Faculty Factory

Divya Srikumaran, MD, joins us on the Faculty Factory this week to discuss the habits and hacks that have led to her success while navigating a multigenerational household with her family. This is the second installment of our new season of the podcast called, "H3: Habits and Hacks from Hopkins." On these new H3 episodes, we talk with faculty about the practices, efficient routines and ideas we could all benefit from hearing about in academia, and beyond. At Johns Hopkins Medicine, Dr. Srikumaran serves as: Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology Vice Chair for Education, Wilmer Eye Institute Director, Wilmer Eye Institute at Odenton Dr. Srikumaran is a graduate of the Emerging Women's Leadership Program at Johns Hopkins. She describes living with both her parents and in-laws while caring for her own children. Dr. Srikumaran also explains how some of the things she learned in the Leadership Program have been applicable to her home life.

Alejandro V. Garcia, MD, FACS, FAAP, joins us on the Faculty Factory to discuss the habits and hacks that have led to his success. This is the first installment of our new season of the podcast called, "H3: Habits and Hacks from Hopkins." On these new episodes, podcast host Kimberly A. Skarupski, PhD, MPH, will talk with faculty on their habits and hacks-- practices, efficient routines and ideas we could all benefit from hearing about in academia. At Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Dr. Garcia serves as: Assistant Professor of Surgery. Surgical Director, Pediatric ECMO Program. Director, Pediatric Burn Program. Assistant Program Director, Halsted Residency.

Happy New Year friends of the Faculty Factory Podcast! With 2021 upon us, host Dr. Kimberly A. Skarupski introduces a new series here on the Faculty Factory: “Habits and Hacks from Hopkins” also known as “H3.” We are always curious how someone is so successful in our field. What are the factors associated with this person’s success in attaining grants, writing papers and making great strides in their clinical practice? We’d love to uncover some of these successful habits among our faculty and this podcast could be a great platform for sharing these habits and hacks. As you may know, this podcast started with Dr. Skarupski talking with deans and leaders in this field about their different faculty development and faculty affairs offices to explore best practices while looking to build community. Next, we introduced Faculty Factory Podcast Snippets—short, easily digestible segments of knowledge meant to provide some useful nuggets of information that faculty could listen to while on the go. Now we are entering a stage of this podcast where Dr. Skarupski will talk with faculty on their habits and hacks. She will interview them about what practices, efficient routines and ideas we could all benefit from hearing about! On today’s episode, we kicked-off this new series with Dr. Skarupski introducing her own habits. She put them into three categories: the habits of thinking, doing and being.

George S. Everly, Jr., PhD, FACLP, FAPA, joins us today on the Faculty Factory to help close out 2020 with some deeply profound wisdom on resilience and leadership. This is a very timely discussion as Dr. Everly discusses the psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. He also discusses what he’s learned from studying previous pandemics, such as in Hong Kong with SARS and later H1N1 in Singapore. “The psychology of a disaster (or pandemic) can be as important as the virulence of the pandemic itself,” he said. “We have to be careful to not just focus on the virus itself, but also how people react to the virus.” Dr. Everly is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the Department of International Health in the Bloomberg School of Public Health. He’s had a long and impactful career on psychological crisis, disaster response, and resilience. He has spent more than 40 years traveling the world during his career, and has served as adjunct faculty in the FBI National Academy, FEMA, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. He is the author of over 20 books on stress, psychological crisis intervention, disaster, mental health and human resilience, and over 100 peer reviewed journal articles.

Faculty Factory Podcast producer Casey Callanan, MBA interviews Kimberly A. Skarupski, PhD, MPH on today's milestone 100th episode. Did you know the first ever episode of this podcast was lost? Dr. Skarupski and Mr. Callanan discuss that story and the many lessons learned from the first 100 episodes of this show. Dr. Skarupski is host of the Faculty Factory Podcast and serves as Associate Dean for Faculty Development in the Office of Faculty Development and Associate Professor of Medicine (Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology) in the School of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. She is also Associate Professor of Epidemiology in the Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Famous for her top ten lists in professional development, Wendy Ward, PhD, ABPP, FAPA, joins us once again on the Faculty Factory Podcast. This time Dr. Ward shares with us ten tips for building your clinical-based teaching skills.  Dr. Ward serves as Director of Interprofessional Faculty Development at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). She is also Associate Director of Professional Wellness, a clinical psychologist and Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at UAMS. 

Clara L. Lapiner, MPH, joins us on the Faculty Factory Podcast this week to discuss unique and vibrant models that are useful to faculty to help drive and improve their mentoring relationships. Clara Lapiner is Executive Director of Faculty Professional Development, Diversity and Inclusion with Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York.

We are taking a break this week from releasing a new episode of the Faculty Factory Podcast as we enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. However, we are featuring a “classic episode” of our podcast for those that may have missed it when it originally aired.  Darrell G. Kirch, MD, is president emeritus of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). He served as President and CEO of the AAMC from 2006 until 2019, and was AAMC President and CEO when this interview was conducted and first published. Dr. Kirch is a psychiatrist and neuroscientist. He has held several, major leadership positions including scientific director at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).  In April 2019, Dr. Kirch joined us for an in-depth, candid interview that we are making available today for those that may have not been a part of our audience when it first aired. This was episode No. 14 of the Faculty Factory.  As we inch closer to our 100th podcast (we’re up to No. 97 as of November 20, 2020) we thought it would be fun to take a look back and share with you this classic episode. 

Michelle Eakin, MA, PhD, joins the Faculty Factory Podcast to discuss Writing Accountability Groups (WAGs). Dr. Eakin is Associate Professor with Johns Hopkins University and Chair of the American Thoracic Society Tobacco Action Committee.  WAGs participants support each other to permanently end scholarly writing myths, such as I need to feel inspired and motivated to write, I have no time to write, etc.​ WAGs participants build their scholarly writing habits the same way you’d train at a gym, play a sport or master a musical instrument.

Dr. Wendy Ward is back today! The latest installment of her “ten tips” series for early-career professionals continues with today’s podcast episode on the Faculty Factory. Dr. Ward shares with us the ten things early-career professionals can do to build leadership skills before taking on their first formal leadership role. As a friendly reminder, Dr. Ward serves as Director of Interprofessional Faculty Development at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). She is also Associate Director of Professional Wellness, a clinical psychologist and Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at UAMS.