Faculty Career Development Series
The ITHS Career Development Series consist of monthly lectures and workshops designed to provide junior faculty and investigators with tools, a forum for discussion, and learning opportunities to help advance their careers.
Topics
Topics are selected based on an annual needs assessment.
Example topics include:
- How to Write an NIH K Award
- Making the Most of your Mentor Relationship
- Mastering Public Speaking as a Researcher
- Communicating your Findings Visually
- What really happens in an NIH Study Review
Where can I find a CDS event?
ITHS partners with several UW campus and WWAMI regional partners to ensure we reach and engage the translational workforce with each series. CDS events occur across the main UW campus, in the UW Medicine South Lake Union building, and are often captured on video and edited for online distribution to our regional partners. Many of our offerings are also broadcast live as webinars to allow for flexible viewing opportunities. Check out the calendar for specific upcoming event topics and locations.
Click here to watch past seminar recordings.
Upcoming and Past Events
Nov
7
Thu
Description
Get much more out of your meetings and take a giant step towards improving team engagement and functionality. Team meetings are where much of the team decisions and interactions occur. Using a few tools and strong facilitation can increase contribution and reduce ineffective conflict and increase psychological safety.
This is the second session of the 2024–2025 Team Science Seminar Series.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Apply 2 primary tools for team meetings.
- Understand 2 facilitation techniques.
Schedule of Activities
12:00–12:05pm – Welcome, Overview, Introductions
12:05–12:55pm – Presentation and Q&A
12:55–1:00pm – Thank You and Feedback Survey
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About the Speaker
Jennifer Sprecher is Director of Strategy Development and Deployment with the School of Nursing. Ms. Sprecher works with organizations to achieve excellence through Strategy development, Lean Project Management, balanced scorecards, change management, benchmarking, team problem solving, team and leadership coaching.
Ms. Sprecher is a strong team facilitator, called upon to facilitate high-level teams where interaction and reaching objectives are critical. Sample facilitations include strategic planning, building collaborations, designing and developing new services, products and processes, implementing process improvements, implementing research studies and creating new research centers. She has worked extensively in the past few years within the arena of team science and applying team concepts to innovative development and research teams.
Before the UW School of Nursing, Ms. Sprecher focused exclusively on health research in the Institute of Translational Health Sciences, also within the University of WA. Prior to the UW, she spent 7 years as Executive Director of the Washington State Quality Award (WSQA), a Baldrige-based non-profit organization. With a background in Industrial Engineering, Ms. Sprecher has been working with process improvement for over 25 years using continuous process improvement methods including Lean, Lean-Sigma, Plan Do Check Act and 6S (5S workplace organization combined with Safety) and Total Quality Management.
Ms. Sprecher has a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, a Master’s of Science in Management Systems, is a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and an International Coaching Federation ACC-certified Leadership Coach.
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Nov
19
Tue
Nov 19 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Description
In this presentation, you will learn about considerations for creating and evaluating self-report measures. Content covered will include types of validity and reliability relevant to patient-reported outcome measures, common mistakes to avoid, review of reflective v formative latent constructs, overview of types of analyses for psychometric evaluation, and minimally important difference metrics.
This session is designed for people with any level of measurement experience. Beginners are welcome!
At the end of the presentation, there will be an optional extra 30 minutes for folks who are working on measures and want to discuss their projects.
Learning Objectives
At the end of the session, attendees will be able to:
- Recognize common types of validity and reliability
- Distinguish between formative and reflective constructs
- Describe two ways to evaluate Minimal important difference (MID)
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Schedule of Activities
12:00-12:05pm – Welcome/Introduction
12:05-1:00pm – Presentation and Discussion
1:00-1:30pm – Optional opportunity for attendees to share projects
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Brittany Blanchard, PhD (she/they) is a licensed clinical psychologist with advanced training in psychological methods and evaluations. She is an Assistant Professor, Director of the Population Health Analytics Team (P-HAT), and Director of the NIMH-funded P50 ALACRITY Center Methods Core in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences in the UW SOM. She is currently supported by the NCATS-funded ITHS KL2 Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Career Development Program, for which her research and training focus on integrating harm reduction practices into primary care for patients who use stimulants and/or opioids. She is also supported by multiple grants from NIMH, PCORI, and the CDC, as well as the NIDA Loan Repayment Program. She is a faculty member in the Advancing Integrated Mental Health Solutions (AIMS) Center and the Harborview Injury and Prevention Research Center (HIPRC).
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Dec
5
Thu
Description
Academic structures are complex and can be very hierarchical. For example, some health science schools at the UW have more than 30 departments and divisions (Medicine) and others have none or only two (Nursing) or three (Pharmacy). There are also many School-specific and interdisciplinary research and training centers. Faculty are hired into multiple roles and titles within the University. Successful navigation of these complex and changing environments requires skilled leadership. In this session, will use a Liberating Structure called “Celebrity Interview” to interview the former Interim Dean and current Vice Dean of the UW School of Pharmacy about her leadership journey in academia.
This is the third session of the Team Science Seminar Series 2024–2025.
Learning Objectives
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Discuss leadership styles and how to adjust styles based on context.
- Describe challenges inherent in academic leadership that impact personal values, positional roles, and institutional rules.
- Discuss competing values and demands in academe that can constrain a leader’s ability to be their best self.
- Identify ways that academic leadership has changed over the last 20 years.
Pre-Work
- Review the Liberating Structure of a Celebrity Interview to see how we will organize the seminar (this is a great teaching tool)
Link: https://www.liberatingstructures.com/22-celebrity-interview/ - Read the short article on “Authenticity and Leadership in Academe”[prettyfilelink size="1 MB" src="https://www.iths.org/wp-content/uploads/On-authenticity-and-Leadership-in-Academe-1.pdf" type="pdf"]PRE-WORK: On Authenticity and Leadership in Academe[/prettyfilelink]
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Peggy Odegard, BS Pharm, PharmD, CDES, having served as the Interim Dean for the School of Pharmacy in 2022-2023, is currently Vice Dean and Professor in the Department of Pharmacy, and an active pharmacist practitioner. She earned her Doctor of Pharmacy and Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy degrees from the University of Washington.
Dr. Odegard oversees the UW School of Pharmacy Doctor of Pharmacy program and is advanced diabetes care pharmacist clinician. She provides regular outreach and community-based education to older adults and to those affected by diabetes, mentoring students alongside her in this role. Her research and teaching are focused on diabetes care, pharmacy practice advancement, interprofessional education, and leadership. Dr. Odegard has published more than 60 refereed manuscripts and book chapters, and regularly presents her work nationally.
Dr. Odegard is past Chair of the UW School of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacy and prior to her work at the UW, served as the Clinical Pharmacy Manager for a regional health system, where she gained substantial experience and training in organizational leadership, change management, and with quality improvement and implementation of pharmacy practice services.
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