CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

CFD Excellence in Mentoring Awards
 
Deadline: 5:00 pm on Friday, December 17, 2021

Do you have or know an outstanding mentor? 

Recognizing the excellent mentoring culture at MGH, the Center for Faculty Development is sending out a call for nominations for the CFD Excellence in Mentoring Awards, which have been expanded to include four new awards.
 
The CFD Excellence in Mentoring Awards recognize faculty and postdoctoral fellows who have mentored and contributed to the success of other faculty and/or trainees during their career. If you have or know an outstanding mentor who meets the criteria for one of the six awards listed below, nominate that person now! Applications are due Friday, December 17, and the winners will be announced at the MGH Celebration of Mentoring on January 26, 2022. 
John T. Potts, Jr., MD, Faculty Mentoring Award
The MGH Center for Faculty Development created the John T. Potts, Jr., MD, Faculty Mentoring Award in 2011 to recognize and honor senior faculty members with ten or more years of mentoring experience at MGH, in the spirit of further building a culture of mentoring at our hospital. The inaugural recipient of this award, John T. Potts, Jr., MD, is the Jackson Distinguished Professor of Clinical Medicine at Mass General and Harvard Medical School. He served as chairman of the Department of Medicine at Mass General and physician-in-chief from 1981 to 1996 and as director of research from 1995 to 2004.
This $5,000 award will be given to a faculty member from any MGH department who has contributed to the success of junior faculty members and trainees and demonstrated excellence in a number of ways including:
  • Having a positive impact on careers of junior faculty
  • Implementing ideas/programs that promote faculty success
  • Demonstrating sustained interest and success in mentoring junior faculty and/or trainees
  • Fostering and encouraging the professional development of junior faculty and trainees
  • Facilitating and/or developing approaches to work-life balance
Nominations for this award should be accompanied by the nominee's HMS CV and a maximum of 3 nominating letters (not to exceed 2 pages each). It is recommended that the letters include specific anecdotes and examples that demonstrate the mentor’s commitment to the letter writer’s and others’ professional and personal development.
Rising Mentor Award NEW!
The MGH Center for Faculty Development has created the Rising Mentor Awards to recognize MGH faculty members at the Instructor through Assistant Professor rank with less than ten years of mentoring experience as faculty.
This $1,000 award will be given to two faculty members, one clinical and one research, from any MGH department who have contributed to the success of junior faculty members and trainees and demonstrated excellence in a number of ways including:
  • Having a positive impact on the careers of junior faculty
  • Implementing ideas/programs that promote faculty success
  • Demonstrating sustained interest and success in mentoring junior faculty and/or trainees
  • Fostering and encouraging the professional development of junior faculty and trainees
  • Facilitating and/or developing approaches to work-life balance
Nominations for this award should be accompanied by the nominee's HMS CV and a maximum of 3 nominating letters (not to exceed 2 pages each). It is recommended that the letters include specific anecdotes and examples that demonstrate the mentor’s commitment to the letter writer’s and others’ professional and personal development.
Ally for Women Faculty Award NEW!
Research demonstrates that societal biases and institutional patterns prevent women from attaining the same success in their careers as men. To encourage a culture of stronger sponsorship of women and one in which institutional biases are confronted and changed, the MGH Center for Faculty Development has created the Ally for Women Faculty Award to recognize allies, particularly men faculty, who support and empower women colleagues in advancing their career and achieving their professional goals and who actively work to create a more open, equitable environment in which women can thrive, grow, and attain major leadership roles.
This $1,000 award will be given to a faculty member from any MGH department who serves as a strong collaborator, mentor, and sponsor of women. The recipient will have demonstrated support of women faculty by:
  • Listening in a generous and capacious way
  • Engaging in the deliberate inclusion of women
  • Providing career advice, feedback, encouragement, and motivation
  • Affirming, sponsoring, and celebrating women colleagues
  • Being an upstander in calling out bias
  • Advocating to change organizational practices and norms to remove barriers that retard women’s careers
  • Providing public support for the advancement and promotion of women colleagues through power opportunities and connections

Nominations for this award should be accompanied by the nominee's HMS CV and a maximum of 3 nominating letters that can be jointly written (not to exceed 2 pages each). It is recommended that the letters include specific anecdotes and examples that demonstrate the nominee’s commitment to women’s professional and personal development as well as the nominee’s efforts to remove barriers that women face and provide public support for the advancement and promotion of women colleagues.
Outstanding Mentor of Underrepresented in Medicine Award NEW!
Research demonstrates that societal and institutional biases perpetuate the existence of hurdles that Underrepresented in Medicine (UiM) faculty and trainees confront as they try to advance their careers toward the success their talent deserves. To encourage a culture of stronger sponsorship of UiM faculty and trainees and one in which institutional biases are confronted and changed, the MGH Center for Faculty Development, in consultation with the MGH Center for Diversity and Inclusion, has created the Outstanding Mentor of UiMs Award to recognize faculty who support and empower their UiM colleagues in advancing their career and achieving their professional goals and who actively work to create a more open, equitable environment in which UiMs can thrive, grow, and attain major leadership roles.

This $1,000 award will be given to a faculty member from any MGH department who serves as a strong collaborator, mentor, and sponsor of UiM faculty and trainees. The recipient will have demonstrated support of UiM colleagues by:
  • Listening in a generous and capacious way
  • Engaging in the deliberate inclusion of UiM colleagues
  • Providing career advice, feedback, encouragement, and motivation
  • Affirming, sponsoring, and celebrating UiM colleagues
  • Being an upstander in calling out bias
  • Advocating to change organizational practices and norms to remove barriers that retard the careers of UiM colleagues
  • Providing public support for the advancement and promotion of URM colleagues through power opportunities and connections

Nominations for this award should be accompanied by the nominee's HMS CV and a maximum of 3 nominating letters that can be jointly written (not to exceed 2 pages each). It is recommended that the letters include specific anecdotes and examples that demonstrate the nominee’s commitment to UiMs’ professional and personal development as well as the nominee’s efforts to remove barriers that UiM faculty and trainees face and provide public support for the advancement and promotion of their UiM colleagues.
Outstanding Principal Investigator Mentor of Graduate Students Award
The MGH Graduate Student Division (GSD) within the Center for Faculty Development offers this annual award given to an MGH Principal Investigator (PI) who has contributed to the success of PhD graduate student(s) at MGH.

This $1,000 award will be given to one or more faculty members at any rank and from any MGH department who has/have demonstrated excellence in mentoring in a number of ways including:
  • Demonstrating sustained interest and success in mentoring PhD graduate student(s) in research
  • Having a positive impact on the academic progress and achievements of PhD graduate student(s)
  • Helping PhD graduate student(s) to stay on track with their academic work
  • Fostering and encouraging the professional development of PhD graduate student(s)
  • Fostering a diverse, inclusive, and supportive environment for graduate students
Nominations for this award should be accompanied by a maximum of 2 nominating letters that can be jointly written (not to exceed 2 pages each) and the nominee’s HMS CV.
Outstanding Research Fellow Mentor Award NEW!
Through this award, the MGH Postdoctoral Division (PDD) within the Center for Faculty Development aims to recognize outstanding achievements in mentoring by research fellows at MGH.

This $500 award will be given to one or more research fellows who has/have made outstanding contributions in mentoring fellow postdoc trainees, graduate students, college students, and/or high school students, demonstrating excellence in mentoring by:
  • Helping incoming research trainees navigate the research realm at MGH and develop their research path
  • Providing a positive impact on the academic progress and achievements of other trainees in their lab
  • Fostering the professional development of other trainees academically, professionally, and personally
  • Demonstrating ongoing interest in the mentoring and success of other colleagues in their respective field
Nominations for this award should be accompanied by a maximum of 2 nominating letters (not to exceed 2 pages each) and the nominee’s CV. Nominators can be mentees at any stage of their career, and letters can be signed by multiple nominators. Research fellow supervisors can also nominate.  
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