Mentoring in Research 2-Day Workshop for Postdoctoral Scholar

This 2-day workshop provides hands-on training to improve the mentoring skills of participants. We will shed light on your mentoring style, and provide feedback for how to interact with mentees and mentors of differing styles.  This interactive workshop uses case studies, scenarios, and small groups to explore a variety of situations and to illustrate the challenges and rewards of mentoring in research. 

Participants will:

• explore one's own learning and teaching style and how it impacts mentoring
• improve your skills as a mentor and project manager
• learn from case studies common issues, challenges around mentoring, in a open discussion with peers and faculty mentors

Sofie R Kleppner, PhD, Associate Director, Cardiovascular Institute. She received her PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Pennsylvania, and completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the Brain Research Institute, UCLA.  Her experience in academia and biotech led to a deep interest in the role of mentoring, and the traits of effetive mentors.

Emily A. Lilo, MPH, is Project Manager at the Center for Health Policy/Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research (CHP/PCOR) where she runs a study with an interdepartmental team of 12. Prior to coming to Stanford, she worked at the Harvard Medical School running early childhood obesity prevention interventions.  Her experience leading and managing students and teams led to her commitment to assist a new generation of medical scholars to become good mentors.