The University of Kansas School of Medicine Annual New Faculty Orientation
was held as a Breakfast Networking Event and featured speakers on the topic
of Mentoring. Dr. Mark S. Cohen, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery specializing
in Surgical
Oncology (Cancer) works both in clinical and research areas in the School
of Medicine (SOM)and addressed The Value of Mentoring in his career
at KUSOM. Dr. Curt Klaassen, Professor and Chair of Pharmacology, Toxicology
and Therapeutics explained his philosophy on mentoring and his methodology
used in his School of Hard Knocks Mentoringapproach with
his junior faculty members. To his surprise, Dr. Klaassen was awarded
later at the Faculty Retreat, the Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring
Award, “The Jayhawk”.
The event took place in 4024 Varnes,
SON on September 7, 2007.
The goal of the event was to unite new members of
the School of Medicine faculty (both clinical and basic science) from the previous
year group 2006-07 with those beginning brand new in the 2007-08 group, with
VIPs from the School of Medicine providing a social environment in which to
have networking opportunities. To help begin the networking each person (about
95) took turn introducing who they were, telling their history, specialties
and interests. Random seating was assigned to make sure new faculty members
from both new groups were mixed with various VIP members.
Photos from KU School of Medicine New Faculty Welcome Breakfast, September 7, 2007.
Photos from KU School of Medicine New Faculty Welcome Breakfast, September 29, 2006.
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