Details for the 2025 APAHC Mid-Career Boot Camp

Apply here by March 15! www.ahcpsychologists.org/2025mcbcapp

Boot Camp Topics

Leadership Roles in academic health settings: Developing programs and building and elevating psychology

This segment will feature a keynote speaker who has developed a robust, integrated psychosocial care team in an academic health center, uniting psychology and social work leadership. The speaker will discuss leadership roles in academic health setting, including ways in which psychologists can  intentionally develop programs to fill community needs. Dr. Katzenstein will also describe ways in which psychologists can use their unique training and skills to build and elevate psychology services within academic health systems.

Coaching, Mentoring, and Sponsorship:  Unique Roles for Professional Development

This keynote speaker, a respected field leader who has continued to support colleagues’ and mentees’ growth and development throughout her career, will discuss ways in which psychologists can carve out unique roles as coaches, mentors, and sponsors to advance their own professional development.

Navigating moral dilemmas within academic health centers: Responsive & preventive ethics approaches

This segment, led by a leading bioethicist who has partnered with lawmakers time and time again in federal legislative initiatives, will engage a conversation about navigating moral dilemmas within academic health centers, including ways in which psychologists can be both responsive and preventative in their advocacy and day-to-day work.

Moving from Burnout to Well-Being to Flourishing: Individual and Institutional Responsibilities

To close out the day, this keynote speaker, who has held numerous leadership and mentorship positions throughout their career, will discuss ways in which psychologists in academic health centers can move from burnout to well-being and flourishing. This discussion will also include a focus on individual and institutional responsibilities in protecting psychologists’ well-being throughout their careers.

Additional Mid-Career Boot Camp Opportunities

Peer-to-Peer Coaching

MCBC will include an interest- and role-based peer-to-peer coaching initiative to help foster collegial networking, peer instrumental and social support, problem-solving, and promotion of career advancement goal-setting.  

Year-round Networking

As an optional bonus, MCBC attendees may choose to attend quarterly, virtual meetings following the conference. Ongoing quarterly meetings are intended to facilitate continued collegial networking, peer instrumental and social support, and peer accountability to ensure continued progress toward personal career goals. We hope that fostering these interest-based networks between conference years will serve as an additional way APAHC members can remain engaged and supported between meetings.

Have questions? Please feel free to reach out to our Mid-Career Boot Camp planning team:

Marissa Feldman - Mfeldm25@jhmi.edu

Lynne Havsy - lynne.havsy@sluhn.org

Leila Islam - Leila.Islam@vcuhealth.org

Michelle Jesse - Michelle.jesse@wellstar.org

The 2025 conference co-chairs are also available for general conference questions:

Melissa Faith - mfaith1@jhmi.edu

Lisa Ramirez - lramirez@metrohealth.org