October 04, 2022 10:00am
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11:30am
Conflict resolution in the lab: strategies for getting what you need and what you want with Ushma Neill, PhD of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Event Details
Event Category: OBE CPD Series Speaker: Ushma Neill, PhD Institute: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Additional Event Information
Join this workshop to gain practical skills to handle conflicts that arise in the lab environment. This workshop includes an extended Q&A session in the last half-hour.
Ushma S. Neill obtained her PhD (1999) in biomedical engineering from Northwestern University studying pulmonary mechanics and mathematical modeling with Dr. CM Waters. She secured a Marshall Sherfield Postdoctoral Fellowship (1999-2001) to do a postdoctoral fellowship at Imperial College to study vascular permeability with Dr. CC Michel.
After two years as a manuscript editor at Nature Medicine, focusing on physiology and inflammation, she joined the Journal of Clinical Investigation as executive editor in 2003. In this role, she led academic editorial boards based at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Duke University/University of North Carolina in identifying, soliciting, and peer reviewing high-quality manuscripts. She also led the writing, commissioning, and editing of front matter, including editorials, news, commentaries, reviews, and perspectives.
Ushma’s editorials focused largely on bioethics and misconduct in science and scientific communication, especially to the lay public.
In May 2012, Ushma became the Director of the Office of the President of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, acting as chief of staff to the President and CEO Dr. C. Thompson. As director, Ushma worked closely with the president and other institutional leaders to shape and manage the strategic agenda for the president including developing action plans, tracking related projects and advising the president in all matters of business. She additionally became involved in bibliometric analysis of researcher publications (1), developing a metric for assessing hospital performance (2), and teaching “The Art of Scientific Communication” to pre- and postdoctoral trainees.
Ushma took on the educational mission of Memorial Sloan Kettering as VP, Scientific Education and Training in February 2016. She will be designing curriculum for pre- and postdoctoral trainees in the areas of rigor & transparency, statistics, computational biology, and imaging. She is also developing a larger platform for scientific communication to the lay public.
While she has had these roles at MSK, she has retained the position of editor-at-large for the JCI. In her continued role at the JCI, she has performed over 50 video interviews for their series, "Conversations with Giants in Medicine" (3).