The Mentor Academy provides research mentors with opportunities to develop mentoring skills through biweekly sessions during a four-month program.
Dr. Roger Fillingim leads The Mentor Academy that promotes the development of the next generation of clinical and translational scientists through a culture of support for mentoring and training in optimizing mentoring relationships for mentors and mentees at all levels of career development.
Beyond the Master Mentor Program, the Mentor Academy plans to develop training programs for early career mentors as well as for mentees, including junior faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students.
Interested in joining the mentor academy? Want to participate in an upcoming session?
Please contact Roger B. Fillingim, PhD, director of the CTSI Mentor Academy:
- rfilling@ufl.edu
- (352) 273-5963
“Following completion of the Mentor Academy, I was nominated for a Superior Accomplishment Award with specific mention of my mentor style. I credit many of my skills to the program.”
–Catherine Price, PhD, 2017 alumni
“The Mentor Academy was the most enjoyable professional development program I’ve done in my 15 years at UF. The community and diversity of thought have helped me approach new situations.”
–Benjamin Lok, PhD, 2016 alumni
Members of the Mentor Academy
More than 50 members from nine colleges — listed below — have participated in the CTSI Mentor Academy’s Master Mentor program since its launch in 2013. Use the search bar and filters to narrow your results.
| Name | Department | College | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stephen Anton, PhD | Aging and Geriatric Research | Medicine | June 2015 |
| Melissa Armstrong, MD | Neurology | Medicine | April 2019 |
| Kelli Barr, PhD | Comparative, Diagnostic & Population Medicine | Veterinary Medicine | May 2018 |
| Azra Bihorac, MD, MS | Surgery and Anesthesiology | Medicine | December 2016 |
| Jennifer L. Bizon, PhD | Neuroscience/Psychiatry | Medicine | December 2016 |
| David Bloom, PhD | Molecular Genetics and Microbiology | Medicine | December 2016 |
| Mark Brantly, MD | Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine | Medicine | June 2015 |
| Mary B. Brown, PhD | Infectious Diseases and Pathology | Veterinary Medicine | June 2016 |
| Daniel R. Brown, PhD | Infectious Diseases and Pathology | Veterinary Medicine | June 2017 |
| Benjamin Kirk Canales, MD, MPH | Urology | Medicine | June 2016 |
| Larisa Cavallari, Pharm D | Pharmacogenomics | Pharmacy | December 2016 |
| Seunghee Cha, DDS, PhD | Oral & Maxillofacial Diagnostic Sciences | Dentistry | June 2017 |
| Paramita Chakrabarty, PhD | Neuroscience | Medicine | December 2019 |
| Edward Chan, PhD | Oral Biology | Dentistry | June 2015 |
| Kartikeya Cherabuddim, MD | Medicine - Infectious diseases | Medicine | April 2019 |
| Miguel Chuquilin, MD | Neurology | Medicine | May 2018 |
| Robert Cook, MD, MPH | Internal Medicine | Public Health and Health Professions and Medicine | June 2016 |
| Rhonda Cooper-DeHoff, PharmD, MS, FAHA, FACC | Pharmacotherapy and Translational Research | Pharmacy | June 2015 |
| Linda Cottler, PhD, MPH | Epidemiology | Public Health and Health Professions and Medicine | June 2014 |
| Yenisel Cruz-Almeida, MSPH, PhD | Aging | Medicine | April 2019 |
| Daniel Czyz, PhD | Microbiology & Cell Science | IFAS/CALS | April 2019 |
| Gill Diamond, PhD | Department of Oral Biology | Dentistry | December 2017 |
| Sylvain Doré, PhD | Anesthesiology, Neurology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience | Medicine | June 2014 |
| Jennifer Elder, PhD, RN, FAAN | Health Care Environments and Systems Nursing | Nursing | June 2014 |
| Amara H Estrada, DVM | Small Animal Clinical Sciences | Veterinary Medicine | December 2017 |
| David Fedele, PhD | Clinical and Health Psychology | Public Health and Health Professions | June 2017 |
| Brenda Fahy, MD, MCCM | Anesthesiology | Medicine | June 2015 |
| Roger Fillingim, PhD | Community Dentistry and Behavioral Sciences Pain Research and Intervention | Dentistry | June 2014 |
| Reginald Frye, PharmD, PhD, FCCP | Pharmacotherapy and Translational Research | Pharmacy | June 2014 |
| Yan Gong, PhD | Pharmacotherapy and Translational Research | Pharmacy | May 2018 |
| Valeria V. Gordan, DDS, MS | Restorative Dental Sciences | Dentistry | June 2017 |
| Paul Gulig, PhD | Molecular Genetics and Microbiology | Medicine | June 2015 |
| Matthew J. Gurka, PhD | Health Outcomes & Policy | Medicine | December 2016 |
| Chris Hass, PhD | Applied Physiology & Kinesiology | Health and Human Performance | December 2016 |
| Jorge Hernandez PhD, MPVM,DVM | Graduate Education | Veterinary Medicine | December 2019 |
| Shannon Holliday, PhD | Orthodontics | Dentistry | December 2016 |
| Ann Horgas, PhD, RN, FAAN | Biobehavioral Nursing Science | Nursing | June 2015 |
| Danielle Jake-Schoffman, PhD | Health Education and Behavior | Health and Human Performance | December 2019 |
| Sriram Kalyanaraman, PhD | Journalism | College of Journalism and Communications | June 2017 |
| Amir Kazory, MD, FASN | Division of Nephrology | UF Health | December 2017 |
| Gail Keenan, PhD, RN, FAAN | Teaching and Research in Clinical Nursing | Nursing | December 2016 |
| Consuelo Kreider, PhD | Occupational Therapy | Public Health and Health Professions | April 2019 |
| Joseph Larkin, PhD | Microbiology and Cell Science | Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) | December 2016 |
| Jose Lemos, PhD | Oral Biology | Dentistry | May 2018 |
| Jada Lewis, PhD | Neuroscience | Medicine | December 2019 |
| Marian Limacher, MD | Cardiovascular Medicine | Medicine | June 2014 |
| Bin Liu, PhD | Pharmacodynamics | Pharmacy | June 2014 |
| Ben Lok, PhD | Computer and Information Science and Engineering | Engineering | December 2016 |
| Catalina Lopez-Quintero, MD, PhD | Epidemiology | Public Health,Health Professions | December 2019 |
| Robert J. Lucero, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN | Nursing | Nursing | June 2016 |
| Mildred Maldonado-Molina, PhD | Health Outcomes and Policy | Medicine | June 2014 |
| Robert Mankowski, PhD | Aging and Geriatric Research | Medicine | December 2019 |
| Megan McVay, PhD | Health Education and Behavior | Health and Human Performance | April 2019 |
| Hiren Mehta, PhD | Medicine | Medicine | May 2018 |
| Francois Modave, PhD | Health Outcomes and Policy | Medicine | June 2016 |
| Kevin McHugh, MS, PhD | Periodontology | Dentistry | June 2016 |
| Alicia Mohr, MD, MD, FACS, FCC | Critical Care Surgery | Medicine | June 2016 |
| Christine Myers, PhD, OTR/L | Occupational Therapy | Public Health and Health Professions | April 2019 |
| John Neubert, DMD, PhD | Orthodontics | Dentistry | December 2017 |
| Sara Jo Nixon, PhD | Psychiatry | Medicine | June 2015 |
| Elizabeth Nunamaker, PhD, DVM, DACLAM | NIMET: Nanoscience Institute for Medical & Engineering Technology | Engineering | December 2017 |
| Kevin Otto, PhD | Biomedical Engineering | Engineering | December 2017 |
| Simon Owino, PhD | Department of Infectious Diseases & Immunology | Veterinary Medicine | December 2019 |
| Caryn Plummer, DVM | Small Animal Clinical Sciences | Veterinary Medicine | June 2017 |
| Catherine Price, PhD, ABPP | Clinical and Health Psychology/Anesthesiology | Public Health and Health Professions | June 2017 |
| Ann Progulske-Fox, PhD | Oral Biology | Dentistry | June 2014 |
| Anita Rajasekhar, MD | Medicine | Medicine | May 2018 |
| Joseph Riley III, PhD | Community Dentistry and Behavioral Science | Dentistry | June 2015 |
| Kathryn Ross, PhD, MPH | Clinical & Health Psychology | Medicine | May 2018 |
| Mark Segal, MD, PhD | Nephrology, Hypertension and Renal Transplantation | Medicine | June 2015 |
| Sterling Sheffield, Ph.D., Au.D., CCC-A | Speech, Language, and Hearing Science | Public Health and Health Professions | April 2019 |
| Kimberly Sibille, MA, PhD | Aging & Geratric Research | Medicine | June 2016 |
| Clay Smith, PhD | Opthalmology | Medicine | December 2016 |
| Sihong Song, PhD | Pharmaceutics | Pharmacy | June 2015 |
| Jeanne-Marie Stacciarini, PhD, RN | Family, Community and Health System Science | Nursing | June 2015 |
| Yulia Strekalova, PhD | Graduate Studies | Journalism and Communications | April 2019 |
| Catherine W. Striley, PhD, MSW,ACSW, MPE | Epidemiology | Public Health and Health Professions | December 2017 |
| Linda Struckmeyer, PhD, OTR/L | Occupational Therapy | Public Health and Health Professions | April 2019 |
| Scott Tomar, DMD, MPH | Community Dentistry & Behavioral Science | Dentistry | May 2018 |
| Deepthi Varma, PhD, MPhil, MSW | Epidemiology | Public Health and Health Professions | May 2018 |
| Vinata Vedam-Mai, MSc, PhD | Neurosurgery | Medicine | May 2018 |
| Shannon Wallet, PhD | Oral Biology | Dentistry | June 2015 |
| Diana Wilkie, PhD, RN, FAAN | Nursing | Nursing | June 2017 |
| Christina Wilson, MD, PhD | Neurology Residency Program | Medicine | June 2016 |
| Meredith Wicklund, MD | Neurology | Medicine | June 2016 |
| Adam Woods, PhD | Clinical and Health Psychology | Public Health and Health Professions | June 2017 |
| Jacqueline Abranches, Ph.D. | Oral Biology | Dentistry | December 2018 |
| Emily J. Bartley, PhD | Community Dentistry and Behavioral Science | Dentistry | December 2018 |
| Sherrilene Classen, PhD, MPH, OTR/L, FAOTA, FGSA | Occupational Therapy | Public Health and Health Professions | December 2018 |
| Jack W. Judy, PhD | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Engineering | December 2018 |
| Robert Leeman, PhD | Health Education & Behavior | Health and Human Performance | December 2018 |
| Todd Manini, PhD | Aging and Geriatric Research | Medicine | December 2018 |
| Jeremy C. McIntyre, Ph.D. | Neuroscience | Medicine | December 2018 |
| Sergio Romero, PhD | Occupational Therapy | Public Health and Health Professions | December 2018 |
| Barry Setlow, PhD | Psychiatry | Medicine | December 2018 |
| Heather Vincent, Ph.D., FACSM | Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation | Medicine | December 2018 |
| Kevin R Vincent, M.D.,Ph.D.,FACSM,CAQSM | Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation | Medicine | December 2018 |
| Danxin Wang, M.D., Ph.D. | Pharmacotherapy and translational research | Pharmacy | December 2018 |
| Ramzi Salloum, PhD | Health Outcomes & Biomedical Informatics | Medicine | December 2017 |
| Zareen Zaidi, MD, PhD | Medicine | Medicine | April 2019 |
