K-Award Workshop: Mentorship Plan Peg Nopoulos, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry, Pediatrics and Neurology

Your Primary Mentor It all starts here You need a Rock Start Mentor Well funded lab by the NIH Provides resources A research ‘community’ Established success Success in mentorship Students, fellows Previous k-awardees

Mentoring Teams Primary mentor needs to be in your same institution Additional mentors can be at a different institution Not too many mentors! Example: Junior faculty in Pediatric Nephology Wants to study brain imaging in kids with chronic kidney disease Primary mentor: me (Brain Imaging) Additional mentor in Peds Nephrology One local One at another institution MR expert Developed novel pH imaging Biostatistics

Writing Letters of Support YOU ‘draft’ all letters of support You know your history, work, better than anybody Good practice in selling yourself Modified by the mentor

Mentorship Team Skill Acquisition Teaching Opportunities Primary Mentor: Peg Nopoulos, MD, Professor, Vice Chair of Research, Department of Psychiatry Expanding neuroimaging skills, development of computing infrastructure for lab, management of lab, professional development Weekly 1 hour 1-on-1 research-focused meeting, weekly 1 hour group clinical meeting Collaborator: Daniel Tranel, PhD Director, Benton Neuropsychology Laboratory Advanced use of the lesion method in neuropsychology Monthly 1-on-1 meetings and twice-per-week group research meetings Off-site Collaborator: Jeremy Schmahmann, MD, PhD Director of the MGH Ataxia Unit and the Laboratory for Neuroanatomy and Cerebellar Neurobiology, MGH Cerebellum imaging (SUIT software), advanced neuroanatomy, clinico-anatomical correlation Regular monthly meetings, or more frequently during manuscript preparation Collaborator: Amy Conrad, PhD Pediatric Neuropsychologist Neuropsychology testing and analysis in the pediatric population Regular meeting in conjunction with each participant Collaborator: Vince Magnotta, PhD Director, Magnetic Resonance Research Facility Development of MRI protocols, MRI acquisition Meet quarterly, or more frequently as needed during specific stages of the research project Collaborator: Toshio Moritani MD, PhD 
Clinical Professor, Director of Clinical Neuroradiology Research Neuroanatomy and neuroradiology of the posterior fossa and cerebellum Regular meetings to review anatomical tracings of cerebellum lesions Committee Member: Kathy Mathews, MD. Division Director of Pediatric Neurology Guidance in overall strategy for successfully navigating the promotions process and overall professional development Meet quarterly 1-on-1 in addition to twice yearly committee meetings Others: Subject recruitment will be aided by Sue O’Dorisio, who is an oncologist with a successful cerebellar tumor research program. She will help with subject recruitment along with the pediatric neurosurgeons Arnold Menezes and Brian D’loughy. Robin Jones is a pediatric neuro-oncologist at MGH who will be an off-site collaborator in conjunction with Jeremy Schmahmann who was instrumental in collecting the data for existing database used in Aim 1.