Winners of the 2015 Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award, Eliseo Pérez-Stable (left), MD, and Zena Werb (right), PhD, pose with Mitchell Feldman, MD, MPhil, director of the Faculty Mentoring Program, at a reception in the UCSF Library. Photo by Susan Merrell
A good mentor can influence a faculty member’s career development and research in life-changing ways. To recognize the contributions mentors make, the Campus Council on Faculty Life presents an annual award to senior UCSF faculty member who best embody the principles of mentorship. This year, two faculty members were honored with the Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award: Eliseo Pérez-Stable, MD, professor of medicine and chief of the internal medicine division, and Zena Werb, PhD, professor and vice-chair of the Department of Anatomy.
They share some aspects of what the idea of mentorship has meant to them throughout their careers.
Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable came to UCSF as a resident in internal medicine in 1978. In addition to his internal medicine practice, he researches health and health care disparities in tobacco use and cessation, cancer prevention and aging.
Zena Werb arrived at UCSF as an assistant professor in 1976. She runs a research lab that studies how cells communicate and interact with one another, and what role those processes play in normal and diseased cells.