Mentoring in Healthcare

Mentoring in Healthcare: The Definitive Guide to Cultivating Individual and Organizational Success is a focused guide to help strengthen mentorship relationships and refine the experience for healthcare professionals. It addresses the pressing need for effective mentorship amid current challenges such as burnout, workforce shortages, and funding restrictions.

Targeted at a wide range of healthcare professionals —from trainee to executive—the book emphasizes the vital role of mentorship in professional development and success, illustrating the transformative journey from student to accomplished healthcare professional.

Authored by Ruth Gotian, EdD, MS, Vineet Chopra, MD, MSc, and Sanjay Saint, MD, MPH, this book draws on their extensive backgrounds in academic medicine. With evidence-based strategies informed by the authors’ research and experience, Mentoring in Healthcare fills a gap in the existing literature, offering actionable advice to help healthcare professionals succeed.

Dr. Ruth Gotian is the Chief Learning Officer and Associate Professor of Education in Anesthesiology at Weill Cornell Medicine, where she served as the inaugural Assistant Dean for Mentoring and Executive Director of the Mentoring Academy. For over two decades, she directed the Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan Kettering Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program, one of the nation’s leading physician-scientist training initiatives.

An internationally recognized expert in mentorship, leadership development, and the science of high performance, Dr. Gotian has been named one of the top 20 mentors in the world by the International Federation of Learning and Development, the #1 emerging management thinker by Thinkers50, and one of the Top 50 executive coaches globally. Her work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal and on NBC News, and she is a LinkedIn Top Voice in Mentoring.

Dr. Gotian has published in leading peer-reviewed journals including Academic Medicine, Nature, British Journal of Anaesthesia, JAMA Open, and the Journal of Clinical Investigation. She is also a prolific contributor to Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Fast Company, and Psychology Today, where she shares evidence-based strategies for optimizing success and cultivating leadership.

She serves on the Board of the American Physician-Scientist Association, was appointed to the Advisory Committee to the Deputy Director for Intramural Research at the National Institutes of Health, the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council, and she’s an Associate Editor for the British Journal of Anaesthesia.

Dr. Gotian is the award-winning author of The Success Factor, co-author of the Financial Times Guide to Mentoring and a textbook on medical education. Her research focuses on the habits and mindset of elite performers—including Nobel Prize winners, astronauts, Olympians, and NBA champions—and has influenced professionals and organizations around the world. Her scholarship even inspired a theme song: I’m Possible.

You can learn more about Dr. Ruth Gotian at: ruthgotian.com

Dr. Vineet Chopra is Professor of Medicine, holder of the Robert W. Schrier Endowed Chair and Chairman of the Department of Medicine, and Executive Vice Dean (Interim) all at the University of Colorado (CU). Prior to coming to CU in 2021, Chopra served as the inaugural Chief of the Division of Hospital Medicine at the University of Michigan from 2017-2021. A career hospitalist, Chopra’s research and clinical interests are dedicated to improving the safety of hospitalized patients by preventing hospital-acquired conditions. He has published almost 300 peer-reviewed publications in top journals including the Annals of Internal Medicine, JAMA, NEJM, BMJ, and others. He has also edited and authored five textbooks, including the Saint-Chopra Guide to Internal Medicine, The Mentoring Guide, Thirty Rules for Healthcare Leaders, and Preventing Hospital Infections, many of which have been translated into other languages. He presently serves as Deputy Editor at the Annals of Internal Medicine, one of the premier internal medicine journals in the world.

Chopra is the recipient of numerous teaching, service, and research awards. He was selected as the recipient of the Kaiser Permanente Award for Clinical Teaching Excellence from the UM Medical School, the Jerome W. Conn Award for Outstanding Research, the Richard D. Judge Award for Medical Student Teaching, and the H. Marvin Pollard Award for outstanding teaching of residents. He received the Society of Hospital Medicine Excellence in Research Award and the Blue Cross/Blue Shield McDevitt Award for Research Excellence. In recognition of his mentoring efforts, he was named a Distinguished Clinical and Translational Research Mentor by the University of Michigan Medical School.

Dr. Sanjay Saint is the Chief of Medicine at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, George Dock Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan, and Executive Director for the Sacred Moments Initiative.

He is an expert in patient safety with a focus on why some hospitals are better than others at preventing hospital-acquired complications. He has authored over 400 peer-reviewed papers with nearly 120 appearing in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, The Lancet, or the Annals of Internal Medicine. He serves on the editorial board of 7 peer-reviewed journals including NEJM Catalyst and BMJ Quality & Safety, and is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) and the Association of American Physicians (AAP).

He has written for The Wall Street Journal and Harvard Business Review, and has given a TEDx talk on culture change in healthcare. He has co-authored several books published by Oxford University Press including Teaching Inpatient Medicine: Connecting, Coaching, and Communicating in the Hospital (2nd Edition) and The Saint-Chopra Guide to Inpatient Medicine (5th Edition). He has also co-authored three books published by the University of Michigan titled, Thirty Rules for Healthcare Leaders, The Mentoring Guide: Helping Mentors and Mentees Succeed, and Pickleball for Life: Prevent Injury, Play Your Best & Enjoy the Game. In 2016 he received the Mark Wolcott Award from the Department of Veterans Affairs as the National VA Physician of the Year and was elected as an international honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP). In 2017 he was awarded the National Health System Impact Award from the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Distinguished Mentor Award from the University of Michigan. He has been named a Master of the American College of Physicians (MACP), received the 2023 Under Secretary Award from the Department of Veterans Affairs as the National Health Services Researcher of the Year, and the 2023 Michigan Medicine Alumni Society’s Distinguished Service Award.

He received his Medical Doctorate from UCLA, completed a medical residency and chief residency at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), and obtained a Master’s in Public Health (as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar) from the University of Washington in Seattle. He has been a visiting professor at over 100 hospitals and universities in the U.S., Europe, and Asia.