INFO

The Faculty of Health Sciences and FHS Graduate Caucus is hosting its second FHS Graduate Student Speed Mentoring event on Thursday, Sept 24, 2026, from 9:30am-12:30pm. Join us to speak with 4 FHS faculty members speed mentoring Q&A sessions with general discussions on soft skills, career trajectories, and research expertise, and more.

Students will be in multiple small groups to speak to faculty mentors, rotating to other faculty over the course of the event.
Questions, prompts and topics will be provided to both students and faculty to initiate conversations.

Mentoring session will be ~35 minutes long, with a 5 minute rotation transition period. Pastries and coffee provided during rotation transition period.

There will also be a 35 minute lunch & open networking portion after the last session.

FACULTY MENTORS:

1. Will Hsiao (Associate Professor, MSHRBC Scholar)
   Areas of interest: Bioinformatics, health informatics and public health infectious disease genomics.
   
   Read Dr. Hsiao's full bio and research interests here: https://www.sfu.ca/fhs/about/people/profiles/william-hsiao.html
   
   
2. TJ Salway (Associate Professor)
   Areas of interest: Social epidemiology, sexual and gender minority (2SLGBTQ) populations, sexual health, mental health, suicide
   
   Read Dr. Salway's full bio and research interests here: https://www.sfu.ca/fhs/about/people/profiles/travis-salway.html
   
   
3. Kiffer Card (Assistant Professor, Blanche and Charlie Beckerman Scholar for Public Health Innovation, Health Research BC Scholar)
   Areas of interest: Social Ecology of Health; Public Health Innovation; Health Systems; Knowledge Mobilization; Health Equity; Social Wellbeing and Mental Health; Syndemics and Public Health Crises
   
   Read Dr. Card's full bio and research interests here: https://www.sfu.ca/fhs/about/people/profiles/kiffer-card.html
   
   
4. Kyle Burrows (Assistant Professor, Canada Research Chair Tier II in Barrier Tissue Immunity and Chronic Inflammatory Disease)
   Areas of interest: Mucosal Immunology, Innate lymphoid cells, T cells, Macrophages, Eosinophils, Microbiome, Parasite Immunology, Allergy and Inflammatory disease
   
   Read Dr. Burrow's full bio and research interests here: https://www.sfu.ca/fhs/about/people/profiles/kyle-burrows.html

WHEN & WHERE: 

Thursday, Sept 24
9:30am-12:30pm

FHS Student Commons 
Access into the Student Commons is available to FHS students by code

RSVP: https://www.surveymonkey.ca/r/ZXZVH66

ITINERARY:

9:30 AM: Event Start

9:30 AM to 9:35 AM: Introduction & Event Instructions

9:35 AM to 10:10 AM: Speed Mentoring Session 1

10:10 AM to 10:45 AM: Speed Mentoring Session 2

10:45 AM to 11:20 AM: Speed Mentoring Session 3

11:20 AM to 11:55 AM: Speed Mentoring Session 4

11:55 AM to 12:30 PM: Networking/Mingling Event with all Students and Mentors (lunch provided)

12:30 PM: Event End

ANY QUESTIONS?

Please feel free to email Melissa Tamer (melissa_tamer@sfu.ca)