What the National Research Mentoring Network (NMRN) Can Mean for You

Thursday, February 8, 2018 8:00 am to 9:30 am

Location

Rackham Graduate School Assembly Hall

Details

Are you a mentee in the biomedical, behavioral, clinical, or social sciences? Learn more about the National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN) at a February 8 event featuring Melissa McDaniels, PhD of Michigan State University.
   
Dr. McDaniels will lead a panel discussion about the NRMN, a nationwide consortium of biomedical professionals and institutions collaborating to provide trainees with evidence-based mentorship and professional development programming. NRMN’s program models emphasize the benefits and challenges of diversity, inclusivity and culture within mentoring relationships, and more broadly the research workforce. The goal of the NRMN is to enhance the diversity of the NIH-funded research workforce.
   
Dr. McDaniels is assistant dean of the MSU Graduate School and director of the teaching assistant program. She is a master facilitator and synchronous online training specialist with the NIH-supported NRMN.
   
Panelists include:
   

  •    Vicki Ellingrod, PharmD, FCCP, Associate Dean for Research and John Gideon Searle Professor of Clinical and Translational Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy; Professor of Psychiatry; and Adjunct Professor of Psychology, College of Literature, Science & the Arts.
  •    Peter Hitchcock, PhD, Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and Department of Cell and Developmental Biology; Associate Dean, Rackham Graduate School
  •    Jadranka Stojanovska, MD, MS, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology
  •    Larry Charleston IV, MD, MSc, FAHS Headache Medicine Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology

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