An Anthology of Academic Transitions: Faculty Factory Interviews on Retiring & Rewiring

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Book cover for the Faculty Factory book: "An Anthology of Academic Transitions - Faculty Factory Interviews on Retiring and Rewiring"Today marks the 400th episode of the Faculty Factory Podcast, and to officially ring in this landmark achievement of our weekly podcast and its wonderful community that will soon reach its 8th birthday in December, we are ecstatic to announce the launch of our fourth book: “An Anthology of Academic Transitions: Faculty Factory Interviews on Retiring & Rewiring.”

Drawn from the Faculty Factory Podcast’s rich archive of interviews with deans, department chairs, physicians, and academic leaders, this anthology is an unbiased road map for nearly every facet of major career transitions and the retirement journey. We hope you will share this link to the book with a friend.

You can also download this eBook for free as a PDF.

And/or order a print version of this book, or a Kindle version of it, on Amazon.

The Faculty Factory Podcast is proud to be sponsored by the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB). We are grateful to Jochen Reiser, MD, PhD, President of UTMB and CEO of UTMB Health System, and Susan Chubinskaya, PhD, MS, Senior Vice President, Provost, and Chief Academic Officer, for their continued support.

We would also like to thank the following guests, whose interviews form the heart of this book: Lawrence Appel, MD, MPH; Yuval Bar-Or, PhD; Janet Bickel, MA; Ann Brown, MD, MHS; Oscar W. “Skip” Brown, MD; Peter Densen, MD; Vicki Freeman, PhD; Darrell G. Kirch, MD; Jeffrey M. Lyness, MD, FACPsych; Michael Malloy, MD; David Niesel, PhD; Susan M. Pollart, MD; Jochen Reiser, MD, PhD; David A. Rogers, MD, MHPE; Paul Rothman, MD; Angela Sharkey, MD; Kimberly A. Skarupski, PhD, MPH; David J. Skorton, MD; Patrick O. Smith, PhD, ABPP; Wiley “Chip” Souba, MD; Donna Vogel, MD, PhD; Cary C. Ward, MD; Wendy Ward, PhD, ABPP, FAPA, FNAP; Carol Ziminski, MD; and Brian Zink, MD.