We recognize that success in research is closely linked with strong mentorship. Junior researchers require regular, formal and informal meetings with at least one primary mentor, as well as a mentorship team that will guide their career development. The University of Florida benefits from a diverse group of leading researchers representing a variety of fields who are capable of mentoring junior faculty.

Research Mentor Qualifications and Training

A table of potential campus mentors is provided below. This represents only a portion of the robust interdisciplinary pool of available mentors for junior faculty. Mentors will be selected from the larger available pool as needed to create optimal mentoring teams based on research interests and career-development needs of the junior faculty. To serve as a primary mentor, faculty must have a successful track record of research and extramural support, commitment of donated time, and evidence of prior successful training and mentoring. Primary mentors are senior faculty from multiple UF colleges who can provide content expertise and represent numerous centers, institutes, and/or programs within UF. Mentoring teams are comprised of a primary mentor and at least two additional mentors whose expertise complements that of the primary mentor. Mentoring teams will often include developmental mentors, who represent a pipeline of promising early-career faculty who will have an opportunity to serve on mentoring teams but will not serve as the primary mentor. All developmental mentors have valuable research experience and funded research programs but may have limited experience as mentors of junior scientists.

Scientific Review

Members of the mentorship pool and campus leadership will be selected annually to serve on the Scientific Review Group, which will vary annually. The Scientific Review Group will review and score Research Training Academy grant applications and presentations, participate in selection of future Jax Scholars, and will guide educational programs of the Center for Research Training.

Mentor List

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Name/Degree	Rank & Primary Appt.	Role	Research Interest
Dominick J. Angiolillo, M.D., Ph.D., FACC	Professor of Medicine	Primary Mentor	Platelet adhesion, cardiovascular disease
Stephen Anton, Ph.D.	Associate Professor, Associate Director & Chief of Aging & Geriatric Research	Primary Mentor	Obesity, metabolic disease, aging, lifestyle, & botanicals
K.C. Balaji, M.B.B.S. (M.D.), FRCS, MRCS, LRCP	Professor of Urology	Primary Mentor	Prostate cancer
Marie L. Crandall, M.D., M.P.H., FACS	Professor of Surgery	Primary Mentor	Surgery, health disparities
Lisa Domenico, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor with UF College of Nursing	Dev. Mentor	Neurocognition, addiction, and the self-concept
Phil Efron, M.D.	Associate Professor of Surgery	Primary Mentor	Role of myeloid suppressor cells after sepsis or trauma in older adults
		Primary Mentor	Sepsis, lipid metabolism, inflammation
Roger Fillingim, Ph.D.	Dist. Professor & Director of Community Dentistry & Behavioral Science	Primary Mentor	Pain & aging, ethnic differences in pain, pain assessment, osteoarthritis pain
Jennifer N. Fishe, M.D.	Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine	Dev. Mentor	Asthma, pre-hospital care, pediatrics
Rosemarie Fernandez, M.D.	Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine	Primary Mentor	Patient safety, trauma
Phyllis L. Hendry, M.D., FAAP, FACEP	Professor of Emergency Medicine	Primary Mentor	Pain, pediatrics, pre-hospital Care, trauma
Christiaan Leeuwenburgh, Ph.D.	Professor & Chief of Aging & Geriatric Research	Primary Mentor	Oxidative stress, mitochondrial biology, autophagy, translational aging research
Todd Manini, Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Aging & Geriatric Research	Primary Mentor	Assess muscle morphometry using MRI, geriatric exercise science & skeletal muscle
Robert Mankowski, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Aging & Geriatric Research	Dev. Mentor	Cardiovascular dysfunction in aging and disease, sepsis
		Primary Mentor	Proton therapy in prostate cancer, lymphomas, breast cancer and pediatric malignancies
Arshag D. Mooradian, M.D.	Professor of Medicine	Primary Mentor	Endocrinology, metabolism
Marco Pahor, M.D.	Professor at UF College of Medicine	Primary Mentor	Clinical trials, physical activity and pharmacological interventions, mobility
Alexander S. Parker, Ph.D.	Professor of Office of Research Affairs	Primary Mentor	Urology, cancer epidemiology
Thomas Pearson, M.D., Ph.D.	Professor of Epidemiology	Primary Mentor	Cardiovascular disease, lipidology
Mobeen H. Rathore, M.B.B.S. (M.D.), CPE, FACPE, FIDSA, FAAP	Professor of Pediatrics	Primary Mentor	Pediatric infectious diseases, virology, Immunology
Nipa R. Shah, M.D.	Professor of Community Health and Family Medicine	Primary Mentor	Community health
Sophia S. Sheikh, M.D.	Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine	Dev. Mentor	Pain, aging, epigenetics
Ronald Shorr, M.D., M.S.	Professor of Epidemiology	Primary Mentor	Geriatrics, epidemiology

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