Career Insight Seminar Series: A Journey from Mentee to Mentor, Trainee to PI, and Student to Professor (Virtual Event)

December 15, 2022 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
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We welcome Dr. Heidi Mansour from Florida International University (FIU) to speak about her career development and her current career activities as a Professor in the FIU Center for Translational Science in Port Saint Lucie, Florida. 

Following the talk, from 11am-12pm, 4 appointments are available to speak one-on-one with Dr. Mansour. These appointments will be 15 minutes each. If you are interested in reserving one of these appointments, please contact the Research Commons after you register for the event and we will reserve one for you. The appointments will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis.

This virtual program will include automated captioning. If you require an accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate in this event, please email libevents@osu.edu as soon as possible. Requests made at least one week prior to the event will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.

About the speaker:

Dr. Mansour is currently a tenured Full Professor at the Florida International University (FIU) Center for Translational Science in Port Saint Lucie, Florida having joined in 2022. Previously, she was a tenured Associate Professor, Director of the Pharmaceutics/Pharmacokinetics Track, and Director of the PharmD/PhD dual-degree program at The University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ for 9 years.  Dr. Mansour is Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) inducted in the 2022 Class of College Fellows for innovations in targeted pulmonary inhalation aerosol medicine.

Dr. Mansour successfully leads multiple cutting-edge research projects that are funded by the NIH. Her first federal grant as PI was from the FDA followed by continuous funding from the NIH. Her innovative research program has produced faculty members who are employed at major research universities in the United States and in the Republic of S. Korea. In addition, her research program has produced Senior Research Scientists who are employed in major pharmaceutical companies in the United States. As Postdoc Mentor, Dr. Mansour has successfully mentored and trained 13 Postdoctoral Research Scholars in her research program. As Major Professor, Dr. Mansour has successfully trained and graduated 5 doctoral graduate students with PhD degrees. Her current group members are Research Assistant Professors.  Dr. Mansour is the Vice Chair of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) Drug/Device Discovery & Development (DDDD) Committee. Dr. Mansour is currently Chair (2022-2024) of the American Pharmacist Association (APhA) Academy of Pharmaceutical Research and Science (APRS) Basic Sciences. She is active on various leadership committees in the APhA, AACP, AAPS, ATS, and ISAM. Dr. Mansour is Associate Editor of the Respiratory Section in the journal, Frontiers in Drug Delivery, and a Topics Editor of the journal, Pharmaceutics.  She serves on the Editorial Advisory Boards of the journals Royal Society of Society (RSC) Molecular Systems Design & Engineering (MSDE), Pharmaceutical Technology North America, and Current Nanomedicine. She has co-edited 2 books on inhalation aerosol medicine and nanomedicine and has published 15 book chapters and 115 journal publications. Dr. Mansour is inventor on 10 patents and has 3 exclusive licenses.

The Career Insight Seminar Series is designed for women trainees in STEM fields, particularly female graduate students and postdoctoral scholars. The series offers programming that aims to fill the need for insights into MS/PhD level careers in the biomedical sciences and round table discussion about what these careers entail at universities and institutions.

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