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Education News Congratulations to the ASPET Mentoring Network Inaugural Class The ASPET Mentoring Network: Coaching for Career Development was established by the BIG IDEAS initiative in 2015 as a means to promote diversity in the scientific workforce through career coaching. This program follows a mentoring model that matches mid- to latecareer scientists with cohorts of young scientists to help guide them in their development and career advancement. The activities of the program are designed to complement, not replace, scientific mentors at participants’ home institutions. The yearlong program will include both one-on-one and group discussions that align with the interests and needs of the participants. The first year-long program will begin during EB2016 with in-person activities, followed by virtual interactions throughout the year. Activities at EB2016 will encourage relationship building across coaching groups, near-peer mentoring between graduate students and postdoctoral scientists, and networking. The program will lay the groundwork for how the ASPET Mentoring Network will work, with a special emphasis on deconstructing the skills needed to succeed scientifically, professionally, psychologically, and socially. Led by Lynn Wecker, Susan Ingram, and members of the Mentoring and Career Development committee, the program will adapt a coaching model developed by Rick McGee and his colleagues at Northwestern University. The leadership team identified coaches and solicited applications from graduate students and postdoctoral scientists in the fall of 2015. Coaches include Larry Carter (Jazz Pharmaceuticals), Susan Ingram (Oregon Health & Science University), Dave Jewett (University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire), and Stephanie Watts (Michigan State University). Lynn Wecker (University of South Florida) and Myron Toews
(University of Nebraska Medical Center) will also provide support to the coaching groups throughout the program. Rick McGee has contributed his expertise throughout the process, and will lead related sessions at EB2016. We congratulate the following young scientists who were chosen to participate in the ASPET Mentoring Network:
Postdoctoral Scientists Melissa Barker-Haliski, Univ of Utah Rebecca Benham Vautour, McLean Hospital/ Harvard Med Sch Lisa Brents, Univ of Arkansas for Med Sciences Eman Gohar, Univ of Alabama Birmingham Lauren Haar, Loyola Univ Chicago Naeem Patil, Vanderbilt Univ Med Center Ibolya Rutkai, Tulane Univ Sherrica Tai, Univ of Arkansas for Med Sciences
Graduate Students Seun Ajiboye, Johns Hopkins Univ Sara Humphreys, Washington State Univ Suleman Hussain, Univ of Texas at San Antonio Ram Kandasamy, Washington State Univ Sophia Kaska, Michigan State Univ Cameron Kieffer, Creighton Univ Cam McCarthy, Georgia Regents Univ Walatta Mesquitta, Univ of Wisconsin-Madison Amreen Mughal, North Dakota State Univ Anh Phan, Loyola Univ Chicago Angel Rubio, Boston Univ Tracey Suter, Brown Univ Zachary Tibbs, Univ of Alabama at Birmingham Alexandria Trujillo, SUNY at Buffalo Saurabh Vispute, St. John's Univ Chen-Shan Woodcock, Univ of Pittsburgh
March 2016 • The Pharmacologist