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Time	Session	Location/Notes
10-10:30 a.m.	Registration	1st Floor Lobby **Please bring your Dragon Card/ID
10:30-10:35 a.m.	Dean's Welcome & Introduction	Room 1W03-05 (and Zoom)
10:35 a.m.-12 p.m.	Keynote: The Power of Generations: Building Belonging, Collaboration and Leadership in Academic Medicine Shari Barkin, MD, MSHS	Room 1W03-05 (and Zoom)
12-1 p.m.	Lunch	In-person networking: Room 2E02 Online attendees: Join a virtual networking session after 30- minute break for lunch
1-3 p.m.	Three separate rooms in person and via Zoom Early Career Workshop Michele Kutzler, PhD, and Nitin Bhanot, MD Mid- and Senior Career Workshop Shari Barkin, MD, MSHS, and India Sisler, MD Chairs & Senior Leaders Erika Brown, PhD	Room 1W03-05 – Hands-on, reflective, discussion-focused Room 4E05 Room 4E06
3-3:15 p.m.	Break and transition back to main space
3:15 - 4 p.m.	Awards Ceremony Dessert and coffee included for in-person attendees	Room 1W03-05 and via Zoom

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Focus: Building identity, independence and networks through intergenerational mentorship

Description
This workshop supports early-career faculty in developing a scholarly and professional identity while actively engaging in bi-directional learning with mid- and senior-career colleagues. Participants will explore how to leverage mentorship — not only as mentees but as emerging contributors — to collaborative, cross-generational academic communities.

Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to:

• Develop a clear academic identity and trajectory by aligning personal goals with institutional expectations and opportunities for multi-generational collaboration.
• Build and sustain effective mentorship networks that include peer, senior and near-peer mentors to support career advancement and resilience.
• Apply strategies for promotion readiness by integrating scholarship, teaching and service with guidance from experienced faculty across career stages.
• Contribute to intergenerational learning environments by sharing new perspectives, skills and approaches (e.g., innovation, technology, pedagogy).

Speakers/Facilitators:

• Michele Kutzler, PhD, Associate Dean for Faculty; Professor, Departments of Medicine and Microbiology & Immunology
• Nitin Bhanot, MD, MPH, Professor, Department of Medicine; Physician, Allegheny Health Network

Focus: Sustaining impact, leadership, and engagement through cross-generational partnership

Description 
This session explores how mid- and senior-career faculty can reinvigorate their careers through mentorship, leadership and collaboration with emerging faculty. Participants will address challenges such as burnout and plateau while identifying opportunities to expand impact through intentional engagement across generations.

Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to:

• Advance toward promotion and leadership roles by leveraging their expertise to guide and collaborate with early-career faculty.
• Implement strategies to mitigate burnout and career plateau, including re-engagement through mentorship, sponsorship and new scholarly directions.
• Enhance scholarly impact and national visibility through collaborative, cross-generational research and educational initiatives.
• Strengthen mentoring skills by adapting approaches to meet the evolving needs of diverse faculty across career stages.

Speakers / Facilitators:

• Shari Barkin, MD, MSHS, Pediatrician-in-Chief, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta; George W. Brumley Jr. Professor and Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine; Executive Director, Pediatric Institute
• India Sisler, MD, Professor and Chief, Division of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology; Vice Chair for Faculty Development, Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Richmond, VCU

Focus: Legacy-building, leading in times of uncertainty and cultivating intergenerational culture

Description
This interactive workshop engages senior leaders in case-based learning activities to explore how intergenerational collaboration can be leveraged to address complex challenges across the academic mission including education, research, clinical care and community engagement.
Participants will work through realistic leadership scenarios that require navigating uncertainty, aligning priorities across missions and integrating diverse generational perspectives. Emphasis will be placed on building sustainable leadership pipelines, strengthening cross-mission collaboration, and advancing a culture of shared learning and institutional resilience.

Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to:

• Develop and implement mentorship and sponsorship strategies that intentionally connect faculty across career stages to strengthen leadership pipelines and ensure continuity across missions.
• Apply intergenerational leadership frameworks to case-based scenarios, integrating diverse perspectives to solve complex, cross-mission challenges in education, research and clinical operations.
• Design strategies to enhance cross-mission collaboration, breaking down silos and aligning faculty efforts to address institutional priorities and emerging challenges.
• Cultivate adaptive leadership approaches in times of uncertainty, using collaborative problem-solving and shared decision-making to maintain engagement, innovation and long-term impact. 

Speaker/Facilitator

• Erika T. Brown, PhD, Dean for Faculty Affairs and Professor of Pathology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth