OFA Workshops & Mentoring Sessions 2026–27
Workshops
- APT process (August 26 and February)
- Entrepreneurship
- Maximizing your CV
- ClinWulf and SBU research computing resources
- Mentoring basics: mentor/sponsor/coach
- Well-being
- Setting and aligning goals and expectations
- Professionalism: lapses & rectification
- Leading Change
- Research Compliance
- Open session: lessons learned
Senior Mentoring Team Sessions
- Mentoring models and mentor selection
- Managing Up
- Communicating effectively with your mentee
- Library resources for scholarship
- Effective scientific communication
- Building and leading teams
- Difficult Conversations & Conflict Management
- Networking
- Imposter Syndrome and confidence building
- Grants/ OPD
- Clinical Research and Trials (with Dr. Hedayati)
All meetings are held via Zoom from 4-5 pm. To register in advance for any session, please email faculty_affairs@stonybrookmedicine.edu.
RSOM Individual Development Plan Template
Plan your activities and goals for the coming year with the RSOM Individual Development Plan. Step-by-step instructions for using the template are on the Resources for Faculty page.
Faculty Mentoring Toolkit
This guide provides mentors and mentees with valuable resources to encourage mentorship at the Renaissance School of Medicine (RSOM). We want all our faculty members to feel supported throughout their career at RSOM.
Senior Mentoring Team
The goal of this mentoring program is to provide accessible and meaningful engagement between experienced faculty members and junior colleagues for the purposes of career development and advancement, through the spirit of collegiality.
Felicia Ambrose
Neurology
Brian Bronson
Psychiatry
Holly Colognato
Pharmacological Sciences
Adam Gonzalez
Psychiatry
Susan Lane
Medicine
Allison McLarty
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
Apostolos Tassiopoulos
Surgery
Stella Tsirka
Pharmacological Sciences
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.
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.