| September 19, 2024, 4-5 pm | Promotion and Tenure in RSOM |
| October 17, 2024, 4-5 pm | Building Your Reputation as a Basic or Clinical Scientist |
| November 21, 2024, 4-5 pm | Tools for Clinical Teaching – and– Resources for Lab Management |
| December 19, 2024, 4-5 pm | If I Knew Then What I Know Now |
| January 16, 2025, 4-5 pm | Professionalism / How to Report a Problem |
| February 20, 2025, 4-5 pm | How to Manage a Team |
| March 27, 2025, 4-5 pm | Guidelines for Social Media & Consulting |
| April 17, 2025, 4-5 pm | Mentoring / Coaching / Sponsoring |
| May 15, 2025, 4-5 pm | Entrepreneurship |
| June 19, 2025, 4-5 pm | Research IT Resources |
All meetings are held via Zoom from 4-5 pm. To register in advance for any session, please email faculty_affairs@stonybrookmedicine.edu.
How to use this template:
- First, we recommend reviewing the companion Self-Study Questions, which are intended to get you thinking about your activities and goals for this next year.
- Armed with your notes from the Self-Study, complete the relevant parts of this template. Begin with your long- and short-term career goals. Then, for each of the subsequent sections, write down your next steps or S.M.A.R.T. action goals that will help you reach your overarching career goals. Producing a S.M.A.R.T. goal is a goal that is: Specific, Measurable, Action-oriented, Realistic and Time-bound.
- Be sure to adapt this template to suit your work and organizational style, including:
- Deleting any module that does not apply to you; and
- Adjusting or renaming any columns as needed.
- For each set of activities, comment on any obstacles you see that could impact your ability to accomplish your goals for that section.
- Include plans for the next year, at which time you should review your progress and update your plans for the subsequent year.
- Brian Bronson, Psychiatry
- Carol Carter, Microbiology & Immunology
- Holly Colognato, Pharmacological Sciences
- Marie Gelato, Department of Medicine
- Adam Gonzalez, Department of Psychiatry
- Catherine Kier, Department of Pediatrics
- Susan Lane, Department of Medicine
- Barbara Nemesure, Department of Family, Population & Preventive Medicine
- Allison McLarty, Department of Surgery
- Jedan Phillips, Family, Population and Preventive Medicine
- Elinor Schoenfeld, Family, Population & Preventive Medicine
- Rebecca Spiegel, Neurology
- Lisa Strano-Paul, Medicine
- Dada Pisconti, Biochemistry and Cell Biology
- Clint Rubin, Biomedical Engineering
- Apostolos Tassiopoulos, Surgery
- Stella Tsirka, Pharmacological Sciences
- Stephen Vitkun, Anesthesiology
- William Wertheim, Medicine
- Jennie Williams, Family, Population & Preventive Medicine
Carol Carter
Carol Ann Carter, PhD, is Stony Brook University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology in Stony Brook’s Renaissance School of Medicine. She earned her BS in Biology/ Chemistry from the City College of New York and her MPhil /PhD in Microbiology from Yale University. She was a postdoctoral fellow in virology at the Roche Institute of Molecular Genetics. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology and member of the National Academy of Sciences. Awards include the Stony Brook University Presidential Award for Promoting Diversity and Academic Excellence, the Suffolk County NY Martin Luther King, Jr Commission Public Service Award, Long Island Innovator Award, National Academy of Inventors and David Derse Memorial Award for research in Retrovirology.
Marie Gelato
Dr. Gelato is a SUNY Distinguished Service Professor and a tenured Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology at Stony Brook University. She was the Director of the Master’s Program for Clinical Research and was the NIH General Clinical Research Center Program Director for many years. She has over 30 years’ experience doing investigator initiated patient oriented research. She was a member of the FDA Advisory Panel for Endocrine and Metabolic Drugs and still serves as an ad hoc member. Dr. Gelato (5/2017) was appointed to the FDA Advisory Committee for Clinical Chemistry, Toxicology and Medical Devices. She was President of the Association for Patient Oriented Research (APOR) and has served on the Board of Directors for the Association for Clinical and Translational Science. During her tenure at Stony Brook she has mentored over 20 fellows and has severed on several mentoring committees for the School of Medicine. In the Department of Medicine, she is Chair of the Research Committee and oversees the Pilot Project Grant Program. In addition, she is Chair of the Promotions Committee for the Department of Medicine which oversees the review of faculty promotion/appointment packages and mentors faculty to prepare their credentials for promotion.
Catherine Kier
Dr. Catherine Kier is Professor of Pediatrics at Stony Brook University Renaissance School of Medicine. She has been the faculty of Stony Brook University since 2000. Dr. Kier received her medical degree from the University of the Philippines College of Medicine, she completed her residency and chief residency at North Shore University Hospital in NY and her pediatric pulmonary fellowship at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in PA. She also completed her postdoctoral fellowship in sleep medicine at the Center for Sleep and Respiratory Neurobiology at the University of Pennsylvania. She also completed her Master of Health Administration at Stony Brook University Program of Public Health. She is board-certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Pulmonology by the American Board of Pediatrics and possesses a Diploma in Sleep Medicine granted by the American Board of Sleep Medicine. She is a certified asthma educator, granted by the National Asthma Education Certification Board. Dr. Kier is the Division of Chief of Pediatric Pulmonary, Director of the Cystic Fibrosis Center, and Director of the Pediatric Sleep Disorders Center at Stony Brook Children's Hospital, New York. Her 3 major clinical research interests and focus are: (1) cystic fibrosis newborn screening; (2) asthma education with focus on the acute to chronic care model of asthma management; (3) alternative treatments options for pediatric obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). She has numerous peer-reviewed publications, and has national and international presence in academic societies. It is through mentoring relationships that she finds joy in continuing to make progress with both her academic and leadership roles at the institutional level and the national level. She has helped faculty, fellows, residents, medical students, graduate students, undergraduate students academically, in various capacities, from advising, to career development, to publications.
Barbara Nemesure
Barbara Nemesure, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Family, Population and Preventive Medicine and the Division Head of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. She also serves as the Director of the Cancer Prevention and Control Program for the Stony Brook Cancer Center. Her research interests are mainly focused in the following domains: i) community outreach efforts to improve cancer screening rates; ii) evaluating cancer-related risk factors, including biomarkers and epigenetic changes in the human microbiome and; iii) implementation of lifestyle changes to improve quality of life among cancer survivors. Dr. Nemesure has been a Principal Investigator (PI) on several major National Institute of Health (NIH) research grants over the past 30+ years, including the Barbados National Cancer Study and the Prostate Cancer in a Black Population Study, which focused on the identification of epidemiologic and genetic risk factors for breast and prostate cancer in Barbados, West Indies. Dr. Nemesure has published more than 150 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
Clinton Rubin
Clinton T. Rubin, Ph.D., is a SUNY Distinguished Professor and founding Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, New York. He also serves as the Director of the Center for Advanced Technology in Medical Biotechnology, a CAT funded by the New York State foundation for Science, Technology and Academic Research (NYSTAR), which links the intellectual and physical resources of NY Universities to the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and medical device industries. Rubin’s research is targeted towards understanding the cellular mechanisms responsible for the growth, healing, and homeostasis of bone, and how mechanical stimuli mediate these responses through the control of mesenchymal and hematopoietic stem cell differentiation and proliferation, to establish non-drug treatment strategies for osteoporosis, obesity and diabetes. Dr. Rubin holds ~30 patents in the area of wound repair, stem cell regulation, and treatment of metabolic disease, and is a founder of Exogen, Juvent, Marodyne Medical, and Lahara Bio, which use physical signals to regulate biologic processes. He has published over 300 articles, has been cited ~40,000 times, with an H-index of 100. He is a fellow of AAAS, NAI, ASBMR, BMES and AIMBE. Dr. Rubin received his AB degree from Harvard, and his PhD from Bristol University, U.K.
Alison Stopeck
Alison Stopeck, MD, is the Chief of the Division of Hematology/Oncology and a Professor of Medicine at the Stony Brook Cancer Center, Stony Brook University College of Medicine. She is also the Associate Director for Clinical and Translational Research for the Stony Brook Cancer Center. After receiving her bachelor’s degree from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, Dr. Stopeck completed her medical degree at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, her residency in internal medicine at Columbia-Presbyterian hospital and her fellowship in hematology/oncology at Cornell University New York Hospital. She moved to the University of Arizona Cancer Center in 1994 where she directed both the Breast Cancer Program and the Arizona Hemophilia and Thrombosis Center. She moved to the Stony Brook Cancer Center in September 2014 where she focuses on breast cancer treatment and clinical trials. Her breast cancer research interests include novel therapies, understanding the tumor microenvironment, and developing predictors of antitumor therapies or chemopreventive agents. She has authored or co-authored over 200 book chapters, refereed journal articles, abstracts, and editorials and is the associate editor for the American Journal of Medicine heading the hematology/oncology section.
Stephen Vitkun
Dr. Stephen Vitkun is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor, Professor of Anesthesiology and Vice Chairman (Special Projects) in the Department of Anesthesiology at Stony Brook. In addition, he holds joint appointments as Professor of Pharmacological Sciences and Professor of Clinical Health Sciences at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He received a BS degree from SUNY Stony Brook in Chemistry and Biochemistry. Subsequently he received the MD degree from Dartmouth Medical School. He has a Masters Degree (AM) in Pharmacology & Toxicology from Dartmouth, and an MBA and a PhD degree in Biomedical Sciences. He completed a residency in Anesthesiology and a research fellowship at University Medical Center at Stony Brook. In addition to being a practicing anesthesiologist, Dr. Vitkun has been the author of many manuscripts and abstracts and he has been the principal investigator on several pharmaceutical grants evaluating various drugs and drug preparations given via the nasal route. He has been active in teaching in the Schools of Medicine, Nursing and Health Technology and Management as well as on the undergraduate level in the College of Arts and Sciences. He has been utilizing full-scale simulation in his classes for many years and provides clinical simulation teaching and critical thinking experiences for medical students and residents. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Anesthesiology. He has been the recipient of the Stony Brook School of Medicine’s Aesculapius Award for Teaching Excellence, the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, the President’s Award for Excellence in Team-Teaching, and the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. He received the Distinguished Service Award from the New York State Society of Anesthesiologists in 2022.
