CAREER DEVELOPMENT

Saturday, March 26, 2022 – 13:00 EST / 18:00 CEST

Calling all trainees! Meet with mentors in small virtual breakout groups and get ready to take your career to the next level. Inspiration and motivation guaranteed! 

  • 13:00-13:55 Mentorship Presentations
    • Introduction
    • Tips & Tricks to Take Your Career to the Next Level
      Anette Melk, Germany
    • Tools for Working with your Mentor
      Chesney Castleberry, United States
  • 13:55-14:25 Small Breakout Sessions with Our Mentors – Finding Your Road to Success Round 1
    • Room 1 - For surgeons
      Mentors: Carlos O. Esquivel, Stanford Children’s Health and Ahmad Mirza, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University
    • Room 2 - For nephrologists
      Mentors: Stephen D. Marks, University College London Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health and Katherine Twombley, Medical University of South Carolina
    • Room 3 - For cardiologists / pulmonologists
      Mentors: Jonathan Johnson, Mayo Clinic
    • Room 4 - For hepatologists
      Mentors: Rohit Kohli, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and Ryan Fischer, Children's Mercy Kansas City
    • Room 5 - For infectious disease specialists
      Mentors: Michael Green, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and Lara Danzinger-Isakod, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
    • Room 6 - Insights into a Successful Mentor-Mentee Relationship
      Mentor: Aviva Goldberg, Max Rady College of Medicine, University of Manitoba with her mentees James Johnston, University of British Columbia and Ana Catalina Alvarez Elias, The Hospital for Sick Children Toronto (SickKids)
    • Room 7 - From PhD to Post-Doc to Starting a Lab: Planning and Forging Your Path
      Mentors: Anette Melk, Hannover Medical School and Stephen Alexander, Children's Hospital at Westmead
    • Room 8 - How to Move Your Career Forward in Emerging Countries
      Mentors: Marta Lidia Monteverde, Hospital de Pediatria JP Garrahan and Daniel D’Agostino, Hospital italiano de Buenos Aires
  • 14:25-14:55 Mentorship Breakouts Round 2. Repeat of round 1. Trainees can select a second breakout.