Geoff Martha’s Post

How can you thrive in your Ph.D. program? My longtime mentor, Asia Eaton, gave our students some amazing pointers yesterday from her upcoming book, #NavigatingYourPhD, written by 25 Ph.D. students and early career scholars. As well as structural recommendations for reimagining Ph.D. programs, here are some individual-level takeaways from our conversation: - 𝐂𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲: Invest time in your cohort, student groups, & union - 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬: Especially those in the cohorts above you. - Establish 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 and 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐝𝐬 early. - Make a 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧: Start seeking additional funding from day 1. - 𝐃𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐝: Focus less on class and more on research, publishing, and networking. - 𝐄𝐦𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐜𝐮𝐭𝐬: One paper or reading can be used for many things! - 𝐏𝐮𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥-𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 & 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬: Switching advisors, research priorities, or programs is a normal part of peoples’ journeys. - Look for advisors who see you as a 𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧: those who will protect you and push back against academic grind culture. - 𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲: What type of personal and professional support do you need to reach each milestone? Be specific. Thanks to the phenomenal staff at The Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, Luisa Klemm Jacobsen and Murali Balaji for making this event happen!

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If anyone is to crack the code of mastering the use of computational fluid dynamics to optimize structural heart interventions, it would be Hoda Hatoum, PhD. Looking forward to joining efforts to better understand DRT after LAAO.

Proud to announce that I'll start a new chapter at Columbia University, studying public health for my masters 🇺🇸! And yes: that means moving to New York in August, which I couldn't be more excited about! 🗽 A huge announcement, and to be honest: I never thought that one day I would actually be the one taking such an insane step. It's the result of super hard work, a 12 month application process and most importantly: the best supporters I could've wishes for. Huge shout-out to: Paul Klemm who initiated the thought of studying at such a cool uni and constantly pushed me forward Irene Klemm (Rentrop) who proof-read every single letter I submitted Charlotte Kobiella who not only wrote one of the most important letters of recommendation, but who also always cheered me up in this draining process Theresa Doppstadt who wrote the other super important letter of recommendation All CAs & Centerlings from Center for Digital Technology and Management (CDTM) who helped, inspired & supported me along the process! How my life flipped upside down in the last year: Ever since I joined CDTM, nothing feels out of reach. It's impossible to put the support and encouragement I received into words, especially from all CAs! Regarding my masters: The last year has been a huge rollercoaster - I got rejected for my initial plan A masters, made up my mind, stopped listening to everyone who told me I should start my academic career in management, asked myself what I really wanted, applied to 10 amazing schools whose names I had only ever read on research papers, prayed and hoped and visited a couple of these cool schools to get a feeling of where I could imagine myself finding home for the next two years (and possibly my twenties?) And came up with... New York? Yep, sometimes I still ask myself how I, afraid to move to Berlin for my bachelor's because that seemed too overwhelming, is now moving to the city that never sleeps. But if you're constantly confronted with role model friends taking the most courageous decisions around you, moving abroad, starting super cool jobs &🦄's, going into new fields and much more, you also start pushing for more. And often: it works. Reach out if you visit NY, want to know more about the application or have tipps for me 🫶🏼

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The One Nucleus Building Life Science Adventures careers conference provided employers and aspiring professionals plenty of insight into creating successful careers and great teams. Topics covered included 'Is a PhD Worth It?' and 'How do Big Pharma and Start-Ups Compete for the Right People?'. You can catch up on recordings of the panel discussions and find key takeaways here - https://ow.ly/LnvB50RcB5y

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Well done Eman Fahad Al Shafi your delivery to a business pitch to an extraordinary panel as inspiring. Calm and focus everytime you identify an issue the in healthcare system that needs to be addressed. Next step , a Saudi woman holding the CEO of a consultancy company in Saudi. 🫡

***Navigating Success and Challenges in Academia: Embracing rejections*** In academia, success announcements, such as accepted papers and award receptions, are common, highlighting achievements. Rejections are also a natural common and inevitable part of this highly competitive environment. Yes, I am still attending the American Heart Association EP| Lifestyle 2024 Conference in Chicago and presenting an 'Invited Symposium Presentation.' Yes, I will also be presenting a Poster for an accepted abstract that will be published in American Heart Association's Circulation. However, the Early Career Travel Award was granted to another individual, a common occurrence in academia. I am very sure the Awardee had an application that was more competitive than mine. Embracing rejections is integral to the path of success. I am looking forward to exploring alternative sources of funding to ensure my participation and presentation in this prestigious conference in Chicago in March 2024. Cheers,

The drivers of health care that also drive education, economic, and societal outcomes are a SOCIETAL concern. More focus on what is popular or the usual bandwagon assumptions, will only distract from what is essential for true reform in America. What Inequities Must We Address as Health Care Leaders... 1. Inequities in health care payments, access, and workforce for most Americans most behind and where Americans are increasing fastest in numbers, demand, and complexity with worsening practice environments for what remains of their health care delivery team members. 2. Worst quality health care insurance worst among developed nations and failing for 62% of Americans, and not helped by expansions of the worst quality health insurance plans. Where we have concentrations of elderly, poor, disabled, and worst employers - we kill access, practices, and Americans by designs that concentrated the worse paying most abusive health plans 3. Toxic practice environments are concerns for all health professionals and delivery team members and those who hope to represent them or lead them. This pandemic has been caused by designs such as DRG worsened by profit focus that was first seen in nurses in the 1980s but has spread across basic health access and up the pecking order of specialties and subspecialties. DRG, RBRVS, and all the way to value based has been about more for delivery team members to do in less time despite team members who are fewer and lesser (particularly in experience) with little real hope for improvement. Replacing the health care leadership is essential to end the reign of bandwagon assumptions that have so harmed health care delivery. The sad state of affairs in health care has been shaped by the financial design, abusive simplistic spread sheet cost cutting, the failure to cut the costs of those biggest doing best and in bed with the designers, profit focus, and meaningless micromanagement. There will be more to come unless our thought leaders, advocates, associations, and foundations change how health care leaders are influenced, trained, developed, and selected. Harm caused to those delivering the care must be addressed. Medicare and Medicaid was supportive for the care of most Americans most behind for the first decade. This brief initial time period and Hill Burton are the only time that that most Americans have had investments in their workforce, team members, hospitals, and practices. Since then hundreds of their hospitals and even more carnage to their practices hurt this majority of Americans. Forty years of wrong assumptions must end. If you value leadership in health care, witness the termination of locally focused health care leadership due to 400 hospital closures plus more practice closures and compromises taking out those who used to lead - hospital administrators, nurses, social workers, pharmacists, clinicians, AND THEIR SPOUSES who also were leaders in health care and in communities most behind.