MGH Faculty Development Podcast

When it comes time to sit down and write a manuscript of any kind, do you find many other things to do instead? Three senior faculty shared the strategies they use to leap the hurdle of procrastination and get down to writing.

Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants were able to:

• Know several strategies to overcome procrastination.
• Use several techniques to identify thoughts that can lead to procrastination.
• Identify emotional sources of procrastination.

Panelists: Andrew Nierenberg, MD, Director, Dauten Family Center for Bipolar Treatment Innovation, MGH Professor of Psychiatry Elyse Park, PhD, Program Director, Cancer Center Smokefree Support Service, MGH Professor of Psychiatry & Medicine c, Former HMS Dean for Academic and Clinical Affairs, CC Wang Professor of Radiation Oncology

Webinar available: CFD MS Stream (intranet)

In this session, Dr. Julie Ingelfinger, talked about optimizing your chances of acceptance into a high impact journal. By the end of the session, participants learned how to:

• Craft a workable outline for his/her report of clinical or basic research.
• Determine his/her next steps in writing a manuscript to submit to a high impact journal.
• Complete the necessary steps to complete the submission process.

Presenter: Julie Ingelfinger, MD, a long-time Deputy Editor at the New England Journal of Medicine, a Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, and Senior Consultant, Pediatric Nephrology Unit, MassGeneral for Children at MGH.

Webinar: https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/056506c9-c5ed-47a4-9281-347f13f58097

"Definition of Success in Academic Surgery"

The Anne Klibanski Visiting Lecture Series was created to support and advance the careers of women. These lectures bring together faculty from institutions that have hosted Anne Klibanski Scholars with MGH scholars, on topics that overlap both research areas.

Presenters: Cassandra Kelleher, MD, Assistant Professor, Pediatric Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School presented on “The Path to Success is a Long Winding Road.” Angela Gibson, MD, PhD, FACS, Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin - Madison presented on “Love the Skin You’re In: My Approach to Tenure as a Surgeon Scientist.”

Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

• Understand the current challenges facing surgeon scientists
• Identify key strategies to be successful as a surgeon scientist
• Recognize the many roles that a surgeon scientist can have in academia

Webinar available: https://youtu.be/y2yyD_Y79vs

"Neuroimaging of Resting State Activity Across Development and Brain States" The Anne Klibanski Visiting Lecture Series was created to support and advance the careers of women. These lectures bring together faculty from institutions that have hosted Anne Klibanski Scholars with MGH scholars, on topics that overlap both research areas. Presenters: Jingyuan Chen, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Radiology, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School presented on “Functional PET-MR imaging of ‘resting-state’ activity across wake and sleep.” Lucille A. Moore, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Neurology, Developmental Cognition and Neuroimaging Lab, Oregon Health & Science University presented on “Individualized resting state networks in infants.” Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

• Learn about the advantages of using resting state data to address research questions as well as its limitations.
• Learn how resting state data can be analyzed to reveal features of neonatal brain development.
• Learn about the spatiotemporal properties of resting state activity across wake and sleep.

Webinar available: https://youtu.be/Jc45p9XACaE

The Parenting Series is an Office for Women’s Careers initiative focused on well-being and work-life balance for MGH faculty and trainee parents. Each session includes a panel of people with lived experience sharing their thoughts and stimulating discussion on a topic relevant to managing parenthood.

This panel discussion focused on fun things to do with your kids! Anne Fishel, PhD, talked about the importance of mealtimes during the pandemic, how they changed, and what the Family Dinner Project has to offer to help families harness the many nutritional, mental health, and academic benefits of shared mealtimes. Anne Levy, PhD, shared her insights into the experience of reading aloud to her three children before bedtime until they were in middle school - short and then longer books from her children’s, hers, and her parents’ generation. Rana Chudnofsky, MEd, was not recorded, but she shared the essential tools to build resilience and improve your health and quality of life, while helping support your children and teens to learn and practice their own resiliency building skills.

Panel Speakers: Anne Fishel, PhD, Executive Director of the Family Dinner Project Anne Levy, PhD, Senior Program Manager of the Center for Faculty Development at MGH (not recorded) Rana Chudnofsky, MEd, Director of the PART Training Program and Resilient Youth at the Benson Henry Institute

Webinar available: https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/f03c23e2-1a03-4f16-ab65-c8d7e3c6ac86

"Innovations in the Detection, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Breast Cancer"

The Anne Klibanski Visiting Lecture Series was created to support and advance the careers of women. These lectures bring together faculty from institutions that have hosted Anne Klibanski Scholars with MGH scholars, on topics that overlap both research areas.

Presenters: Manisha Bahl, MD, Breast Imaging Radiologist, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School presented on “Tomosynthesis, Contrast-Enhanced Mammography, and Artificial Intelligence to Improve the Detection and Diagnosis of Breast Cancer” Yolanda Bryce, MD, Director of Interventional Radiology Training Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center presented on “Cryoablation of Breast Cancer”

Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

• Recognize the advantages of digital breast tomosynthesis and contrast-enhanced mammography over conventional digital 2D mammography.
• Review interpretive and noninterpretive artificial intelligence applications for breast imaging.
• Discuss justifications and approach for cryoablation of breast cancer.
• Describe a potential role of cryoablation in boosting immune response.

Webinar available: https://youtu.be/l1xsoDC6vM4

Feeling burned out? This webinar will help you to find a path to well-being by discussing the system factors that drive burnout in healthcare. It will also identify factors in your life that are in your control as well as create a specific action plan for an area of your life that you want to change. Dr. Shannon will review practices and strategies that you can use daily to mitigate stress and change your daily life experience.

Learning Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to: • Develop strategies for professional and personal growth to feel less burnout. • Identify and manage personal areas of improvement in your life that are in your control. • Create an action plan for an area of your life that you want to change.

Presenter: Diane W. Shannon, MD, MPH, after experiencing burnout as a primary care physician, Dr. Diane Shannon made the difficult decision to leave practice. As a professional health care writer for the past 20 years, Dr. Shannon has focused on highlighting issues in the US health care system, including lack of reliability, gaps in communication, and clinician burnout. She is co-author of Preventing Physician Burnout: Curing the Chaos and Returning Joy to the Practice of Medicine, which was published in 2016.

Dr. Shannon is a leading expert in helping clinicians identify the places where they have agency and make changes to improve their professional and personal lives. Dr. Shannon has especially focused on helping women physicians address burnout, overwhelm, and self-doubt. She continues to advocate for health system change through her writing and speaking engagements.

Dr. Shannon attended Williams College, Jefferson Medical College, and Harvard University. She completed training in Internal Medicine at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Boston and practiced general internal medicine prior to making the shift to writing and coaching.

Webinar available on our intranet channel: https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/a7aa2511-a028-4609-a016-e4109b92aa48

This was a panel discussion on couples navigating career choices. Drs. Thomas Byrne, Mark O’Connor and William Palmer, presented their respective stories, including the challenges and rewards that have resulted from their choice to support their wives’ careers. Then the panel answered questions from the audience. Panelists: Thomas N. Byrne, MD, Professor of Neurology and Health Sciences & Technology, Part-time Mark J. O’Connor, MD, Clinical and Research Fellow in Endocrinology William E. Palmer, MD, Associate Professor of Radiology Moderators: Miriam A. Bredella, MD, Director of the Center for Faculty Development (CFD) Louisa Sylvia, MD, Director of the Office for Women’s Careers (OWC), CFD

Webinar available on MGB intranet on:  https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/94ee6b2f-4bee-4760-8965-a7aed8dd661a

Clinical and Educational Programs for the Underserved on Maintaining Brain Health

The Anne Klibanski Visiting Lecture Series was created to support and advance the careers of women. These lectures bring together faculty from institutions that have hosted Anne Klibanski Scholars with MGH scholars, on topics that overlap both research areas.

This lecture was given by Zeina Chemali, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology, MGH/HMS and Jin Hui Joo, MA, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University.

Webinar available: https://youtu.be/pquPQ-PRmvU

Improving Cancer Imaging and Treatment

The Anne Klibanski Visiting Lecture Series was created to support and advance the careers of women. These lectures bring together faculty from institutions that have hosted Anne Klibanski Scholars with MGH scholars, on topics that overlap both research areas.

This lecture was given by Meenal Datta, PhD, AACR-Loxo Oncology Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Radiation Oncology, MGH/HMS and Simone Dalm, PhD, Assistant Professor of Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center.

Webinar available: https://youtu.be/G9VrvR0PiuA