Academic Advancement

Building Your Toolbox for Academic Advancement

The Building Your Toolbox for Academic Advancement series is an on-demand, virtual program designed to support academic promotion. Content focuses on topics particularly relevant to early career.

For more information about the program, please contact Marc Labrie, MBA, Director of the Office of Faculty Affairs, at Marc.Labrie@baystatehealth.org.

• December 8th, 2022 │ Sponsorship as a Lever for Organizational Change: Cultivating the Success of Women in Medicine (Video Recording) presented by Amy S. Gottlieb, MD, FACP, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Professor of Medicine and Obstetrics & Gynecology at UMass Chan – Baystate, Chief Faculty Development Officer at Baystate Health.

• May 19th, 2022 │ Physician Time Management: Tips for Spending Your Most Valuable Currency (Video Recording) presented by Christopher Mudge, MD, Assistant Professor of Radiology at UMass Chan-Baystate. 

• February 10th, 2022 │ Networking in Your Professional Societies: A Tool for Academic Advancement (Video Recording) presented by Raquel Belforti, DO, MEd, Associate Professor of Medicine at UMass Chan-Baystate and Amy Oliveira, MD, Associate Professor of Radiology at UMass Chan-Baystate.

2021 Sessions

• October 28th, 2021 │Publishing Your Work (Video Recording) presented by Robert J. Goldberg, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Division of Epidemiology, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences at UMass Chan Medical School

• July 15th, 2021 │  Promotion Planning and CV Tips (Video Recording) presented by Amy S. Gottlieb, MD, FACP, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Professor of Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynecology at UMass Chan – Baystate, Chief Faculty Development Officer at Baystate Health

• April 8th, 2021 │ Getting Academic Output From Your Day Job (Video Recording) presented by Tara Catanzano, MD, FSABI, Professor and Vice Chair of Academic Affairs, Department of Radiology, Associate Director of Academic Career Development, Office of Faculty Affairs at UMass Chan – Baystate

• January 29th, 2021 │ Understanding Scholarship (Video Recording) presented by Rebecca Blanchard, PhD, MEd, Associate Professor of Medicine at UMass Chan – Baystate 

CV Workshops

We invite departments and divisions to schedule CV workshops to help faculty with strategies to enhance faculty CVs.

Please contact Marc Labrie, MBA, Director of the Office of Faculty Affairs, at Marc.Labrie@baystatehealth.org to schedule.

Promotion Accountability Groups

Promotion Accountability Groups are a four-session, longitudinal faculty development program for individuals seeking advancement to the next academic rank. Sessions focus on CV preparation and guidance, as well as a review of promotion metrics.

For more information about future offerings, please email Marc Labrie, MBA, Director of the Office of Faculty Affairs, at Marc.Labrie@baystatehealth.org or call 413-794-7835.

(Updated September 2023)