Chief of cardiac surgery Jennifer Lawton offers pearls of wisdom on how to prepare and what is needed to transition into an academic leadership position.
Hi, My name is Jennifer Loughton, and I'm the chief of cardiac surgery at Johns Hopkins. I'm going to be talking at the American Heart Association meeting this year about hurls on becoming an academic leader. I'm going to talk a little bit about how to determine if leadership is correct for you, if that's one of your goals in the future. And some of the tips and tricks that I may have learned along the way, either from my own experiences are those of my mentors. So some of the tips and tricks for becoming an academic leader would be to know when you're ready for leadership. And if that's something that is in your career goals, you should always have your curriculum vitae ready to go. You should have it two minute elevator speech ready to go at any time. If someone approaches you regarding the leadership role and you should be able to talk about why you think you would be a good leader, one of my mentors, Bill Baumgartner, said. You have to take care of your people. And once you become a leader, it's not about you anymore. As another one of my mentors, Alec Paterson and say, It's not about you anymore. It's about taking care of your faculty, your students, your staff and taking them towards a vision of a better division or department or whatever it is that you're leading. You also have toe have the academic kudos. In order Thio become a leader or get a leadership position. And so you have to be someone who contributes to the literature. Someone who presents at national meetings. Does research ever either clinical or basic science and someone who values, um, mentorship and sponsorship of others coming behind you?
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