Early Career Resilience: Turning Short-Term Rejection into Long-term Success

When:  Aug 11, 2020 from 12:00 to 13:00 (ET)
Early Career Resilience: Turning Short-Term Rejection into Long-term Success
August 11, 2020 at 12:00pm (EST, UTC-5)
Speakers: Dr. Lisa Anderson and Dr. Kelsie Forbush
Moderator: Kathryn Coniglio

This webinar, which is sponsored by the AED Early Career Special Interest Group (SIG), will discuss how to deal with rejection and cultivate resilience specifically for those early in their career. Drs. Anderson and Forbush will review strategies for handling manuscript and grant rejection on the internal, external, and federal funding levels, job application rejection, as well as uncertainty and challenges faced by early career investigators while establishing an independent program of research.

Speaker(s) names, titles, and bios (feel free to attach additional pages):

Lisa Anderson, Ph.D. – Dr. Anderson is a T32 Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Minnesota. She received her Ph. D. in clinical psychology from the University at Albany, State University of New York, following completion of her predoctoral clinical internship at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in 2016-2017. Dr. Anderson’s primary research interests include the identification of mechanisms that underlie anxiety and eating disorder symptom development and maintenance (e.g., fear- and disgust-based learning and decision-making), as well as developing and optimizing interventions targeting anxiety-related mechanisms in eating disorders.

Kelsie Forbush, Ph.D. – Dr. Forbush is Associate Professor and M. Erik Wright Scholar at the University of Kansas. Her research program is designed to clarify the reasons for diagnostic co-morbidity among eating, mood, and anxiety disorders, and to develop clinically useful assessment and treatment tools for clinicians working with clients who have an eating disorder. She currently has over $2 million dollars in research funding and more than 65 publications in peer-reviewed journals.

 

Moderator name and contact info: Kathryn Coniglio (Kathryn.coniglio@rutgers.edu)

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