Career Development and Mental Health Workshops

2021 Virtual Workshops

These workshops are aimed at providing practical suggestions on career development and mental health management of our trainees.

All attendees must read the Code of Conduct for participation in this event. Adherence to the code of conduct will be monitored by OHBM SIG members during the events.

 

Workshop 1: Bimal Lakhani – Transitioning from academia to industry: Why, when, how and where?

Monday, June 21st, 13:00:00 EDT

Wednesday, June 23, 21:00:00 EDT

Workshop 2: Satra Ghosh – Neuroimaging best practices beyond open science: Ethics, collaborations and high quality research

Monday, June 21st, 13:00:00 EDT

Wednesday, June 23, 21:00:00 EDT

Workshop 3: Cooper Smout – Reimagining the incentivization structure in academia

Monday, June 21st, 21:00:00 EDT

Wednesday, June 23, 13:00:00 EDT

Workshop 4: Mariam Aly – Navigating academic careers: What are our options and how can we reach our goals?

Monday, June 21st, 21:00:00 EDT

Wednesday, June 23, 13:00:00 EDT

 

Speaker Bios

Mariam Aly

https://psychology.columbia.edu/content/mariam-aly

Mariam Aly obtained her PhD from University of California in 2013. She is now an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Columbia University. In her research, she focuses on the interplay between attention, perception, and memory in the brain and in behavior. She is passionate about helping students navigate school and life beyond it, with a particular goal of de-stigmatizing mental illness.

Cooper Smout

https://coopersmout.com/awards/

Cooper Smout studied an undergraduate in psychology at the University of Queensland and then received his PhD in cognitive neuroscience from the Queensland Brain Institute in Australia. Upon publishing his first paper, he discovered a broken scholarly publishing system and decided to follow the open science movement. He founded the “Project Free Our Knowledge” and left academia to create a better academic system for future generations of scientists.

Bimal Lakhani

https://healthtechconnex.com/glossary/dr-bimal-lakhani/ 

Bimal Lakhani completed his BSc in Kinesiology at the University of Waterloo and his MSc and PhD degrees at the University of Toronto in the Department of Rehabilitation Science. His graduate work investigated the central nervous system mechanisms involved in the generation of rapid corrective balance recovery movements, which are typically impaired following stroke. Currently Bimal works as a lead scientist at HealthTech Connex leading his team towards new product development and conducting clinical trials.

Satra Ghosh

https://mcgovern.mit.edu/profile/satrajit-ghosh/ 

Satrajit Ghosh received his BS (with Honors) in Computer Science at the National University of Singapore and his PhD in Cognitive and Neural Systems from Boston University. In addition to his role at the McGovern Institute, Ghosh is an assistant professor in the Department of Otolaryngology at Harvard Medical School. He is also the director of Data Models and Integration project of ReproNim, an NIH P41 Center for Reproducible Neuroimaging Computation. He is also a co-editor-in-chief of BMC NeuroCommons, a journal focussed on enhancing the digital Commons for neuroscience through increased data, software, and reproducible results.