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Toxicology Education Summit

The Society of Toxicology Education Summit was held
October 20–21, 2011, in Baltimore, Maryland

Education Summit Outcomes

2012 Annual Meeting Roundtable: The Future of Toxicology Education: Outcomes of the Toxicology Educational Summit
“The Toxicology Education Summit: Building the Future of Toxicology Through Education”
Toxicological Sciences 2012; doi: 10.1093/toxsci/kfs111

Goals

Identify critical gaps in toxicology education.
Generate strategic initiatives that the SOT will advance to help modernize toxicology education and training to meet the future needs of the discipline and profession.

Focus Areas

Undergraduate education and recruiting students to toxicology
Training of graduate students (both general background and specific areas such as regulatory and risk assessment)
Retraining and professional development of current members
General toxicology training across other disciplines


Lois Lehman-McKeeman confers with Education Summit Chair, Aaron Barchowsky	Speaker Sally Rockey, NIH Deputy Director for Extramural Research, discusses issues with Jon Cook, SOT President

Summit Presentations

Plenary Presentation: The Making of a Toxicologist in the 21st Century: Learning from the Past While Building for the Future
James S. Bus, Dow Chemical Company, Midland, MI
Professional Needs Assessment Task Force: Moving from Data Collection to Analysis and Recommendations
Mary Beth Genter, SOT Professional Needs Assessment Task Force Chair, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
Training Graduate Students at the Interface between Population and Bench-Based Science
Victoria McGovern, Burroughs Wellcome Fund, Raleigh, NC
Integrating Toxicology into an Undergraduate Curriculum
Mindy Reynolds, SOT Education Committee Undergraduate Education Subcommittee, Washington College, Chestertown, MD
Regulatory Science: Challenges and Opportunities
William Slikker Jr., SOT Vice President, U.S. FDA-NCTR, Jefferson, AR
NIH: Interesting, Exciting and Challenging Times. Trends in the Biomedical Research Workforce and Other Issues
Sally Rockey, NIH DERT, Bethesda, MD
The NIEHS Training and Career Development Programs: Spanning Undergraduate Summer Research to Faculty Development—Future Directions
Carol Shreffler, NIEHS, Research Triangle Park, NC

Presentation Abstracts

Concluding Panel Discussion: Beyond the Toxicology Education Summit: Building the Future

Breakout Group Reports

Focus Questions —Discussion topics for each breakout group
Participant List by Breakout Group

Group 1: Building for the Future of Toxicology

Group 2: Identifying Training Needs

Group 3: Strengthening Toxicology Training

Group 4: Training the “Total Toxicologist”

Group 5: Continuing and Mid-Career Education

Background

Toxicology and careers in toxicology are undergoing rapid and dramatic changes as new discoveries, technologies, and hazards advance at a blinding rate in a rapidly changing global climate. These demands must be met with new paradigms for multidisciplinary, technologically complex, and collaborative approaches that require advanced and continued education in toxicology and associated disciplines. This requires paradigm shifts in educational programs that both support development and training of the modern toxicologist and allows retraining of the midcareer professional to keep pace and sustain careers in industry, government, and academia.

To address these concerns, the SOT Education Committee, Career Resources and Development Committee, and the Professional Needs Assessment Task Force are organizing the Toxicology Educational Summit. The primary objective of this Summit is to conduct a significant discussion of toxicology educational needs with the goal of identifying strategic initiatives for supporting the educational needs of all developing and professional toxicologists. The results of the SOT Professional Needs Assessment Survey (Draft Report) informed the discussions. 56 scientists and SOT staff representing the breadth of SOT member interests and constituencies participated in this Summit.

Toxicology Education Schedule

Toxicology Summit Participants

Expected Outcomes

Outcomes will include the development of strategic plans for SOT to advance educational programming in toxicology that focuses on the critical needs identified in the summit. Recommendations will be developed for academia, industry, government agencies, and other professional groups for toxicological curricular content and modalities that will enhance the training and retraining of toxicologists and also advance the understanding and practice of toxicology by those in disciplines and professions outside of toxicology. Dissemination of recommendations will be done through a white paper, workshops, and through other means.

Education Summit Organizing Team

Aaron Barchowsky, Chair; University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Gary Carlson, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Mary Beth Genter, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
Hisham K. Hamadeh, Amgen, Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA
Stephen Safe, Texas A&M University, College Station Texas
Courtney E. W. Sulentic, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
Dori Germolec, Council contact, NIEHS, Research Triangle Park, NC

Staff Contact: Betty Eidemiller, Staff Contact, Education Committee
SOT Staff: Marcia Lawson, Professional Needs Assessment Task Force
Matthew Price, Career Resources and Development Committee