Workshop: "Fostering scientific careers with individual development plans"

This session is geared toward those faculty who mentor postdocs and graduate students.  What skills are needed for success in scientific careers?  Four professional organizations have studied this question.  We will examine their results and consider how to best provide appropriate training to OIST postdocs and graduate students.  The benefits of using individual development plans (IDPs) to guide career and professional development will be discussed.

More about the instructor:

Philip Clifford is Associate Dean for Research in the College of Applied Health Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Director of Mentoring for the UIC Center for Clinical and Translational Science.  He is an outspoken advocate of career and professional development for PhD scientists.  In addition to founding the Office of Postdoctoral Education at the Medical College of Wisconsin, he helped initiate national reform by participating in the establishment of both the National Postdoctoral Association and the AAMC GREAT Group Postdoctorate Leaders Section.  He is a coauthor of the widely acclaimed career website, myIDP.sciencecareers.org and an accompanying series of career planning articles in ScienceCareers.

Dr. Clifford heads an active research program investigating the physiological mechanisms regulating skeletal muscle blood flow during exercise.  His research laboratory has been funded by the NIH, the American Heart Association, and the Department of Veterans Affairs.  He is a fellow of the American Heart Association, the American College of Sports Medicine, and the American Physiological Society Cardiovascular Section.  He serves on the editorial boards of several physiological journals, and participates on grant review panels at the NIH, NASA, and the American Heart Association.  He is also a consultant in the medical device industry and a member of the Anesthesia and Respiratory Devices Panel at the FDA.

Dr. Clifford has presented seminars and workshops at major scientific conferences such as American Association of Anatomists, American Society for Microbiology, American Society for Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, American Physiological Society, American Heart Association, Society for Neuroscience and at career events held by universities around the world such as Columbia University, Duke University, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, Penn State University, Salk Institute for Biological Sciences, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Texas A&M, Washington University, University of Chicago, University of Pittsburgh, University of Puerto Rico, University of Washington, University of Wisconsin, University of Copenhagen, University of Calgary, University of Toronto, Indian Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, and the National Institutes of Health.