Mentorship Beyond Tradition: Customizing Support for Pharmacy Faculty

November 06, 2025
1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. ET

Hosted by the COF Junior Faculty Community

As pharmacy education evolves, the challenge of facilitating its evolution with effective faculty mentorship persists. To meet the needs of the ever-changing landscape in pharmacy education, faculty mentorship must expand to include non-traditional forms such as informal, reverse, near-peer, interprofessional, and group mentorship, fostering inclusivity across career stages. We will address the challenges faced by diverse faculty and present evidence-based strategies for creating inclusive and effective mentorship to enhance faculty development and retention.

Objectives:

  • Define non-traditional mentorship models (informal, reverse, near-peer, interprofessional, group) and determine which forms are most suitable for faculty at different stages in their career to achieve their academic goals of teaching, scholarship, and service.
  • Analyze at least three challenges associated with mentorship for pharmacy faculty of various academic ranks and social/ethnic backgrounds.
  • Compose a tailored solution for challenges identified with mentoring utilizing inclusive principles and evidence-based techniques from existing literature.

Moderator:

Natalie Gordon, PharmD, BCACP
The University of Texas at El Paso

Speakers:

Kristen Korankyi, PharmD, MSEd, AE-C
Auburn University

Asish Biju, PharmD, BCPS
University of Illinois Chicago

Priyanka Bhatt, PhD
St. John Fisher University

Aaron Brown, PharmD 
University of Wyoming

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