Joan M. Lakoski, Ph.D.

Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Career Development
University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences
Associate Dean for Postdoctoral Education
Professor of Pharmacology

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

 

Joan M. Lakoski, Ph.D. is the Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Career Development and the Founding and Executive Director of the Office of Academic Career Development at the University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences, and the Associate Dean for Postdoctoral Education and Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Dr. Lakoski received her doctoral degree in Pharmacology from the University of Iowa, completed postdoctoral training in the Department of Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine, and has held faculty positions at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston and the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, including Interim Chair of the Department of Pharmacology at Penn State. She maintains a research program investigating the neuropharmacolgy of aging and the impact of research mentoring, is a member of the graduate faculty at the University of Pittsburgh, and serves on NIH study section review panels. She has been the recipient of an NIH Research Career Development Award, an Independent Investigator Award from the National Alliance of Research on Schizophrenia, an Administrative Fellowship at the Pennsylvania State University and was a Fellow of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation Academic Leadership Program. Her administrative responsibilities encompass oversight and development of comprehensive career development services, including mentoring programs for professional students, postdoctoral fellows, residents, clinical fellows and faculty to “empower the health science professional” at the University of Pittsburgh.

 Dr. Lakoski currently serves as Co-Director of the Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Career Scholars Program at the University of Pittsburgh, is Director of Mentoring for both NIH- funded KL2 and K30 Clinical Research Training awards and is Director of Faculty Development for the institutional Clinical and Translation Science Award at the University of Pittsburgh. She serves as Chair of the Advisory Panel on Ethics and Conflict of Interest of the Endocrine Society, Chair of the International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology Committee on Teaching, as a 2007-2008 ELAM Program Faculty Advisor, as an AAMC Women’s Liaison Officer for the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, as Co-Chair of the AAMC GREAT Group Postdoctorate Committee, as Co-Chair of the 2008 KL2 and K30 National Clinical Scholars Annual Meeting Program Committee and as co-Chair of the 2008 National Postdoctoral Association Postdoctoral Offices Preconference Workshop. For her numerous activities in support of postdocs, Dr. Lakoski was the recipient of the 2007 University of Pittsburgh Postdoctoral Association Postdoctoral Advocate Award. 

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