Career Management

Conflict Management and Negotiation

• How to Ask Your Chair for a Raise
  Victor L. Schuster, M.D., Chairman, Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY
  www.mssm.edu/forfaculty/development/prof-dev/raise.shtml
• Babcock L, Laschever S. Women don't ask: Negotiation and the gender divide. Princeton University Press, 2003.
  "… should be read by anyone with a fear of negotiating, male or female, and by managers who want a better understanding of how 47 percent of the work force confronts the workplace…. The book [also] has a more revolutionary goal: to change the social context in which bargaining takes place, so the world becomes accepting of women who ask."
  —Alan Krueger, NY Times, August 21, 2003
• Nine Tips on Successful Negotiation
  July 2000
  www.ascb.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper &view=wrapper&Itemid=275
• Conflict Management
  Lynne D. Richardson, M.D., F.A.C.E.P., Vice Chair and Residency Director, Department of Emergency Medicine, MSSM, May 2002
  www.mssm.edu/wfg/mentors/conflictmgt.shtml
• Salary Negotiation
  Julie Theriot, February 2003
  www.ascb.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=275
• MSSM Basic Science Compensation Plan
• A Closer Look at Resolving Conflict
  Susyn Reeve, M.Ed., Organization and Personal Development Consultant, Organization Development and Learning, Apr 2001
  www.mssm.edu/wfg/mentors/conflictreeve.shtml
• Negotiations: How to Get What You Want and What You Need
  Gary Rosenberg, Ph.D., Division Chief, Behavioral Sciences and Social Work, Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, MSSM, Dec 2000
  www.mssm.edu/wfg/mentors/negotiations.shtml
• You Don't Have to Shout to Be Heard
  W. Sue Shafer and Rick Shafer, July 2001
  www.ascb.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=275

Time Management

• Effective Time Management
  Suzanne Pfeffer, December 2002
  www.ascb.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=275
• Time Management Basics: Becoming Productive Amid Chaos
  Susan R. Johnson, M.D., M.S., Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Epidemiology; Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, College of Medicine, University of Iowa
  www.mssm.edu/wfg/mentors/timemgtinchaos.shtml
• Time Management - A Life-Long Process; It Is Not Necessary to Be Perfect at It, Especially at the Beginning
  Dean Arthur Rubenstein, M.B.B.Ch., and Jonine Bernstein, Ph.D., MSSM; Jun 2001
  www.mssm.edu/wfg/mentors/rubensteinbernstein.shtml
• Personal Time Management for Scientists
  Christopher Edwards Ph.D.

Academic Development and Advancement

• Everything You Wanted To Know About Academic Advancement at MSSM
  Penny Asbell, M.D., 2009
• Self Evaluation and Laboratory Performance Appraisal
  Karen Ottemann, Ph.D.
  University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
• Getting Recognition for What you Do
  Florence P. Haseltine, M.D., Ph.D.
  NIH, Director of the Center for Population Research at the National Institute of Child Health & Human Development
  Founder and co-director of the Raise Project

• How to Build a Clinician-Educator Portfolio
  Judy Howe Ph.D., Associate Professor
  Eileen Callahan M.D., Assistant Professor
  Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development and Department of Medicine
• A Case Study: Managing Multiple Research Topics & Multiple Grants
  Dennis Charney, M.D. Dean for Research
  Anne & Joel Ehrenkranz Professor, Departments of Psychiatry & Neuroscience
• Your Next Job: Should it be in Academic Medicine or Pharmaceuticals/Biotechnology?
  Notes from a presentation by Stephanie Seremetis, M.D., Medical Director, Biopharmaceuticals, Novo Nordisk and Sergio Lira, M.D., Ph.D., Irene Diamond Associate Professor of Immunology, MSSM.
• MSSM Appointments and Promotions
  Highly informative and with downloadable forms.
  www.mssm.edu/forfaculty/ap/
• Life Science Research and Teaching: Strategies for a Successful Job Hunt
  www.ascb.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=29&Itemid=36
• Career Advice for Life Scientists Volumes 1 and 2 - Download a pdf
  www.ascb.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=29&Itemid=36
• Career Advice for Life Scientists II - Order a Paperback Copy today
  www.ascb.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=29&Itemid=36
• Earning Tenure: Ten Recommendations
  July 2000 www.ascb.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=275
• Career Strategy Articles from the Women in Cell Biology Committee
  www.ascb.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=275
• Managing Your Progress Towards Promotion
  Information including definitions of faculty appointment and various tracks.
  www.mssm.edu/forfaculty/handbook/chap4.shtml
• Faculty Appointment and Promotion Procedures
  for Full-Time and Voluntary Faculty
  In addition, there are descriptions of the Academic, Clinician/Educator, and Research Tracks.
  www.mssm.edu/forfaculty/handbook/chap5.shtml
• Study Section Service: An Introduction
  Frank Solomon, April 2003
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• MSSM 2003: Appointment and Promotion Guidelines for Academic, Research, Clinician/Educator, and Voluntary Faculty
  Penny Asbell, M.D., Professor, Ophthalmology; VP for Clinical, Appointments and Promotions Committee, MSSM; May 2003
  www.mssm.edu/wfg/mentors/pdf/AsbellAandP03.pdf
• What I Learned from the AAMC Junior Faculty Development Program
  Annabel K. Wang, M.D., Assistant Professor, Neurology; Feb 2001
  www.mssm.edu/wfg/mentors/jrfactulydevelop.shtml
• Appointments and Promotions: Demystifying the process at MSSM
  Ruth G. Abramson, M.D., Vice-Chair, Appointments and Promotions Committee; Professor, Medicine, MSSM; May 2000
  www.mssm.edu/wfg/mentors/jrfactulydevelop.shtml
• Alternative Career Paths Tailoring a Path in Academic Medicine to Suit Your Own Personal Needs
  Susan Spear, M.D., Exec VP, Physician Partners Co., NY Presbyterian Health Care Network; Apr 2001
  www.mssm.edu/wfg/mentors/altcareerpaths.shtml
• How to Succeed in the Clinician and/or Educator Track at Mount Sinai School of Medicine
  Drs. George Atweh, David Reich, Larry Smith, Klaude Weiss and Mary Wolff
• How to Succeed in the Academic Track at Mount Sinai School of Medicine
  Penny Asbell, George Atweh, Ehud Kaplan and Klaude Weiss

Funding Strategies

Grantsmanship information is detailed in the Research section of this Website. In addition:

• Your Grant Application: How Does the NIH Study Section Evaluate It?
  Summary of insights from study section members: Terry Krulwich, Sandy Masur, Lilly Ossowski, and Karen Zier, MSSM; Jan 2002
  www.mssm.edu/wfg/mentors/grantpanel.shtml
• Responding to the NIH Summary Statement
  Sally Ann Amero and Marcia Steinberg, June 2002
  www.ascb.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=275
• Business Planning: What, Why, How, When
  Margaret Pastuszko, M.B.A., Dean’s Office, MSSM; May 2001
  www.mssm.edu/wfg/mentors/businessplan.shtml
• Office of Technology and Business Development
  The Office of Technology and Business Development works to increase relationships between MSSM and industry.
  www.mssm.edu/otbd/

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