Faculty Factory

Today’s interview on the Faculty Factory is short, sweet, and simply put, it radiates positivity. We are excited to have Priya Umapathi, MD, join the Faculty Factory community this week for a chat about perseverance, experiencing joy, and most importantly of all — acknowledging gratitude for Mom! Dr. Umapathi is on our Advisory Board for Junior Faculty here at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She also currently serves as Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Advanced Heart Failure/Transplant/MCS. She discusses her leadership journey, overcoming the setbacks of COVID-19, the wisdom of Mom, and much more on today’s episode. Learn more about the Faculty Factory: https://facultyfactory.org/ 

An exciting, information-packed Faculty Factory Reunion episode is now available for our listeners this week with Maureen Connelly, MD, MPH. Dr. Connelly is Senior Associate Dean for Academic and Community Affairs with Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine in Pasadena, California. All things promotion and promotion criteria are the topics underpinning today’s chat with Dr. Connelly. Two important, mission-based promotion ideas that Dr. Connelly shares with us include: Ensuring our mission is driving our promotion criteria. Rewarding the things our mission says we should be rewarding. “Often people describe the promotion criteria as a hidden curriculum,” Dr. Connelly pointed out in today’s discussion. Dr. Connelly first joined our podcast nearly two years ago to the day. On July 24, 2020, Dr. Connelly brought her enthusiasm to our podcast. We discussed her efforts in helping to open Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine as it was established that year. You can revisit her first episode with us here: https://facultyfactory.org/maureen-connelly/ You can also learn more about the publication of the Proceedings in Brief and Commissioned Papers for the virtual workshop series: Promotion, Tenure, and Advancement through the Lens of 2020: The Next Normal: https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26405/promotion-tenure-and-advancement-through-the-lens-of-2020-proceedings (Find the full set of commissioned papers under the Resources Tab on the publication page.) Listen to today’s episode in its entirety through the podcast player located above! When you are finished listening to it, you can check out our podcast archive for more great episodes of the Faculty Factory Podcast.

It’s another Faculty Factory reunion this week as Page S. Morahan, PhD, joins the program. Dr. Morahan first joined our show in March 2020. She was one of the last interviews we had before the COVID-19 pandemic shifted the landscape of our profession in myriad ways. If you are interested in listening to Dr. Morahan’s first interview with us on the Faculty Factory, you can access that episode here: https://facultyfactory.org/catching-up-with-page-s-morahan-phd-founding-director-of-elam/ Dr. Morahan is the founding director of the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) program and is a consultant with the Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research (FAIMER) Institutes. In addition to these roles, she is professor emeritus at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia. You can learn more about ELAM here: https://drexel.edu/medicine/academics/womens-health-and-leadership/elam/ If you are interested in learning more about FAIMER, you can visit their website: https://www.faimer.org/ As we learned on today’s program, Dr. Morahan is helping raise money for FAIMER through her art projects and you can learn more about that here: https://www.pagespagesgallery.com/ We’d like to thank Dr. Morahan for joining us on this latest installment of our Faculty Factory reunion. Please stay tuned to our Faculty Factory show for new episodes every Friday! You can also visit our website for more information: https://facultyfactory.org/ 

Erika T. Brown, PhD, joins us on this week’s reunion episode of the Faculty Factory Podcast. We interview Dr. Brown about her new position with Geisel School of Medicine and much more. In September 2021, Dr. Brown was appointed the new Dean of Faculty Affairs with the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth University in Hanover, New Hampshire. Dr. Brown has many years of experience in faculty affairs, professional development, and academic medicine. This is the second time she has joined our show for an interview, but it has been well over three years since Dr. Brown last spoke with us on the Faculty Factory. In March 2019, Dr. Brown was Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs & Development at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta when she first appeared on our podcast. Today’s episode is another reunion episode where we welcome back guests from past episodes to share ideas, lessons learned, etc. If you are interested in listening to Dr. Brown's first interview with us on the Faculty Factory, you can access that here: https://facultyfactory.org/erika-t-brown/

This week we’re talking with Wiley “Chip” Souba, MD, on the Faculty Factory Podcast. Dr. Souba joins us for a discussion about the inward journey of leadership. As Dr. Souba puts it: leading yourself is the prerequisite to being an effective leader of others. “It’s a journey because it’s a lifelong endeavor, a mountain with no top. And it’s about leadership because it’s about leading yourself.” Dr. Souba is a Professor of Surgery with the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH. He has also held other prestigious positions with Dartmouth College, including: Former Dean of the Geisel School of Medicine Former Vice President for Health Affairs Learn more: https://facultyfactory.org/chip-souba 

Heather Brod visits the Faculty Factory Podcast this week for a memorable chat on executive coaching and leadership. Heather is an executive coach and consultant. Prior to branching off on her own to go into coaching full time, Heather was Executive Director at the Center for Faculty Advancement Mentoring and Engagement with the Ohio State University’s College of Medicine in Columbus. Interpersonal communication and many other topics related to professional development are explored in-depth on today’s podcast.   We’d also like to point out that this interview contains useful information for faculty looking to make a jump into a different career path. Heather discusses her journey from a salaried position in the college of medicine to her current role as executive coach and consultant. For more episode of the Faculty Factory please visit: https://facultyfactory.org/  For more information on Heather please visit: https://heatherbrod.com/

We are excited to welcome Nancy Spector, MD, back to the Faculty Factory Podcast today for a reunion chat.  Dr. Spector is Senior Vice Dean for Faculty, Professor of Pediatrics and Executive Director of Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine® (ELAM®) at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia. This is the second time Dr. Spector has joined our show for an interview. It's been nearly three years to the day since we last spoke with Dr. Spector on the Faculty Factory. This is our latest reunion episode where we welcome back guests from the past to share ideas, lessons learned and much more. If you are interested in listening to Dr. Spector's first interview with us on the Faculty Factory, you can access that here: https://facultyfactory.org/nancy-spector/ According to its official website, The Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine® (ELAM®) program is a year-long part-time fellowship for women faculty in schools of medicine, dentistry, public health and pharmacy. Learn more: https://drexel.edu/medicine/academics/womens-health-and-leadership/elam/  You can also email Dr. Spector for more information: nds24@drexel.edu 

Today’s episode of the Faculty Factory Podcast is an interview about the new Faculty Factory eBook, which is available now for free. The Faculty Factory Community is pleased to present our newest eBook, Habits and Hacks from Hopkins. You can download this eBook for free: https://bit.ly/3PYtL2h Many Faculty Factory podcast listeners may remember it was one year ago we published our first eBook “Snippets for Success.” Due to its popularity and success, we’re pleased to follow up with another free eBook to share with our community. The Habits and Hacks from Hopkins was a series of podcast interviews with faculty from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine that took place from January 2021 through December 2021. The series explored the habits, hacks, practices, routines, and tips to encourage and inspire personal and professional joy and success in academic medicine. If this new eBook is of interest to you, please consider reading the first eBook released from the Faculty Factory, “Snippets for Success.” You can download it here: https://bit.ly/3alrAFY We simply ask that you please consider sharing this free resource widely; we are confident that your colleagues in academic medicine will find this book valuable!

Archana (Archie) Chatterjee, MD, PhD, is our guest on the Faculty Factory Podcast this week. This is another Faculty Factory reunion episode with our guest returning to our show to share some wonderful news. Dr. Chatterjee was selected as the new dean of Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science and vice president for medical affairs, after a national search process, and assumed her new roles on April 6, 2020. Chicago Medical School is located in North Chicago, Ill. When Dr. Chatterjee made her first visit to the Faculty Factory it was way back in October of 2019. At the time of the recording, she was Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development at University of South Dakota’s Sanford School of Medicine. If you would like to learn more about that episode you can listen to it here: https://facultyfactory.org/a-lesson-in-faculty-development-and-faculty-affairs-leadership/ Dr. Chatterjee is the second Faculty Factory guest we have had join us from Chicago Medical School. In March 2022, Nutan Vaidya, MD, spoke about her role as Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs and Equity with the institution. Dr. Vaidya discussed the unique challenges facing her community medical school and the solution-oriented approach her team enacted to better serve faculty. In case you missed it, you can learn more about that episode here: https://facultyfactory.org/nutan-vaidya/ Learn more about the Faculty Factory and catch up on all episodes: https://facultyfactory.org/ 

Joining us on the Faculty Factory this week for a very special reunion episode is Leigh A. Patterson, MD, MAEd. Dr. Patterson is Associate Dean for Faculty Development at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, and Chair of Emergency Medicine at ECU.  Today’s episode of the Faculty Factory Podcast is another reunion episode where we visit with past podcast guests and learn about what’s new since we last chatted. She discusses the shifts and developments in her career since we first spoke with her on the podcast nearly three years ago. As an Emergency Medicine Physician on the front lines, Dr. Patterson also chats with us about the challenges brought on by the pandemic.  You can learn more about our first interview with Dr. Patterson here: https://facultyfactory.org/a-faculty-factory-interview-with-leigh-a-patterson-md-maed/  Learn more about our podcast here: https://facultyfactory.org/podcast