Office of Academic and Faculty Affairs

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.

• Department of Pediatrics Mentoring Policy (PDF)

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.

Mentoring Resources

APP Mentoring Program

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

• Information on faculty advancement, midpoint review, promotion, appointment, and award of tenure in the Department of Pediatrics (PDF).
• Promotion 201: A video course designed to give an overview of the promotion process and a starting point to prepare a promotion dossier. The School of Medicine has a faculty orientation lecture called “Promotion 101” delivered during annual new employee orientation sessions. This course continues that training in specific terms with examples with the  goal  to help early career faculty members make a plan for meeting promotion standards as they build careers on the faculty at CU Anschutz. Course completion earns a certificate and is free.
• University of Colorado Faculty Handbook: Policies and Procedures, including governance, appointment, promotion and tenure, compensation, leave, and retirement.
• SOM Faculty Resource Guide for Dossier Preparation (2022 edition): Directions and examples for preparing promotion dossiers.
• CV Format: CV format recommended by the School of Medicine.
• Promotion Criteria Matrix Criteria for excellent and meritorious accomplishments for promotion/appointment.
• Overview of Faculty Promotion Series: Outline of the Regular Faculty series, Research Professor series, and Clinical Practice series and criteria for promotion within each series.
• School of Medicine Promotion and Tenure Page: Complete School of Medicine information about promotion/appointment processes and rules, promotion/appointment criteria, awards of tenure, and dossier preparation.
• som-tenure-review-standards-2023 Criteria for Award of Tenure within the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
• University of Colorado Post-tenure Review Campus Policy Statement (PDF)

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.

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