Faculty Career Development Series
The ITHS Career Development Series consist of monthly lectures and workshops designed to provide junior faculty and investigators with tools, a forum for discussion, and learning opportunities to help advance their careers.
Topics
Topics are selected based on an annual needs assessment.
Example topics include:
- How to Write an NIH K Award
- Making the Most of your Mentor Relationship
- Mastering Public Speaking as a Researcher
- Communicating your Findings Visually
- What really happens in an NIH Study Review
Where can I find a CDS event?
ITHS partners with several UW campus and WWAMI regional partners to ensure we reach and engage the translational workforce with each series. CDS events occur across the main UW campus, in the UW Medicine South Lake Union building, and are often captured on video and edited for online distribution to our regional partners. Many of our offerings are also broadcast live as webinars to allow for flexible viewing opportunities. Check out the calendar for specific upcoming event topics and locations.
Click here to watch past seminar recordings.
Upcoming and Past Events
Apr
3
Thu
Description
Cultivating communication skills to strengthen interpersonal relationships and teamwork requires habit-building, practice, and feedback. This interactive, scenario-based session will guide participants in developing self-awareness and core communication skills.
This is the seventh event in the 2024–2025 Team Science Seminar Series. Register below!
Learning Objectives
- Expand self-awareness skills in three domains: Know, Feel, Sense
- Demonstrate core communication skills including the following:
- Asking & Listening
- Reflecting Difficult Emotions
- Reframing Fixed Perspectives
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About the Speaker
Dr. Sara Kim, Research Professor of Surgery, earned her PhD in Education from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 1999. She currently serves as Associate Dean for Educational Quality Improvement at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Dr. Kim is the inaugural holder of the George G. B. Bilsten Professorship in the Art of Communication with Peers and Patients. She leads research programs in conflict management and collaborates with clinical, administrative, and educational stakeholders across UW Medicine.
Since 2014, she and her team have developed training programs and taught conflict dialogue and speaking-up skills to over 10,000 healthcare professionals. Her work has been supported by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine grants and the UW Medicine Patient Safety Innovation Programs (PSIP). She has published extensively in leading medical education and specialty journals, focusing on communication skills for conflict resolution and navigating power hierarchies.
She is also a certified coach for emerging and established leaders and a certified mediator with the King County Dispute Resolution Center.
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May
1
Thu
May 1 @ 2:52 pm – 3:52 pm
Description
Right now, and over the course of your career, there are and will be many leadership roles and opportunities. There are a growing number of resources to support leadership development and training, but many scientists have not had training in leadership (e.g. in team, clinical, or academic leadership).
This year’s ITHS Team Science Seminar Series has focused on providing resources to help translational researchers develop their collaborative leadership potential. In our final session of the 2024-2025 series, we will focus on an important aspect of leadership—figuring out when and how to say “yes” vs. “no” when new opportunities arise.
Scroll down to register now!
Learning Objectives
- Compare & contrast 3 approaches to help guide decisions about saying “yes” vs. “no” to a new leadership opportunity.
- Evaluate alignment between goals & opportunities in real-world scenarios.
- Practice strategies for saying “no” to opportunities that are not a good fit with your goals.
- Formulate plans to be ready for anticipated & unanticipated growth & change.
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About the Speakers
Erin Abu-Rish Blakeney, PhD, RN, is co-lead of the UW ITHS Team Science Core and a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Informatics at the UW School of Nursing. Dr. Blakeney’s program of research focuses on how teams work together and how their teamwork influences the production of new knowledge and translation of research into practice along the entire classroom to bench to bedside spectrum. She has nearly 15 years of experience developing, implementing, and evaluating team approaches to interdisciplinary education, healthcare, and research.
Jennifer Sprecher, BSIE, MS Management Science, is Director of Strategy Development and Deployment with the School of Nursing. Ms. Sprecher works with organizations to achieve excellence through Strategy development, Lean Project Management, balanced scorecards, change management, benchmarking, team problem solving, team and leadership coaching. Ms. Sprecher is a strong team facilitator, called upon to facilitate high-level teams where interaction and reaching objectives are critical.
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