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LIFT Faculty Participants pose with their mentor for a photo during the inaugural session of the 2017 LIFT Junior Faculty Mentoring Program
Program Overview
Mentoring is a critical component to the career advancement of our faculty. The Office of Academic and Faculty Affairs advises all faculty — particularly junior and mid-level faculty — to seek out opportunities for mentorship wherever they can. Many departments at the U of A College of Medicine – Phoenix have active mentoring programs for their members, and we advise faculty to begin their search there or by speaking to their department chair or department faculty coordinator.
The Office of Academic and Faculty Affairs at the College of Medicine – Phoenix is committed to developing a vibrant, engaged and empowered community of faculty who have access to programs that inspire and enrich their professional growth and development. Leading and Inspiring Faculty Trajectories (LIFT) is a college-level early and mid-career peer faculty mentoring program designed to supplement and complement mentoring activities at the department level — while simultaneously equipping faculty with the resources, tools and networks of like-minded colleagues needed to thrive in academic medicine. The optimal goal of the program is to take a deep dive into the professorial promotion process while touching on other overall topics related to career advancement for physician and basic science researchers.
LIFT is a facilitated, cohort-based program derived from modern, evidence-based mentoring practices and literature with the aim of enhancing faculty vitality through efficient access to traditional and peer mentoring opportunities, resources, and events across a broad spectrum of career development topics.
Program Goals
- To provide supplemental mentoring opportunities and resources to junior and mid-career faculty of the College of Medicine – Phoenix.
- Expand faculty participants’ professional networks and develop collaborative relationships across disciplines.
- To advance faculty participants’ professional goals.
- Develop faculty participants as knowledgeable, capable, and influential leaders serving at the vital crossroads of medicine and academia.
Program Model
- Flipped classroom: Web-based on-demand modules followed by in-person discussion and workshopping.
- Five-month program cycle
- Cohort-based
- Traditional and peer-mentoring empowered by college leaders and resources.
*Curated LIFT Session Recordings
- If These Walls Could Talk: Expanding Your Visibility for Promotion.
- Speaker: Guadalupe Federico, PhD.
- Clinical Portfolios for Your Promotion Dossier.
- Speaker: Mira Milas, MD.
- Teaching Portfolios for Your Promotion Dossier.
- Speaker: Linda Nelson, MD, PhD.
- The Impact of Intersectionality on Engagement and Professorial Promotion.
- Speaker: Beatriz Tapia, MD, PhD.
*These require NetID authentication to view.
2025 LIFT Cohort
- M. Ross Mangum, MD
- Gerardo Gomez-Abundis, MD
- Katy Mullens, MD
- Dillon Warr, MD
- Zeynep Bostanci, MD
- Ma Ai Thanda Han, MD
- Lyndsay Willmott, MD
- Sabrina Rocke, DO
- Shaiban Jubair, MD
- Nathanael Adjei-Kyeremeh, MD
- Simmy Saade, MD
- David Carpentieri, MD
- Nehan Sher, MD
- Jonathan Cartsonis, MD
- Dennis Foley, MD
- Naomi Clancy, MD
2024 LIFT Cohort
- Liza Anwar, DO
- Joanna Kramer, DO, MPH
- Mrinalini Kala, PhD
- Jennifer Ronecker, MD
- Sunil Tulpule, MD
- Karen Yeager, DO, MS
- Vasudeva Kamath, PhD
- Reina Patel, DO
- Anita Rasheed, MD
- Erin Thornley, DO
- Subham Badhyal, PhD
- Kristen Yee, MD
2022 LIFT Cohort
- Beth Batchelor, MD
- Megan Cheney, MD, MPH
- Ayah Elmaghrabi, MD
- Allysia Houser, DO
- Rashmi Kumar, MD
- Jennifer Nelson, DO
- Allison Tompeck, MD
- Kristen Young, MD, DO
- Nalini Bhalla, MD
- Christina Conrad, DO
- Pamela Griffiths, MD
- Ian Komenaka, MD
- MacKenzie Landin, MD
- Reena Rastogi, MD
- Denege Ward-Wright, MD
2020-2021 LIFT Cohort
- Firas Abbas, MD.
- Jessica Anderson, MD.
- Shilpa Atodaria, MD.
- Mohan Belthur, MD.
- Melisa Celaya, PhD.
- Joan Chua, MD.
- David Guttman, MD.
- Aparna Jain, MD.
- Allison, Kaplan, MD
- Atsuko Koyama MD, MPH.
- Gregory Logid, PhD.
- Eliezer Shinnar, MD.
- Sandra Till, DO.
- Roxana Ursea, MD.
- Alan Wang, MD.
- Mahmoud Alsayed, MD.
- Israel Andrews, MD.
- Elise Barney, DO.
- Poonam Bhatia, MD.
- Hemasree Chaliki, MD.
- Alissa Darden, MD.
- Diane Hindman, MD, PharmD.
- Mrinalini Kala, PhD.
- Allison Kirk, MD.
- Nicole Kurnik, MD.
- Kelley Saunders, MD.
- Ryan Sullivan, DVM.
- Ijeoma Uche, MD.
- Karyne Vinales, MD.
- Teddy Youn, MD.
2019-2020 LIFT Cohort
Congratulations to the 2019-2020 cohort of LIFT Faculty Mentoring Program for completing the program!
- Kendall Novoa-Takara, MD.
- Mahmoud Alsayed, MD.
- Ricardo Correa, MD.
- Joyce Lee-Iannotti, MD.
- Shoma Bommena, MD.
- Mohan Belthur, MD.
- Julie Hastings, MD.
- Bidur Dhakal, MD.
- Jay Varma, MD.
- Allison Kaplan, MD.
- Lisa Yanex, EdD.
- Lisa Shah-Patel, MD.
- Cynthia Funes, PhD.
2017-2018 LIFT Cohort
Congratulations to the 2017-2018 cohort of LIFT Faculty Mentoring Program for completing the program!
- Hamed Abbaszadegan, MD.
- Shaghayegh Abdollahi, MD.
- Mahmoud Alsayed, MD.
- Mohan Belthur, MD.
- Clairmar Borrero-Mejias, MD.
- Viet Do, DO.
- Jennifer Hartmark-Hill, MD.
- Maheshwor Kafle, MD.
- Erin Kreml, MD.
- Nichole Mahnert, MD.
- Emily Mallin, MD.
- Jon McGreevy, MD.
- Laura Mercer, MD.
- Michele Munkwitz, MD.
- Alexander Ngwube, MD.
- Alena Petty, DO.
- Zebulon Timmons, MD.
- Benjamin Wright, MD.
Thank You to Our Past Mentors!
- Richard Gerkin, MD, MS.
- Jonathan Lifshitz, PhD.
- Linda R. Nelson, MD, PhD.
- Terry Stull, MD.
- Michael Grossman, MD, MACP.
- Maria Manriquez, MD.
- Robert Roberts, MD.
- Steve Zangwill, MD.
Executive Coaching
See our external coaching and consulting recommendation list.
Questions?
Please contact LIFT Program Leaders below
