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Letter from Program Leader

This letter is required in the promotion packet only for the following career tracks:

  1. Team Scientists in the research domain
    Team Scientists should obtain a letter from a program leader at Northwestern who can attest to the essential contributions the Team Scientist makes as a key collaborator. For example, the program leader may be another faculty member who is principal investigator for a grant on which the Team Scientist contributes.
      
  2. Faculty on the Research Track
    Research Faculty should obtain a letter from a program leader (i.e., principal investigator or director of core facility) to document the unique collaborative contribution of the faculty member to programmatic research and/or describe how the candidate’s activities contribute to research excellence at the Feinberg School of Medicine or contribute to the excellence and impact of a research support facility.

  3. Health System Clinicians with education as their area of concentration
    Health System Clinicians should obtain a letter from an educational program leader at Northwestern who can attest to the contributions the HSC makes to the educational mission of the academic medical center. 

Save your file using this file naming convention: LastName Letter from ProgramLeaderLastName (e.g., Simpson Letter from Burns)