The University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital Colorado are large institutions whose success depends on excellence in our faculty missions of education, clinical care, research and discovery, and service. We know that our faculty are the most valuable resource in maintaining our nationally respected leadership position among pediatric academic medical centers.
The Department of Pediatrics Office of Academic and Faculty Affairs offers support services and career guidance, and maintains helpful information for faculty regarding appointments, policies, and promotion and tenure. We hope our efforts assist faculty
members in setting meaningful goals and in pursuing paths to successful, fulfilling careers.
The Department of Pediatrics Office of Faculty Affairs is committed to the success of all faculty members in the Department. Our goal is to promote faculty advancement and well-being by providing tools to successfully navigate a career at the University of Colorado. The resources provided here are not intended to replace what many sections are already doing, but rather to enhance any existing programs and ensure all faculty have a foundation for a fulfilling career.
Successful academic careers are the result of thoughtful planning and knowledgeable guidance. A defined career plan is an essential “road map” for reaching your goals. Use the resources below to develop your own plan and to find colleagues
who can advise you along the way.Under this section, you will find information tailored to early career, mid-career, and senior-career faculty.
Early career faculty have less than 7-10 years of faculty experience in their fields. Early career faculty should focus on procuring and maintaining the mentoring, training, and resources necessary as they begin to define their career paths. Career development will vary by area of focus, training, interests, and anticipated faculty series. Please refer to the Faculty Handbook [link will be inserted] for additional details on career development.
Mid-career faculty generally have more than 7-10 years of faculty experience in their fields. Mid-career faculty should focus on achieving excellence in their chosen career path, e.g. building on accomplishments as early career faculty towards a path of increasing independence, focusing on primary areas of interest, actively mentoring trainees and early career faculty, and developing leadership skills. Please refer to the Faculty Handbook [link will be inserted] for additional details on career development.
Senior-career faculty generally have more than 14 - 20 years of faculty experience in their fields. Senior faculty should focus on adding to their accomplishments; contributing to the missions of our department; making an impact on the next generation of clinicians, educators, and scientists; and, in many cases, becoming leaders at the local, regional, national, and/or international levels.
A faculty working group for instructors, senior instructors, and APPs of any years of experience.
Mission: The Instructor Faculty Working Group (IFWG) represents our inter-professional faculty members including instructors, senior instructors, and advanced practice providers. Our mission is to support opportunities for career development and inter-professional collaboration among these faculty members in the Department of Pediatrics.
For more information including members, events, and resources, please see the dedicated page on the Department of Pediatrics intranet.
A faculty working group for PhD research faculty of all ranks and years of experience.
Mission: The function of this group is to serve as a bridge between our diverse PhD faculty within the Department of Pediatrics and our departmental leadership.
For more information including members, events, and resources, please see the dedicated page on the Department of Pediatrics intranet.
A working group for faculty with up to seven years of faculty experience in their fields. The group focuses on supporting early career faculty including with topics that include mentoring, training, and resources necessary as they begin to define their career paths.
Mission: The Early Career Faculty Working Group is a small group of junior faculty members with a primary mission to address topics of specific interest to early career faculty in the Department of Pediatrics.
We strive to promote discussion and facilitate interaction among faculty members who may otherwise never work together.
This group also serves as a support network to allow for research and clinical collaborations and for representation of early career faculty interests at the Department of Pediatrics Academic and Faculty Affairs meetings.
We strive to provide seminars on topics of interest to early career faculty and to organize a formal retreat every other year.
For more information including members, events, and resources, please see the dedicated page on the Department of Pediatrics intranet.
A working group that supports faculty who generally have between seven and thirteen years of total experience in their field, regardless of rank or institution. A maximum of 6 members will be elected for a three-year term. The primary charter for this group includes pathway to professor planning, resourcing, and mentoring, increasing awareness of specific faculty needs, provider wellness, and growing networking opportunities across fields and ranks.
Mission: The MCFWG will develop and support activities and projects to enrich and improve the career development of all mid-career faculty in the Department of Pediatrics with a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We will advocate for issues important to faculty and help create connections between faculty members that would not otherwise exist.
For more information including members, events, and resources, please see the dedicated page on the Department of Pediatrics intranet.
A working group that supports faculty who generally have more than thirteen years of total experience in their field, regardless of rank or institution. A maximum of 6 members will be elected for a three-year term. The primary charter for this group includes identifying and raising awareness of specific faculty needs, provider wellness, generating new opportunities for connections to earlier-career faculty, succession planning, long-range planning including career transition and retirement, and emeritus faculty engagement.
For more information including members, events, and resources, please see the dedicated page on the Department of Pediatrics intranet.
The Department of Pediatrics views mentoring as an important aspect of faculty professional and career development. Our Office of Faculty Affairs, along with the School of Medicine Office of Faculty Affairs, is dedicated to enhancing faculty development through our mentoring program, especially for junior faculty.
Mentoring is a reciprocal and collaborative learning relationship in which mentor and mentee agree to a partnership and share responsibility and accountability toward the achievement of mutually defined goals that will develop a mentee’s skills, abilities, knowledge, and thinking.
Learn more about our mentoring policy, navigator program, and other School of Medicine resources through these links below.
Mentor Navigators will help faculty identify potential mentors and provide objective assessments of career and research plans. The concept of a Mentor Navigator has been developed to augment, not replace, the role of any established faculty mentor or mentoring team.
Career Cornerstones
A series of half-day quarterly skill-building workshops targeted toward assistant professors in years 1-4. The program accepts one new cohort per year.
Clinical Faculty Scholars Program (CFSP)
Helps emerging investigators obtain a career development award (e.g. K08, K23), or a first independent project award (R21, R01 or equivalent) via development of an individual career plan and regular individual mentorship from four experienced senior researchers
Colorado Immersion Training (CIT)
Brings together experts in community engagement to help investigators address the community relevance of their research activities as well as to help communities ask and answer questions about their health
Colorado Mentor (CO-Mentor) Training Program
Provides
evidence-based strategies to teach mentor/mentee pairs the practical skills they need for mentoring success
Colorado PROFILES
A search engine which helps investigators
and students find experts, potential collaborators, or mentors both at AMC and across the nation
Colorado Research in Implementation Science Program (CRISP)
A learning community that provides seminars, eBooks, textbooks, and other resources for Pragmatic Trials & Dissemination/Implementation Research
I-Corps@CCTSI
An entrepreneurial training that and uses proven customer-discovery methodologies for startups and guides teams through the early stages of discovery where they can test their business model hypotheses for their technology/idea and thereby accelerate the translation of innovations from the lab to clinical practice
KL2 (K12) Research Scholar Awards
Provides career development to train awardees to obtain individual funding via participation in monthly mentoring/career development sessions and the annual national CTSA consortium meeting
Optional Clinical Research Training and Resources
Available for study coordinators and investigators and cover issues such as UCD IRB processes, budgeting for a clinical trial, recruitment and informed consent, FDA audits, and good clinical practice guidelines. View regulatory tools
and forms.
PreK and K to R Review Programs
Grant pre-submission
mock grant review processes for faculty who are submitting their first K- or R-level application to the NIH and provides internal review prior to submission to increase the chances for success
Research Studio Program
A 90 minute structured, collaborative roundtable discussion with relevant research experts to help investigators with specific questions and is based on models from industry that demonstrate that multidisciplinary content experts
can increase research impact. The service is free and funded by the CCTSI
The Department of Pediatrics Academic Affairs Office provides guidance for and oversees the processes of assigning academic rank for new hires, mid-point reviews for assistant professors, academic promotion, and awards of tenure.
Nancy Krebs, MD, MS, serves as Associate Vice Chair for Academic Affairs and Mark Abzug, MD, serves as Vice Chair for Academic Affairs. Rhonda Buckner is the administrative coordinator for the Department of Pediatrics Academic Affairs Office.
Helpful Links
Promotion Review Committee Members
Mark Abzug, MD
Nancy Krebs, MD
David Keller, MD
Shelley Miyamoto, MD
Bruce Appel, PhD
Dan Atkins, MD
Margret Bock, MD
Jon Bowser, PA-C, MS
Patty Braun, MD
Kathryn Collins, MD
Angela Czaja, MD
John
Fluke, PhD
Glenn Furuta, MD
Timothy Garrington, MD
Susan Johnson, PhD
John Kinsella, MD
Terri Lewis, PhD
Kelly Maloney, MD
Katharine Moore, MD
Paul Rozance, MD
Douglas (Dave) Scudamore, MD
Tamim Shaikh,
PhD
Chris Stille, MD
Sandra Spencer, MD
Diane Straub, MD
Lori Sussel, PhD
Carl White, MD
Rebecca Wilson, PsyD
Michele Yang, MD
Pam Zeitlen, MD
Midpoint Review Committee Members
Richard Boles, PhD
Kathleen Adelgais, MD
Antonio Chiesa, MD
Kelly Knupp, MD
Edwin Asturias, MD
Peter Baker, II, MD
Antoinette Burns, DO
Ed de Zoeten, MD
David Fleischer, MD
Adam Green, MD
Elizabeth Griffith,
PhD
Andrew Liu, MD
Tai Lockspeiser, MD
Aaron Michels, MD
Thomas Parker, MD
Laura Pyle, PhD
Jenny Reese, MD
Janet Snell-Bergeon, PhD
Nicole Tartaglia, MD
Fred Thomas, PhD
Stacey Simon, PhD
Christine
Vohwinkel, MD, PhD
Clyde Wright, MD
Elizabeth (Liz) Yeung, MD
Tenure Committee
Mark Abzug, MD
Nancy Krebs, MD
Dan Ambruso, MD
Bruce Appel, PhD
Tim Benke, MD, PhD
Glenn Furuta, MD
Susan Johnson, PhD
John Kinsella, MD
Shelley Miyamoto, MD
Paul Rozance, MD
Tamim Shaikh, PhD
Lori
Sussel, PhD
Stan Szefler, MD
As the Department of Pediatrics combats COVID-19, the Office of Academic and Faculty Affairs has compiled a number of resources we hope our faculty and staff will find applicable and helpful. This list is regularly monitored and updated.
Thank you to our CU Anschutz Department of Medicine and CHCO Talent Development Team partners for their contributions to this growing resource page.
Contact Rhonda.Buckner@childrenscolorado.org for questions regarding
Contact Justin.Lotspeich@childrenscolorado.org for questions regarding
Mark Abzug
Vice Chair for Academic Affairs
Mark.Abzug@childrenscolorado.org
My role is to provide counseling to faculty on academic rank and advancement and guidance regarding midpoint, promotion, and tenure reviews. I serve as Co-Chair of the Department of Pediatrics Promotions and Tenure Committee.
Nancy Krebs
Associate Vice Chair for Academic Affairs
Nancy.Krebs@ucdenver.edu
I support the Department of Pediatrics’ academic actions for faculty including appointments, midpoint reviews, promotions, and tenure awards. I directly assist faculty by providing counseling and reviewing CV’s, dossiers and activities related to their academic position. I co-Chair the Department of Pediatrics’ Promotions and Tenure Committee, and maintain a close liaison with the SOM Office of Faculty Affairs.
Andrew Sirotnak
Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs
Andrew.Sirotnak@childrenscolorado.org
My Vice Chair role for all department faculty is to provide a venue for confidential support, career satisfaction counseling, and assistance with conflict management. I manage initiatives in mentoring, faculty development and the annual PRISM performance review process.
Gene Liffick
HR Program Director
gene.liffick@childrenscolorado.org
Rhonda Buckner
Talent Management & Academic Affairs Coordinator
Rhonda.Buckner@childrenscolorado.org
Justin Lotspeich
Faculty Affairs Coordinator
Justin.Lotspeich@childrenscolorado.org