Panel 3: Mentorship and Sponsorship
Holly Fernandez Lynch, JD, MBE
John Russell Dickson, MD Presidential Assistant Professor, Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine
Assistant Faculty Director of Online Education Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine
SUMR Mentor and SUMR 2002
Holly Fernandez Lynch is the John Russell Dickson, MD Presidential Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics in the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine. She also is the Assistant Faculty Director of Online Education, and was a SUMR Scholar in 2002, when she was a Junior at UPenn.
Her scholarly work primarily focuses on human subjects research ethics and regulation. Professor Fernandez Lynch is the author of Conflicts of Conscience in Health Care: An Institutional Compromise in 2008 (MIT Press), and has also co-edited several volumes on various topics. She has been involved with sponsored research projects addressing the health of professional football players, recruitment of participants to clinical trials, and oversight of patient-centered outcomes research.
Professor Fernandez Lynch was appointed to the Secretary's Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections (SACHRP), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, in 2014; she is also an active member of the SACHRP Subcommittee on Harmonization.
Meghan Lane-Fall, MD, MSHP
Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine
SUMR Mentor
Meghan Lane-Fall, MD, MSHP is a physician with a deep and abiding commitment to providing safe, effective patient care. Her research agenda is focused on the scientific study of strategies to support the safe and high-quality care of hospitalized patients.
Dr. Lane-Fall is the founding Co-director of the Center for Perioperative Outcomes Research and Transformation and assistant professor of anesthesiology and critical care at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a board-certified anesthesiologist and surgical intensivist whose main research interest is improving healthcare provider communication at times of transition or handoff across sites of care. She employs qualitative and mixed methods to develop effective communication strategies that incorporate human factors principles while complementing clinician workflow. Her work is best characterized as healthcare delivery science, falling at the intersection of improvement science and implementation science. Dr. Lane-Fall is also interested in building research capacity in health services research; she mentors research fellows and clinical trainees and is the co-course director of Penn’s graduate level Implementation Science course.
Dr. Lane-Fall received her AB degree with High Distinction from the University of California at Berkeley. She received her MD degree from Yale University, where she was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha honor society. She completed anesthesia residency, critical care fellowship and research fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, during which time she completed a Masters of Science in Health Policy Research. She was elected to the Association of University Anesthesiologists in 2015 and to the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation Board of Directors in 2017.
Dr. Lane-Fall lives in the Philadelphia suburbs with her husband and two daughters. She loves technology, science fiction, podcasts, and logic puzzles, and dabbles in graphic design.
Terry Richmond, PhD, CRNP, FAAN
Andrea B. Laporte Endowed Professor, School of Nursing;
Associate Dean, Research & Innovation, School of Nursing;
Professor of Nursing in Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine
SUMR Mentor
Therese S. Richmond, PhD, FAAN, CRNP is the Andrea B. Laporte Professor of Nursing and the Associate Dean for Research & Innovation at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Nursing. She is Professor of Nursing in Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Medicine, and is affiliated with the Center for Public Health Interest at the University of Pennsylvania, and is on the Executive Committee of the the University of Pennsylvania Injury Science Center. She co-founded the Firearm and Injury Center at the University of Pennsylvania, which evolved into the the University of Pennsylvania Injury Science Center.
Dr. Richmond's research interests focus on injury and violence. She has an extensive body of research aimed to improve outcomes after injury and she addresses the interaction between physical injury and the post-injury psychological consequences. This work has helped identify groups of injured patients most likely to experience suboptimal outcomes and points to screening and interventions to improve those outcomes. Dr. Richmond recently completed a 5-year NINR funded study examining “The psychological effects of serious injury in urban black men: A disparate health issue.” In a previous NIMH funded study, because of the importance of trargeting limited resources to people who are in most need of assistance, she developed a predictive screener to identify those patients at highest risk for the future emergence of post-injury depression and PTSD.
As one of 13 experts on DHHS' Advisory Committee on National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives for 2030, she is helping to define Healthy People 2030 objectives for the nation.
In her role as Associate Dean for Research and Innovation, Dr. Richmond helps shape the University of Pennsylvania Nursing's research-focused environment, facilitating systems to help faculty increase their scholarship and productivity. Along with geographers, criminologists, attorneys, nurses, psychologists and other experts, Dr. Richmond's research involves all levels of students, including undergraduate research assistants who work with her research staff and doctoral and post-doctoral members of her research teams. She has received many awards for teaching and mentoring at the University of Pennsylvania, including the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching.
Among her many awards, she has received the GE Healthcare Pioneering Spirit Award for her work in firearm injuries and violence from the American Association of Critical Care Nursing; the Presidential Citation from the Society of Critical Care Medicine; the Eastern Nursing Research Society Distinguished Contributions to Nursing Research Award; and she has been inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame. In 2017, she was named a member of the National Academy of Medicine.
Dr. Richmond received her BSN from the University of Delaware, her MSN from Catholic University of America, and her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania.