Virtual Mentor

Welcome to the KU School of Medicine Virtual Mentor, featuring the benefit to junior faculty the experiences of past recipients of one or more of the following prestigious awards at The KU School of Medicine...

• Ruth Bohan Teaching Award
• Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award
• Kemper Award
• Higuchi Endowment Research Achievement:
• Dolph Simons Award in Biomedical Sciences
• Irvin Youngberg Award in Applied Sciences
• Student Voice Awards (any category)
• Executive Dean's Distinguished Mentoring Awards

Tips from Virtual Mentors

Our Virtual Mentors share their advice and experiences, stories of accomplishment and struggle, and tips for academic and professional success. Being a new professor is like being a juggler with too many balls in the air. There is no way you can do it all at once. And there is no way you can do it all alone. Pretty soon you may feel as though there are as many balls falling to the ground as there are in the air.

Here are a few tips for a successful juggling act from those that have been in your shoes.

John W. Calkins, MD
Professor
Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Recipient of the: Ruth Bohan Teaching Professorship, 2006

Winifred (Winnie) Dunn, PhD, OTR, FAOTA
Professor /Chairperson
Occupational Therapy Education
Recipient of the:
William T. Kemper Fellowship For Teaching Excellence, 2004
Chancellors Distinguished Teaching Award, 1991
Faculty Research Investigator Awards, 1989

Linda M. Frazier, M.D., MPH, Professor
Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Wichita
University of Kansas Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award 2003

Allen Greiner, MD, MPH, Associate Professor
Department of Family Medicine
William T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence 2003

Thomas L. (Tom) Pazdernik, PhD, Professor
Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics
2005 & 2006 Student voice Award – 2nd Year Outstanding Small Group Leaders
2004, 2005 & 2006 Student Voice Award – Outstanding First Year Course/Teaching
2002 KEMPER AWARD

Elizabeth C. Penick, PhD
Professor and Director of The Psychology Division
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science
Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award "The Jayhawk" 2006

Pamela K. (Pam) Shaw, MD, Associate Professor
Department of Pediatrics
2004 KU Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award

Anne D. Walling, MB ChB
Professor
Family and Community Medicine - Wichita
Recipient of the:
William T. Kemper Fellowship For Teaching Excellence, 2004
Chancellors Distinguished Teaching Award, 1991
Faculty Research Investigator Awards, 1989

SPECIAL NOTE: We would like to give credit and thank the University of IOWA, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine for some our interview questions.

Virtual Mentor: American Medical Association Journal of Ethics