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We are excited for another Faculty Factory reunion episode today as we visit with Amanda Termuhlen, MD. Dr. Termuhlen is Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, in the Office of Faculty Affairs at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. She also serves as Professor in the Department of Pediatrics. Reunion episodes will be popping up a lot this season on the Faculty Factory Podcast where we will be visiting with past guests and friends of our community. To learn more about Dr. Termuhlen, please make sure to check out our previous episode with her, by visiting this webpage: https://facultyfactory.org/what-keeps-us-awake-at-night-in-faculty-development/  In the 2.5 years since Dr. Termuhlen first joined us for an interview in June 2019, the world is completely different. Much of our daily lives at work and home are hardly recognizable from what they were in the summer of 2019. Today’s chat with Dr. Termuhlen is raw, honest, and emotional. Dr. Termuhlen also discussed the impact of George Floyd’s murder in May of 2020. A horrific event that took place just a few miles from her institution’s Minneapolis campus.     Even optimists can sometimes find it difficult to find the silver linings in the most challenging of times. “When the clinical systems are stressed, everyone is stressed,” she said.   With a surging pandemic, burnout, and levels of staff turnover rising rapidly, the emotional and physical exhaustion can take its toll. It might be easy to want to give up, but these challenges can be dealt with and that’s the theme of today’s interview with Dr. Termuhlen. “There are things we can do. Our clinical system has been working overtime on staffing, hiring, and getting people the support they need,” Dr. Termuhlen said.

Season 4 of the Faculty Factory is here, and it’s off to an inspiring start. George S. Everly, Jr., PhD, FACLP, FAPA, joins us with some timely take home messaging on resilience and mental health. Dr. Everly is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the Department of International Health in the Bloomberg School of Public Health. This is a reunion episode where we visit with past guests and friends of the Faculty Factory community. To learn about our previous episode with Dr. Everly, please visit this webpage: https://facultyfactory.org/a-faculty-factory-interview-with-george-s-everly-jr-phd-faclp-fapa/ “Typically, in both medicine and public health, many of us have underestimated the role of mental health in what makes a strong and resilient society,” Dr. Everly said. Dr. Everly goes on to call mental health “an intrinsic thread that provides the horsepower to society.” Mental health has been threatened during this relentless pandemic and Dr. Everly has studied three past pandemics. His voice, insight, and wisdom are greatly appreciated.  “We cannot allow a pandemic to define us, we must see it as one point on this marathon of life,” he told us. Mastering adversity, resilience, and the will to emerge stronger than ever from difficult, life-altering challenges are just some of the many themes covered in today’s podcast. It packs a powerful punch, so listeners may want to go back and listen to this episode multiple times. According to Dr. Everly, the folks he calls the “masters of adversity” understand life is truly a journey and they have an attitude of resilience. They have a vision for a better tomorrow. Want to get in touch with Dr. Everly? You can email him at: geverly1@jhmi.edu Please stay tuned for more podcasts from this exciting new season!

This week on the Faculty Factory we preview Season 4 and the year ahead! We are incredibly honored to welcome listeners to the fourth year of the Faculty Factory Podcast. Faculty Factory producer, Casey Callanan, MBA, joins our host, Kimberly A. Skarupski, PhD, MPH, to recap some Faculty Factory community highlights from 2021 on today's show. We also preview some of the exciting new resources, podcast episodes, and content that is coming as part of Season 4 in 2022! As a friendly reminder, the previous three seasons of the podcast included: Season 1: Interviews with faculty development professionals and leadership throughout North America. Season 2: Snippets for Success. Season 3: Habits and Hacks from Hopkins (H3). The success of the Faculty Factory would not be possible without the generous contributions of the hundreds of folks who have donated their time to be interviewed for our show. We would like to send a sincere thank you to all who have contributed to this ongoing mission. If you feel as though the timing is right for you – or a colleague you want to sponsor – to be interviewed on our show, please never hesitate to reach out to us by sending an email to FacultyFactoryKim@gmail.com. We wish nothing but the best for our listeners in 2022 and beyond. Happy new year, friends!

Today’s episode of the Faculty Factory Podcast is a “Best of the Faculty Factory” podcast episode on mentorship. It features highlights of conversations we have had on this podcast about mentoring. This is a follow-up to Episode No. 152, Best of the Faculty Factory Discussions on Mentorship, Part 1, which was published two weeks ago. As a friendly programming reminder, we will be launching a new season of the Faculty Factory Podcast in January 2022, so please stay tuned as Season 4 is on the way! Today’s episode features mentorship highlights pulled from interviews we have had on this podcast with the following guests: Clara L. Lapiner, MPH Cynthia S. Rand, PhD Donna Vogel, PhD Wendy Ward, PhD, ABPP, FAPA, and Dave Yousem, MD, MBA Learn more about the Faculty Factory: https://facultyfactory.org/  

Coaching is different than seeking the help of a consultant, mentor, or therapist. While there are similarities and overlap between these disciplines and coaching, they are uniquely different. Coaching can broadly be defined as helping a person, or team, accomplish their goal(s). Almost all professionals can benefit from the tutelage of an unbiased coach in their life. This is especially true for faculty. Today’s episode of the Faculty Factory is a “Best of” show that includes highlights from conversations about the benefits of coaching with the following guests: Rachel J. Bishop, MD, MPH Elaine Schulte, MD, MPH Please remember that we will be launching a new season of the Faculty Factory in January 2022, so please stay tuned as Season 4 is on the way! Learn more about the Faculty Factory: https://facultyfactory.org/ 

Conversations on mentorship have been a staple of the Faculty Factory Podcast since we launched our show in 2019. As we close out 2021 – another great year on the Faculty Factory – we are excited to share with you a “Best of the Faculty Factory” podcast episode on mentorship.  Today’s podcast includes clips from different interviews. It contains some of the top highlights of conversations we’ve had on mentorship since the Faculty Factory’s inception. The wisdom shared on these episodes is timeless, and the concepts are evergreen. Today’s episode includes conversations with the following past podcast guests: Clara L. Lapiner, MPH Cynthia S. Rand, PhD Donna Vogel, PhD Wendy Ward, PhD, ABPP, FAPA, and Dave Yousem, MD, MBA Learn more: https://facultyfactory.org/ 

It’s season finale day here at the Faculty Factory Podcast! Sarah Amend, PhD, joins us today for the final episode of the Faculty Factory’s Season 3 "Habits and Hacks from Hopkins" series. We are excited to welcome back Dr. Amend this week for a follow-up chat. She previously joined us for a Habits and Hacks episode about fostering healthy and productive collaborations between diverse-minded experts in academia.  Today’s conversation is focused on some leadership and mentoring habits and hacks. Dr. Amend serves as Assistant Professor of Urology and Assistant Professor of Oncology with the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore. Thank you to everyone who joined us for the Habits and Hacks from Hopkins (H3) series! Now we want to hear from you! If you are interested in joining our host, Dr. Kim Skarupski, for an episode, or you want to nominate a colleague to join us, please reach out to us: https://facultyfactory.org/contact-us/

A powerful interview is on tap today as we work towards wrapping up our memorable Habits and Hacks from Hopkins series on the Faculty Factory Podcast. Fawaz Al Ammary, MD, PhD, joins us to discuss an incredibly vicious and unprovoked attack he suffered earlier this year. Dr. Al Ammary’s outlook on the entire situation is an inspiration and his story is moving. He described turning the nightmare into a positive outcome. Dr. Al Ammary serves as an Assistant Professor of Medicine and a Transplant Nephrologist in the Comprehensive Transplant Center within the Division of Nephrology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is also the Medical Director of Living Donor Kidney Transplantation at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Learn more: https://facultyfactory.org/ 

Times were much different when Yuval Bar-Or, PhD, first appeared on the Faculty Factory Podcast as a guest in the early spring of 2020. Dr. Bar-Or joined our podcast for a very memorable episode entitled, Financial Basics for Medical Professionals. It featured practical advice about the basics of personal finance for faculty and medical professionals. At the time it was recorded our society was in the beginning stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Almost everyone was impacted in some way financially from the pandemic. With that in mind, we welcomed back Dr. Bar-Or for a follow-up episode. We discuss how COVID-19 has impacted many of our lives financially and how we can prepare for future events that might drastically change our budgets and life.   Dr. Bar-Or is an Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. He is the author of several books, and he is the founder of the Pillars of Wealth series for medical professionals.

Joining us this week on the Faculty Factory Podcast is Garima Sharma, MD. Dr. Sharma shares with us a recent paper she worked on in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology regarding toxic workplace culture in cardiology, and its broader implications in medicine. With Johns Hopkins Medicine, Dr. Sharma serves as Assistant Professor in the Division of Cardiology and Associate Vice Chair for Women's Careers in Academic Medicine. Learn more:  https://facultyfactory.org/garima-sharma/