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Ayesha Shafi, PhD, discusses all aspects of peer mentoring this week on the Faculty Factory Podcast. Dr. Shafi is an Assistant Professor with the Center for Prostate Disease Research (CPDR) at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. She is a researcher who is currently working on translational and molecular signaling in prostate cancer.
In this episode, Dr. Shafi shares the genesis of her own peer mentoring journey and how her network has grown into a powerful community of support. She, along with her colleague and former Faculty Factory Podcast guest, Sarah Amend, PhD, recognized the importance of mentorship from both traditional and peer perspectives. Together, they developed a program that fosters an environment of trust, open communication, and tailored guidance that enables participants to navigate the challenges of academia and research effectively.
Tune in to discover the diverse mentoring styles and approaches that have shaped Dr. Shafi’s career so far, and to gain insights into the transformative impact of peer mentoring in the world of academic medicine.
You can get in touch with Dr. Shafi by sending her an email here: ashafi@cpdr.org. As mentioned in today’s episode, Dr. Shafi works closely with Dr. Amend. If you would like to listen to Faculty Factory Episode No. 142 called “Habits and Hacks of Interdisciplinary Science with Dr. Amend,” you can access that here, and our follow-up chat with Dr. Amend can be found here.
You can learn more about CPDR here.
Programming Notes
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