Career Conversation: From Individual Contributor to Team Leader: Building Your First Research Team

In celebration of Careers in Aging Month, we are excited to announce the kickoff of our 2025 Career Conversations series with a professional development session focused on team building. Many of us collaborate and work as part of teams and organizations, but what happens when we find ourselves in the leadership seat? This event will provide insights, stories, tips, and strategies to successfully develop your research team.

Our distinguished panelists will share their perspectives on transitioning from individual contributors to team leaders, offering valuable insights into building and managing a successful research team.

GSA's Career Conversations bring together gerontologists from all career stages and offer a forum to exchange ideas about issues and strategies to build a successful career in gerontology. Recordings of previous Career Conversations are available.

Presented by: 

• Sarah Dys, MPA, PhD, Senior Research Associate I, Institute on Aging, College of Urban and Public Affairs, Portland State University (Moderator)
• Patricia W. Slattum, PharmD, PhD, FGSA, Professor Emeritus, Virginia Commonwealth University; Visiting Scholar, Gerontological Society of America (Moderator)
• Jane Chung, RN, PhD, Associate Professor, Emory University (Speaker)
• Manka Nkimbeng, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota Twin Cities (Speaker)
• Matthew Yousefzadeh, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medical Sciences, Columbia University Medical Center (Speaker)