8:30 a.m. Welcome
Dr. Asfar Azmi, President, Postdoctoral
Association, WSU
8:30 a.m. Pathways
to Careers: Overview
Dr. Ambika Mathur, Associate Dean, Graduate School,
WSU
8:45 a.m. Careers
in Academia
Dr. Richard McGee, Associate Dean, Faculty Recruitment,
Northwestern Univ
Dr. Ratna
Naik, Chair, Department of Physics, WSU
Dr. Tiffany Mathews, Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry, WSU
Dr. Ashok Kumar, Assistant Professor, Department of
Ophthalmology, WSU
10:00 a.m. NIH
Pathway to Independence (K99/R00 grant writing workshop)
Dr. Joan Lakoski, Associate Vice Chancellor,
University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Sokol Todi, Assistant Professor, Department of
Pharmacology, WSU
Dr. Kwoon Wong, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Ophthalmology, Univ of Michigan
11:30 a.m. Careers
in Industry and Patent Law
Dr. Ijaz Jamall, President, Risk-Based Decisions,
Inc., CA (Industry)
Mr. Steven Parks, Associate, Butzel Long Law Firm,
Lansing, MI (Patent Law)
12:15 p.m. Careers
in Federal Agencies
Dr. Farukh Khambaty, Program Officer, National
Institutes of Health
Dr. Uma Venkateswaran, Program Director, National
Science Foundation
2:00 p.m. Careers
in Policy and Publishing
Dr. Jennifer Hobin, Director of Science Policy,
FASEB (Public Science Policy)
Dr. James Austin, Editor, Science Careers (Science
and AAAS) (Publishing)
3:00 p.m. KEYNOTE ADDRESS INTRODUCTION
Dr.
Ronald T. Brown, Provost, WSU
3:00 p.m. KEYNOTE
ADDRESS
Dr. William Paul, National Institutes of Health
“How I Came
to Love the Lymphocyte or Adventures in Immunology”
VOTE OF THANKS: Dr. Mahender Dewal, Incoming President, PDA, WSU
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