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Ryan Wheeler

Series | Instructor-facilitated Career Exploration

During his years as a Fellow of the pd|hub Collection, Foundations of Career Exploration, Mr. Wheeler served as Senior Director for Professional Development and Academic Services at Scripps Research, overseeing training initiatives, international student and scholar services, library services, and career advising for hundreds of postdoctoral researchers and graduate students at Scripps. He had spent his 20-year career building, presenting, and sustaining a broad array of training programs to support the career and professional development of biomedical research trainees. He had been active at the national level, serving as a grant reviewer for the National Science Foundation Division of Graduate Education, serving as a workshop instructor and career coach at various scientific society meetings, and as a member of the Graduate Career Consortium. Wheeler directed, co-taught, and published on the Career Planning Course for STEM PhDs, an instructor-facilitated career exploration series that was competitively selected to be part of the pd|hub Collection: Foundations of Career Exploration for PhD Scientists. This model built on a predecessor series Wheeler co-developed in 2006 and co-taught 25 times before its evolution into the course submitted to the pd|hub Collection. Wheeler brought prior experience as a train-the-trainer facilitator for the NIH Office of Intramural Training and Education workshop on career advising, and had mentored multiple scientists transitioning into the career development field. Wheeler had previous roles in the Office of Admissions at the University of Washington and in the Career Services Center at the University of California San Diego. Wheeler holds a bachelor’s degree in Communications from University of Washington and a master’s degree in Postsecondary Education Administration from San Diego State University.