director, UIC Center for Wound Healing & Tissue Regeneration Periodontics
2/23/2022: Dr. Saul Weiner, MD Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics and Medical Education, Director, Clinical Leaders and Academic Scholars (CLASS) Fellowship, Senior Advisor to the Provost, UIC
3/23/2022: Dr. Arden Handler, DrPH Professor, Community Health Sciences, Director, Center of Excellence in Maternal and Chil Health, School of Public Health, UIC
4/20/2022: Dr. Philip Clifford, PhD Associate Dean for Research, College of Applied Health Sciences, UIC
5/18/2022: Dr. Elizabeth Skidmore, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA, FACRM Associate Dean for Research, SHRS, and Chair, Department of Occupational Therapy, University of Pittsburgh
My Career , My Story:
2/10/2021: Dr. Rachel Caskey, MD, MAPP, Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics Division Chief, Academic Internal Medicine and Geriatrics
2/24/2021: Dr. Thomas Kannampallil, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
3/10/2021: Dr. Lisa Goldman Rosas, PhD MPH, Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health and the Department of Medicine, Division of Primary Care and Population Health at Stanford School of Medicine
3/24/2021: Dr. Tiffany Powell-Wiley, MD, MPH, Stadtman TENURE-Track Investigator, NHLB
4/7/2021: Dr. Olusola Ajilore, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Associate Director, Residency Training and Education, Director, Psychiatry Residency Neuroscience Research Tracks
Individual Career Counseling
Schedule an individual appointment.
Vitoux Aging and Prevention (VIP) Postdoctoral Fellowship
….Coming soon.
Students and Trainees
- Kevin Tan, M2 Medical Student
- Kevin Cao, M2 Medical Student
- Charmi Patel, M2 Medical Student
Program Alumni
Emily Kringle, PhD, OTR/L
Dr. Kringle completed the T32 Precision Lifestyle Medicine and Translation Research (PREMIER) Postdoctoral Training Program in August 2021 and is now a Visiting Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Illinois Chicago.
Wesley Lefferts, PhD.
Dr. Lefferts completed the T32 Precision Lifestyle Medicine and Translation Research (PREMIER) Postdoctoral Training Program in August 2020 and is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Kinesiology at Iowa State University. View profile.
Urveel Shah, MD
Dr. Shah begins the residency program at Johns Hopkins for Combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics in 2020.
Aashutos Patel, MD
Dr. Patel begins the residency program at Dukes University for Internal Medicine and Pediatrics in 2021.
Tessa Eckley, MD
Dr. Eckley begins the residency program at St. Louis Children’s Hospital for Pediatrics in 2022.