Imposter Syndrome and Leadership Roles in Academia with Cynthia Rand, PhD

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We could not be more excited to welcome Cynthia Rand, PhD, back to our program this week. Many of you may remember that Dr. Rand joined us in the Spring of 2020 as we were on the initial outbreak of the global COVID-19 pandemic.

She makes her highly anticipated return this week to chat with us about imposter syndrome and how it can impact leadership roles in academia.

With a joint appointment in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Dr. Rand serves as Professor of Medicine in the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Department at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She also serves as Senior Associate Dean for Faculty.

Today’s episode is another installment of our Faculty Factory reunion series where we visit with guests from yesteryear. As longtime listeners to our show can attest, Dr. Rand is passionate about the strength of a profound mentorship. In fact, her three previous appearances on our show have surrounded that topic.

You can listen to the previous Faculty Factory episodes featuring Dr. Rand:

It’s been a pure joy to catch up with folks on how they’ve been doing in these reunion shows. With the pandemic and other game-changing events taking place since our initial chats, there is no shortage of wisdom to be gleaned from these conversations.

You can listen to today’s episode in its entirety via the podcast player above, and you can hear all our Reunion Episodes here. For the entire archive of our podcast, please visit our podcast homepage.