Robert Tillman

In his role as associate director of faculty and academic development, Robert Tillman supports the professional development and health and wellness of faculty, fellows and other academic populations at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. He led development of the Provost’s Faculty Mentoring Program and has been engaged in leadership programs that have trained more than 750 MD Anderson faculty over the past 12 years.

As director of faculty professional development at Columbia University Medical Center in New York, Tillman co‐developed a women’s leadership and management institute.

His interest in mentoring led him to serve as a site facilitator for a University of Wisconsin-Madison study examining outcomes of structured mentor training in 2011. He has continued to provide mentor training at MD Anderson and to the larger Texas Medical Center community through the Gulf Coast Consortium for Quantitative Bioscience.

Prior to his position at Columbia University Tillman was director of the Science Alliance at the New York Academy of Sciences, a partnership of over 25 universities, teaching hospitals and independent research facilities in the New York City metro area, providing professional development and mentoring opportunities to more than 6,000 postdoctoral fellows and graduate students.

He served on the Association of American Medical Colleges GREAT Group (Graduate Research, Education, and Training) Postdoctorate Leaders Section Steering Committee from 2007 to 2009, concurrent with his role directing the postdoctoral training office at New York University School of Medicine. He continues to be active in the Association of American Medical Colleges Group on Faculty Affairs and in the National Postdoctoral Association.

Tillman received his Ph.D. in immunology from Washington University in St. Louis, Mo.