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Leadership through Scholarship Fellowship

The yearlong Leadership through Scholarship Fellowship offers training and mentorship for early-career and mid-career faculty with a focus on developing scholarly writing skills for academic advancement and leadership. Applications are currently closed.

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Early-Career Fellows

Early-career fellows will benefit from a robust curriculum and deep mentorship relationships to:

Develop a personalized leadership & career roadmap
Learn how to recognize, navigate, and overcome the minority tax
Create a research question tailored to their specific academic responsibilities and from topics that are important to them
Identify opportunities for scholarship both within and without their institution
Create and publish a letter to the editor as part of a small group
Write up and submit at least one manuscript with the coaching and co-authorship of faculty and peer mentors

Mid-Career Fellows

Mid-career fellows will benefit from tailored mentorship and guidance to reach the next milestone in their careers, including:

Receive 1:1 mentorship specific to their challenges or roadblocks to promotion or leadership
Participate in a detailed CV review to determine edits for promotion
Work as a group with mentor faculty on challenges in scholarship to move forward with stuck projects
Learn how to navigate mid-career leadership challenges

How to Apply

The application window is closed.The registration fee for fellows is $1200. Applicants for STFM fellowships must be current STFM members.Here's what else you need to apply:

Document accomplishments in health disparities, social justice, or similar work with plans to continue related work after the fellowship
Demonstrate resilience through obstacles/hardships to reach current level in career
Be a faculty member at associate professor, assistant professor, or instructor rank, preferably with 2–10 years at your current level

For questions about the application or fellowship contact April Davies at adavies@stfm.org (email linked below).

Benefits of the Fellowship

Improve Writing and Research Skills

Develop key scholarship writing skills, learn methods for researching a question and analyzing data, and learn to assess quality of existing literature.

Recognition of Minority Tax

Learn to identify and address the disparities in your own career and the effects of the minority tax.

Mentorship From Experts

Benefit from coaching on how to write, present, and publish scholarly products.

Better Position for Promotion

Receive practical guidance on navigating promotion and tenure opportunities at your institution, and build a personalized path to academic leadership.

Schedule, Cost, and Current Fellows

Fellowship Schedule

Cost of the Fellowship

Current Fellows

Fellowship Schedule

Virtual Meetings

Fellows attend the StrengthsFinders® Leadership Workshop.

Regular Zoom meetings are held on topics led by scholar mentors (promotion and tenure, minority tax, manuscript writing, and more). Calls typically occur on the fourth Thursday of the month from 5–6:30 pm central/6–7:30 pm eastern:

July, August, and September: The fourth Thursday of the months
October: No call (in-person workshop)
November: Second Thursday of the month
December: No call
January and February: The fourth Thursday of the months
March: No call (in-person workshop)
April: Second Thursday of the month

In-Person Meetings

First Thursday and Friday in October: 2-day workshop, Leawood, KS
First Monday and Tuesday in March: 2-day workshop, Leawood, KS
Attend the STFM Annual Spring Conference

Cost of the Fellowship

The registration fee for fellows is $1200 which includes the two in-person workshops and registration for the STFM Annual Spring Conference. Participants are responsible for paying travel expenses.

This fellowship is powered in part by the STFM Foundation. Thank you to STFM Foundation donors for their support.

Current Fellows

2025–2026 Fellows

Carla Da Goia Pinto, MD, MPH
Julia Hamilton, DO
Dylan Hanami, MD
Simone Ilia, DO
Taylor James, MD
Hina Jhawer, MD
David Johnson, PhD, LMFT
Sahoko Little, MD, PhD
Stacey Martinez, MD
Julie Ngoc Thai
Jennifer Rowe Snell, MD, DipABLM
George Vincent Alvarez, MD
Marian Younge, MD

Questions?

If you have questions about this conference, contact April Davies the email link below.

CONTACT STAFF WITH QUESTIONS

11400 Tomahawk Creek Parkway

Leawood, KS 66211

(800) 274-7928

stfmoffice@stfm.org

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