Professional Development Week

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**Update: Due to the current COVID-19 outbreak, the 2020 Martinos Center Professional Development week will be postponed for a later date with the exception of the following seminars being offered as webinars

  • Monday, March 16th @  4pm: Getting into Graduate School or Medical School 

​               > Pre-webinar reading: Grad/Med School Basics Document
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  • Tuesday, March 17th @ 4pm: Case Studies in Career Trajectories with Erin Hightower, PsyD, Licensed Mental Health Counselor & Psychologist

               > See Erin Hightower's bio at the bottom of this page.
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The Martinos Center is hosting its annual professional development week! There will be workshops, lectures, panels, and round table discussions on a number of topics with the goal of offering professional development & career support to the Center's faculty, postdoctoral fellows, research staff, and graduate students as well as its collaborators and peers. 

If you have any questions about the event, topics you would like to see discussed during the event, or suggestions for future topics please contact:

Allison Stevens
Faculty Development
astevens@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu

 

Schedule:

Any individual is welcome to attend any session. However, to help guide interests, we have marked the schedule with the following symbols to make it easier for you to identify seminars that might appeal to you.

♦ RAs/CRCs/Research Staff    ¤ Graduate Students   • Postdocs  ► Faculty 

Time Monday, March 16 Tuesday, March 17 Wednesday, March 18 Thursday, March 19 Friday, March 20
12:00pm Collaborating with Clinicians • ► Elevator Pitch Workshop ♦ ¤ • ► Grant Writing Workshop • ►

Negotiation in Life Sciences - Entrepreneurial Insights ♦ ¤ •►

*Co-sponsored by WiS

 A Career Fair for Master's Degrees (11am) ♦ 

1:00pm        

A Career Fair for Master's Degrees ♦ 

3:30pm  

 

Perfectionism/Procrastination Workshop ♦ ¤  • ►

(Impostor Syndrome Part 2!) 

   
4:00pm

Getting into Grad School or Med School ♦

Case Studies in Career Trajectories ♦ ¤ •   RA/CRC Job Titles   ♦ ►

Following Science on Tap:
Career Hurdles ♦ ¤ •►

5:00pm

 

     

Closing Reception w/ 
Martinos Alumni ♦ ¤ • ►

 

Location:  All events take place in Building 149 conference rooms
Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
149 13th Street Charlestown, Boston, MA 02129

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Event Descriptions:

Monday, March 16th

Collaborating with Clinicians:   Conference Room A   12pm-1pm
Panelists will discuss how Martinos Center researchers can better connect & collaborate with clinicians and how to navigate those relationships. Panelists will include Dr. Bruce Rosen and Dr. Susie Huang. Coffee & snacks will be served.

Getting into Graduate School or Medical School:  Conference Room A   4pm-5pm
Hear from your peers about their experience with the grad and med school application & interview process. 

Panelists & the grad school programs they will attend:

  • Libby DesRuisseaux, applied to Clinical Neuropsych programs
  • Kelsey Lowman, applied to Clinical Psychology programs
  • Kylie Isenburg, applied to Neuroscience & Psychology PhD programs
  • Josh Goldenberg, applied to Medical Schools
  • Moderator: Anjali Parmar, RANC Committee

Tuesday, March 17th

Elevator Pitch Workshop:  Conference Room A  12pm-1:30pm
Speaker: Miriam Bredella, Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School; Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs in the Department of Radiology at MGH; Director of the Center for Faculty Development at MGH
Having a short and focused prepared “speech” can foster career opportunities when you want to meet people or at a conference. The Radiology Research Faculty Mentoring program will host a lunch workshop on how to present yourself and your accomplishments in less than 1 minute. We will work in small groups to develop successful elevator pitches. Lunch will be provided.

Case Studies in Career Trajectories:  Conference Room A  4pm-5pm
Co-sponsored by the Research Assistant Network Committee (RANC*), come listen to 3 individuals share their career paths. Coffee & cookies will be served.
*RANC is a committee of research assistants, clinical research coordinators, and research technicians with the mission to a) foster a sense of community across groups within the Martinos Center, (b) facilitate future goals by serving as a central point of resources for career advancement, and c) consolidate knowledge and promote education of necessary professional skills.

Panelists will include:

  • Erin Hightower, PsyD, Licensed Mental Health Counselor & Psychologist
  • Jessica Gerber, MS, Licensed Acupuncturist, Senior Clinical Research Program Manager, Interdisciplinary Brain Center
  • Emily Lindemer, PhD, Senior Manager of Data Science & Analytics, Wellframe

Wednesday, March 18th

Grant Writing Workshop:    Conference Room A  12pm - 1pm
Whether it is your specific aims, a resubmission introduction, your ECOR application for ISF, or a K award application, come have it reviewed by a Martinos faculty member who will sit with you and provide feedback during this session. The grant piece you seek feedback on must be sent to Allison Stevens by Monday, March 16th to give the grant reviewers a chance to look it over before you meet. The writing does *not* need to be in its final form and grants already submitted are fine to bring as well. Coffee & snacks will be served.

Perfectionism/Procrastination Workshop - Imposter Syndrome, Part 2!:   Conference Room A  3:30pm-5:30pm
Speaker: Dr. Maryam Khodadoust, Clinical Psychologist
Are you rarely (if ever) satisfied with the quality of your (research) work? Do you spend more time day- dreaming about your accomplishments than working towards them? Do you put off doing work that is important and meaningful to you? Do you work in fits and spurts with vast periods of procrastination in between? Do you find yourself in a constant loop of making promises to do things differently, only to find yourself repeating the same mistakes? If your answer is 'yes' to 3 or more of the above questions, your procrastination maybe due to perfectionism. Don’t let perfectionism hijack your research experience! Come learn about strategies to reduce your perfectionism so you can get back to work. Coffee & snacks will be served.

Thursday, March 19th

Negotiation in Life Sciences - Entrepreneurial Insights:   Conference Room A  12pm-1pm
Co-sponsored by Women in Science (WiS): Entrepreneurship is a key component of leadership, both in the research lab, in start-ups and with corporate change management. A growing number of corporations are strategically emphasizing the importance of innovation, growth and change. They do this by partnering with innovative researchers, acquiring innovations, merging with change-inducing teams, and by encouraging internal entrepreneurship. But still, the great majority (80-90%) of all such entrepreneurial efforts fail! Based on decades of accumulated research, theory and practice at Harvard and MIT, Samuel Dinnar and Larry Susskind wrote an award winning book and launched a new course at MIT, to help focus on the factors that cause these critical relationships to fail, and on how to handle emotions, manage uncertainty, cope with technical complexity and build long-term relationships.  During this seminar, Samuel "Mooly" Dinnar will cover dealing with emotions and egos, the challenges in life sciences partnerships & cutting-edge technologies, and overcoming gender bias and culture challenges in negotiation. Feel free to bring your lunch!

RA/CRC Job Titles:  Conference Room A   4pm-5pm
This session is open to RAs, CRCs, and faculty who would like more information about the different job titles available to RAs and CRCs. There will be a brief presentation on titles and an overview of the administrative process to request a new title. For those who are interested, there will be time at the end to receive feedback on crafting job descriptions.

Friday, March 20th

A Career Fair in Master's Degrees:  Conference Room A   11am-3pm
Various local schools will visit us to share information on their Master's degree programs. There will be presentations and then time for questions. Joining us will be:
Harvard University (11am)
Tufts University (12:30pm)
Boston University (2pm)

Closing Remarks & Reception after Science on Tap - Career Hurdles: Conference Room A    4pm-6pm
After the Science on Tap presentation, we will hear from a few of our peers about a career hurdle and how they pivoted from that moment. This will be followed by a closing reception where all Martinos alumni are invited to join!

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Speaker bios:

Dr. Miriam Bredella is Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School, Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs in the Department of Radiology at MGH, and Director of the Center for Faculty Development at MGH. Dr. Bredella established a department-wide mentoring program for junior faculty, a Radiology Leadership Academy (which supports physicians and non-physicians in leadership roles), and a management and leadership curriculum for radiologists. She led initiatives to fight physician burnout and designed a compensation model for Radiology researchers, which allows an unbiased assessment of compensation.

Samuel "Mooly" Dinnar is a negotiation and mediation instructor with the Program on Negotiation at Harvard, a lecturer of leadership and research Associate at MIT, and the founder of Meedance, providing negotiation, training, and dispute resolution services globally based on his 25 years of international experience as an entrepreneur, executive, board member and venture capitalist. He recently conducted workshops and talks in London, Mexico, Tel Aviv, Athens, Hong Kong, Rome, and Copenhagen.

Erin Hightower is the owner and clinical director of North County Psychological Services, Inc., a newly formed private practice in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Prior to opening her own practice, she was the clinical director of the Counseling Center in the Berkshires. She received her doctorate in clinical psychology (PsyD) from William James College in 2017 and her Masters in Counseling Psychology from University of North Florida in 2003. During her doctoral studies, she completed several fellowships and internships throughout the greater Boston area working with college students, veterans, adolescents and adults with varying mental health issues, sometimes with co-morbid substance abuse issues, and/or co-morbid medical complexities. During this time she maintained a private practice in Brookline, MA, and taught psychology courses at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy Health Sciences University (MCPHS). Prior to her doctoral studies, she held a private practice in St. Augustine, FL, where she also taught psychology courses at Flagler College and worked as the clinical team liaison for the initial founding of the St. Johns County Drug Court.

Dr. Maryam Khodadoust is a clinical psychologist whose primary passion is helping young adults navigate their intersecting identities. She is a staff psychologist at MIT Student Mental Health and Counseling Center and she has a private practice in Brookline. Dr. Khodadoust gives talks at the university on a variety of topics including stress, resilience, cross cultural communication, time management, organization, imposter phenomenon, perfectionism and procrastination. She provides an 8 week workshop series addressing perfectionism and 4 week workshop series addressing procrastination. Today, she will be helping us explore and address those aspects of our procrastination that is fueled by unconscious/subconscious perfectionistic standards.