Season 1, Episode 6: How To Foster A Mentoring Relationship with Dr. Norman Rosenblum
Welcome to Episode 6 of Season 1 of the Emerging Scholar Podcast!
On today’s episode, we have the privilege of speaking with Dr. Norman Rosenblum, a pediatric nephrologist and clinician scientist at SickKids Hospital and the University of Toronto. Dr. Rosenblum is a professor of pediatrics, a past recipient of a Tier 1 CRC Chair in Developmental Nephrology, and the current scientific director of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Institute for Nutrition Metabolism Diabetes.
Dr. Rosenblum is also the founder of the Canadian Child Health Clinician Scientist Program (CCHCSP) and served as Associate Dean and Physician Scientist in Training at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine. He is widely recognized as an expert in mentorship, having developed a framework for building and sustaining productive mentoring relationships, which is crucial for any emerging scholar’s growth and success.
On this episode, Dr. Rosenblum shares insights from his own mentoring journey, offering invaluable advice on how to find the right mentor and how to cultivate a mentorship relationship that will guide you through your academic career. He also discusses how his work with trainees shaped his approach to mentorship, and how it can be applied to support residents and graduate students alike.
Whether you’re looking to find a mentor or become a better one, this episode is full of actionable insights that will help you navigate your scholarly journey. Tune in for a conversation that has been deeply impactful for both of us—and one we hope will be just as valuable to you!
Papers & Resources That We Touched On In This Episode:
- The Rising Challenge of Training Physician–Scientists: Recommendations From a Canadian National Consensus Conference
- Canadian resource for pediatric clinician scientists
Guests
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Dr. Norman Rosenblum
Dr. Norman Rosenblum is Professor of Paediatrics, Physiology, and Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology at the University of Toronto, a Paediatric Nephrologist and Senior Scientist at the Hospital for Sick Children, and Scientific Director of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Institute of Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes (INMD).
Dr. Rosenblum is a graduate of the Dalhousie University MD Program, the Children’s Hospital, Boston Pediatric residency and Fellowship in Pediatric Nephrology, and a postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Bjorn Olsen in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School. The focus of Dr. Rosenblum’s research is to elucidate molecular mechanisms that control normal and malformed kidney development. In genetic mouse models and human organoids, his lab has elucidated the functions of BMP, WNT and Hedgehogs, has generated several models of human kidney-urinary tract malformation, and has published over 150 peer-reviewed original manuscripts and book chapters.
Dr. Rosenblum has been deeply engaged in developing and managing career development programs for clinician and translational scientists. He founded and led the Canadian Child Health Clinician Scientist Program from 2001-2012, served as Associate Dean, Physician Scientist Training in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, from 2008-2017, and has served as faculty and program leader in the EUREKA Institute for Translational Medicine since 2008.
Dr. Rosenblum is the recipient of the Aventis Pasteur Research Award, the American Pediatric Society Norman J. Siegel Outstanding Science Award, the Paediatric Chairs of Canada Paediatric Academic Leadership-Clinical Investigator Award, the Society for Pediatric Research Maureen Andrew Award in Mentoring, the Kidney Foundation of Canada Medal for Research Excellence, and a Tier I Canada Research Chair in Developmental Nephrology. In 2018, the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine established the Norman Rosenblum Award for Excellence in Mentorship in the MD/PhD Program in recognition of Dr. Rosenblum's outstanding contributions to mentoring of MD/PhD students. He is an elected fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.