Developing and Optimizing Your Mentor Relationships

<p>Ms. Rosalina Bray is the NIH Extramural Staff Training Officer and leads the activities of for Extramural Staff Training Programs. Prior to accepting a position in the NIH Office of the Director, she was a Senior Health Science Policy Analyst for the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development; and a Program Analyst for the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. She serves on several trans-Agency and trans-NIH committees and working groups. Bray has led several national and global collaborative efforts. She has a passion for leadership development and transforming organizations.</p><p>At the NIH, she co-chairs the OD Staff Training Advisory Committee (STAC). While serving as the NIH Extramural Staff Training Officer, Ms. Bray led efforts to design the NIH Training 365 Programmatic Framework; redesigned the NIH Integrated Core Curriculum for extramural staff; established partnerships and collaborations with NIH Training Partners award the agency; and improved the coordination of training activities within the Office of Extramural Research. Ms. Bray is considered one of the nation’s foremost thought leaders in executive leadership, science policy, technological innovation, business development, and education reform. In addition, she is a leading voice for diversity and inclusion, capacity building, pipeline development, and workforce development.</p>

<p>Dr. Melissa Green Parker is a Scientific Advisor and Research Implementation Monitor from the National Institutes of Health’s Office of Disease Prevention (ODP). In this capacity, she is the Lead Advisor to the NIH-wide Prevention Scientific Interest Groups (SIGs) and to ODP’s Pathways to Prevention Program.</p><p>Before joining the ODP, Dr. Green Parker spent many years honing her leadership skills as she excelled as a Program Director in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), as a Program Manager for the Department of Defense (DoD), and as a Division Director at the United Negro College Fund Special Programs Corporation. She’s sought out often as a thought leader in community-based research initiatives that promote the use of evidence-based approaches to address health inequities, as well as subject matter expert in biomedical workforce development and institutional capacity building. Repeatedly recognized for her willingness to share knowledge and encourage others to commit to their own personal growth, Dr. Green Parker seldom misses an opportunity to encourage others or serve as a mentor to scholars or colleagues.</p>

<p>Dr. Nicole Redmond is a board-certified internal medicine physician who completed her MD/PhD in the Medical Scientist Training Program at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in Charleston, South Carolina. She completed her internal medicine (primary care track) residency at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. She received her Master of Public Health from Harvard School of Public Health as a part of her training in the Harvard Fellowships in General Internal Medicine and Primary Care at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Prior to joining NHLBI, Dr. Redmond was Assistant Professor in the Division of Preventive Medicine in the School of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).</p><p>Dr. Redmond’s research portfolio academically, and now as a program official, is focused on intervention research related to the psychological, social, behavioral, and clinical contributors to cardiovascular health and disease. She also has a significant interest in the career development of clinicians and scientists, particularly those who are underrepresented in the biomedical sciences. Her research has been published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Hypertension, and Journal of the American Heart Association.</p>

<p>Ericka Boone, Ph.D. is the Director for the Division of Biomedical Research Workforce (DBRW) within the NIH Office of Extramural Research (OER). She recently served as the Director of the NIH Division of Loan Repayment. In that role, Dr. Boone was responsible for administering and providing leadership for the NIH Loan Repayment Programs (LRP) as well as representing NIH on matters related to the operations, policy development and evaluation of the LRP. Previous to this position, Dr. Boone served as a Health Scientist Administrator in the Office of Science Policy and Communications at the National Institute on Drug Abuse. There she developed and targeted science-based publications, outreach initiatives and other activities to educate a variety of audiences about the science of drug use, abuse and addiction. For her role in these efforts, Dr. Boone has won several NIDA Director’s Awards of Merit and an NIH Director’s Award. Prior to coming to NIH, Dr. Boone conducted research at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Emory University. Dr. Boone’s academic background includes a B.A. in Biology from Talladega College and a Ph.D. in Biobehavioral Health from The Pennsylvania State University.</p>