This lunch series features distinguished faculty mentors in an informal session about mentorship,
career advancement and satisfaction at UCSF.
Steven G. Deeks, MD, is a Professor of Medicine and a faculty member in the Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General. He is an internationally recognized expert on the impact of HIV and other viral infections on inflammation, immune function and health. He has been the recipient of several NIH grants, including DARE (the Delaney AIDS Research Enterprise), an NIH-funded international collaboratory aimed at developing a cure for HIV infection. In early 2020, he and his team leveraged their HIV research program to develop one of the first prospective studies addressing the long-term health effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Dr. Deeks was the recipient of the 2022 UCSF Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring. By leveraging his HIV and now COVID cohorts,
Dr. Deeks has contributed to the training of dozens of students, residents, fellows, and junior faculty and has co-mentored 14 K award-recipients. He received two consecutive K24 mentoring grants and currently co-directs an T32 HIV/AIDS training program. He co-chairs an annual three-day mentoring retreat in South Africa that trains early-stage investigators from around the world who are hoping to start a research program aimed at curing or preventing HIV.

Topics to be covered will include:
n Providing a protected space for mentees to thrive
n Developing a long-term plan to independence
n Mentoring as team science is key to success
n Remaining nimble and able to respond to new initiatives and opportunities as they emerge