Mentorship Program
Our mission is to empower individuals through mentorship by fostering growth, confidence, and personal development. We are committed to creating a supportive community where senior and junior faculty collaborate to achieve their goals, enhance their skills, and unlock their highest potential. Through guided learning, shared experiences, and mutual respect, the program aims to cultivate leaders, promote lifelong learning, and contribute positively to the personal and professional lives of our faculty.
Our Mentorship Program is designed to support early-career faculty. We aspire to equip our mentees with the skills and community support needed to achieve their career goals at UT Southwestern. We harness the power of mentors, networks, information and conversation to promote a culture of growth and inclusion. The program does not pair each early career physician with a mentor-we encourage mentees to choose their mentors, who are highlighted on this website. The coaching program pairs new faculty with a physician coach for six individual sessions, that helps them acclimate to the new role and institution.
Faculty Bootcamp lectures are offered throughout the year on hot topics for early and mid career faculty which include, but are not limited to: conflict management, negotiation, feedback for Clinical Educator faculty, scholarly work, and education theory. Both mentors and mentees will be supported in peer mentoring groups throughout the year to develop a strong sense of community and support all faculty members at every level of practice.
Program Goals Include:
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Cultivate Leaders: We believe every faculty is a leader. We will provide the environment to foster growth, and opportunities for collaboration with senior mentors to create meaningful careers in academic medicine.
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Support Work-Life Balance and Wellness: Address burnout prevention by discussing strategies for stress management, maintaining work-life balance, and promoting long-term wellness.
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Develop Mentorship and Teaching Skills: Cultivate teaching abilities that enhance team-based learning in clinical environments, simulation, and for board prep.
We encourage any interested faculty, residents, or fellows in the subspeciality of anesthesiology and pain management to fill out the Mentorship Program Intake Form located on the right side of this page. Should you have additional questions or concerns, please reach out to our program director for further information.
Our Divisions
- Adult Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology
Division Chief: Markus Velten, M.D.
- Critical Care Medicine
Division Chief: Siavosh Saatee, M.D.
- Multidisciplinary Pain Medicine
Division Chief: Stephanie Jones, M.D.
- Neuroanesthesiology
Division Chief: Ulrike Hoffmann, M.D., Ph.D.
- Obstetric Anesthesiology
Division Chief: Jacqueline Galvan, M.D.
- Pediatric Anesthesiology
Division Chief: Stephen Kimatian, M.D.
- Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesiology
Division Chief: Sana Ullah, M.D.
- Regional Anesthesiology
Division Chief: James Kim, M.D.
- Pain Medicine
Division Chief: Carl Noe, M.D.
Our People:
Anu Wadhwa, M.D., MBBS, MSc, FASA
Interest Area: Obesity and acute pain, academic growth, leadership, women's careers, path to promotion, work/life integration
Interest Area: Pediatric cardiac, trauma anesthesia, blood management, academic advancement, professional development
Interest area: Medical education, pediatric anesthesia, academic medicine
Interest Area: General anesthesia, leadership
Interest area: Quality and safety, virtual anesthesia/ AI building
Interest area: Emotional intelligence, conflict negotiation, peronal awareness and goals
Interest area: Informatics
Interest area: Medical education, teamwork, preoperative anxiety
Sreekanth Cheruku, M.D., M.P.H.
Interest area: Cardiac anesthesia, critical care, ultrasound, mechanical cardiovascular support
Interest area: Academic and private practice, clinical research
Interest area: Medical education, clinical research, simulation
Interest area: Pain management, hospital committee work, pediatric anesthesiology
Interest area: OB Anesthesia, ASA committee involvement, fellow/resident education, career advancement
Interest area: Regional anesthesia, pain management, leadership
Interest area: Critical care medicine, high reliability teaming, quality improvement
Interest area: Patient safety and quality improvement, education, clinical research
Interest area: Pediatric anesthesiology
Interest area: Neuroanesthesia
Interest area: Leadership, professional development
Interest area: Pain management, opioids, and quality improvement
Interest area: Critical care, perioperative outcomes, quality improvement
Interest area: Regional anesthesia, orthopedic and sports medicine
Interest area: Medical society participation, medical student teaching, otolaryngology
Interest area: Neurocritical care, neuroanesthesia, departmental leadership, institutional leadership
Interest area: Preop, obstetric anesthesiology, hospital administrative roles
Interest area: Regional anesthesia, anesthesia for ambulatory surgery
Interest area: Pain research
Interest area: Financial literacy, building relationships, physician wellness
Interest area: Immersion technology, innovation
Interest area: Clinical research, big databases, airway management
Interest area: Pediatric pain medicine, mission work, leadership roles
Interest area: Critical care anesthesiology, research
Interest area: Hemodynamic, ERAS, MINS, Blood transfusion
Interest area: Operations, regional anesthesia, acute pain
Interest area: Neuroanesthesia, regional anesthesia, simulation