Mentoring Leaders

Each department within the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has a mentoring leader whose role is to help junior faculty identify mentors, conduct professional needs assessments, advise mentees on working with mentors, and support career development goals.

Departments can customize the mentoring leader role to meet the needs of their junior faculty. Some mentoring leaders, particularly in smaller departments, serve on mentoring committees for junior faculty. In larger departments, mentoring leaders help ensure junior faculty find primary mentors in a timely manner.

Goals

The goals of the mentoring leaders and champions are to support junior faculty by:

  • Ensuring junior research/investigator faculty have a mentor and/or a mentoring committee
  • Making sure that junior clinical and educator faculty have at least one senior mentor and encouraging them to have more than one when possible
  • Creating and maintaining ongoing departmental mentoring plans and evaluating the program at least annually
  • Participating in quarterly meetings to learn about mentorship best practices, which they can share with their departments
  • Disseminating information about Faculty Development Core (FDC) events and resources relating to mentoring, career development, and other opportunities for junior faculty
  • Recommending junior faculty mentees for opportunities organized by FDC (e.g., small group discussions with senior leadership, funding opportunities, and focus groups)
  • Providing FDC with insights into and addressing unmet needs of junior faculty mentees and working with the office to develop resources that fill those gaps

Department Mentoring Leaders

Each department develops its own mentoring program, with guidance from the FDC, to meet the needs of its faculty within the existing departmental structure.

To identify your department’s mentoring leader or learn more about mentoring support, please email OFD@mssm.edu. (The Departments of Neurology and Health System Design and Global Health have separate contacts.). The mentoring champions of each Division of Medicine serve similar roles.

Department Mentoring Leaders

Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine

James Eisenkraft, MD; Samuel DeMaria Jr., MD; Meg Rosenblatt, MD

Cardiovascular Surgery

Anelechi Anyanwu, MD

Cell, Developmental, and Regenerative Biology

James J. Bieker, MD

Dentistry

Judy Moy, DDS; William Kreifels, DDS

Dermatology

Marsha Gordon, MD

Emergency Medicine

Andy Jagoda, MD; Bret Nelson, MD

Environmental Medicine and Public Health

Mary Wolff PhD; John Meyer, MD

Family Medicine and Community Health

Victor Sta.Ana, MD

Genetics and Genomic Sciences

Inga Peter, PhD; Paul O’Reilly, PhD; Pin-Xian Xu, PhD

Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine

Robert Arnold, MD

Medical Education

David Muller, MD

Medicine

Benjamin Chen, MD; Michelle K Kim, MD; Jenny Lin, MD; Samuel Seward, Jr., MD; Neomi Shah, MD; Amy Rosenberg, MD; Matthew Weissman, MD

Microbiology

Jean Lim, PhD; Gustavo Palacios, PhD

Neuroscience

Anne Schaefer, MD, PhD; Paul Slesinger, PhD

Neurosurgery

Isabelle Germano, MD

Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences

Katherine Chen, MD, MPH

Oncological Sciences

Zhe-Qiang Pan, PhD

Ophthalmology

Sandra Masur, PhD; Anita Gupta, MD

Orthopedics

James Gladstone, MD

Otolaryngology

Satish Govindaraj, MD

Pathology

Maria Isabel Fiel, MD

Pediatrics

John Bucuvalas, MD; Evelyne St John Sutton, MD

Pharmacological Sciences

Aneel Aggarwal, PhD

Population Health Science and Policy

Emilia Bagiella, PhD

Psychiatry

Joseph Buxbaum, PhD

Radiation Oncology

Michael Buckstein, MD, PhD

Radiology

Bachir Taouli, MD, MHA

Surgery

Celia Divino, MD; Peter Faries, MD; Randolph Steinhagen, MD

Thoracic Surgery

Andrea Wolf, MD

Urology

Vannita Simma-Chiang