Resources for Faculty Professional Development at Fred Hutch
Fred Hutch believes that professional development programs are essential to faculty leadership development. Professional development opportunities and resources at Fred Hutch are supported by multiple offices across the institution including: the Office of Faculty Development, Office of Education and Training, Central Faculty Affairs, and Organizational Development. Resources include leadership development programs, career development support, mentorship committees, guidelines for promotion, faculty awards, as well as others. Through workshops, seminars and panel discussions, faculty gain fundamental skills and knowledge for building and managing effective scientific teams. Primary areas of focus include: building and managing scientific teams, mentoring and seeking mentorship, leadership skill building, grantsmanship, financial management, clinical trials management, and modeling rigorous and ethical research. Resources are listed below by target faculty rank.
Resources for Early to Mid-level Faculty
Resources for Mid to Senior-level Faculty
Resources for All Faculty
Other Resources
Faculty Leadership Incubator (FLI)
The Faculty Leadership Incubator, run by the Office of Education and Training, is a monthly series for new faculty during their first year at Fred Hutch. FLI provides new faculty with professional development resources and leadership support. This Hutch-wide cohort program includes strategies for building an effective team as well as sustaining the team’s success through best practices in management and mentoring. The series includes monthly sessions led by mid to senior-level faculty who share their advice and lessons learned on selected topics that include:
- Shifting from an Independent to a Team Mindset
- Building a Scientific Team
- Creating Inclusion and Equity
- Setting Expectations with a Philosophy Document
- Managing the Performance of Your Team
- Delegating Work and Effective Decision-Making
- Team Development and Dynamics
- Mentoring your Team
- Models for shifting conflict to healthy dialogue
Clinical LEadership And Research Excellence (CLEARE)
This Office of Education and Training program complements our other faculty professional development programs by providing additional topics that are specific to clinical faculty. During CLEARE sessions, more senior clinical faculty share examples of how they navigated the path to successful research portfolios and offer advice on balancing clinical duties with research.
Examples of CLEARE topics:
- Navigating a research program as a clinical faculty member: resources and infrastructure at Fred Hutch
- Making the most of your mentoring committee and navigating promotion
- Paths to grant funding for clinical researchers
- Forming collaborations
- Advice on writing clinical trial protocols
Faculty Grant Writing Workshop
The Faculty Grant Writing Workshop will be co-led by Johnnie Orozco, MD, PhD, and Chris Li, MD, PhD and run by the Office of Faculty Development. This eight-session, bi-weekly series is designed to help strengthen NIH and foundation grant proposals through practical strategies, best practices and active workshopping with peers.
Faculty Mentoring Committee
Each of our research divisions and programs have well established approaches to mentoring faculty. Mentoring committees for junior faculty are coordinated by the respective Division or program. Faculty mentoring committees are made up of more senior faculty that work closely with junior faculty to provide feedback on everything from grant proposals to building a research team to forming productive collaborations, with the goal of helping them establish a successful research program at Fred Hutch.
Learn to Lead (L2L)
From Doing to Leading: Essential Skills for New Managers
The Learn to Lead course is offered to early-career faculty through our Human Resources Organizational Development Team. This series is designed to set new managers up for success right from the start with the necessary skills and tools to tackle their new role effectively as both leader and manager. The L2L program is comprised of several in-class sessions and peer learning opportunities. This program involves managers from throughout the organization and is focused on managing groups of administrative, data and project staff.
- Session 1: You as a Leader
- Session 2: You and Your Team
- Session 3: You and the Organization
- Session 4: You and the Environment
Faculty Leadership Academy
The Faculty Leadership Academy, operated by the Office of Faculty Development, is a nine-month mentorship program designed for faculty within the Fred Hutch/University of Washington/Seattle Children's Cancer Consortium who are interested in further developing their leadership skills. The overarching goal of this program is to support the development of the next generation of Consortium leaders. This bi-annual program pairs faculty with appropriate mentors and requires participation in monthly workshops, culminating in participants developing and leading a new initiative or program. Applications for the 2026-2027 cohort open in June 2026.
Leadership Enhancement for All Professors (LEAP)
This quarterly Office of Education and Training workshop series invites Fred Hutch Faculty of all ranks to engage in workshops and seminars focused on Leadership, Mentoring, Professionalism, Time Management, Career Advancement, Team Dynamics, as well as other relevant topics.
Mentor Training for Faculty
Through the Research Mentorship Education (RME) Program, a partnership between the University of Washington and Fred Hutch, our faculty have access to trainings on how to improve their mentoring skills and optimize their mentoring relationships with research trainees. Facilitators of these mentor trainings use curriculum from the Center from the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research (CIMER).
Scientific Ombuds
The Fred Hutch Scientific Ombuds is a neutral, independent and impartial resource to assist faculty and scientific staff in resolving problems, complaints, conflicts, and other issues in as confidential a manner as possible.
Organization Development Resources
Fred Hutch Organization Development group offers one-on-one consultations, leadership and team development, meeting and retreat facilitation, assessments, leadership courses, and mediation services to faculty.
Fred Hutch provides training in research ethics that includes human subjects training, the use of animals in research, and the core research ethics and rigor, reproducibility and transparency topics mandated by the NIH Office of Research Integrity. Training is accomplished via lectures, panel discussions, live web-based training and faculty led case study discussion groups. Our goal is to provide faculty, staff and trainees with a variety of opportunities to engage in discussion and education on the responsible conduct of research.
Useful Training Links
Fred Hutch is a partner institution of the Institute for Translational Health Science (ITHS). ITHS provides faculty professional development through monthly lectures and workshops designed to provide junior faculty and investigators with tools, a forum for discussion, and learning opportunities to help advance their careers.
Fred Hutch faculty have access to the UW School of Medicine Faculty Professional Development curriculum, which includes courses in leadership, research, teaching, and clinical skills.