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Compiling a compelling academic dossier is one of the key points in applying for an academic position. Hear from a panel of faculty members about their experiences in both creating and evaluating work search documents as part of a faculty career search. This panel seeks to address:
- How to tell your research story through your application package
- What search committees look for in a dossier
- How to make your dossier work for you
- How to tailor a dossier based on a job description
- Aligning your package with a strategic plan
- The ‘dos and don’ts’ of compiling a package
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Dr. Mary De Vera
Associate Dean, Postdoctoral Fellows - UBC
Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair Tier II in Health Outcomes and Treatment Adherence, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences - UBC
Dr. De Vera is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Associate Dean in the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies at UBC. She holds a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Health Outcomes and Treatment Adherence. She holds a Bachelors degree in Biochemistry and Masters and Doctoral degrees in Health Care and Epidemiology. An epidemiologist and health services researcher her research program spans pragmatic studies in real-world settings and population-based studies using administrative databases to study patient experiences with disease and treatments, particularly in rheumatology and oncology.
PANELISTS
Dr. Lorraine Chalifour
Associate Dean, Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, McGill University
Associate professor, Division of Clinical and Translational Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University
Senior Investigator, Lady Davis Research Institute, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal
Dr. Lorraine Chalifour was awarded her BSc and PhD degrees from the University of Manitoba and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School during the last century. After the PDF, she moved to Montreal and was employed at the Biotechnology Research Institute for a few years. Later she moved to McGill and the Lady Davis Research Institute where she has been ever since. Her research has been supported by operating grants from the NSERC, Heart and Stroke Foundation and CIHR. Graced by terrific students, techs and the occasional post-doc she has published along the way. For the last 6 years, she was an Associate Dean at GPS. She has served on grant panels, scholarship panels and hiring panels for various positions.
Dr. Doris Chow
Assistant Professor, Psychology - St. Thomas University
Dr. Doris Chow is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at St. Thomas University, a small liberal arts university in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. She is an experimental psychologist broadly interested in how human observers perceive their multisensory and dynamic environment coherently. Before starting her tenure track position, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of British Columbia Vancouver (2018-2022), where she conducted research projects related to perception and eye movements, supported by a CIHR Postdoctoral Fellowship and MSHRBC Research Trainee Award.’
Dr. Alex Smith
Assistant Professor of Teaching, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, UBC
Dr. Alex Smith received both a BSc(Hons) in molecular genetics and a PhD in physiology, cell, and developmental biology from the University of Alberta, with his doctoral research focusing on the use of applied genetics to understand and disrupt the reproductive physiology of blood-sucking ticks.
In 2014, Alex joined UBC as a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. Tara Klassen where he worked on the development of new molecular, bioinformatic, and computational tools for the better diagnosis and treatment of paediatric epilepsy. Upon the end of this project he joined the lab of Dr. Abby Collier, working on drug metabolism and hormone recycling in prostate cancer. As a postdoc, Alex quickly become involved with the UBC Postdoc Association, first serving as an executive committee member, and twice as president (2016-2017, 2018-2019).
In 2021, he joined the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences as a Lecturer and Laboratory Instructor and was responsible for setting up and equipping the Faculty's new teaching lab, as well as the design, development, and teaching of three new laboratory courses for the new Bachelor of Pharmaceutical Sciences degree program. In 2023, Alex was appointed to the role of assistant professor of teaching by the Provost.
As a member of the educational leadership stream faculty, Alex's current focus is on the translation of his own laboratory experiences into courses that will provide students with the knowledge and skills to succeed in pharmaceutical research, be it in industry or academia.
Dr. Molly Stanley
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology - University of Vermont
Dr. Molly Stanley started as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Biology Department at the University of Vermont in 2022 after completing 5 years as a postdoc at UBC. Her faculty position is roughly 50/50 research/teaching, so she have integrated her fruit fly neurobiology research into her courses. Her lab is currently funded by the NSF and includes three PhD students and numerous undergraduates. Dr. Stanley mostly teaches undergraduate courses that are part of the Biology and Neuroscience programs and also serves as a faculty advisor to students within these programs. She is currently the Associate Director of the Neuroscience program and on the board of the Vermont chapter of the Society for Neuroscience. She also runs a Science Communication Internship, is the faculty advisor for oSTEM (a group for LGBTQ+ scientists), and has served on tenure-track faculty search committees.
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