Rush Mentoring Programs

Rush mentoring programs
As humans, we build upon what others have already learned. That makes mentoring critical to success in any professional track, including health care. Rush University makes mentoring a cornerstone of its professional development efforts, allowing early-career faculty to learn from those who preceded them and giving experienced faculty the opportunity to keep their wisdom alive, vibrant and useful by bettering patient lives and professional careers.

Rush University has four unique mentoring programs open to all faculty members affiliated with Rush University and John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County. Our programs currently host many seminars and workshops for researchers, educators and postdoctoral medical professionals.

2022 Rush Mentoring Programs Annual Report

The Office of Mentoring Programs within Faculty Affairs is excited to announce that the 2022 Rush Mentoring Programs Annual Report has been published.

 

Click here to view the 2022 RUSH Mentoring Programs Annual Report

 

Upcoming Events
All of the seminars and meetings are open to all Rush faculty members, postdoctoral fellows, staff and students. Some of the seminars and meetings will be hybrid and some will be held virtually only.
Date/Time/Format/Location Event Information

Date

February 9, 2023 (Thursday) 

 

Time

12:00 - 1:00 pm 

 

Format/Location

Virtual (Zoom)

 

 

Meet the Expert 

 

Presentation Title: A genetics first approach to understanding intellectual disability and autism

 

Presenter

 

Latha Valluripalli Soorya, PhD, BCBA

Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, RUSH Medical College

Director, Autism Assessment, Research, Treatment and Services (AARTS) Center

 

About the Meet the Expert Seminar
 

1. To learn about research accomplishments and future directions of mentees who had completed their tenure in the Rush Research Mentoring Program.

 

2. To establish new interdisciplinary and interdepartmental collaborations.

 

 

RSVP - We will send you a calendar invitation that will include the Zoom meeting information to block your calendar after you RSVP.

Date

February 10, 2023 (Friday)
 

Time

12:00 - 1:00 pm
 

Format/Location

Virtual (Zoom)

 

 

Women Mentoring Program Seminar

 

Presentation Title: Self-Promotion To Get Ahead

 

Presenter
 

Yanina Purim-Shem-Tov, MD, MS, FACEP

Professor of Emergency Medicine
Rush Medical College
Executive Vice Chair, Faculty Affairs
Department of Emergency Medicine
Rush University Medical Center

 

About the Women Mentoring Program Seminar
 

1. To address challenges faced by women faculty in academic medicine and the healthcare profession

 

 

RSVP - We will send you a calendar invitation that will include the Zoom meeting information to block your calendar after you RSVP.

Date

Febraury 22, 2023 (Wednesday)
 

Time

3:00 - 4:00 pm
 

Format/Location

Virtual (Zoom)

 

RRMP Lab Track Meeting

 

Presentation Title: Intraarticular neuroplasticity in four mouse models of knee osteoarthritis

 

Presenter
 

Alia Obeidat, PhD

Instructor

Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology

Rush Medical College

 

About the RRMP Lab Track Meeting
 

RRMP mentees will be presenting their research to solicit critical feedback for eventual funding.

 

RSVP - We will send you a calendar invitation that will include the Zoom meeting information to block your calendar after you RSVP.

Date

February 23, 2023 (Thursday)
 

Time

12:00 - 1:00 pm
 

Format/Location

Virtual (Zoom)

 

 

Postdoctoral Seminar

 

Presentation Title: Owning Your Expertise and Value

 

Presenter

 

Mercedes Carnethon, PhD
Vice Chair

Department of Preventive Medicine

Mary Harris Thompson Professor

Professor of Preventive Medicine (Epidemiology) and Medicine (Pulmonary and Critical Care)

 

Objectives
 

1. To discuss strategies for diplomatically—yet proudly, owning one’s expertise and communicating with confidence.

 

2. To discuss the problems that individuals who are historically underrepresented in their field (e.g., women-identifying, non-white, first generation) face to view themselves as experts in their fields of study.

 

3. To discuss how to convince search committees, academic administrators overseeing promotion decisions, funders or scientific peers.

 

RSVP - We will send you a calendar invitation that will include the Zoom meeting information to block your calendar after you RSVP.

Date

February 27, 2023 (Monday)
 

Time

3:00 - 4:00 pm
 

Format/Location

Virtual (Zoom)

RRMP Clinical Track Meeting

 

Presentation Title: Employing experimental and computational approaches to investigate joint biomechanics across MSK pathologies

 

Presenter
 

Jonathan A. Gustafson, PhD

Instructor

IBTS Fellowship Research Director

Department of Orthopedic Surgery

Rush University Medical Center

 

About the RRMP Clinical Track Meeting
 

RRMP mentees will be presenting their research to solicit critical feedback for eventual funding.

 

RSVP - We will send you a calendar invitation that will include the Zoom meeting information to block your calendar after you RSVP.

 

Mentors’ Training Module

Mentoring Programs Contacts
Amarjit S. Virdi, PhD
Director
(312) 563-3146
 
Meghana Atre, MPH
Academic Program Coordinator
(312) 563-3130
 
For more information: 
mentoringprograms@rush.edu.