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Sample Mentor Narratives (cut and paste to create your own)

EXAMPLE 1:
Dr. Brown is willing to mentor faculty, fellows, residents and students interested in an academic research career. Most often her mentees have had training in clinical research methods or will obtain training through the CTSI CTST. For students, it is expected they will have dedicated time for research. Through email or meeting, if there is a “match” for research interest, time, and training, further discussions as to project, goals, and access to resources (space, databases, and statistical support) will be discussed to provide a productive experience.

EXAMPLE 2:
I am highly qualified to participate as a lead mentor or co-mentor at UCSF. My program of research is focused on health outcomes associated with disturbed sleep in various populations of healthy women and women with chronic illnesses like HIV/AIDS and cancer. I have completed cross-sectional studies, longitudinal studies, and most recently, randomized clinical trials to improve sleep. I have mentored doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows studying various patient populations, from the very young to very old. During my tenure at UCSF, I have directly supervised over 30 doctoral students, mentored 14 postdoctoral trainees, and served as a lead mentor for 6 pre-tenured faculty. I have been the Director for a T32 Nurse Research Training Grant since 1996, and I have been honored with being voted mentor of the year by doctoral students on two occasions. I play a significant role in the clinical and translational (CTSI) research mentoring and career development programs at UCSF. I am the seminar leader for the first session in the CTSI Mentor Development program on “Rewards and Challenges of Mentoring” and I have co-mentored two KL2 scholars. I have published over 50 peer-reviewed research articles with trainees as first-author, and serve as a consultant on two external K awards as well as three external R01 awards with former mentees. Finally, I have served on many different NIH study section review panels, and I served as the Chair of an NIH study section (2008-2010), which allows me to be particularly effective in mentoring early career principal investigators who are writing their first NIH applications.

I can provide mentees a cubicle space with my research team, tangible resources such as access to large datasets for secondary analysis as needed, and intangible resources such as attending our formal research team meetings and our informal spontaneous group discussions as well as networking at national sleep research conferences.