Emerging Scholars Program
The Emerging Scholars Exchange Program is designed to provide career development opportunities for UCSF early career faculty via invited presentations at prestigious peer universities. Through the Exchange Program, early career faculty will have the opportunity to develop relationships with potential research collaborators, mentors, and sponsors; hone their oral presentation skills; and bolster their CVs as they prepare for promotion.
2024-2025 Application are now closed. Please check back in Fall 2025 for the next cycle.
“The Emerging Scholars Program provided an amazing opportunity from a few standpoints. First, it gave me the chance to travel to another university where there are a lot of well-known people who do work in my area. I was able to meet in-person with several esteemed scholars in my field, which helped expand my own network. Not only did some of the conversations provide excellent feedback for some of my ongoing work, but I am also hopeful that several of those contacts will translate into collaboration and networking opportunities in the future. I also had the chance to put together a more comprehensive presentation that provided a larger overview of my research in a more narrative format. This helped me to get a better understanding of the context of my own work, and I am now using this presentation as the basis of other talks that go beyond the typical one-off research presentations at conferences.”
Rita Hamad, MD, PhD, 2018-2019 PRL-IHPS Emerging Scholar
“The Emerging Scholars Exchange Program provided me with an experience rarely afforded to junior faculty - the opportunity to engage in substantive discussions about my research, meet potential collaborators, and hear new ideas from faculty outside my home institution. The program has had lasting effects on my research and my career.”
Grace Lin, MD, 2017-2018 PRL-IHPS Emerging Scholar
Program Components
Two Emerging Scholars from UCSF will be selected to give a presentation at one of our partner institutions: the University of Pennsylvania Leonard Davis Institute and the University of Michigan Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation. In exchange, scholars from these universities will be selected to present at UCSF.
Application Requirements
- ELIGIBLE FACULTY: UCSF early career faculty*, typically within the first two to four years as assistant
- Have a robust health services research portfolio to discuss, but have not yet submitted a promotion packet
- Be core or affiliated faculty with IHPS - self-nomination to affiliate form here.
* Emerging scholar exchange candidates must be assistant professor in any faculty series. Preference will be given to applicants who have not already had multiple invited speaking opportunities at other universities.
Completed application* includes:
1. Academic Title
2. School
3. Academic Department
4. Please list the month and year that you will plan to submit your promotion packet, if known.
5. If selected as an Emerging Scholar, I agree to serve on the IHPS Emerging Scholar selection committee for a minimum of one year.
8. Statement of interest (no more than 500 words) from the applicant describing why they want to be an Emerging Scholar, and why this opportunity is important for their professional development.
9. 2-3 proposed presentation titles including a brief description of each.
10. List of no more than 10 faculty from each peer institution (Penn and MI-IHPI) that the applicant would like to meet with during their visit if selected; including reasons why. You can find MI and Penn faculty at the links here:
11. CV
Selection Process
Applicants will undergo a two-stage selection/matching process. First, an UCSF selection committee will review all applications and select 4 potential speakers. This list of potential speakers will then be sent to the partner institutions, which will rank the scholars in their order of preference for an invited lecture. From these rankings, IHPS will match two scholars with either the University of Pennsylvania or the University of Michigan - IHPI.
Applicants will be reviewed on the following criteria:
· Quality/robustness of health services research portfolio
· Novelty of proposed presentation ideas
· Case for why this opportunity is important for their professional development
· Fit between proposed work and hosting institutions
· Balance of disciplines across scholars
Selected speakers will be notified by November 29, 2024. All travel expenses will be covered by the hosting institutions; there will be NO honoraria provided for speakers.
Presentations and visits will take place between February – May, 2025.
Please send any questions to Grace Lin (grace.lin@ucsf.edu) or Beth Thew: (beth.thew@ucsf.edu).
2025 Emerging Scholars
Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, UCSF Scholars selected:
Michelle Nakphong, PhD visited
Andrew Chou, MD visited
Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies hosted:
Thuy Nguyen, PhD - from the University of Michigan, Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation
2024 Emerging Scholars
Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, UCSF Scholars selected:
Lauren Hunt, RN, PhD, FNPP visited University of Michigan, Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation
Anthony DiGiorgio, DO visited University of Pennsylvania, Leonard Davis Institute
Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies hosted:
Daniel Whibley, PT, from the University of Michigan, Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation
Charlotte Woods-Hill MD, MSHP from the University of Pennsylvania, Leonard Davis Institute
2023 Emerging Scholars
Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, UCSF Scholars selected:
Sharad Wadhwani, MD visited University of Michigan, Intitute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation
Erica Farrand, MD visited University of Pennsylvania, Leonard Davis Institute
Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies hosted:
Lauren Gerlach, MD, from the University of Michigan, Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation
Joanna Hart MD, MSHP from the University of Pennsylvania, Leonard Davis Institute
2022 Emerging Scholars
Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, UCSF Scholars selected:
Tasce Bongiovanni, MD, MPP visited University of Michigan, Intitute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation
Elaine Khoong, MD, MS visited University of Pennsylvania, Leonard Davis Institute
Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies hosted:
Elham Mahmoudi, PhD from the University of Michigan, Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation
Paula Chatterjee, MD, MPH from the University of Pennsylvania, Leonard Davis Institute
2024 Emerging Scholars Visiting UCSF
Developing and Testing a Sleep and Exercise Program for Osteoarthritis pain management – the Move & Snooze Story
This presentation will describe observational and qualitative research that was undertaken to develop the Move & Snooze intervention, a combined sleep improvement and exercise program for adults with knee osteoarthritis. Feasibility study findings, including qualitative insights will be presented, and the design of the consequent nationwide digitally-delivered trial will be described.
Daniel Whibley is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Michigan and an Honorary Lecturer in Applied Health Sciences at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. Dr. Whibley trained as physiotherapist in London and subsequently completed a PhD in Applied Health Sciences in 2018 (University of Aberdeen), followed by a Foundation Fellowship Versus Arthritis, working across the universities of Aberdeen and Warwick in the UK and the University of Michigan in the US. Dr. Whibley’s research is focused on the intersection of sleep health, chronic pain, cognitive function, and physical activity, with a view to developing and testing non-pharmacological interventions for pain management. He currently sits on the Editorial Board of Rehabilitation Psychology, is an Editorial Fellow for the Journal of Pain, and is current Co-Chair of the US Association for the Study of Pain’s ‘Sleep and Pain’ Special Interest Group.
Charlotte Woods-Hill, MD, MSHP
Fear and uncertainty in intensive care: can implementation and behavioral science improve our clinical decision making?
Charlotte Woods-Hill, MD, MSHP is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Her broad areas of interest are the intersection of healthcare resource utilization, diagnostic stewardship, and implementation science, as it relates to preventable pediatric patient harm and pediatric patient safety. She is the primary co-investigator of the BrighT STAR collaborative, an ongoing multicenter project studying the impact of innovative diagnostic stewardship strategies on antibiotic use in critically ill children. BrighT STAR results have been published in high-impact journals, such as JAMA Pediatrics, and this work served as the foundation for her subsequent K23 career development award from NHLBI. She has received funding from the NIH, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the MITRE Corporation, and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Microbiome Center. As an implementation science mentor, she has supported trainees through successful grant proposals to the Thrasher Foundation and the Leonard Davis Institute. Dr. Woods-Hill has published her work in leading pediatric and critical care journals, and regularly speaks at national meetings as an emerging expert on both diagnostic stewardship and implementation science in the critical care environment. She also founded and co-leads the first-ever national research collaborative focused on implementation science for pediatric research, called ECLIPSE, as a part of the PALISI (Pediatric Acute Injury and Sepsis Investigators) Network.