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Making the Right Moves: A Practical Guide to Scientific Management for Postdocs and New Faculty

Program

Wednesday, March 28, 2007: Discover Your Leadership Style

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Registration
Herberman Conference Center
2nd Floor, UPMC Cancer Pavilion

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Introduction and Program Overview

 

Introduction: Joan M. Lakoski, PhD

 

Opening Remarks: Arthur S. Levine, MD

 

Course Objectives: Jennifer E. Woodward, PhD

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Keynote Address

 

On the Value of Abandonment, Death, Disaster, and Serendipity
in Forging a Successful Academic Career

Speaker: Randy P. Juhl, PhD

11:30 PM - 12:00 PM

Achieving Great Performance

 

Facilitator: Brian Fitch, PhD

12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

Lunch

12:30 PM - 2:45 PM

Increasing Personal and Work Team Productivity

 

Facilitator: Brian Fitch, PhD

2:45 PM - 3:00 PM

Break

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Leadership and Self Knowledge
Listening Effectively with Empathy

 

Facilitator: Brian Fitch, PhD

Thursday, March 29, 2007: Leading Your Team

8:00 AM - 8:30 AM

Continental Breakfast

8:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Leadership and Self Knowledge (Continued)

 

Facilitator: Brian Fitch, PhD

11:00 AM - 11:15 AM

Break

11:15 AM - 12:30 PM

Leadership and Self Knowledge (Continued)

 

Facilitator: Brian Fitch, PhD

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Lunch

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Maximizing Your Time and Productivity          

 

Facilitator: Pamela Peele, PhD

2:30 PM - 3:45 PM

How to Talk to Your Chair or Chief

 

Facilitator: Joan M. Lakoski, PhD

 

Panel:
Patricia Dowley Kroboth, PhD
Charles F. Reynolds III, MD
Steven D. Shapiro, MD

3:45 PM - 4:00 PM

Break

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Navigating the University Terrain: Avoiding Perils and Pitfalls

 

Facilitator: Ann Thompson, MD

 

Panel:
David A. Geller, MD
Olivera J. Finn, PhD
Charles S. Sfeir, DDS, PhD

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Networking Reception
Herberman Conference Center

Friday, March 30, 2007: Managing your Research Program and Career

8:00 AM - 8:30 AM

Continental Breakfast

8:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Managing Interpersonal Conflict: A Problem Solving Approach

 

Presenter: Catherine Morrison, JD

12:00 PM

Grab and Go Lunch

12:15 PM - 1:30 PM

Focus Areas: Break-Out Sessions

 

More Roses, Fewer Thorns: Staffing your Research Group

 

Facilitator: Jeannette E. South-Paul, MD

 

Panel:
Catherine J. Baty, DVM, PhD
Mark Unruh, MD
Barry London, MD

 

Being Successful and Striving for Sanity: Balancing your Career and Your Life

 

Facilitators: Birgitte Wittschieben, PhD

 

Panel:
Ora A. Weisz, PhD
Janine Frank, MD
Galen E. Switzer, PhD

 

Effective Management of Your Research Funds: Maximizing Your Resources and Productivity

 

Facilitator: Deborah L. Seltzer

 

Panel:
Anna M. McCormick, PhD
Kathleen Sidorovich
Michael Fine, MD

1:30 PM - 1:45 PM

Break

1:45 PM - 3:00 PM

Ask for It: Negotiation and the Gender Divide

 

Presenter: Linda C. Babcock, PhD

3:00 PM - 3:15 PM

Break

3:15 PM - 4:45 PM

Motivating Creative Thinking and Problem Solving

 

Introduction: Joan M. Lakoski, PhD
Presenter: Thomas L Saaty, PhD

4:45 PM - 5:00 PM

Closing Remarks

Joan M. Lakoski, PhD
Jennifer E. Woodward, PhD

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Closing Reception
Herberman Conference Center