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About the Mentoring Academy for Research Excellence

The Mentoring Academy for Research Excellence (MARE) strives to provide a comprehensive, innovative mentoring program for researchers based on best practices that fosters and advances personal, professional, and institutional growth.

Mission

The mission of the Mentoring Academy for Research Excellence is to develop the next generation of independent, highly successful academic faculty, and advance the UC Davis research mission.

Goals

  • Continue to develop the UC Davis mentoring culture to support, reward, and enhance quality mentoring in health sciences
  • Create an environment that values, recognizes, and supports the essential role of mentoring in career progression
  • Establish a comprehensive, innovative mentoring program based on best practices that fosters and advances personal, professional, and institutional growth

Supportive Services for Mentoring

  • Serve as a resource for mentors and mentees
  • Provide mentor and mentee training in best practices for mentoring relationships
  • Integrate programs and goals for research faculty mentoring
  • Encourage the incorporation of Academy mentoring deliverables in proposed projects and grants via requested letter of support
Our Team
  • Julie Schweitzer, Ph.D.

    Julie Schweitzer, Ph.D.

    Research Profile for Julie Schweitzer
    Director, Mentoring Academy for Research Excellence
    Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the MIND Institute

    Julie Schweitzer earned her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and has previously held faculty positions at Emory University and the University of Maryland. She joined the UC Davis faculty in 2007. With expertise in studying neurodevelopmental disorders, in particular attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), she uses a variety of methodologies including behavioral research approaches, functional brain imaging and clinical measures to better understand and treat ADHD. Schweitzer also has an active research program on developing non-pharmacological neurotherapeutics for ADHD. She is also a licensed psychologist and assesses and treats ADHD across the life-span. She has a lengthy history of directing translational research training programs and has been involved in multiple workforce development initiatives. She currently serves as the Co-Director of the UC Davis Mentored Clinical Research Training Program and the UC Davis CTSC TL1 Program. She was the director of the curriculum and lead workshop facilitator for the UC Davis Health Mentoring Academy starting in 2010, and previously served as the director of the UC Davis Health Mentoring Academy.

  • Abigail Arons, M.D., MPAff

    Abigail Arons, M.D., MPAff

    Research Profile for Abigail Arons
    Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

    Abigail Arons is a faculty member in the Divisions of General Medicine & Bioethics and Division of General Pediatrics at the UC Davis School of Medicine. Her research focuses on health policy design over the life course, with an emphasis on young adulthood and cardiometabolic disease prevention. Her work combines methods from life course epidemiology, implementation science, and community engaged research.Arons is a dual-boarded primary care physician in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, and currently cares for patients at both UC Davis and Sacramento County Health Center. A native of Winters, California, she holds a B.A. in Mathematics from Smith College, a Master of Public Affairs from the LBJ School at the University of Texas at Austin, and an M.D. from UCSF. She completed residency at UCLA, and fellowship in the National Clinician Scholars Program at UCSF.

  • Daniel J. Moglen, Ph.D.

    Daniel J. Moglen, Ph.D.

    Workshop Co-Facilitator, Mentoring Academy for Research Excellence
    Education and Training Specialist, UC Davis Clinical and Translational Science Center

    Daniel Moglen holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics (Second Language Development) from UC Davis. He has worked in student support at UC Davis and UC Davis Health for over five years, supporting graduate students and postdocs in career and professional development. Moglen is passionate about meeting students where they are and giving them the tools and skills to make empowered decisions about their academic and professional careers. He is the Education and Training Specialist on the Workforce Development for Investigators (IWD) team at the Clinical and Translational Science Center.