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Advising & Mentoring
Dr. Wischmeyer is passionate about the mentorship and development of trainees at all levels interested in careers in as physician-scientists and academic medicine. Mentoring junior faculty, trainees and colleagues has been and will continue to be a top priority of my career. It my hope to be able to assist trainees in a range of specialties including anesthesiology, critical care, surgery, and nutrition to help create the future academic leaders in these specialties.
Overall, I am an advocate for mentorship with the goal of allowing mentees to move towards a research topic they are passionate about (as opposed to only their mentors research alone ). This is so their research becomes a life-long career passion, regardless of the challenges an academic career may present. This is accompanied by a hands-on and pro-active mentorship style to allow mentee’s to make well-informed decisions after exposure to appropriate expertise and acquisition of required skills to move towards becoming independent investigators in clinical, basic, and translational science research.
My mentoring track record includes successfully mentorship of many (> 20) highly motivated investigators at the level of fellow or junior faculty. All these investigators published original manuscripts (83% of which he serves as a co- or senior author) and have been invited to present their research at major national or international meetings. Many have won awards for their research during the period he mentored them with 94% remaining in academic medicine and 88% receiving independent funding. This is an exceptionally high percentage of mentees remaining in academic medicine. In addition he has worked with > 40 high school, undergraduate, medical students, dieticians, PhD students, and resident trainees. Many have had success publishing and presenting their research at national/international meetings. In total, my trainees have produced >70 manuscripts (>50 as first author) in which he serves as co-author and > 100 abstracts while under his mentorship. Overall, I have had mentee’s at all levels go on to receive peer reviewed funding (15 total individuals). I have served as a mentor on many of these trainee’s grants (9) and as an mentor on 2 NIH K23 funded grants and co-mentor on 1 funded K23 grant.