Mentor of the Year and Runners-Up Announced (Congratulations!)

We at AuthorAID are delighted to announce our Mentor of the Year and runners-up.

Our Mentor of the Year is Farooq Rathore, of Pakistan. One mentee nominating him wrote:

Farooq Rathore is very sincere and highly dedicated in his role as mentor. He guided me from the first step as in how to read a research paper till planning your own research paper and establishing the questionnaire. He also guided me in how to do the statistical analysis and literature review.

Another wrote:

Asst. Professor Farooq Rathore, despite his clinical responsibilities, has supervised me on two research projects. Even after completion of those projects, he continued to support me and question any query I had on research process. Two papers of mine are under consideration in PloS One which couldn’t have materialized without his mentoring.

One runner-up is Jennifer Swan, of the United States. A mentee wrote:

Jennifer is patient, polite, kind, supportive, optimistic and she stayed positive the whole time; she explained things in different ways until I understood and kept encouraging me. She felt proud of what I have accomplished and continued to challenge me beyond what I could handle. She identified my strongest points, nicely laid out some areas that I needed to work on and gave me feedback.

The other runner-up is Murali Ramachandran, of India.  In the words of a mentee:

Dr. Murali. R is my pioneer in my profession. . . .  He showed me a path of success and how to handle both success and failure.

We congratulate these three outstanding mentors, and we thank all the AuthorAID mentors for their valuable contributions.