Learning Objectives
By the end of the talk participants will be able to:
- Identify psychosocial threats that trigger underperformance and imposter syndrome.
- Provide examples of coping strategies to promote intellectual safety.
- Describe the value of minoritized researchers to innovative, rigorous, and transformative science.
About the Speaker
Dr. Leticia Márquez-Magaña is a native-born U.S. citizen. She started school speaking only Spanish as the eldest daughter of Mexican immigrants. Unlike her parents, she had the opportunity to complete high school and was first-generation to college. At Stanford University she earned biological sciences degrees before becoming the first, and only, Latina to earn a biochemistry PhD at UC Berkeley. Following post-doctoral training at Stanford, she was an Affirmative Action hire in biology at San Francisco State University. In this 30-year role, she focuses on “giving back” to minoritized communities who co-created her radical path to becoming an impactful biomedical researcher.
About the ISD Webinar Series
The Investigator Skills Development (ISD) Webinar Series is presented by the Investigator Skills Development Unit (ISDU) of the UCSF Research Coordinating Center to Reduce Disparities in Multiple Chronic Diseases (RCC-RD-MCD).
Co-Sponsored by CAPS Town Hall and the CAPS Implementation Science and Health Systems (ISHS) Core
ISDU Director: Mandana Khalili, MD, MAS, Professor of Medicine, UCSF, Chief of Clinical Hepatology, San Francisco General Hospital
ISDU Co-Director: Edwin Charlebois, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Division of Prevention Science, UCSF