The SAHR Mentoring Committee
Objectives and goals:
Mentorship is a collaborative learning process that draws upon the knowledge of a variety of faculty (senior faculty members/peers), who can provide guidance to new faculty entering the professoriate or to more senior faculty transitioning to new roles. The main objective of this committee is to provide guidance and resources to post-docs and junior faculty to pursue their goals in academic research endeavors. The primary purpose of this committee is to mentor the post-docs and junior faculty for their transition to academia as tenure-track faculty members. We will also provide targeted resources to mentees, with a particular focus on empowering junior faculty members to seek and shape their career goals for promotion and tenure. This committee will meet virtually with post-docs and junior faculty on a quarterly basis to evaluate and guide them to prepare their academic credentials for the next steps in their career. This would include reviewing their CV/biosketch, CDA/K99 (AHA/NIH) grants, conducting mock grant reviews, preparing for faculty interviews and chalk talk, etc.
Meet the Team
Chair:
Hind Lal, Ph.D.
Brief Bio:
I am Professor and Chair of the Department of Cellular Biology and Anatomy at LSU Health Shreveport, where I lead a growing basic science department and direct an NIH-funded cardiovascular research program. My laboratory investigates the molecular pathways that regulate cardiac function, inflammation, and heart failure, using advanced mouse genetics and translational approaches to identify new therapeutic strategies. I received my Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Toxicology Research (CSIR-IITR) and completed postdoctoral training at Texas A&M University and Thomas Jefferson University. Before joining LSUHS, I held faculty positions at Vanderbilt University and the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Training and mentoring are at the heart of my research program. I have trained numerous postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and medical and undergraduate trainees, and I remain deeply committed to supporting the next generation of cardiovascular scientists. I take great pride in helping young investigators grow, succeed, and advance heart research. This reflects in our lab's long-term vision “to be a world-class basic cardiac biology lab that consistently explores paradigm-shifting hypotheses while also producing the ‘best and brightest young scientists who will leap from our work with new ideas and expand the field.
Vice Chair:
Dr. Charles Thodeti Ph.D., FAHA, FCVS
Brief Bio:
Dr. Charles Thodeti is a Professor in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology at the University of Toledo. He obtained Ph.D. from S.V. University, India, completed post-doctoral training at the Lund University, Sweden, and later held a research faculty position at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He then moved to Harvard Medical School/Boston Children’s Hospital as an Instructor/Staff Scientist. Before joining the University of Toledo, he was a tenured Associate professor at Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED). His laboratory (laboratory of Cardiovascular Mechanobiology and Therapeutics) works on mechanotransduction mechanisms in pathological angiogenesis and cardiac remodeling, with a focus on TRPV4 channels. His research has been supported by NIH-NHLBI (RO1s and R15), NIH-NCI-(R15) and AHA (Scientist Development Award, Grant-in-Aid, and Transformative Project Award). He has published around 70 peer-reviewed articles in the fields of cardiovascular physiology and cell biology. He has been serving as an Associate Editor of Comprehensive Physiology, Frontiers in Cardiovasc Med and editorial board member for Microcirculation, AJP Heart and Circ Physiol, Br J Pharmacol, Scientific Reports, and Cells, and as a reviewer for more than 30 top-tier journals. He is a standing study section member of NIH-Basic Biology of Blood, Heart, and Vasculature (BBHV) and adhoc member for many AHA study sections. Dr. Thodeti is a Fellow of American Heart Association (FAHA) and Fellow of Cardiovascular Section of APS (FCVS).
Committee Members
Past Chair:
Mahmood Khan, Ph.D. FAHA
Professor and Division Director
Division of Basic and Translational Sciences
Department of Emergency Medicine
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH
Members:
Raj Kishore, Ph.D.
Email: tuf51785@temple.edu
Sathyamangla Prasad, Ph.D.
Email: prasads2@ccf.org
Ganesh Halade, Ph.D.
Email: ghalade@usf.edu
We encourage students, postdoctoral fellows, early careers, and international internships to one of the committee members and get their mentorship.