The Insiders Pocket Guide to Navigating a Faculty Career in Academic Medicine

About Heather BrodKimberly Skarupski

Heather Brod MA President Owner Heather Brod LLC Executive Coaching & Consulting   Heather is an executive coach consultant speaker and facilitator primarily to the higher education healthcare and professional services industries. As a coach she helps professionals cultivate mindsets and habits of authentic leadership. As a consultant she works with companies to create and implement inclusive strategies that develop and leverage the skills of the workforce.  She is a nationally recognized expert in professional development and has designed and delivered countless workshops and presentations on topics encompassing diversity equity and inclusion employee retention culturally responsive mentoring practices and models for career development. For over a decade Heather led an organizational and talent development center for Ohio States College of Medicine. She co-founded the Midwest Collaborative for Faculty Affairs and Development (MCFAD) was a 2019 recipient of Ohio States Glass Breaker award and is past-President of the Columbus Chapter of the Healthcare Businesswomens Association. Heather earned her coaching certification from the Hudson Institute of Coaching and is accredited as a Professional Certified Coach by the International Coaching Federation. She has made Columbus Ohio her home for over 20 years.   Kimberly A. Skarupski PhD MPH Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development Professor Department of Medicine (Div. of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology) Professor Epidemiology (Bloomberg School of Public Health)   Kim is the Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development in the Office of Faculty Development (OFD) and Professor of Medicine (Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology) in the School of Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology in the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore MD. The goal throughout Dr. Skarupskis 17-year faculty development career has been to build community (e.g. WAGs Writing Accountability Groups; Grant Review Investigator Groups; Specific Aims Speed Sessions; Late-Career and Next Chapter Senior Faculty Transitions; group coaching; and building evaluation and teaching in various leadership programs). Kim is a certified professional coach through the College of Executive Coaching and has developed group coaching and career development coaching camps for the Hopkins School of Medicine faculty. Kim hosts the Faculty Factory podcast an international forum for academic affairs and faculty development conversations and a repository of faculty development snippets for academic medical faculty members. As a social gerontologist and program evaluator the major theme running throughout Kims 25+ year research career has been the quality of life in older adults using data from large-scale epidemiologic studies to examine disparities in quality of life as well as the contribution of various social and psychological determinants of quality of life in older age. Most recently she has merged her gerontologic and faculty development interests exploring late-career faculty members: career needs; retirement expectations and experiences; and caregiving roles.