‌‌‌This lunch series features distinguished faculty mentors in an informal session about mentorship, career advancement and satisfaction at UCSF.

During this informal discussion Dr. Hellman, who was the co awardee of the 2025 UCSF Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award, will share her thoughts and experiences on how to be an effective mentor. The discussion will rely heavily on audience participation – so please bring your questions.

 Discussion points for the session will include:

•  Tailoring mentoring to the mentee’s stage, goals, and needs. Listen first, then adapt.
• Mentoring requires being all in. Commit wholeheartedly to the mentoring relationship.
• The mentor/mentee relationship is a two-way commitment.

‌‌‌Judith Hellman, the William L Young Endowed Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the UCSF Department of Anesthesia, is a physician-scientist whose work focuses on the basic and translational immunology of sepsis. She earned her MD from Columbia University, followed by residency training in internal medicine at Oregon Health Sciences University and in anesthesiology at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). She also completed a clinical ICU fellowship and a T32-funded research fellowship at MGH.

Dr. Hellman’s research explores critical areas such as innate immune signaling in sepsis, endothelial dysfunction, and neuroimmune modulation via the endovanilloid and endocannabinoid systems in sepsis and injury.

A passionate advocate for the development of physician-scientists and biomedical researchers, Dr. Hellman has mentored numerous students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty throughout her career. She leads the Department of Anesthesia’s Pathway to Scientific Independence program and has served as Program Director for the department’s T32 postdoctoral training grant since 2013. Her mentorship has guided many trainees to successful careers as independent investigators.

Dr. Hellman’s contributions to science and mentoring have been recognized with the International Anesthesia Research Society’s Frontiers in Anesthesia Research Award in 2015 and the American Society of Anesthesiologists’ Excellence in Research Award in 2019

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Via Zoom (link will be e-mailed to registrants)