This keynote session is part of the VHS Faculty Mentoring Link Program launch event for the 2026 cohort.
Title: Building Mentoring Networks through Peer Mentoring and Communities of Practice
Presenter: Erin Malloy, MD, DLFAPA, Professor and Vice Chair for Faculty Development in Psychiatry, Associate Director for Faculty Affairs & Advancement, University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Location: Medical Campus - Waitzer Hall 131*
Date: December 3, 2025
Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm
After attending this session participants will be able to:
- Evaluate approaches to peer mentoring in building mentoring networks for faculty at all career stages
- Apply peer mentoring approaches to professional development needs for faculty in academic medicine careers
Competencies:
- Practice-based Learning and Improvement
- Professionalism
*In-person is preferable. A Zoom link is provided for those off campus:
Erin Malloy, MD, is a Professor and Vice Chair for Faculty Development in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. Dr. Malloy’s faculty career has been at UNC, serving many clinical, teaching, and leadership roles in her primary department, in her Research Professor appointment in the Department of Social Medicine, in the SOM, and at the University. In her Vice Chair role she has revitalized her department’s faculty mentoring program by building communities of practice and expanding onboarding models for developing mentoring networks. Dr. Malloy also serves as Associate Director for Faculty Affairs and Advancement in the School of Medicine Faculty Affairs and Leadership Development office. Her work is informed by faculty development roles across the University of North Carolina, where she served as Associate Provost for Faculty Development and Success from 2022-2025 and the Director of UNC’s Center for Faculty Excellence from 2016-October 2025. She served as lead PI for the campus Targeting Equity in Access to Mentoring (TEAM) ADVANCE NSF grant project, taking a very unique approach in building facilitated peer mentoring circles and mentoring trainings offered to all faculty at the University, increasing capacity for faculty mentor training to create a foundation for faculty mentoring and mentor training at UNC. Dr. Malloy’s background is in medicine and psychiatry, having earned a B.A. in English at the University of Florida and M.D. with Honors for Special Achievement at the University of Florida College of Medicine. Dr. Malloy completed both residency training in psychiatry and in child and adolescent psychiatry at the Medical University of South Carolina. Dr. Malloy has been honored by several teaching awards locally and nationally. She has held national leadership roles in the Association of Directors of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry, serving as President in 2022-23. A Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, Dr. Malloy’s clinical expertise is in child and adolescent psychiatry, addiction medicine, and maternal and family mental health.