Cover: Mentor Training for Clinical and Translational Researchers, 1st Edition by Christine Pfund; Stephanie House; Pamela Asquith; Kimberly Spencer; Karin Silet; Christine Sorkness

Mentor Training for Clinical and Translational Researchers

First  Edition©2013  Christine Pfund; Stephanie House; Pamela Asquith; Kimberly Spencer; Karin Silet; Christine Sorkness

ISBN:9781464152740

About

The mentoring curriculum presented in this manual is adapted from Entering Mentoring by Jo Handelsman, Christine Pfund, Sarah Miller and Christine Maidl Pribbenow. The materials presented in Entering Mentoring provide the basis for research mentor training tailored to the needs of diverse mentors and mentees in various settings. 

Table of Contents

Christine Pfund

Christine Pfund, PhD, is a researcher with the Wisconsin Center for Education Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW).  Dr. Pfund earned her PhD in Cellular and Molecular Biology, followed by postdoctoral research in Plant Pathology, both at University of Wisconsin-Madison.  For almost a decade, Dr. Pfund served as the Associated Director of the Delta Program in Research, Teaching, and Learning and the codirector of the Wisconsin Program for Scientific Teaching, helping to train future faculty to become better, more effective teachers.  Dr. Pfund is now conducting research with several programs across the UW campus, including the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research and the Center for Women’s Health Research.  Her work focuses on developing, implementing, documenting, and studying research mentor-training interventions across science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM).  Dr. Pfund coauthored the original Entering Mentoring curriculum and coauthored several papers documenting the effectiveness of this approach.  Currently, Dr. Pfund is coleading two studies focused on the impact of training on both mentors and mentees and understanding specific factors in mentoring relationships that account for positive student outcomes.

Stephanie House

Stephanie House has been the director for the mentoring projects at University of Wisconsin-Madison Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (UW ICTR) since December 2009.  This includes the administration of the multi-site randomized controlled trial to test the effectiveness of a research mentor training curriculum and the creation of an on-line mentoring resource.  She received her graduate degree in Anthropology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1998.  She then worked at the University of Tennessee Social Work Office of Research and Public Service evaluating state welfare reform programs before taking time to stay home with her children.  Her other research experience has primarily dealt with immigration and social integration.  As a whole, she has worked in a mix of research, teaching, and social service provision. 

Pamela Asquith

Pamela Asquith, PhD is the Administrative Director of the Research Education and Career Development (REC) Core at the UW Madison Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR).  Dr. Asquith earned her PhD in Education and Human Development at the University of Rochester.  The REC Core administers NIH Training and Career Development programs and graduate and certificate programs in clinical and translational research. Prior to joining ICTR in 2007, Pam worked for several years at the UW Wisconsin Center for Education Research. In addition to co-authoring this curriculum, Pam has led the adaptation of this curriculum for clinical and behavioral researchers and is co-author on two papers reporting on the findings of the UW Madison led multi-site Randomized Controlled Trial to test the effectiveness of mentor training

Kimberly Spencer

Kimberly Spencer, BS is an Associate Research Specialist for the University of Wisconsin Madison’s Institute for Clinical and Translational Research.  Since joining ICTR in 2010, she has provided support on mentoring efforts, including a nationwide study testing the effectiveness of a research mentor-training program for clinical and translational researchers.  Currently Ms. Spencer is working with ICTR to build a website that will provide mentoring resources for mentors and trainees, as well as specialized training curricula for users to implement research mentor training.  Ms. Spencer graduated from Carroll University with a degree in psychology and has also provided support on several research grants with the Medical College of Wisconsin and worked as a line therapist with the Wisconsin Early Autism Project. 

Karin Silet

Karin Silet, MA, is a Senior Instructional Specialist with the Research Education and Career Development Core of the UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR). Ms. Silet was the project director for ICTR’s CTSA Strategic Goal grant examining “best practices” for mentoring junior faculty conducting clinical and translational research.   As part of this project, Karin conducted focus group interviews with over 100 mentors and mentees across 4 medical centers.  She is currently leveraging the data from this project to contribute to a mentor development website being built by ICTR’s mentorship team. Karin is the also the coordinator of ICTR’s non-credit educational programming which provides instruction on the knowledge, skills and behaviors essential for success in clinical and translational research.  Prior to joining ICTR, Karin worked as an Outreach Specialist in UW’s School of Educa¬tion and as the Continuing Education Specialist at University of California-Berkeley. Karin holds a Masters in English from Bucknell University and has completed Doctoral coursework at the University of Toronto.

Christine Sorkness

Christine A. Sorkness, PharmD is a Professor at the University of Wisconsin (UW) School of Pharmacy and School of Medicine and Public Health. She is also the Senior Associate Executive Director of the UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR). In this role, she directly oversees functioning of the Community Engagement and Research Core, the Collaborative Center for Health Equity, and the ICTR Pilot Awards Program. Her research interests have focused on the evaluation (both clinical efficacy and comparative effectiveness) of new and existing therapies in the treatment of children and adults with asthma, including minority populations.  Dr. Sorkness serves as a mentor to the ICTR KL2 trainees and graduate students, a variety of pharmacy and medicine specialty residents and fellows, and as a consultant for campus training grants. Dr. Sorkness served as a leader on the multi-site randomized controlled trial to test the effectiveness of this mentor training curriculum.