Faculty Development Through the Career Spectrum: Effective Mentorship at Every Stage (ADIEM-, AACEM-, and Faculty Development Committee-Sponsored)

Academic careers thrive on mentorship tailored to each professional stage. This session will explore the evolving faculty development needs across career stages, with a focus on generational traits and the mentorship requirements of women and underrepresented minorities. Participants will engage in interactive discussions and breakout sessions to discover strategies for finding and providing impactful mentorship, overcoming barriers, and understanding how mentorship drives career growth and satisfaction. Attendees will leave with practical insights to enhance their mentorship practices and support faculty development throughout the career spectrum.

Learning Objectives: 

Upon completion of this session, participants should be able to:
  • Understand the unique needs and challenges at different career stages.
  • Explore strategies for finding and providing effective mentorship.
  • Identify common barriers and solutions in mentorship.
  • Highlight the importance of mentorship for women and underrepresented minorities.

Presenters: 

  • Liz Leenellett, MD, FACEP, CPE
  • Richelle J. Cooper, MD, MSHS
  • Ryan Walsh, MD, FACEP
  • Marianne Haughey, MD, FAAEM (she/her/hers)
  • Maria E. Moreira, MD
  • Pamela L. Dyne, MD
  • Katrina Gipson, MD, MPH, FACEP
  • Robert M. Rodriguez, MD
  • Adrianne Haggins, MD, MS
  • Arthur Broadstock, MD
Authors
  • Liz Leenellett, MD, FACEP, CPE

    University of Cincinnati

    Dr. Elizabeth (Liz) Leenellett, Professor and Vice Chair of Academic Affairs and Inclusive Excellence at the University of Cincinnati, also serves as Chief of Staff for UC Health-West Chester Hospital and holds the W. Brian Gibler, MD, Endowed Chair for Education in Emergency Medicine.

    Her training includes the University of Michigan's Inteflex program, the University of Cincinnati's emergency medicine residency, the Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) fellowship, and Certified Physician Executive (CPE) designation.

    In 2018, she founded the Emergency Medicine Program Of Women in leadERship (EMPOWER) and established the Leadership Excels with Achievement of Diversity (UC LEADs) endowment fund.

    Dr. Leenellett's leadership has been recognized with the 2021 Ohio ACEP Physician Leadership award, 2022 UC College of Medicine Grace LeMasters “Lift While You Climb” award, 2022 EMRA Faculty Mentor of the Year award, and 2024 AAWEP Community EM Champion award.
  • Richelle J. Cooper, MD, MSHS

    David Geffen UCLA School of Medicine

    Dr. Cooper is Professor of Emergency Medicine at the UCLA School of Medicine, and VIce Chair of Research for the UCLA Department of Emergency Medicine, at the UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center. Dr Cooper has been one of the methodology and statistics editors at Annals of Emergency Medicine since 2000, and is Executive Deputy Editor of Annals of Emergency Medicine. She has conducted research on, and lectured on multiple topics related to peer-review. Her research interests include the science of peer review and methodology, gender and healthcare disparities, social emergency medicine, and overuse and low value care. She serves on the American College of Emergency Physicians Research Committee.


  • Ryan Walsh, MD, FACEP

    Vanderbilt University Medical Center

    Dr. Walsh joined the faculty of Vanderbilt University in 2017 after completing eight years of active duty service in the United States Army Medical Corps. During that time Dr. Walsh completed two Middle East deployments, one as a Battalion Surgeon and one on a Damage Control Surgical Team. Dr. Walsh completed his residency at Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, Washington. He then stayed on as an attending within the Department of Emergency Medicine serving in the roles of clerkship director, assistant program director, and research director. Dr. Walsh has received national recognition of his contributions to Emergency Medicine to include the Government Services chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians Rising Star award in 2016 and the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine Simulation Academy Simulation Innovation Award in 2023. He has also received multiple local awards highlighting his teaching abilities to include the Madigan Army Medical Center Department of Emergency Medicine Active-Duty Faculty of the year award in 2017 and the Vanderbilt University Medical Center Department of Emergency Medicine Best Procedural Educator in 2022 and 2023.

    After coming to Vanderbilt, Dr. Walsh became the Director of Procedural Simulation where he has helped to develop the procedure curriculum for the Emergency Medicine residency. He now is the Director of Procedural Education and Training utilizing his experience in procedural education to focus on both Faculty and Residents as part of the Faculty Education and Training Team. In addition to his educational pursuits, Dr. Walsh has also served as the principle investigator for a DOD sponsored project to utilize augmented reality to assist with patient management and procedural performance in the prolonged field care setting. He has also been a consultant on over $2 million worth of grants researching the development of virtual reality training for military trauma scenarios awarded by the Army Advanced Medical Technology Initiative as well as the Defense Medical Research and Development Program. Dr. Walsh has also partnered with other industry partners for medical device research. Outside the hospital he enjoys hiking, camping, cycling, and mountain biking. Dr. Walsh is married to Lindsey and has two young children.
  • Marianne Haughey, MD

    Professor, Emergency Medicine

    Northwell/ LIJ Medical Center

    Marianne Haughey, MD, is a professor of emergency medicine (EM) at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, as well as the Director of Faculty Development. She practices clinically at LIJ/Northwell. Dr. Haughey is an American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) oral examiner and a Fellow of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM). She has taught extensively both nationally and internationally on various topics in EM education and has multiple articles pertinent to education and the clinical practice of EM, published in various journals.
  • Maria E. Moreira, MD

    Denver Health

    Maria E. Moreira, MD, FACEP is the Medical Director of Continuing Education & Simulation at Denver Health & Hospital Authority in the Office of Education, Director of Professional Development & Wellbeing for the Denver Health Emergency Department, and a Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Univeristy of Colorado School of Medicine. Dr. Moreira received her medical degree from the University of Medicine & Dentistry of NJ - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and completed her Emergency Medicine Residency at Denver Health & Hospital Authority. From 2010 to 2018, she served as Program Director of the Denver Health Residency in Emergency Medicine. She is an active member of several national Emergency Medicine organizations including ACEP (American College of Emergency Physicians), SAEM (Society of Academic Emergency Medicine), and CORD (Council of Residency Directors in Emergency Medicine), serving on multiple different committees. She served as President of CORD from 2019-2020. Additionally, she is the Section Editor for Adult Trauma for UpToDate, co-editor for Communication in Emergency Medicine and Emergency Medicine Secrets, and Editor-in-Chief of PEERcert+. She has received local, regional, and national teaching awards including the John Marx Education Award from the CO ACEP Chapter, the ACEP National Emergency Medicine Faculty Teaching Award, the Michael P. Wainscott Program Director Award, the Denver Health Medical Staff Outstanding Teacher Award, the Denver Health Residency in Emergency Medicine Jeffrey Druck Legacy Teaching Award, the 2024 Denver Health Residency in Emergency Medicine Outstanding Medical Student Educator Award, and was nominated in 2018 for the ACGME Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Award. She has authored multiple book chapters and peer-reviewed publications, lectures locally, regionally, and nationally on various clinical and educational topics, and has developed and implemented several curriculums. Areas of academic interest include curriculum development, procedure education, trauma care, communication, simulation, and leadership development.
  • Pamela L. Dyne, MD

    Olive View-UCLA Medical Center/UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine

    Dr. Pamela Dyne is Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, a former president of CORD, Program Director and DIO, a certified life and health coach, as well as a certified chief wellness officer and director of coaching for the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. With over 25 years of experience in GME, faculty development, and organized medicine leadership, her current position as Chief Physician Wellness Officer of Olive View-UCLA Medical Center allows her to integrate her leadership experience and knowledge of organizational and individual wellbeing with the human aspect of middle management that is required to create institutional change.
  • Katrina Gipson, MD, MPH, FACEP

    Assistant Professor

    Emory University School of Medicine

    Dr. Gipson is an assistant professor of emergency medicine at Emory, practices clinically at Grady Memorial Hospital, and is the founding health policy fellowship director for her department. She is president of ADIEM (2024-25) and served as co-chair of the education subcommittee of the equity & inclusion committee of SAEM. She recently completed a term as the National Medical Association (NMA) Emergency Medicine Section Secretary. Dr. Gipson’s OpEds discussing health equity and advocacy have been published in The Boston Globe, The Hill, The Progressive, and she’s been quoted in The New York Times. She is an avid public speaker having collaborated with the African American Policy Forum as a Critical Race Theory Summer School lecturer, Spencer Stuart’s Black History Month Speaker, Texas Speech-Language Hearing Association (TSHA) keynote speaker, SiriusXM's Urban View podcast guest, and many others. Dr. Gipson is a participant in the AAMC’s 2025 Healthcare Executive Diversity and Inclusion Certificate (HEDIC) Program and is an emerging health equity thought leader.

  • Robert Rodriguez, MD

    Professor, Emergency Medicine

    UCSF Department of Emergency Medicine

    Dr. Robert Rodriguez is a Professor of Emergency Medicine and the Vice Chair of Research at the UCSF Department of Emergency Medicine. After the University of Notre Dame and Harvard Medical School, he completed a combined Emergency Medicine/Internal Medicine residency at UCLA and a Critical Care Medicine fellowship at Stanford.

    Dr. Rodriguez has served as Principal Investigator on multiple RO1 and U grants, leading national teams examining issues in trauma, public health, and critical care. Recognizing the pivotal role that emergency departments play as the “safety net of the safety net”, much of Dr. Rodriguez’s research centers on emergency healthcare access for underserved populations. He has published over 155 peer-reviewed original research articles in high impact journals, including 40 articles in Annals of Emergency Medicine and Academic Emergency Medicine.
    Dr. Rodriguez considers his services as a research mentor to be his most important contribution to research. With a "Sí, se puede" attitude and a particular focus on under-represented in medicine trainees, he has mentored over 210 students, residents, fellows and junior faculty over the past 25 years. He is proud that 54 of his research mentees have garnered research funding, all of his undergraduate mentees have continued to medical school or other health professional training programs, and many of his advisees have continued onto careers in academic medicine. He has received multiple mentoring awards, including the UCSF CTSI Mentor of the Year, the Unidos US Xcellence in Leadership Award, and the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Award, given to a UCSF faculty who best exemplifies the late leader’s commitment to diversity.
    Dr. Rodriguez served as an advisor to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and the only emergency physician on the Biden/Harris COVID-19 Transition Advisory team. He co-authored the book Lessons from the Covid War: An Investigative Report.
  • Adrianne Haggins, MD, MS

    University of Michigan

    Dr. Adrianne Haggins is an Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School. She completed medical school at Michigan State College of Human Medicine ('07) and residency training at the University of Chicago ('10). She is an alum of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program ('10-'12) and the Medical Education Scholars Progam ('15-'16) both at the University of MIchigan. Her professional interests are related to inclusive mentorship practices to promote health care workforce diversity, informing design of curriculum to improve delivery of care to socially and/or economically vulnerable populations, as well as examining health disparities in access to care. She co-directs the Health Policy and Economics Path of Excellence and serves on competency and admissions committees in the Medical School.


  • Arthur Broadstock, MD

    University of Cincinnati Medical Center

    Arthur Broadstock is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. His interests include ultrasound guided regional anesthesia, resuscitative transesophageal echocardiography, medical education and wilderness medicine.