There is no cost for Dell Med faculty to participate.
Leadership Starts Here: Faculty Development Workshop Series
Elevating Emerging Leaders at Dell Med
Designed for Dell Med faculty actively engaged or aspiring to team leadership roles in academic healthcare education & application, as well as biomedical science fields. The monthly workshop series will provide space for faculty to learn and exercise leadership competencies related to self, interpersonal relationships, and complex academic healthcare organizations.
Participation
Participation is limited to Dell Med faculty only and all sessions are capped at 30 registrants. All sessions will in-person only (not recorded) and are generally timed to be 2-3hrs. If you are unable to attend, please notify our team at so we may reassign your registration to faculty members on the waitlist as soon as possible.
Fall 2025 Sessions
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Utilizing Temperaments to Enhance your Self Awareness and Leadership Effectiveness
August 8, 2025, 1-3pm, Lavaca Conference Room, Robert Rowling Hall
Dr. Thorndyke's presentation is a highly interactive experience designed to promote personal insights about yourself and others. Participants may utilize insights gained from her presentation to strategically build stronger teams, increase the impact of their communications, and enhance your effectiveness as a leader.
Objectives:
- Discover your personal style & learn about other temperament styles
- Describe how temperament affects our work in groups and our reactions to others
- Utilize your knowledge of temperaments to enhance communication and team building
- Analyze conflict situations and consider solutions utilizing the lens of temperament
Dr. Luanne Thorndyke, affiliate professor of medicine at UMMS, is an independent consultant/coach with 25 years of medical school leadership experience at 3 academic health sciences institutions. A nationally known faculty affairs leader, with a decade of leadership as a top medical university administrator in academic affairs. Over ten years of experience in oversight of academic affairs and professional development programming for faculty, post-docs and leaders. Expertise in policy and programmatic development, enriching professional/faculty growth, and furthering organizational strategic goals. Proven skills in oversight of campus governance, promotion/tenure and academic affairs, educational leadership, and administration contributing to individual faculty advancement, organizational vitality and enhanced healthcare delivery. Faculty development scholar who has garnered competitive external grant awards and authored scholarly publications. Distinguished educator who has served as faculty for the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) and national programs sponsored by the AAMC, Harvard-Macy, and many other organizations. |
Being the CEO of your Career
September 12, 2025, 1-3pm, Thompson Conference Center 2.120 (location subject to change)
Dr. Chatterjee will lead a session on personal values alignment and ways to exercise more intentionality in developing your career pathway in academic medicine to align your trajectory with personal values that drive engagement and personal meaning-making. Participants will be challenged to take a step back from the 'day to day treadmill' and reflect on their personal values, ways these present in their professional experience, and opportunities to leverage personal agency in designing a fulfilling career trajectory in academic medicine.
Objectives:
- Define the values and behaviors that affect success.
- Differentiate various career paths in academic medicine.
- Describe academic promotion and tenure.
- Discuss leadership development in academic medicine.
- Review career planning and development.
Dr. Archana Chatterjee joined Rosalind Franklin University in April 2020 and is Dean of the Chicago Medical School and Senior Vice President for Medical Affairs. For the previous 7 years, she served as Professor and Chair of the Department of Pediatrics and Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development at the University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine (USD SSOM), Sioux Falls, SD. She has spent nearly 12 years as a leader in Faculty Affairs/Faculty Development (FA/FD), initially at Creighton University School of Medicine, and later at USD SSOM. |
Striving for Optimal Wellness Through Changing Times
October 9, 2025, 1-3pm, Mezzanine Conference Room, AT&T Hotel and Conference Center
As academic and clinical environments continue to evolve, faculty are increasingly navigating operational changes that intensify professional and emotional stressors. As a result, the ongoing state of flux can significantly impact clarity, stability, and overall comfort. Navigating these pressures requires practical and thoughtful approaches—and, most importantly, the resilience to remain grounded in the face of change. This session introduces a practical approach to overcoming adversity with resolve, grounded in the well-established tenets of Awareness, Stewardship, Servanthood, and Responsiveness. These principles offer actionable strategies for cultivating positive outcomes and achieving optimal wellness.
Through guided reflection and discussion, participants will discover how these principles connect to their lived experiences and consider ways to move through uncertainty with steadiness and intentionality.
Objectives:
- Examine how lived experiences shape personal responses to uncertainty and change.
- Explore the principles of Awareness, Stewardship, Servanthood, and Responsiveness to strengthen one’s approach to overcoming adversity with resolve.
- Commit to a personal action plan that supports achieving optimal wellness—for self while influencing others.
Jamie Dinwiddie, PhD
Dr. Jamie D. Dinwiddie is an executive leader and organizational strategist with expertise in change leadership, talent development, and cultural transformation. She currently serves as Director of Change Management, Culture, and Talent Strategy at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, where she leads enterprise-wide initiatives that integrate change strategy, talent management, and workforce well-being.
With over 15 years of experience spanning healthcare, higher education, and corporate environments, Dr. Dinwiddie brings a collaborative and human-centered approach to guiding leaders through complex change. As an executive coach, she helps senior leaders align organizational values with strategy, supporting teams as they navigate adversity and build a foundation for long-term sustainability.
She holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership, with research focused on how transformational leadership practices influence sustainable outcomes in underserved urban communities. Dr. Dinwiddie frequently leads sessions and speaks on leadership development, change strategy, and fostering employee wellness and engagement.
At the core of her work is a simple but powerful belief: when organizations take care of their people, those people take care of the mission. Dr. Dinwiddie is deeply committed to creating environments where individuals feel supported, connected to purpose, and empowered to lead through change with clarity and resilience.
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Navigating Compromise, Standing Firm, and Problem Solving
November 11, 2025, 2-4pm, Mezzanine Conference Room, AT&T Hotel and Conference Center
This interactive session will explore the essential leadership skills of knowing when to compromise and when to stand firm, with a focus on practical strategies for problem solving in academic medicine. Through a combination of didactic content and small-group discussions, participants will examine real-world scenarios, analyze the balance between flexibility and adherence to core values, and apply structured problem-solving frameworks such as Lean A3 and PDCA. Attendees will leave with actionable tools to foster collaboration, uphold ethical standards, and effectively navigate complex challenges as emerging physician leaders.
Objectives:
- Distinguish between situations that call for compromise versus those that require standing firm, and articulate the leadership principles underlying each approach.
- Apply structured problem-solving methodologies (e.g., Lean A3, PDCA) to address complex challenges in academic and clinical environments.
- Demonstrate enhanced skills in collaboration, active listening, and adaptability to achieve win-win solutions while maintaining integrity and ethical boundaries.
Stuart Wolf, M.D., FACS, is the executive associate chair, associate chair of clinical integration and operations, chief of the Division of Surgical Subspecialties and professor for the Department of Surgery and Perioperative Care.
After receiving his M.D. from Northwestern University, Wolf completed urology residency at UCSF and then an endourology/laparoscopy fellowship with Ralph Clayman. He joined the University of Michigan in 1996 and over the ensuing 20 years he served as the director of the Division of Endourology, the director of the endourology/laparoscopy fellowship and the associate urology department chair for surgical services.
In 2016, he assumed his current role as associate chair for clinical integration and operations of the Department of Surgery and Perioperative Care at Dell Medical School. Wolf has served on the executive committee of the Michigan Urologic Society and the board of directors of the Endourological Society. He formerly chaired the AUA Practice Guidelines Committee and is the inaugural chair of the AUA Science and Quality Council. At the University of Michigan, Wolf received the Silver Cystoscope Award for Urology Residency Teaching Excellence three times (1999, 2002 and 2005).
An author of more than 300 peer-reviewed articles and videos, and more than 150 invited publications, Wolf has served on the editorial boards of 11 journals. His scholarly work has been recognized by awards and/or research grants from the American Foundation for Urologic Disease, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Endourological Society, the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, and the AUA and 2 of its Sections. He is currently ranked number 84 in the field of Urology (all-time) on the Microsoft Academic Author Analytics website. |
Metrics, Meaning, Morale: Operationalizing Physician Well-being as a Leader
December 11, 2025, 2-4pm, Mezzanine Conference Room, AT&T Hotel and Conference Center
Physician well-being is not just an individual responsibility—it's also leadership responsibility. In this interactive session, participants will explore both professional fulfillment and well-being and how to measure them, examine how leadership behaviors shape clinical culture and outcomes, and apply frameworks to assess and respond to well-being challenges. Through discussion and guided planning, we hope that participants will leave with skills and actionable ideas tailored to their local context, empowered to build towards a more supportive, meaningful, and sustainable work environment.
Objectives:
- Compare and contrast professional fulfillment and well-being, including their drivers;
- Describe how specific leadership behaviors drive burnout in the clinical setting;
- Apply metrics and frameworks to assess and respond to well-being needs in a healthcare setting; and
- Design a leadership action plan, utilizing at least two concepts from this session, to support well-being within one's local work unit
Gregory Wallingford, M.D., MBA, serves as assistant dean for professional fulfillment and well-being at Dell Medical School. He is also an assistant professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and course director for the Foundations of Leadership course.
Wallingford is passionate about equipping others with leadership and well-being skills that promote high performance and deepen joy in clinical work. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he collaborated with the Center for Health Communication to develop a rapid debriefing tool to support clinical teams after stressful events. He has also served as chair for the wellness, well-being and burnout special interest group in the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and has presented and taught locally, regionally and nationally on topics related to professional fulfillment and well-being.
He previously served as associate program director for the palliative medicine fellowship at Dell Medical School from and as course director for two undergraduate medical education leadership courses, Applications in Leadership Practice and Service in Leadership Practice.
Prior to joining Dell Medical School, Wallingford completed his MBA in health care management and served as a William P. Lauder Leadership Fellow at the Wharton School and worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. He is a proud dad of two children. |
Spring 2026 Sessions
As spring session details are finalized, updates will be shared below.
Leadership Values & Ethics
January 21, 2026, 1-3pm, Mezzanine Conference Room, AT&T Hotel and Conference Center
Medical education and training traditionally incorporate bioethics curriculum focused on foundational ethical principles and professionalism, primarily in the context of direct patient care and research. Alongside that content, there has been increased attention to physicians’ experience of moral injury; harm that results from the conflict between their professional ethics and the values imposed on them by their leaders and organizations. While many leadership development programs focus on building management and technical skills, fewer focus on the adaptive leadership needed to establish an organizational culture rooted in ethics and in values-guided moral courage. Understanding that physicians exercise leadership through formal and informal roles, this workshop will explore content relevant to individuals at any stage in their career.
Objectives:
- Describe foundational bioethical principles and moral courage, and their relationship to effective leadership.
- Consider how application of those principles supports optimizing organizational culture, improving healthcare quality, safety, and access, and advancing population health.
- Provide an approach for assessing one’s own ethics and moral leadership.
- Engage in leadership self-reflection through an interactive case study.
Jewel Mullen, M.D., MPH, is the founding associate dean for health equity at Dell Medical School and holds an associate professor position in the departments of Population Health and Internal Medicine. She also serves as the director of health equity for Ascension Seton and director of health equity and quality for Central Health, Travis County’s health district. She leads efforts to propel health care equity and improve access to care across those systems by strengthening their collaboration, their implementation of shared equity strategies and their engagement with communities and public health. An internist, epidemiologist and public health expert, Mullen formerly served as the principal deputy assistant secretary for health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Public Health. She has held faculty appointments at the schools of medicine for New York University, University of Virginia, Yale University and Tufts University. Board-certified in internal medicine, Mullen received her bachelor’s degree and Master of Public Health from Yale University, where she also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in psychosocial epidemiology. She graduated from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, where she was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha national medical honor society, and completed her residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She also holds a Master of Public Administration from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. |
Demystifying Academic Medicine Funds Flow: Aligning Missions and Financial Strategy
February 12, 2026, 1-3pm, Health Learning Building, HDB 1.208-Auditorium
This goal of the session is to increase participants’ confidence in engaging with financial discussions at their institutions and understanding how our financial model impacts strategic decision-making at a high level.
Objectives:
- Enhance faculty understanding of the principles and structure of funds flow in academic medicine
- Promote informed decision-making and collaboration between clinical, research, and educational missions
- Foster financial literacy and accountability among faculty leaders
- Provide a high level overview of Dell Medical Funds Flow
- Appreciate the balance of financial decisions Department Chairs navigate
Kevin Eide has over twenty years of progressive administrative leadership roles at MCW. He has successfully led multiple enterprise change management initiatives such as implementation of institutional compensation governance, development and standardization of clinical compensation plans, deployment of business intelligence applications, FMV for faculty compensation, and $1.6B in 403(b) fund realignment. Kevin has a collaborative leadership style, helping to create synergies and alignment across senior leadership, chairs, department business leaders, and internal teams. He has an established national reputation through AAMC and a track record of developing leaders and building high functioning, service-oriented teams. |
Organizational Leadership & Strategy in Uncertain Times with Jeremi Suri, PhD and Aliza Norwood, MD, FACP
(partnership with Human Dimensions of Organizations)
March 10, 2026, 1-3pm, Mezzanine Conference Room, AT&T Hotel and Conference Center
As a participant in this seminar, you will learn how to:
- Leverage historical thinking for effective leadership in an evolving landscape.
- Become a better strategic thinker in environments where priorities for change are evolving.
- Define and guide change, even in a resistant environment or one undergoing a convergence of change efforts.
- Anticipate future changes across your team and the school.
- Define your self-image as a leader.
Aliza Norwood, M.D., FACP, AAHIVS, is an associate professor in the departments of Population Health and Internal Medicine at Dell Medical School, where she is chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine. She is also the medical director at Vivent Health in Austin, a patient-centered medical home that provides HIV prevention services, including PrEP and PEP, and primary care for people living with HIV. Prior to joining Dell Med, Norwood was the clinical operations director at Bridge HIV in San Francisco, a clinical trial site for international HIV vaccine and HIV prevention research studies, and she provided HIV primary care at the Women’s HIV Program at the University of California, San Francisco. Norwood attended medical school at The University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio and trained in primary care and internal medicine at UCSF. She is board-certified in internal medicine and has an HIV specialist certification from the American Academy of HIV Medicine. Her interests include HIV primary care, HIV prevention and medical education.xtagstartz |
Building a Thriving Team in Academic Medicine with Dr. Wendy Bennet, MD, MPH
April 2, 2026, 1-3pm, Health Learning Building, HDB 1.208-Auditorium
Join Dr. Wendy Bennett for an engaging and practical workshop designed to help research leaders build stronger, more effective teams. This session will provide actionable strategies and tools you can apply directly to your work.
Objectives:
- Describe characteristics of effective managers who elevate the intelligence, creativity, and capabilities of research teams using “multiplier” terms
- Apply Tuckman’s Framework (forming, storming, norming, and performing) to orient new staff members or collaborators to your research team
- Identify strategies to support and improve the performance of a struggling or low-performing staff member on your research team
Dr. Wendy Bennett, MD, MPH is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, with joint appointments in Gynecology and Obstetrics and the Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her research focuses on preventing and managing obesity, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease—especially among women at high risk due to pregnancy complications. She leads community-based trials and develops scalable health coaching interventions to promote healthy weight and lifestyle during and after pregnancy. Dr. Bennett also serves as Director of Research for the Division of General Internal Medicine and Johns Hopkins Community Physicians, and Co-Director of the Center for Women’s Health, Sex and Gender Research. She practices as a general internist at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. |
The Art and Science of Negotiation with Dr. Elizabeth Matsui, MD, MHS
May 13, 2026, 2-3pm, Health Learning Building, HDB 1.208-Auditorium
Participants will leave the seminar with a solid command of the principal elements of negotiation, a pragmatic set of strategies for various incidents and conditions encountered in academic medicine, and a valuable network of colleagues with whom to reconnect periodically.
Objectives:
- Understand the foundational principles and psychology behind effective negotiation
- Identify common negotiation scenarios in academic medicine and explore tailored strategies
- Practice communication techniques that foster collaboration and resolve conflict
- Build confidence in navigating complex or high-stakes discussion
Elizabeth Matsui, M.D., is a pediatric allergist-immunologist and epidemiologist and a leading international expert on environmental exposures and their effects on asthma and other allergic conditions. A major focus of Matsui’s work has been on housing-related exposures and her group identified endemic mouse infestation as the major environmental cause of asthma-related emergency department visits and hospitalizations among children in Baltimore and in other similar cities in the U.S. Her group followed up on this observation by developing and testing interventions to address infestation, which include integrated pest management strategies for individual households and housing policy interventions. She has worked with both local government and non-profits to address housing-related health issues, and was recognized with the Baltimore City Health Equity Leadership Award in 2017. She joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2003 and was promoted to Professor in 2015 before joining that faculty at Dell Med at UT Austin in 2018. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, as chair of the Section of Allergy and Immunology of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and as a member of the National Academies of Sciences Standing Committee on Medical and Epidemiological Aspects of Air Pollution on U.S. government employees and their families. In 2012, she was named the top young investigator in allergy and immunology by an international body of scientists assembled by the Phadia Allergy Research Forum. |
FAQs
What is the cost for participation?
What is the deadline to register?
There's no deadline to register but sessions are first come, first served.
What do I do if I registered but can no longer participate?
If you are unable to attend, please notify our team at dellmedfacultyaffairs@austin.utexas.edu so we may reassign your registration to faculty members on the waitlist as soon as possible.
How do I know if I'm eligible?
There is no eligibility criteria but the content of the presentations is tailored to speak directly to challenges associated with leading a team and may not feel applicable to participants who do not operate in a supervisory capacity yet.
Will sessions be recorded?
No, sessions will not be recorded and all sessions are in-person only with no hybrid participation option.