Many newly appointed investigators are ill equipped to address
the leadership and management issues they face combining science and medicine,
as the required skills are not formally taught during a residency or fellowship.
During the first few years of an academic appointment, there is little time to
learn these skills. This course is meant to give each attendee practical
strategies for advancing their own academic career. The morning program, Pathway
to the Professoriate (AM),
will
help insure our attendees are enlightened and demystified about the process of
becoming a clinician-scientist and provides valuable insight into the efforts
needed to be successful. In addition, this meeting will present the attendees
with an unique opportunity to develop networks with their peers and more
established physician-scientists. The afternoon program will address health
issues unique to the Asian American community.
Target
Audience: students, residents and fellows. CME credit (pending)
Meeting Schedule:
Saturday, November 8, 2003 (Doris Stein Eye Research Center, Jules Stein Eye Institute,100 Stein Plaza, UCLA)
5:30 6:15 Registration
6:156:30 Welcome and History of American Chinese Medical Association (ACMA)
Dr. Jerry Zhu, Attending Physician, BWH, Harvard Medical School
6:30 7:00 Additional Welcome
Yinuo Li, President, Chinese Students and Scholar Association (CSSA)
Jean Wang, President, Chinese Student Association (CSA).
7:009:00 Reception
Sunday, November 9, 2003 (Research to Prevent Blindness Auditorium, 100 Stein Plaza, UCLA School of Medicine)
Many newly appointed investigators are ill equipped to address the leadership and management issues they face combining science and medicine, as the required skills are not formally taught during a residency or fellowship. During the first few years of an academic appointment, there is little time to learn these skills. This course is meant to give each attendee practical strategies for advancing their own academic career. The morning program, Pathway to the Professoriate (AM), will help insure our attendees are enlightened and demystified about the process of becoming a clinician-scientist and provides valuable insight into the efforts needed to be successful. In addition, this meeting will present the attendees with an unique opportunity to develop networks with their peers and more established physician-scientists. The afternoon program will address health issues unique to the Asian American community.
Highlights:
I. Pathway to the Professoriate (AM)
Long-term Success: Stories from the Distinguished Faculty
Funding
Writing and Publishing Scientific Articles and Technology Transfer
The Tenure Process: Clinical Service, Research Teaching, Community Service, Committee Work
Lab Management, Mentoring and Leadership
Mentoring and Being Mentored
Time Management
II. Health Issues of Interests to Chinese Americans (PM)
I. Pathway to the Professoriate (AM)
7:00 to 8:00 Breakfast and Registration
8:008:10 Welcome and Academic Advancement Process: Simplified
Dr. Bartly J. Mondino, Bradley R. Straatsma Professor and Director of the Jules Stein Eye Institute,
UCLA Honorary Member, Chinese Ophthalmological Society
8:158:45 Long-term Success I: Stories from the West Coast
Dr. Yuet Wai Kan, Louis Diamond Professor and Investigator,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Univ California, San Francisco
8:509:20 Long-term Success II: Stories from the East Coast
Dr. Victor A McKusick, University Professor
McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital
9:25 9: 45 Career Development in Clinical Sciences
9:5010:20 Coffee Break
10:2010:40 Clinical Trials and its Role in Academic Medicine
Dr. Jennifer Lim, Associate Professor, Dohney Eye Institute, USC
President, Chinese Ophthalmological Society
10:4511:05 Career Development in Basic Sciences
Dr. Alice Huang, Senior Councilor for External Relations, California Institute of Technology, CA
Dr. Bradley Straatsma, Editor-in-chief Emeritus, American Journal of Ophthalmology
and Founder Director, Jules Stein Eye Institute, UCLA
Dr. Jeannie Chen, Associate Professor, Dohney Eye and Zilka Neurogenetic Institutes, USC
12:00 --12:20 Time Management, Lab Management, Mentoring and Leadership
Dr. Hong Wu, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, UCLA
12:25 -- 1:35 Wrap-up of Morning Session
Dr. Shin Lin, Vice Chancellor, Univ Cal-Irvine
12:40 -- 1:30 LUNCH
1:30 -- 2:15 Life on the Academic Food Chain: the Road from Hire to Tenure
A panel of young faculty at various stages of their careers will describe some of the professional and personal issues they faced in their first faculty position. The group will also discuss some of the pedagogical and scholarly forces that act on all faculty. These include: the expectations of new colleagues and the institution, engaging in scholarship, interaction with the student body, and balancing ones professional life and personal commitments.
Dr. Eli Chang, Asst Prof, OculoPlastic Service, Dohney/USC
Dr. Roy Chuck, Asst Prof, Cornea Service, UCI, and Secretary, Chinese Ophthalmological SocietyDr. Jonathan Song, Assistant Professor, Cornea Service, Childrens Hospital L.A.
2:15 -- 2:45 Coffee Break
2:45 5:00 Health Issues of Interests to Chinese Americans
2:453:10 Opening Address: East-West Medicine
Dr. Ka-Kit Hui, Director, UCLA Center for East-West Medicine
3:103:30 Chinese mind/body Medicine
Dr. Shin Lin, Vice Chancellor, Univ Cal-Irvine
3:353:50 Glaucoma
Dr. Simon Law, UCLA
3:554:15 Dentistry
Dr. David Wong, Professor, School of Dentistry UCLA
4:154:35 Chronic Hepatitis
(TBA)
4:35 Reception and Banquet
Introduction of faculties:
Dr. Jeannie Chen is a member of the NIH Center for Scientific Review Study Section. She contributed greatly to the understanding of molecular mechanisms responsible for signal termination and adaptation in photoreceptors and regulation of photoreceptor cell death.
Dr Alice Huang and her husband, Dr. David Baltimore, are leading figures in Virology. She is the Senior Councilor for External Relations, California Institute of Technology, CA. Previously, she was the Dean of Science at New York University.
Dr. Ka-Kit Hui, is a professor of medicine who founded the UCLA Center for East-West Medicine
Dr. Yuet Wai Kan is the Louis K Diamond Chair in Haematology and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Insitute at UCSF. Many prestigious awards were bestowed on him including: the Albert Lasker Award, the Christopher Columbus Discovery Award in Biomedical Research, a one-time award to commemorate the 500th anniversary of America's discovery and the Gardner Foundation International Award. Professor Kan has been admitted to the membership of numerous societies, including the National Academy of Science (USA), Academy Sinica, Taiwan and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing. He was the first Chinese to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society (UK) in 1981.
Dr. Jennifer Lim, an associate professor at USC pioneered photodynamic therapy.
Dr. Shin Lin, is a Vice Chancellor at Univ Cal-Irvine. Previously, he was the Chairman of Biophysics at the The Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. Victor A. McKusick is University Professor at the McKusick-Nathans Institute in The Johns Hopkins Hospital. Previously, he served as the Physician-in-Chief at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He is the recipient of numerous honorary degrees and his other awards include the Albert Lasker Award, the National Medal of Science from President George W. Bush, the Gairdner International Award, William A. Allan Award, the James Luck Award of the National Academy of Sciences, the San Remo International Prize, etc. Professor McKusick is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. and also a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Royal College of Physicians of London.
Dr. Simon Law pioneered implants in controlling intraocular pressure in patients with refractory glaucoma. He is an assistant professor at UCLA.
Dr. Bartly Mondino is Bradley R. Straatsma Professor and Director of the Jules Stein Eye Institute. He is the President of American University Professors in Ophthalmology. As a clinician-scientist, he has enhanced the understanding of immunologic responses of the cornea and the. role of lymphocytes and the complement system in the immunopathogenesis of anterior segment diseases.
Dr. David L. Rimoin holds the Steven Spielberg Chair in Pediatrics at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center/UCLA. Dr. Rimoin is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and the Johns Hopkins University Society of Scholars.
Dr. Bradley R. Straatsma is the Founding Director of the Jules Stein Eye Institute and Editor-in-chief Emeritus, American Journal of Ophthalmology. He is a leading figure in ocular oncology and is recognized by numerous awards.
Dr. Hong Wu, an Investigator of Howard Hughes Medical Institute, UCLA pioneered studies on neurostem cells.