Effective
Leadership for Faculty Productivity and Career Success
IAMSE
Webcast Audio Seminar
Patricia
S. O’Sullivan
patricia.osullivan@ucsf.edu
March
27th, 2007
Thank you very much
for the opportunity to speak to you today. I have had the good fortune of
nearly three decades as an educator in the health professions.Primarily I have always been responsible to
help faculty with their research. That research has ranged from clinical and
health services to educational research. For many of the faculty members with
whom I work, they are developing their careers as clinical educators. So I
will frame much of my presentation with productivity as educators as the
focus. I think much of it applies to other faculty members. While I am
emphasizing what leadership can do, I think I am providing guidance for
strategies and individual faculty member can employ to enhance his or her productivity.
I would like to
start with a haiku recently shared by Tom Inui of the Regenstrief Institute
for Health Care at Indiana University[next slide please]
In the 1600s the
Japanese master poet Basho spoke to his student saying
