NEWS FOR DELL MED FACULTY

AUGUST 2025

FEATURED PROGRAMS & RESOURCES

Reminder: Register for the ‘In Conversation Discussion Series’

The In Conversation Discussion Series kicks off this month with monthly virtual discussion panels featuring Dell Med faculty leading impactful initiatives across the enterprise. All faculty are invited to register for upcoming sessions:

Aug. 22: Academic Career Exploration and Planning
George Macones, Kevin Bozic, Jane Edmond and Leah Harris share pearls of wisdom and lessons learned from their experiences building fruitful careers in academic medicine.
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Sept. 23: Demystifying Quality Improvement
Veena Patel, Kate Remick and Margaret Whitney lead this discussion on the basics of conducing quality improvement projects. All — from beginners to the more experienced — are invited to join the conversation.
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Oct. 22: Ideation to Commercialization
Steve Ekker, Chun Kuo and Dan Stromberg provide insights to consider for faculty who may be interested in academic entrepreneurship and commercialization.
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‘Leadership Starts Here’ Sessions This Fall

This monthly in-person workshop series is designed for faculty members to learn and exercise leadership competencies. All faculty are invited to register for upcoming sessions:

Aug. 8: Utilizing Temperaments to Enhance Your Self Awareness and Leadership Effectiveness
Led by Luanne Thorndyke, this interactive experience is designed to promote personal insights about yourself and others. After the presentation, utilize insights to strategically build stronger teams, increase the impact of their communications and enhance your effectiveness as a leader.
Sept. 12: Being the CEO of Your Career
Presented by Archana Chatterjee, this session explores personal values alignment and ways to exercise more intentionality in developing your career pathway in academic medicine to align your trajectory with personal values that drive engagement and personal meaning-making.
Oct. 9: Striving for Optimal Wellness Through Changing Times
Jamie Dinwiddie, will explore a practical approach to overcoming adversity with resolve, grounded in the well-established tenets of awareness, stewardship, servanthood and responsiveness.

Learn more & register for all ten sessions or select individual sessions »

Promotion & Tenure Resources

Learn more about the different promotion tracks for Dell Med professional-track faculty, including how to distinguish between the clinical professor and the professor title series
Guidance for all faculty on the 2025-26 promotion and tenure cycle
See more resources in the promotion and tenure resource library

Biweekly Faculty Academic Affairs Office Hours

Join our team for biweekly office hours to ask questions and learn about the faculty promotion processes, the Dell Med CV template and more.
Upcoming office hours: Aug. 6 and Aug. 20, 3-4 p.m., Zoom
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UPCOMING UT OPPORTUNITIES

University Faculty Onboarding Program

Hosted by University’s Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost, New Faculty Launch is a year-long program designed to help familiarize new faculty with University resources to advance their careers as scholars, teachers and mentors. The program kicks off with a three-day orientation Aug. 18-20 with additional monthly sessions during the academic year.
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Mobilizing Character: Caught, Taught & Sought

This workshop series features strategies for supporting learners’ character development and expression through daily teaching and feedback practices such as purposeful role modeling, character-related feedback, values-based discussions, story-telling and broadened perspective taking. Sessions held 5:30-6:45 p.m. biweekly on Tuesdays via Zoom starting Sept. 23. Sign up for as many sessions as your schedule allows.
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The Happiness Paradox in Health Care

Thriving Thursdays, Well-Being in Medicine Series: Art Markman, who has published more than 150 scholarly works about cognitive science, decision-making and organizational behavior, shares his research on how embracing both positive and negative emotions can create more meaning at work and even foster deeper connections with colleagues.
Aug. 14, noon-1 p.m., HLB 5.201
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Senior Scientist Seminar Series With Suzannah Creech

Suzannah Creech shares her research and career journey. The series offers insights from experienced clinician-scientists driving health transformation.
Oct. 23, noon-1 p.m., Zoom
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Medical Education Research Office Hour

On the third Thursday of every month, the Dell Med Evaluation and Assessment team hosts an office hour to provide support for research/evaluation design and methodology needs. Open to all faculty, residents and students.
Upcoming office hour: Aug. 21, noon-1 p.m., Zoom
Email Jennifer Braham for the Zoom link »

HIGHLIGHTS

Recognizing Our Faculty

We are proud to celebrate the outstanding achievements of our faculty members, whose work continues to inspire and create lasting impact. Please join us in congratulating these distinguished faculty members on their remarkable accomplishments!

Nicholas Peppas received the 2025 Kabiller Prize in Nanoscience and Nanomedicine from the International Institute for Nanotechnology for his significant and sustained contributions to the application of nanotechnology in medicine and biology.
Audrey Brumback, Jack Virostko and Kelly Gaither were selected for the Research Leaders Academy 2025-26 Cohort. The Research Leaders Academy helps faculty develop the skills and strategies needed to lead large, interdisciplinary research projects, from building teams to securing funding and managing complex initiatives.
Daniel Richards was selected for the Aspiring Leaders Academy 2025-26 Cohort that supports faculty who are exploring leadership roles by building skills, peer networks and mentorship connections to prepare for future academic leadership opportunities.
Brian Lee was selected for the 2025 Values Based Leadership: The Mayo Clinic Model. This program is designed to transform health care leadership by exploring Mayo Clinic’s model of leadership, care, professionalism, values and organizational structure.
Two projects were awarded Health Transformation Research Institute and Cain Foundation's 2025 awards. Kevin Kumar, and Sage Green received an award for their project along with Daniel Stromberg, and Lee Fuentes.

Members of the Faculty Coaching Program 2025 Cohort

We are pleased to welcome the following participants to our Faculty Coaching program launching this fall. These faculty members were selected through a highly competitive application process.

Claire Sokas
Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery & Perioperative Care

Ankit Sabharwal
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics

Jillian Rippon
Assistant Professor
Department of Internal Medicine

Abdulhamid Al-Douri
Assistant Professor
Department of Internal Medicine

Johanna Busch
Assistant Professor
Department of Internal Medicine

Balamurugan Lakshmanan
Assistant Professor
Department of Internal Medicine

Hunter Daigle
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics

Daniel Freedman
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurology

Gregory Wallingford
Assistant Professor
Department of Internal Medicine

EXTERNAL OPPORTUNITIES & RESOURCES

K Awards Training: A Path to Success

Columbia University hosts this training to help researchers strengthen their National Institutes of Health K award applications. Participants learn how to position their research and career goals to align with K award expectations and improve their chances of funding success. Workshop includes a five-hour asynchronous course in August and a six-hour virtual session on Sept. 4.
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Business of Medicine Conference

Formerly known as Fall Conference, physicians learn comprehensive overview of the business of medicine. Registration is free for Texas Medical Association members, $25 onsite.
Sept. 18-20, El Paso, TX
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Stanford’s COACHME Program

The course provides key tools and processes to equip faculty with foundational coaching skills to increase the impact of day-to-day communications in their leadership, mentoring and educational practices. Virtual sessions offered through summer starting Sept. 11.
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Leveraging the Power of Self-Awareness To Lead More Effectively

Learn how artificial intelligence tools are being used to streamline administrative workflows, from chatbots that simplify policy access to automating complex tasks in research and clinical operations. This AAMC webinar also explores how leaders are using AI for reflective dialogue to strengthen communication and decision-making.
Sept. 23, Virtual
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AAMC’s Learn Serve Lead Annual Meeting

Learn Serve Lead is the AAMC’s premier annual gathering, where forward-thinking dialogue, collaboration and knowledge-sharing fuel innovation and drive transformation in health, health care, research and education.
Nov. 1-5, San Antonio, TX
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The Effort Report

This podcast hosted by Elizabeth Matsui and Roger Peng features topics on life in academia. The Effort Report covers various academic craft topics with past episodes including collaboration, writing letters of recommendation and revising a manuscript in response to a review.
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