Mentors

Research & Career Mentors

Mentoring is the single most important factor that contributes to academic success. Those with mentors are more likely to make timely progress toward their degrees, and make renewed commitments to their professions. This collaboration allows mentees to meet the various challenges of their careers. Mentoring is a personal as well as a professional relationship.

Responsibilities of Mentors

The Mentor's responsibilities include:

Providing leadership for the development of mentee's research project based on common interests;

Devote at least 5% effort towards interaction with mentee through regular communication by phone and/or email;

Assist with planning the mid-year visits to the mentor's laboratory;

The mentor will also review grant and manuscript writing skills;

Mentee and mentor will outline a strategy for developing grant application and plans for submission to NHLBI within 2 years of completing the PRIDE program;

Establish long term collaborations with mentees to increase the probability of a successful independent research career.

PRIDE Program Mentor Faculty
Mentor	Department	Affiliation
Betty Pace, MD, PRIDE Program Director	Department of Pediatrics	Augusta University
John Adams, PhD	Internal Medicine	University of South Florida
Kenneth Ataga, MD	Medicine	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Lindsey Cohen, PhD	Clinical Psychology	Georgia State University
Patrick Gallagher, MD	Pediatrics and Genetics	Yale University School of Medicine
Robert Gibson, PhD	Emergency Medicine	Augusta University
Steven Goodman, PhD	Department of Pediatrics	University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Abdullah Kutlar, MD	Department of Medicine	Augusta University
Theodosia Kalfa, MD, PhD	Hematology	Cincinnati Children's Hospital
Rick McIndoe, PhD	Center for Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine	Augusta University
Mitchell Weiss, MD, PhD	Hematology	St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Sandra Murray, PhD	Molecular And Cellular Biology	University of Pittsburgh
Mohandas Narla, DSc	Red Blood Physiology	New York Blood Center
Tessie October, MD, MPH	Department of Pediatrics	Children's National Health System
Kenneth Peterson, PhD	Biochemistry/Molecular Biology	University of Kansas Medical Center
Charmaine Royal, PhD	Genome Sciences & Policy	Duke University
Wally R. Smith, MD	Department of Medicine	Virginia Commonwealth University
Joseph Telfair, MD,PhD, MPH	Public Health	Georgia Southern University
Marsha Treadwell, PhD	Hematology and Psychiatry	Children's Hospital Oakland
Stephanie J. Bryant, PhD	Chemical and Biological Engineering	University of Colorado a Boulder
Stella Chou, MD	Pediatrics	University of Pennsylvania
Gustavo Nino, MSHS, D'ABSM	Pediatrics	George Washington university
Andrew S. Weyrich, PhD	Internal Medicine	University of Utah

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