{"id":24747,"date":"2025-02-27T16:06:43","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T21:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/?p=24747"},"modified":"2025-03-11T17:20:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T21:20:13","slug":"congratulations-to-dr-jonathan-schisler-who-has-been-appointed-as-the-new-faculty-director-of-prism-postbaccalaureate-research-initiative-in-science-and-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/congratulations-to-dr-jonathan-schisler-who-has-been-appointed-as-the-new-faculty-director-of-prism-postbaccalaureate-research-initiative-in-science-and-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations\u00a0to Dr. Jonathan Schisler, who has been appointed as the new faculty director of PRISM (Postbaccalaureate Research Initiative in Science and Medicine)!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\"><p class=\"lead\">The Research Pillar of the current School of Medicine Strategic Plan, Accelerate Forward Together, includes several initiatives that are being led by the Vice Dean for Research.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2020\/05\/jonathan-schisler-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2020\/05\/jonathan-schisler-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2020\/05\/jonathan-schisler-600x400.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2020\/05\/jonathan-schisler.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">These initiatives will be implemented for the next 5 years of the strategic plan. One initiative is focused on launching a new postbaccalaureate research program to provide recent graduates with the opportunity to build their research skills by taking part in a 1-to-2-year lab-funded or clinical-funded research opportunity. The goal will be to prepare them for future careers in the biomedical sciences (e.g., pursuit of medical, doctoral, or other advanced degrees). <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">As the Faculty Director of UNC PRISM, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/directory\/jonathan-c-schisler-phd\/\">Dr. Schisler<\/a> <\/strong>will serve on the SOM Office of Graduate Education (OGE) team and provide support to PRISM students and their faculty mentors. As such, they will work closely with Dr. Brian Strahl (Associate Dean for Basic Research), Kaitlin Blakemore (PRISM Program Coordinator), and Dr. Donita Robinson (Associate Dean for Graduate Education), as well as colleagues in participating units across the SOM.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Our congratulations to Dr. Schisler!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRISM is one of several initiatives that will be implemented for the next 5 years of the School of Medicine&#8217;s strategic plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22429,"featured_media":24822,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-news","category-news","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2025\/02\/Jonathan-Schisler-250.jpg","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2025\/02\/Jonathan-Schisler-250.jpg","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2025\/02\/Jonathan-Schisler-250.jpg","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2025\/02\/Jonathan-Schisler-250.jpg","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/930\/2025\/02\/Jonathan-Schisler-250-150x150.jpg","featured_image_alt":"Jonathan Schisler, PhD","category_details":[{"name":"Faculty News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/category\/news\/faculty-news\/"},{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/category\/news\/"}],"tag_details":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}