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The Junior Faculty Development Class of 2016 is pictured here with Office of Faculty Affairs and UMass Medical School senior leadership at the graduation ceremony. |
The 21 members of the Junior Faculty Development Program Class of 2016 were honored for their achievements during a graduation ceremony at UMass Medical School.
The intensive professional development experience for junior faculty is designed to accelerate the academic and professional development of junior faculty. The program comprises a comprehensive curriculum of 30 weekly classes through the academic year, and an individual project completed under the guidance of a senior faculty mentor. Since its introduction at UMMS by course developers Robert Milner, PhD, associate vice provost for professional development and professor of neurology, and Luanne Thorndyke, MD, vice provost for faculty affairs and professor of medicine, the program has become a national model. Since its inception, 133 junior faculty have participated.
This year’s projects addressed a range of participants’ clinical and educational interests including adolescent self-harm attempts and associated use of social media; comprehensive care of the geriatric acute care surgical patient; and improving access and distribution Naloxone rescue kits in Massachusetts pharmacies.
Class members (including one participant from UMass Lowell) were recognized alongside their mentors in the presence of family and friends at a ceremony held May 19. The 2016 Junior Faculty Development Program graduates are:
Rashmi Bhopi, MD, assistant professor of pediatrics (mentor: Ted Kremer, MD, clinical associate professor of pediatrics)
Jennifer Carey, MD, assistant professor of emergency medicine (mentor: Sherry Pagoto, PhD, associate professor of medicine)
James Carroll, MD, assistant professor of surgery (mentor: Jennifer Tjia, MD, MSCE, associate professor of quantitative health sciences and medicine)
Kate Daniello, MD, assistant professor of neurology (mentor: Sheri A Keitz, MD, PhD, professor of medicine)
Anindita Deb, MD, assistant professor of neurology (mentor: Melissa Fischer, MD, associate professor of medicine and associate dean for undergraduate medical education)
Carolynn DeBenedectis, MD, assistant professor of radiology (mentor: Sarah McGee, MD, MPH, clinical associate professor of medicine)
Eustathia Giannaris, PhD, assistant professor of radiology and cell & developmental biology (mentor: Edward Boyer, MD, PhD, professor of emergency medicine)
Gayle Gravlin, EdD, assistant professor of nursing (mentor: Michele Pugnaire, MD, professor of family health & community medicine and medicine, and senior associate dean for educational affairs)
Nils Henninger, MD, assistant professor of neurology (mentor: Jane Freedman, MD, professor of medicine)
Christina Hermos, MD, MS, assistant professor of pediatrics (mentor: Julie Jonassen, PhD, professor of professor of microbiology & physiological systems)
Eric James, PhD, associate professor of physical therapy at UMass Lowell (mentor: Milagros Rosal, PhD, professor of medicine)
Kimberly Lenz, PharmD, assistant professor of family medicine & community health (mentor: Kate Lapane, PhD, professor of quantitative health sciences and associate dean of clinical and population health research)
Christopher Marshall, MD, assistant professor of medicine (mentor: David Hatem, MD, professor of medicine)
Phoebe Moore, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry (mentor: Kathleen Mazor, PhD, professor of medicine)
Babak Movahedi, MD, PhD, assistant professor of surgery (mentor: Jeffrey Stoff, MD, professor of medicine)
M. Richard Pavao, MD, assistant professor of anesthesiology & perioperative medicine (mentor: Margaret Hudlin, MD, assistant professor of surgery)
Grazyna Pomorska, MD, assistant professor of neurology (mentor: Judith Ockene, PhD, MEd, MA, the Barbara Helen Smith Chair in Preventive and Behavioral Medicine, professor of medicine and quantitative health sciences, and chief of the Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine)
Eric Schmidlin, MD, assistant professor of radiology (mentor: Gerard Aurigemma, MD, professor of medicine and radiology)
Jonathan Slutzman, MD, assistant professor of emergency medicine (mentor: Lori Pelletier, PhD, MBA, assistant professor of quantitative health sciences)
Matthew Stebulis, MD, assistant professor of anesthesiology & perioperative medicine (mentor: Patricia Franklin, MD, MBA, MPH, professor of orthopedics & physical rehabilitation)
Daniel Weber, DO, assistant professor of neurology (mentor: Deborah DeMarco, MD, professor of medicine, senior associate dean for clinical affairs and associate dean for graduate medical education)
