WEBINAR SERIES—The Importance of Mentoring: Tips for Mentors and Mentees

May 24, 2023
11 a.m. EDT

APS Members watch the recorded webinar

In our second webinar about mentoring, panelists will follow up on requests from attendees to expand on best practices. Speakers will share their tips for being a good mentor who is culturally aware, share how to find good mentors and explain how mentorship can lead to networking within and beyond your institution. Panelists will share their personal experiences on setting expectations for the mentor and mentee.

Key Learning Objectives

After participating in this webinar, attendees will be able to:

• define what a mentor is and describe traits of a good mentor,
• describe what it means to be a culturally aware mentor,
• know how to set expectations for their mentor and mentee(s), and
• describe what an appropriate mentee-mentor relationship looks like.

Moderator

Erica C. Heinrich, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Division of Biomedical Sciences at the University of California Riverside School of Medicine. Her research interests include the integrative physiology of adaptation to chronic hypoxia with a focus on plasticity in ventilatory control. Heinrich has helped build faculty mentorship programs and has led workshops on inclusive teaching practices. Heinrich serves on the American Physiological Society’s Women in Physiology Committee.

Panelists

Sonia C. Flores, PhD, is currently a professor and vice chair for diversity and justice in the Department of Medicine at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. She received her BS in biology from the University of Puerto Rico and her PhD from the University of South Alabama. Flores grew up in Puerto Rico and has developed several National Institutes of Health-funded pipeline programs increase the number of underrepresented individuals who enter the sciences and pursue academic research careers.  She is passionate about building programs that support equity, diversity and inclusion and enhance career development and educational prospects.

Mitchell D. Feldman, MD, MPhil, FACP, is a professor of medicine, associate vice provost for faculty mentoring and chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He founded and directs the UCSF faculty mentoring program for over 3,000 faculty. Feldman’s research has shown that mentoring is key to more productive and satisfying careers for academic health sciences faculty. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, has an MPhil from Cambridge University, England, and completed his MD and internal medicine training at UCSF. Feldman is the former co-editor-in -chief of the Journal of General Internal Medicine and is the co-editor of the textbook “Behavioral Medicine: A Guide for Clinical Practice.”