CENTER FOR FACULTY DEVELOPMENT

Outstanding Mentor of UiM Faculty and Trainees Award

Sponsored by the Center for Faculty Development, this is one of the seven CFD Excellence in Mentoring Awards to recognize and honor the mentoring contributions and to further build a "culture of mentoring" here at MGH.

2023 UiM Faculty and Trainees Award Recipient 1 of 2: Sherri-Ann M. Burnett-Bowie, MD, MPH

Means Firm Chief, MGH Internal Medicine Residency Program; Chair, Diversity & Inclusion Board, MGH Department of Medicine; Associate Director, MGH Center for Diversity & Inclusion; and Associate Professor of Medicine, HMS

Click here for list of 2023 nominees
photo of Dr. Sherri-Ann M. Burnett-Bowie

2023 UiM Faculty and Trainees Award Recipient 2 of 2: Alexander C. Tsai, MD

Psychiatrist, MGH; Associate Professor of Psychiatry, HMS; and Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

photo of Dr. Alexander Tsai

2022 UiM Faculty and Trainees Award Recipient: Margarita Alegría, PhD

Chief, Disparities Research Unit, Department of Medicine, MGH and Mongan Institute; the Harry G. Lehnert, Jr. and Lucille F. Cyr Endowed Chair, Mass General Research Institute; and Professor in the Departments of Medicine & Psychiatry, HMS

Click here for list of 2022 nominees
photo of Dr. Margarita Alegría

2021 UiM Faculty and Trainees Award Recipient: Derri L. Shtasel, MD, MPH

Associate Professor of Psychiatry, HMS; Associate Chief, Community Psychiatry and the Michele and Howard J. Kessler Chair and Director of the MGH Division of Public and Community Psychiatry; and Co-chair of the Race Equity Subcommittee of ECOCH

Click here for list of 2021 nominees
Photo of Dr. Derri Shtasel
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Do you have or know an outstanding mentor?

As part of the "CFD Excellence in Mentoring Awards," the MGH Center for Faculty Development invites nominations for the Outstanding Mentor of Underrepresented in Medicine (UiM) Faculty and Trainees Award. This $1,000 award will be given to a faculty member from any MGH department who serves as a strong collaborator, mentor, and sponsor of UiM faculty and trainees. The recipient will have demonstrated the support of UiM colleagues by:

  • Listening in a generous and capacious way
  • Engaging in the deliberate inclusion UiM colleagues
  • Providing career advice, feedback, encouragement, and motivation
  • Affirming, sponsoring, and celebrating UiM colleagues
  • Being an upstander in calling out bias
  • Advocating to change organizational practices and norms to remove barriers that inhibit the careers of UiM colleagues
  • Providing public support for the advancement and promotion of UiM colleagues through power opportunities and connections
Description of Award

Research demonstrates that societal and institutional biases perpetuate the existence of hurdles that Underrepresented in Medicine (UiM) faculty and trainees confront as they try to advance their careers toward the success their talent deserves. To encourage and sustain a culture of stronger sponsorship of UiM faculty and trainees and one in which institutional biases are confronted and changed, the MGH Center for Faculty Development, in consultation with the MGH Center for Diversity and Inclusion, created the Outstanding Mentor of UiMs Award to recognize faculty who support and empower their UiM colleagues in advancing their career and achieving their professional goals and who actively work to create a more open, equitable environment in which UiMs can thrive, grow, and attain major leadership roles.

Eligibility
  • MGH faculty appointment
  • MD, PhD, or equivalent advanced degree
  • Harvard Medical School faculty appointment
Review Process

Nominees will be evaluated and ranked by a multidisciplinary Review Committee. Nominees will be notified in January 2025. 

Nomination Requirements
  • Completed Nomination Form*
  • Nominations for this award should be accompanied by a maximum of three letters supporting the nomination that can be jointly written (most likely one from the nominator). Multiple nominators can compose each letter, but this is not required. Each letter can be up to 2 pages but not longer.
  • Nominee's HMS CV

Overall rules:

  • A nominator can nominate only ONE candidate per award.
  • Nominators from outside MGH are welcome, but at least one nominator has to be from within MGH.

*Nomination Form:

  • In one paragraph (2-4 sentences), summarize why you* have nominated this candidate for this award.
    *One nominator will submit the nomination, including the form and up to 3 nominating letters.
  • List all letter writers for this nomination, e.g.:
    1. Nominator or Supporting Letter Writer(s)
    2. Supporting Letter Writer(s)
    3. Supporting Letter Writer(s)

It is recommended that the letters include specific anecdotes and examples that demonstrate the nominee’s commitment to UiMs’ professional and personal development as well as the nominee’s efforts to remove barriers that UiM faculty and trainees face and provide public support for the advancement and promotion of their UiM colleagues.

How to Nominate

The Center for Faculty Development is now accepting nominations online via the CFD Online Nomination Portal. 

This user-friendly portal allows you to submit electronic nominations to the Center for Faculty Development. The portal has been designed to allow users to:

  • View current calls and submit to open opportunities
  • Save and edit current nominations in progress
  • Submit completed nominations
  • View all your CFD nominations that have been submitted via the online portal

If you have questions, please submit them via e-mail to cfd@partners.org.

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