Past Seminars

Facilitator(s): Emelia Benjamin & Angelique Harris

Come learn from a panel of faculty at BUMC about articulating how DEIA can be part of your narrative at BUMC. Panelists will discuss their commitment to DEIA, the type of DEIA work that “counts”, and how to decide what to include in your BU profiles and/or CV. Participants will be encouraged to share their thoughts in small breakout groups. Subsequent seminars will be scheduled to focus on writing your DEIA statements in BU Profiles.

Facilitator: Emelia Benjamin

This session, led by Emelia Benjamin, MD, ScM, Associate Provost of Faculty Development at BUMC, will examine the new Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Accessibility (DEIA) page on the BU Profiles. Participants will receive tips on how to write diversity statements and how to incorporate their DEIA work on their CVs and BU Profiles.

Facilitator: Angelique Harris

This session, led by Angelique Harris, PhD, Associate Dean of D&I at the Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, will examine the new Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Accessibility (DEIA) page on the BU Profiles. Participants will receive tips on how to write diversity statements and how to incorporate their DEIA work on their CVs and BU Profiles.

Facilitators: Jean Liew & George Murphy

This session is led by Jean Liew, MD, MS, and George Murphy, Ph.D. Participants will understand how those in the academic health community are utilizing social media, specifically Twitter, and learn ways to promote yourself and your work via Tweetorials. Tweetorials are widely used as an innovative tool in academic health for education, research, and communication. Participants will have the opportunity to practice drafting their tweetorials.

Facilitators: Jessica Fetterman, Amy Perlack & Elaine Lee

This session is led by Elaine Lee, Ph.D., Jessica Fetterman, Ph.D., and Amy Perlack. The objective of this session is to provide participants with a comprehensive understanding of the grant writing process by identifying pain points and strategies to overcome writing hurdles. Participants will gain firsthand knowledge of grant writing techniques from researchers who have been successful in obtaining funding from a variety of sources.

Facilitator: Emelia Benjamin

This session, led by Emelia Benjamin, MD, ScM, Associate Provost of Faculty Development at BUMC, will examine the new Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Accessibility (DEIA) page on the BU Profiles. Participants will receive tips on how to write diversity statements and how to incorporate their DEIA work on their CVs and BU Profiles.

Facilitator: Janet (Jodi) Larson

We all know the biggest work arounds and system issues that could to be improved to provide more optimal and efficient care.  How might we take these daily problems and actually work to improve them? Come join us as Jodi Larson facilitates an overview of how to get started in QI and the resources and opportunities available at BMC will be reviewed.

Facilitator: Hasmeena Kathuria

Understand the physiological and health effects of sleep deprivation. Learn how to prevent and treat sleep deprivation. Review mitigation strategies to attempt to counteract the effect of not getting enough sleep.

Facilitator: Justin Lui, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Panelists:  Michael LaValley Ph.D., Professor of Biostatistics at Boston University School of Public Health; Elizabeth Pearce, MD, MSc, Professor of Medicine at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine; Ayesha Abdeen, MD, Assistant Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine; and Kalpana Gupta, MD, MPH, Chief, Section of Infectious Diseases at the Veterans Administration Boston Healthcare System, and Professor of Medicine at Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine.

Join us for a panel discussion on effective peer reviewing for scientific publications. We will be discussing the importance and responsibility of peer-reviewing for scientific publications. Learn ways to keep track of peer reviewing for academic journals. Hear from our amazing panelists on some of the best practices in peer-reviewing in our Q&A session.

Facilitators: Robyn Cohen, Jason Worcester and Christine Pace

Learn from faculty at BUMC about the value-based care model (VBC), its importance of it, and its impact on clinicians and patients. Participants in this session will gain knowledge about the VBC model and learn ways to effectively integrate it and improve the quality of healthcare for their patients.

Facilitators: James Hudspeth & Chris Manasseh

Panelists: Genta Baci, Kim Cook, and Abe Jaffe

Join us for a panel discussion on clinical excellence in the inpatient setting. We will reflect on the meaning of clinical excellence, discuss approaches to ongoing self-improvement, and hear pearls from colleagues recognized as clinically excellent.

Facilitators: Christina Yarrington & Samantha Parker Kelleher

The transition from the clinical workload of a safety net hospital to NIH-funded research frequently feels insurmountable.  This session is designed for clinicians who are seeking a path to NIH funding in the context of a busy clinical career.  Discussion will focus on the early-stage investigator bump and multi-PI mechanisms in NIH grant structure as well strategic partnerships across the BUMC/BU campus that maximize effort contributions.

Facilitator: Karolina Brook

Most healthcare providers have gone through their careers without learning anything about finances, or they have been relegated to after-thought. We will cover why knowing and understanding your finances is integral to your wellness. We will also cover some basic financial tools so you can leave this presentation empowered to learn more about finances.

Facilitator: Angelique Harris

This session, led by Angelique Harris, PhD, Associate Dean of D&I at the Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, will examine the new Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Accessibility (DEIA) page on the BU Profiles. Participants will receive tips on how to write diversity statements and how to incorporate their DEIA work on their CVs and BU Profiles.

Facilitator: David Greer

Panelists: Manju Subramanian, Katherine Gergen-Barnett, Sushrut Waikar, Vincent Smith & Aviva Lee-Parritz

Success and satisfaction at work are often dependent on one’s ability to work effectively with their supervisors. During this seminar, participants will hear from a panel of faculty, section chiefs and chairs on: what leaders really want from their faculty, important elements of effective and ineffective communication, how to effectively manage up to your leaders, and how to develop highly successful relationships with one’s supervisors.

Facilitators: Jennifer Beard & Sarah Wingerter

This session will provide faculty with the opportunity to develop narrative skills and gain confidence through in-class reflective writing. Such narrative training fosters writing skills and can help participants share stories of their professional work with a broader audience.

Facilitator(s): Emelia Benjamin & Angelique Harris

This session, led by Emelia Benjamin, MD, ScM, Associate Provost of Faculty Development at BUMC and Angelique Harris, PhD, Associate Dean of D&I at the Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, will examine the new Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Accessibility (DEIA) page on the BU Profiles. Participants will receive tips on how to write diversity statements and how to incorporate their DEIA work on their CVs and BU Profiles.

Facilitator(s): Gabrielle Farquhar

The Mindful Leader will introduce the practice and principles of Mindfulness & how Mindfulness can play a role in reducing burnout and improving patient care. Gabby will share results from the QI projects her and her team have run at BMCHS and close the session with an experiential exercise.

Facilitator(s): Nicole Siegel, MD & Sushrut Waikar, MD

Please join us for a Faculty Development Seminar on establishing successful Cross-Discipline Clinical Research. Learn strategies to create connections, overcome barriers and find common ground across different specialties while collaborating on clinical research. We welcome participants to come ready to share their experiences.

Facilitator: Angelique Harris

This session, led by Angelique Harris, PhD, Director of Faculty Development, will examine the new Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Accessibility (DEIA) page on the BU Profiles. Participants will receive tips on how to write diversity statements and how to incorporate their DEIA work on their CVs and BU Profiles.

DEIA Tab BU Profiles Seminar PPT Slides

Facilitator(s): Katherine Gergen Barnett, Sabrina Sanchez, Deb Whalen, Cynthia Rupp, Stephan Fiascone

Forgot why you wanted to be a clinician? Come hear from gifted clinicians on what gives them joy. Learn from panelists and peers about best practices to regain and sustain your clinical spark!

Facilitator(s): Emelia Benjamin, Alyssa Day & Jen Visconti

Develop strategies to recognize and address workplace microaggressions as a bystander.

Making it Count Twice: Editor & Author Perspective of Publishing in MedEdPORTAL
Facilitator(s): Grace Huang & Juhee McDougal

Learn from the Editor-in-Chief, and a recently published BMC clinician, about inside tips on how to publish stand-alone teaching modules in a leading open access resource published by AAMC & ADEA for health professionals.

Facilitator(s): Angelique Harris, PhD, Carl Streed, MD, MPH & Jenny Siegel, MD

Develop awareness of the many stressors in the workplace that impact the professional lives of LGBTQ+ colleagues, and explore strategies to improve community experience and resilience.

Facilitator(s): Jordan Spector

Hoping to improve the feedback you provide to your diverse group of learners? This session will address the challenges in providing effective feedback in a medical venue, and will offer attendees some strategies to improve the culture of feedback within their professional community, based on key references from the literature.

Facilitator(s): Alexa Diranian, Henry Trier, Alana Ngo, Sheila Chapman

Come hear from two APP/Physician teams about how they navigate working effectively together, along with their perils and pitfalls.

Facilitator(s): Joe Rencic

In this seminar, you will learn the importance of explicitly teaching clinical reasoning in today’s healthcare system, the definition of clinical reasoning (CR) and practical tips for teaching clinical reasoning using a theory-based approach.

Facilitator(s): Deb Whalen, Kaye Bemis & Thai Vu

Learn from APPs on campus about career advancement, advantages of faculty appointments and understanding different career paths!

Leadership in Crisis 
Facilitator(s): Jeff Schneider & James Hudspeth

In COVID days everyone is a leader. Learn real world strategies to lead in crisis.

Facilitator(s): Ariel Hirsch, MD

Learn strategies to help mentor and maximize productivity with students and trainees!

Facilitator(s): Tracey Dechert, MD & Megan Bair-Merritt, MD

Understand barriers & opportunities women providers face, and discuss how to lead from where you stand. Learn from you peers on how we as an institution can recruit and retain female providers.

Caring for Self and Others: Addressing Burnout During a Crisis
Facilitator(s): Susannah Rowe

Are you or your colleague(s) experiencing COVID burnout?
Find out ways to care for yourself and others during a crisis.

Data Visualization | Lisa Sullivan, PhD

Publishing in MedEdPORTAL and Other Medical Journals | Grace Huang, MD

Communication Under Stress | Gopal Yadavalli, MD & Lauren Kearney, MD

Situational Leadership & Fostering Accountability | Gopal Yadavalli, MD & Rachel Simmons, MD