Portrait of Kimberly Skarupski, PhD, MPH
Email: kskarupski@utmb.edu
Physical Address:
301 8th Street, Suite 5.113
Galveston, TX 77555
Mailing Address:
301 University Boulevard
Galveston, TX 77555-0129

Kimberly Skarupski, PhD, MPH

  • Associate Vice Provost for Leadership
  • Development, Office of Faculty Affairs

About Me

Dr. Skarupski is the Associate Vice Provost for Leadership Development in the Office of Faculty Affairs and Professor of Medicine (Internal Medicine – Geriatrics) in the John Sealy School of Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology in the School of Public and Population Health at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), in Galveston, TX.

Dr. Skarupski is an internationally-recognized leader in faculty development and faculty affairs. She has built, facilitated, and evaluated numerous professional and career development programs for faculty in academic health systems, nationally and internationally. Dr. Skarupski has published numerous peer-reviewed articles, chapters, and books in the faculty affairs and faculty development space. Her recent book (with co-author Ms. Heather Brod), The Insider’s Guide to Navigating a Career in Academic Medicine, was published in September, 2024 by Springer. Dr. Skarupski also created (2018) and hosts the weekly Faculty Factory podcast – an international forum for academic affairs and faculty development conversations and a repository of faculty development snippets (Youtube Channel) for faculty in academic health systems. As of October 1, 2025, the Faculty Factory podcast and YouTube channel have had >137,000 total downloads from listeners in 101 countries, and the Faculty Factory website has drawn >67,000 web visits from users in 122 countries. The three, free Faculty Factory e-books (The Academic Medicine Starter Kit; Habits and Hacks from Hopkins (H3); and Snippets for Success: An eBook Brought to You by the Faculty Factory Community) have been downloaded more than 3,000 times.

The goal throughout Dr. Skarupski’s 18+ year faculty development career has been to “build community” and she has done this through her: WAGs [Writing Accountability Groups]; Grant Review Investigator Groups; Specific Aims Speed Sessions; Advanced-Career and “Next Chapter” Faculty Transitions; group coaching; and myriad faculty development and leadership programs. Kim is also a certified professional coach through the College of Executive Coaching and has developed group coaching and career development coaching camps. She is a trained mediator and certified to facilitate the Myers-Briggs Type Inventory and the EQi2.0 and EQ360 assessments.

Dr. Skarupski is also a gerontologist, epidemiologist, and program evaluator and the major theme running throughout her 25+ year research career (publications available via full CV) has been the quality of life in older adults, using data from large-scale epidemiologic studies to examine disparities in quality of life in this population, as well as the contribution of various social and psychological determinants of quality of life in older age. Most recently, she has merged her gerontologic and faculty development interests exploring latecareer faculty members’: career needs; retirement expectations and experiences; and caregiving roles. 

 

Kimberly Skarupski: Speaking & Content Expertise

Leadership

  • Leadership Competencies and Leadership Presence
  • Master Your Mentoring 2 | Page
  • The Art of Graceful Self Promotion
  • Bumps on the Road in Academia
  • Establishing Your Leadership Presence
  • Finding and Cultivating Joy at Work
  • Leading Up using Emotional Intelligence
  • Managing and Mediating Conflict
  • Navigating Difficult Conversations
  • Nurturing Resilience and Work-Life Integration
  • Using and Understanding Your Myers Briggs Personality Type (MBTI) to be more Influential
  • Leveraging your Emotional Intelligence (EQi2.0) for Success
  • Values-based Leadership
  • Where’s your Habit-at?
  • Get That Paper out the Door

Program Building

  • Building and evaluating faculty career development and leadership programs (early-career, mid-career, late-career; women; under-represented in medicine; basic scientists and clinicians)
  • Building Research Resource Infrastructure (Grant Review Investigator Groups; Specific Aims Speed Review sessions; Mock Study Sections; Grant Writing tools and resources)
  • Caregiving: Faculty Members Caring for Family Members with a Chronic Illness or Disability
  • Creating a podcast and community (FacultyFactory.org)
  • Late Career and Senior Faculty Transitions (“The Next Chapter”)
  • Program Evaluation
  • Strategic Planning, Community-building retreats

Career Development

  • Mentorship, Sponsorship, and Coaching
  • Coaching Fundamentals (1:1 and Group Coaching)
  • Leadership courses for women physicians, early-career, mid-career, and executive-level physicians, physician investigators, and basic scientists
  • Career Development Coaching Camp
  • Writing Accountability Groups (WAGs) 

Research

Peer-Reviewed Publications in the Fields of Faculty Affairs/Faculty Development

  1. Skarupski KA, Keshavarzian A. Investing in Academic Medicine Research Mentoring – Low Cost but High Return. Gastroenterology. 2013;144(4):e21-22. PMID: 23462123.
  2. Stiles D, Skarupski KA. (2014). Improving Public Speaking with PowerPoint Karaoke. TD. 2014; 7(2).
  3. Levine RB, González-Fernández M, Bodurtha J, Skarupski KA, Fivush B. Implementation and Evaluation of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Leadership Program for Women Faculty. J Women’s Health. 2015;24(5):360-366.
  4. Stoykov ME, Skarupski KA, Foucher K, Chubinskaya S. Junior Investigators Thinking about Quitting Research: A Survey. Am J Occup Ther. 2016;71(2).
  5. Gilotra NA, Shpigel A, Okwuosa IS, Tamrat R, Flowers D, Skarupski K, Yousem DM, Russell SD. Description of heart failure patients’ Myers-Briggs Type Indicator profiles. Health Behav Policy Rev. 2017;4(2):189-98.
  6. Skarupski KA, Levine RB, Yang WR, Gonzalez-Fernandez M, Bodurtha J, Barone MA, Fivush B. Leadership competencies: Do they differ for women and under-represented minority faculty members? JFD. 2017;31(1):49-56. 
  7. Yousem DM, Yousem KP, Skarupski KA. Bring back the joy in neuroradiology {editorial}. AJNR. 2017;38(12): 2220- 2221.
  8. Ayyala M, Skarupski KA, Bodurtha J, Gonzalez-Fernandez M, Ishii L, Fivush B, Levine RB. Mentorship is not enough: Exploring sponsorship and its role in career advancement in academic medicine. Acad Med. 2019; 94(1):94- 100.
  9. Shahriari M, Yousem DM, Liu L, Skarupski KA. Impact of an Economics of Clinical Operations Course on Faculty Satisfaction. Int J Acad Res Dev. 2018;3(2):336-340.
  10. Skarupski KA, Foucher K. Writing Accountability Groups (WAGs): A tool to help junior faculty members build sustainable writing habits. JFD. 2018;32(3):47-54.
  11. Skarupski KA, Levine RB, Rand C, Gonzalez-Fernandez M, Clements JE, Fivush B. Impact of a leadership program for senior women faculty: A retrospective survey of eight years of cohort participants. JFD. 2019;33 (1): 7-14.
  12. Skarupski KA, Welch C, Dandar V, Mylona E, Chatterjee A, Singh M. Late-Career Expectations: A survey of full-time faculty members who are 55 or older at 14 U.S. medical schools. Acad Med. 2020;95(2):226-233.
  13. Skarupski KA, Dandar V, Mylona E, Chatterjee A, Welch C, Singh M. Late career faculty: A survey of faculty affairs and faculty development leaders of U.S. medical schools. Acad Med. 2020;95(2):234-240.
  14. Levine RB, Ayyala MS, Skarupski KA, Bodurtha JN, Gonzalez-Fernandez M, Ishii LE, Fivush B. It’s a Little Different for Men - Sponsorship and Gender in Academic Medicine: a Qualitative Study. JGIM. 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-020-05956-2.
  15. Rushton CH, Swoboda SM, Reller N, Skarupski KA, Prizzi M, Young P, Hanson GC. Mindful Ethical Practice and Resilience Academy (MEPRA): Building Capacity of Frontline Nurses to Address Ethical Challenges. AJCC. 2020. In press.
  16. Skarupski KA, Roth DL, Durso SC. Prevalence of caregiving and high caregiving strain among late-career medical school faculty members: Workforce, policy, and faculty development implications. Human Resources for Health. 2021. In press. DOI:10.1186/s12960-021-00582-3.
  17. Levine RB, Walling A, Chatterjee A, Skarupski KA. Factors influencing retirement decisions of senior faculty at US medical schools: Are there gender-based differences? Journal of Women’s Health. 2022;31(7):974-982.
  18. Rayaz H, Yedavalli V, Sair H, Sharma G, Rowan N, Tackett S, Infosino A, Nabipour S, Kothari P, Levine R, Ishii M, Yousem D, Agrawal Y, Skarupski K, Faraday N, Lee J, Brady MB. Staying Virtual: A survey study of the virtual lecture experience in academic medicine. In press. January, 2023. Anesthesia & Analgesia.
  19. Skarupski KA, Roth DL, Durso SC. Family caregiving experiences of medical school faculty: High prevalence, high strain, and low resource utilization. In press. Human Resources for Health.
  20. Lee JK, Levine RB, Yousem DM, Faraday N, Skarupski KA, Ishii M, Daugherty Biddison EL, Oliva-Hemker M. Commitment to inclusion: The importance of collaboration in gender equity work. Women’s Health. 2024. 2024(16):287-302.
  21. Clair CA, Skarupski KA, Durso SC, Roth DL. A qualitative analysis of the impact of family caregiving on medical school faculty: Suggestions for greater institutional support. Under review. Medical Education.

Books

  1. Skarupski KA. WAG Your Work. Writing Accountability Groups: Bootcamp for Increasing Scholarly Productivity. New York. Amazon Press, Inc., 2018. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1979668485/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1525019520&sr=1-1
  2. Skarupski KA. Invited Chapter. AAMC GFA Guidebook. “Managing Career Transitions and Succession.” Sept., 2020. Co-editors: Jane Gibson, PhD; Emily Freeman, MHSA; Betsy Ripley, MD, MS, RAC; Jacqueline Hill, PhD, MPH, CHES; Chantal Brazeau, MD; Michael Rowland, PhD; Bob Best, PhD; Jeffrey Love, MD, MHPE; Christina Runge, PhD. https://www.aamc.org/professional-development/affinity-groups/gfa/leadership-guide-faculty-affairs-professionals
  3. Skarupski KA. Invited Chapter. Reichel’s Care of the Elderly, 8th Edition. (Editors: Jan Busby-Whitehead, Samuel Durso, Christine Arenson, Mary Palmer, Rebecca Elon and William Reichel). “Retirement: A Contemporary Perspective.” Cambridge University Press, 2021.
  4. Skarupski KA and Haythornthwaite J. Invited Chapter. International Association of Medical Educators (IAMSE) Mentoring in Health Professions Education: Evidence-Informed Strategies Across the Continuum. Chapter: “Faculty Longitudinal Career Mentoring” Publication, 2021. Mentoring In Health Professions Education | SpringerLink; http://Amazon.com: mentoring in the health profession
  5. Callanan CJ, Bruder M, Skarupski KA. Faculty Factory: Snippets for Success. June, 2021. https://facultyfactory.org/ebook#snippet
  6. Callahan CJ, Skarupski KA. Faculty Factory: Habits and Hacks from Hopkins (H3). June, 2022. https://facultyfactory.org/ebook#habits
  7. Callanan CJ, Skarupski KA. The Academic Medicine Starter Kit: Timeless tips & guidance for early-career faculty members. The Faculty Factory. 2024. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CZV85KBW; https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CZFDVG7R
  8. Brod, H, Skarupski KA. The Insider’s Guide to Navigating a Career in Academic Medicine. Springer. Publication date in September, 2024. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-66096-2

International

Skarupski KA. “Mentoring for Academic Success: Skills for Being the Best Mentee/Mentor You Can Be!” New Faculty Orientation/Mentoring Seminar for New and Established Faculty. University of Saskatchewan, College of Medicine, September 26, 2012. Saskatchewan, Canada.

Johns Hopkins International. Hopkins-Nanjing Center (Jiangsu, Nanjing, Gulou). Faculty Development expert for visiting guests (2013-2020).

Levine R, Skarupski KA. “Women Physicians Leadership Course, Part I.” (N~60). Dr. Adolfo Llinas, Chief Medical Officer, Fundacion Santa Fe de Bogota, August 1-2, 209. Bogota, Columbia.

August, 2020Covid-cancelled: Levine R, Skarupski KA. “Women Physicians Leadership Course, Part II.” Dr. Adolfo Llinas, Chief Medical Officer, Fundacion Santa Fe de Bogota, Bogota, Columbia.

Other Media

  1. WAGs: MyLearning course: http://lms14.learnshare.com/l.aspx?CID=89&A=2&T=730731
  2. WAGs website: https://www.wagyourwork.com/ (10/2020: >7,500 visits from 77 countries)
  3. WAG Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt8GpXXHWIk&feature=youtu.be
  4. Skarupski, KA. Interview by Scott Wagers on the BioSci Consulting podcast. “Faculty Development: Building leaders in the medical field.” https://www.biosciconsulting.com/interviews/faculty-development-building-leaders-in-themedical-field-with-dr-kimberly-skarupski. 1/31/23
  5. Faculty Factory (weekly) podcast and website (2018-present): https://facultyfactory.org. As of As of August 1, 2025, the Faculty Factory podcast and YouTube channel have had >136,000 total downloads from listeners in 101 countries, and the Faculty Factory website has drawn >66,000 web visits from users in 122 countries. Download and share the links to the three, free Faculty Factory e-books with your colleagues, new and early-career faculty, and medical students: The Academic Medicine Starter Kit; Habits and Hacks from Hopkins (H3); and Snippets for Success: An eBook Brought to You by the Faculty Factory Community.
Email: kskarupski@utmb.edu
Physical Address:
301 8th Street, Suite 5.113
Galveston, TX 77555
Mailing Address:
301 University Boulevard
Galveston, TX 77555-0129
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