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field-name-field-pg-slider-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="bg-slider-image" style="background-image:url('https://career.ucsf.edu/sites/g/files/tkssra2771/f/styles/slider_secondary/public/Boat_leading_0.jpg?itok=GK1PLX77')"></div></div></div></div><div class="group-slider-content field-group-div"><div class="group-slider-inside field-group-div"><div class="field field-name-field-pg-slider-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">The UCSF Office of Career and Professional Development (OCPD)聽is an interdisciplinary team of professionals committed to the career and professional development of UCSF graduate and health professional students and postdoctoral scholars.聽<br /> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div> </div></div></div></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="main-wrapper"> <div id="main" class="clearfix"> <div id="content" class="column"> <div class="inside"> <a id="main-content"></a> <div class="tabs"></div> <div class="region region-content"> <div id="block-system-main" class="block block-system"> <div class="content"> <div id="node-3381" class="node node-page slider-secondary clearfix" about="/about/meet-our-team" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document"> <span property="dc:title" content="Meet Our Team " class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span><span property="sioc:num_replies" content="0" datatype="xsd:integer" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-name-field-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="wysiwyg_twocols layout--60-40"> <div class="wysiwyg_twocols--first bg--transparent"> <p><strong>The Office of Career and Professional Development Team:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong><a href="#David">David Blancha, PhD</a></strong>, Assistant Director, PhD Team</li> <li><strong><a href="#Ray">Ray Care, PhD</a></strong>, Program聽Director, PhD Team</li> <li><a href="#sarah"><b>Sarah Tanase</b></a>, MA<strong>, </strong>Program Director, Health Team</li> <li><strong><a href="#trish">Trish McGrath, BA</a></strong>, Event Planner</li> <li><strong><a href="#anna">Anna Reeves, MS</a></strong>, Assistant Director,聽Health Team</li> <li><strong><a href="#naledi">Naledi Saul, MPM</a></strong>, Director, Office of Career and Professional Development</li> </ul> </div> <div class="wysiwyg_twocols--second bg--transparent"> <p style="text-align:center"><img alt="OCPD org chart" height="300" src="/sites/g/files/tkssra2771/f/wysiwyg/OCPDOrgChartNov2023.jpg" width="400" /></p> <p style="text-align:center"><a href="/sites/g/files/tkssra2771/f/wysiwyg/OCPDOrgChartNov2023.pdf">View our organizational chart</a><br /> <a href="/org-chart-text-version">Access a text based version of our organizational structure</a></p> </div> </div> <p>聽</p> <p>聽</p> <p><a id="David" name="David"></a></p> <hr /> <p><strong><img alt="Portrait of David Blancha" height="300" src="/sites/g/files/tkssra2771/f/wysiwyg/D_Blancha-8291_web.jpg" style="float:left" width="200" />David Blancha, PhD (he/him)</strong><br /> Assistant Director, Researcher Team<br /> <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#d4b0b5a2bdb0fab6b8b5bab7bcb594a1b7a7b2fab1b0a1eba7a1b6beb1b7a0e9a3b1b6a7bda0b1f1e6e4b1b9b5bdb8"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="d99db8afb0bdf79bb5b8b7bab1b899acbaaabff7bcbdac">[email protected]</span></a></p> <p>聽</p> <p>David Blancha is Assistant Director聽for the Researcher Team at UCSF's聽Office of Career and Professional Development.聽</p> <p>He comes most recently from UC Davis, where he developed and launched a system of micro-credentials for graduate student and postdoc professional development. Prior to that, David served as the Assistant Director for Graduate Career Services at the UCLA Career Center, where he worked with Master's and PhD students on all aspects of professional development, developed graduate-level career programming, and managed advanced degree industry relations. Prior to his work at UCLA, David coordinated a Teagle Foundation grant for the Teaching Center at Columbia University, where he finished a PhD in Philosophy. David is a devoted design-focused educator with a particular interest in leveraging technology and gamification to improve access to and enhance the quality of educational opportunities.</p> <p>聽</p> <p><a id="Ray" name="Ray"></a></p> <hr /> <p><strong><img alt="Portrait of Ray Care" height="300" src="/sites/g/files/tkssra2771/f/wysiwyg/RCareWeb.jpg" style="float:left" width="200" />Ray Care, PhD (she/they)</strong><br /> Program Director, Researcher Team<br /> <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#295b484a414c45074a485b4c695c4a5a4f074c4d5c165a5c4b434c4a5d145e4c4b5a405d4c0c1b194c44484045"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="085a6971264b697a6d487d6b7b6e266d6c7d">[email protected]</span></a> (415) 502-0239</p> <p>聽</p> <p>Ray Care currently serves聽as Program Director for PhD Career and Professional Development. Her passions are supporting early-stage students to find the training environment that is right for them and broadening awareness of the skillsets involved in scientific training, including evidence-based teaching and inclusive research mentoring.聽She also leads PhD students and postdocs through preparation, application, interview, and negotiation for faculty jobs. In all of these areas she engages with trainees through one-on-one counseling, live and asynchronous programming, online resources, and tailored outreach.</p> <p>Ray found her drive to do this work as a graduate student at UCSF. After switching thesis labs and learning about the challenges facing her peers, Ray worked with the graduate student government and Graduate Division leadership to develop and disseminate the results of a Mentorship Climate Survey. She served as a liaison between student, administrator, and faculty groups to use this data to effect campus-wide changes in the student experience. She has also worked聽as the Intern for Academic Career Development, Program Manager, and Interim Assistant Director聽in the OCPD.</p> <p>Ray earned her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from UCSF and holds a Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience from UCLA.</p> <p>聽</p> <p><a id="sarah" name="sarah"></a></p> <hr /> <p><strong><img alt="Sarah Tanese" height="221" src="/sites/g/files/tkssra2771/f/Sarah%20Tanese%20photo.JPEG" style="float:left" width="200" />Sarah Tanase, MA, </strong>(she/her)<br /> Program Director, Health Team<br /> <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#4033213221286e34212e25332500352333266e252435"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="ecbf8d9e8d84c2b88d828d9f89ac998f9f8ac2898899">[email protected]</span></a></p> <p>聽</p> <p><meta charset="UTF-8" />Sarah is committed to fostering student learning and empowerment, cultivating communities, and advancing educational equity. As the Program Director聽for the Health Careers Team, Sarah designs and facilitates career and professional development programs, counsels students, and supervises a staff member. She also co-supervises the OCPD's Career Outreach Peers as a part of the Career Peer Leadership Professional Development Program.聽</p> <p>Sarah previously worked for Stanford Career Education, similarly developing a career development program curriculum and providing individual counseling to students and alumni. She also served on the Learning Outcomes committee in hopes of increasing the intentionality, accessibility, and effectiveness of learning opportunities provided by her department. In her roles at UCLA Residential Life, Sarah oversaw the residential building housing the Global Health, Pilipinx, and American Indian and Pacific Islander Living Learning Communities. This included supervising a student staff team, serving on an on-call emergency response rotation, advising programming efforts, and adjudicating conduct with an emphasis on restorative justice. She also played a pivotal role in developing her department鈥檚 training curriculum for both professional staff and student staff.</p> <div> <p><a id="trish" name="trish"></a></p> <p>聽</p> <hr /> <p><strong><img alt="Portrait of Trish McGrath" height="300" src="/sites/g/files/tkssra2771/f/wysiwyg/TMcGrathWeb.jpg" style="float:left" width="200" />Trish McGrath, BA</strong><br /> Event Planner<br /> <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#0171607573686268602f6c62667360756941746272672f646574"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="4111203533282228206f0c22063320352901342232276f242534">[email protected]</span></a>聽 (415) 514-4863</p> <div>聽</div> <p><br /> Trish McGrath has over 9 years experience in planning and executing events in corporate, not for profit and university settings. She has managed a wide range of events, including professional workshops and seminars, career fairs, vendor fairs, stakeholder meetings, staff orientations, receptions and company-wide holiday gatherings. She partners with senior leadership to envision, implement and closeout events, including establishing and managing timelines.</p> <p>Prior to working at UCSF, Trish spent six years at the California Academy of Sciences where she planned and executed both small and keystone events, both professional and social. She earned her Bachelors Degree in English from the University of San Francisco.</p> <p>聽</p> <p><a id="anna" name="anna"></a></p> <hr /> <p><strong><img alt="Anna Correa" height="300" src="/sites/g/files/tkssra2771/f/wysiwyg/A-Reeves-8404_web.jpg" style="float:left" width="200" />Anna Reeves, MS</strong><br /> Assistant Director, Health Team<br /> <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#0a4b64646b24586f6f7c6f794a7f69796c246f6e7f">A</a><a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#6d0c03030c431f08081b081e2d180e1e0b43080918521e180f07080e195008000c0401485f5d0b1f0200485f5d1a080f1e041908"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="e18f8f80cfb38484978492a194829287cf848594">[email protected]</span></a> (415) 476-5772</p> <p>聽</p> <p>Anna Reeves has a deep-seated commitment to the holistic development of health professional students with whom she's worked with for聽over a decade. As the captain at the helm of the Health Careers team, Anna creates multi-year strategies tailored to the unique needs of students, faculty, and school leadership teams. She designs career and professional development curriculum, counsels students, and trains and oversees staff. Additionally, she trains and supervises a graduate Career Counseling Intern, devises marketing and community outreach efforts, and enjoys a hands-on approach to community-building strategies. Her expertise ranges from teaching counseling skills, the inception and facilitation of career development programs to instructional design, including spearheading OCPD's聽adoption of various e-learning tools. Her goal being to ensure inclusive, engaging, and timely access to resources for health professional students training throughout California.</p> <p>Under her leadership, the Career Peer Leadership Professional Development Program was born, aimed at identifying and nurturing students with innate leadership potential. This program goes beyond academic excellence, focusing on the dual benefits of professional development for these students and the mentorship they offer to their interprofessional peers. 聽Recognizing the importance of building community and collaboration, Anna continually finds ways to聽partner with school leadership, diverse student groups, and colleagues from various departments, all in pursuit of a common goal: the continuous support and enhancement of health professional students' career trajectories and personal development pathways.聽</p> <p>Before joining UCSF, Anna spent five years聽as a Pre-Health Career Counselor at UC Berkeley's Career Center. There, she co-led a campus-wide pre-health advising council, edited the Pre-Med Guide, co-designed and taught聽a multicultural career development course, and devised innovative聽strategies for timely programming addressing student needs and campus concerns. She also was a founding聽member of the Career Center Diversity team, aiding first-generation college students in bridging the gap between the classroom and the job market for diverse careers. As a first-generation, non-traditional student, Anna deeply empathizes and understands the distinct needs of this group.</p> <p>Anna is passionate about empowering first-generation students, guiding them in how to discern unspoken rules and by providing opportunities for students to practice and refine their negotiation and interprofessional communication skills so that they can confidently navigate and thrive in highly nuanced professional environments. She also has a keen interest in instructional design and e-learning technologies.</p> <p>Anna holds a Bachelor of Science聽in Organizational Behavior from the University of San Francisco聽and earned a Master of Science聽in Counseling, specializing in career and college, from San Francisco State University.</p> <div> <p>聽</p> <p><a id="naledi" name="naledi"></a></p> <hr /> <p><strong><img alt="Portrait of Naledi Saul" height="300" src="/sites/g/files/tkssra2771/f/wysiwyg/NSaulWeb.jpg" style="float:left" width="200" />Naledi Saul, MPM</strong><br /> Director, Office of Career and Professional Development<br /> <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#ea848b868f8e83c4998b9f86aa9f89998cc48f8e9f"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="4709262b22232e691426322b073224342169222332">[email protected]</span></a> (415) 514-3306</p> <p>聽</p> <p>Naledi Saul is the Director of the UCSF Office of Career and Professional Development. She leads the university's efforts to teach clinicians- and scientists-in-training the information, skills and confidence required to navigate their careers successfully.<br /> <br /> Her area of expertise involves teaching trainees how to skillfully assess and successfully negotiate educational and professional spaces and situations in the clinic, the lab, and the larger world. 聽From helping trainees聽position and present themselves professionally, manage power differentials in professional relationships, and develop聽their ability to inclusively mentor, teach and supervise as new managers and faculty, to communication competencies such as presentation skills and negotiation.聽The essential thread throughout her work is the focus on strengthening clinicians' and scientists' ability to make decisions and develop strategies informed by their own definitions of professional integrity and personal identity.</p> <p>Naledi is also deeply interested in supporting institutions in establishing, building and integrating high-functioning career services at the graduate/post-graduate level, as well as teaching the professional development skills required to engender high functioning and healthy teams.</p> <p>In recognition of her work, she was selected for the UCSF Chancellor's Award for University for Exceptional University Management and the Chancellor's Award for Diversity, Advancement of Women Leaders. 聽She has聽served as an advisor to the Career Forum at <em>Science</em> magazine鈥檚 online resource, <a href="https://www.science.org/careers">Sciencecareers.org</a>, and frequently presents career-related workshops at ABRCMS and FASEB.聽Naledi聽also is a Co-PI on NSF grant focused on teaching future faculty how to inclusively supervise and mentor.聽聽</p> <p>Prior to UCSF, Naledi was an Assistant Dean of Students and Assistant Director of the Career Center at Amherst College, and an Assistant Director of the Career Development Center at Mount Holyoke College. 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