Description
This dynamic panel will explore how storytelling can strengthen your professional identity, improve abstracts and presentations, support grant and promotion materials, and help attract mentors, sponsors, collaborators, and leadership opportunities. Panelists will share strategies for framing your interests, values, accomplishments, challenges, growth, and impact in ways that communicate your contributions to the field of academic pediatrics and your commitment to improving the health of children, families, and communities.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Explain why telling a clear academic story is important for professional identity, scholarly visibility, mentorship, collaboration, and career advancement.
- Identify the key elements of a compelling academic narrative, including motivation, scholarly focus, career trajectory, accomplishments, challenges, growth, and impact on child health.
- Apply storytelling strategies to communicate the purpose, significance, and future direction of their work across academic settings, including abstracts, presentations, grant applications, promotion materials, and conversations with mentors, sponsors, and institutional leaders.
Presenters:
Christopher Russell, MD, MS
Associate Professor, Pediatric Hospital Medicine
Stanford University School of Medicine
Shazeem Suleman, MPH
Clinical Associate Professor, General Pediatrics
Stanford University School of Medicine
Kenya McNeal-Trice, MD
Professor, UNC School of Medicine
Vice President of Board Relations, American Board of Pediatrics
