The Biopharmaceutical Section is pleased to announce the 2016 Mentoring Program for the enhanced benefit of its members. This program was successfully initiated in 2014, and we are now inviting more Biopharmaceutical Section members to participate.
Networking can be challenging, but it is beneficial. Meeting others in our profession can help us quickly learn the ropes, improve our careers, and contribute to the statistical profession. Finding a mentor has its challenges and, keeping that in mind, the Biopharmaceutical Section has created a mentoring program based on the mentoring blueprint created by the Committee on Applied Statisticians. More than 60 people participated in our mentoring program in 2014 and 2015. Here are a few testimonials from past participants:
Mentor Allison Florance said that the ASA Biopharmaceutical Section “did a great job in matching me to a mentee. It has been a win-win for both of us!”
Mentee Nobuhle Mpofu said “the biopharmaceutical mentoring program has proved to be invaluable to me. Through my countless conversations with my mentor, I chose to focus on a thesis topic that is of high interest to me, and yet highly relevant to [the] pharmaceutical industry and other settings.”
The goal of this program is to help members enrich their professional experience through achieving personal and professional goals. This may occur through the sharing of knowledge and experience between a professional practitioner and someone entering statistics. A constructive mentorship relationship can take many forms and may occur at any stage of one’s career, with benefits for both the mentor and mentee. We will provide hands-on resources for mentors and mentees to facilitate their interactions. Information related to the mentoring activities and additional resources for mentors and mentees is available.
We are looking for mentors and mentees for the 2016–2017 mentoring program. Are you interested in becoming a mentor to a statistician and helping fellow biopharmaceutical statisticians? Are you a potential mentee, or can you nominate a statistician who may be looking for a mentorship program? If so, please email your contact information to biopharmmentoring@gmail.com with “Biopharmaceutical Section Mentoring Program” in the subject line. Also, send a résumé to help us match mentors and mentees by June 22.
For further information, contact Yue Shentu at yue_shentu@merck.com, Amarjot Kaur at amarjot_kaur@merck.com, Juliet Ndukum at jpntsang@yahoo.com, or Janelle Charles at Janelle.Charles@fda.hhs.gov.
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