Solutions to optimize your strengths for greater purpose.

• Feeling lost in your academic or clinical research career?
• Overwhelmed with what area of research to focus on or the IRB process?
• Not sure how to get published or get funded? 
• Wishing for more mentorship but your colleagues are too busy?
• Want to leave a legacy in your area of focus?

An academic research coach (ARC) focuses on health science professors just getting started in an academic career. Clinical faculty and professionals have vast experience in clinical environments; however, they need a bit more coaching when it comes to a successful scholarship agenda. Even with novice faculty that are mentored by seasoned faculty, there’s often a lack of time and depth to fully guide a new professor. We help all faculty and departments at $100/hr who need support in research professional development.

According to McKinney et al [1], having an ARC for medically focused faculty is effective in accomplishing meaningful scholarly activity. The study supported 63 projects which included 49 general internal medicine faculty [1]. The ARC return on investment yielded 13 publications, 11 abstracts, four grant submissions, and seven manuscript reviews [1]. Our coaching focuses on establishing a meaningful platform of scholarly activity for health science professors. We help you "mind the gap" between where you are and where you'd like to be with your research:

• Career planning
• Collaborative research teams
• Literature reviews
• Study designs
• Research hypothesis
• Project development
• Analysis & interpretation
• Grant writing & submissions
• IRB applications
• Manuscript prep

Dr. McCarroll has 25 years of clinical research experience. Recently, she was the Chief Research Officer & Institutional Official at a health sciences university. She is published in scores of journals indexed on PubMed, PubMed Central, Google Scholar, ResearchGate, Academia, etc. on topics in healthcare, clinical research, space medicine, medical education, higher education, and workforce development. 

Her top two CliftonStrengths are execution and relationships. These strengths facilitate programs to capitalize and monetize their ideas to make them happen. Examples include:

• Published over 100 abstracts, presentations, and articles
• History of working with a variety of areas such as emergency, family, and internal medicine

1. McKinney CM, Mookherjee S, Fihn SD, Gallagher TH. An Academic Research Coach: An Innovative Approach to Increasing Scholarly Productivity in Medicine. J Hosp Med. 2019 Aug 1;14(8):457-461. doi: 10.12788/jhm.3194. Epub 2019 Apr 8.