UCSF to Recognize Adler for Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring

Nancy Adler

The UCSF Faculty Mentoring Program will award the 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award in Mentoring to Nancy Adler, PhD, professor of psychiatry, at an event on Wednesday.

Eric Liu, an author who was named by the World Economic Forum as one of the 100 Global Leaders of Tomorrow, will deliver the keynote address at that event from noon to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, May 20, in Cole Hall on the UCSF Parnassus campus.

Adler directs a National Institute of Mental Health-sponsored postdoctoral program, Psychology and Medicine: Translational Research on Stress, Behavior and Disease, and co-directs the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars Program. As director of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Socioeconomic Status and Health, she coordinates studies spanning social, psychological and biological determinants, while conducting her research on the role of subjective social status in health.

Adler has served on the Advisory Committee to the Director of the National Institutes of Health, and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Institutes of Medicine. In 1995, she was awarded the UCSF Chancellor’s Award for the Advancement of Women.

Eric Liu

At the mentoring event on May 20, Liu, a former speechwriter and domestic policy adviser to President Bill Clinton, will explore some of the universal aspects of transformative mentorship and share lessons drawn from a wide range of professions.

He is the author of Guiding Lights: How to Mentor – and Find Life’s Purpose, the official book of National Mentoring Month, and The Accidental Asian: Notes of a Native Speaker, a New York Times Notable Book featured in the PBS documentary Matters of Race. His most recent book, The True Patriot, calls on progressives to reclaim patriotism.

Liu hosts the acclaimed television interview program Seattle Voices. He speaks regularly at conferences, corporations and campuses across the country, and serves on the boards of numerous civic organizations.