• Marla B Ferschl, Jennifer K Lee, Justin L Lockman, Stephanie Black, Debnath Chatterjee, Rita Agarwal, Lawrence I Schwartz, John Fiadjoe, Eugenie Heitmiller, MershonBommy HongBHDepartment of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Charlotte R. Bloomberg Children's Center at Johns Hopkins Hospital, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MA, USA., Nina Deutsch, John McCloskey, and Andrew Infosino.
• Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA, USA.
• Paediatr Anaesth. 2020 Jul 1; 30 (7): 743-748.

AbstractPromoting and retaining junior faculty are major challenges for many medical schools. High clinical workloads often limit time for scholarly projects and academic development, especially in anesthesiology. To address this, we created the East/West Visiting Scholars in Pediatric Anesthesia Program (ViSiPAP). The program's goal is to help "jumpstart" academic careers by providing opportunities for national exposure and recognition through invited lectures and collaborative opportunities. East/West ViSiPAP benefits the participating scholars, the home and hosting anesthesia departments, and pediatric anesthesia fellowship training programs. By fostering a sense of well-being and inclusion in the pediatric anesthesia community, East/West ViSiPAP has the potential to increase job satisfaction, help faculty attain promotion, and reduce attrition. Faculty and trainees are exposed to new expertise and role models. Moreover, ViSiPAP provides opportunities for women and underrepresented in medicine faculty. This program can help develop today's junior faculty into tomorrow's leaders in pediatric anesthesia. We advocate for expanding the concept of ViSiPAP to other institutions in academic medicine.© 2020 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

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