Medical Education Track

Goals, Learning Objectives, & Outcome

Goals:

This 18-month track will support residents and fellows to gain the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to: (a) become scholarly teachers and (b) prepare them for careers as medical education scholars.

Learning Objectives:

Upon completion of this track, residents will be able to:

• Describe the key principles of scholarly teaching
• Develop and implement a lesson plan
• Design a scholarly education project

Outcome:

Upon completion of the track, residents will be awarded a certificate of distinction in Medical Education from Emory University School of Medicine.

Components:

• Core Curriculum
  • Phase 1: Principles of Scholarly Teaching [Small Group Learning*]
  • Phase 2: Medical Education Scholarship [Small Group Learning*]
    • *Small Group Learning sessions [Will typically occur online monthly, on a Wednesday from 4:00-6:00PM].
• Experiential Learning
  • Peer Teaching
  • Scholarly Project development
• Capstone Project
  • IRB Proposal Submission package
  • Implement Scholarly Project
• Mentorship
  • Teaching facilitator
  • Project Coach/Mentor

Topics to Be Covered

Application Process

Participation will be restricted to residents and fellows at the PGY-2 or higher level. Applications are due in the Spring (deadline of March 15) and are open to residents or fellows who will be PGY-2 or higher level as of July 1 of the same year.

The application must include the following components:

• A personal statement describing why you would like to participate in the residency track, your interest in Medical Education, and your expected goals and outcomes. The personal statement should be limited to no more than 1 page.
• A brief letter of support from the Program Director. A letter of support from the applicant's program director must be included as part of the application process. The letter should indicate support for the resident's participation in the Medical Education track.

Each year, please submit your application through the following Application Form no later than March 15 for consideration in the cohort starting in July.

Name: Nujood Alzahrani 

Specialty: Dermatology

Medical Education Interests:

My objective in pursuing the medical education track is to harness the knowledge and experience acquired in order to achieve my aspiration of becoming a physician-educator. I believe that this track will empower me to adeptly guide and inspire students and young trainees, providing them with invaluable mentorship throughout their educational journey. Specifically, I am passionate about crafting methodologies that resonate with learners from diverse backgrounds. 

Name: JoAnn Nam 

Specialty: Pediatrics 

Medical Education Interests:

Medical Education Interest: For me, a core aspect of medical education is mentorship. Through the Medical Education Track, I am hoping to learn how to not only engage and teach medical students in the clinical setting but also foster mentorship relationships through medical education. Even more, I look forward to learning how to better tailor my teaching for each individual and, in turn, how to better educate my patients in meaningful ways.

Name: Mary Muffly 

Specialty: Pediatrics 

Medical Education Interests:

My interests in medical education currently center around the education of medical students as well as the education of my patients and their families. I am interested in developing strategies to engage medical students and to improve the learning experience for medical students during their rotation with pediatrics. In addition, I aim to refine my ability to discuss care we are providing and diagnoses with families and patients of all ages and backgrounds in a way that they understand. I also hope to develop ways to tailor my teaching to various learners and learning styles. 

Name: Chineze Nwebub 

Specialty: Neurology 

Medical Education Interests:

I am most interested in honing the art of daily bite-sized teaching as well as designing educational curriculums that incorporate innovative and engaging techniques. I aspire to teach in a way that ignites excitement and a passion for neurology among learners of all levels. What excites me the most is the opportunity to use the skills learned to create educational programming specifically tailored to individuals in underserved communities.

Name: Shayan Ghiaee 

Specialty: Emergency Medicine 

Medical Education Interests: 

I have always known that I wanted to be a teacher in some capacity, and in medical school my interest in Medical Education was sparked. Through the Medical Education Scholarly Inquiry tract at my medical school Thomas Jefferson University, I found my passion for curriculum development. I am currently working to develop curriculums to increase physician knowledge and skills with regards to the slit lamp examination. From here, I hope to continue developing resident curriculum for improved on shift teaching. I am also interested in combining my passion for curriculum design with medical simulation. The Emory University School of Medicine Medical Education GME track will allow me to continue developing skills that I can add to my medical education toolbox as I grow into a better teacher. In the future, I hope to be involved as academic faculty in the emergency department, and hopefully one day being a leader in the field of UME and/or GME. 

Name: Sean Laxamana Thompson 

Specialty: Neurology

Medical Education Interests

We're in a gifted age. Our understanding of learning and memory changes every day. I want to work on how to be engaging outside of lectures. My interests include podcasting and spaced repetition. I am here to become the best teacher I can be for my future colleagues and patients. When they think of me, going off the deep end about ganglia or MRI sequences, I want them to remember one thin

Name: Sushuma Yarlagadda 

Specialty: Neurology 

Medical Education Interests:

My interest in medical education emerged from a passion for mentorship with sharing my love of learning and empowering my patients with a deeper understanding of their health. As a future academic physician who aims to work directly with residency programs and medical schools, I foresee scholarly teaching and curriculum development playing a large role in my career. I joined the Medical Education Track to become a more effective educator by exploring new teaching methods and creating a framework for administering complex information in a manageable way for diverse learners of all stages

Name: Elizabeth Chang 

Specialty: Internal Medicine- Psychiatry

Medical Education Interests:

Since starting my combined training in internal medicine and psychiatry, I have become fascinated by interdisciplinary education, specifically between medical specialties. While I love fielding a curbside psychiatry consult from my categorical medicine coresidents, and vice versa, I believe there exists incredible potential in more structured teaching between our specialties. Through the medical education track, I hope to explore the ways that interdisciplinary teaching can grow collegiality and improve patient care.

Name:Justin Dzierzawski

Specialty: Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

Medical Education Interests: 

Interests: Throughout my path into the medical field, I have always had a passion for teaching and mentorship. I hope to continue progressing as a lecturer, helping provide a strong foundation for young medical professionals. Along my path to Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R) residency, I found how crucial access to mentorship is for career development, and I hope to create an active presence within the classroom to aid in the progression of medical education. I wish to use my personal journey into medicine to enhance the learning experience for others and help budding physicians find opportunities which pique their interests. 

Name: Jordann Dhuse 

Specialty: Pediatrics 

Medical Education Interests:

My current medical education interests include learning how to better engage medical students and improving patient and family education. I recognize that everyone learns and absorbs information differently and I hope to develop a wide breadth of teaching strategies in order to be able to reach all parties. I hope by participating in the track, I can not only better my bedside teaching and become a better educator but also help medical students and residents grow their teaching skills as well. 

Name: Lana Ghosn Aleuy 

Specialty: Internal Medicine 

Medical Education Interests:

Gratefulness and gratitude are what I feel everyday. I am blessed to have been taught and influenced by incredible individuals throughout my life including my schoolteachers, family, attendings, patients, co-residents and even strangers. I hope to become a resident and future attending who can lead my students and residents on a path to becoming better physicians. I also hope to earn skills that help me better educate my patients to help achieve greater patient outcomes. I look forward to learning from all the diverse physicians from different specialties! 

Name: Duyen Vo

Specialty: Emergency Medicine 

Medical Education Interest:

"My medical education interests involve teaching ultrasound and procedures to medical students and residents. As a former educator, I hope to adapt my pedagogy of motivating learners to think creatively and embrace the discomfort of acquiring new skills and knowledge. I am also completing the Ultrasound Scholarly Pathway through the Emergency Medicine Department and hope to integrate my goals of this pathway with that of the MedEd track to increase learners' comfort with using and interpreting ultrasound and identifying ways to apply ultrasound in their specialty of choice."

Name: Annie Farrell

Specialty: Otolaryngology

Medical Education Interests: 

My current interests in medical education revolve around understanding how to best teach surgery to different learners in the most effective way possible. Through this track, I hope to learn more regarding efficient, effective teaching techniques and also incorporate innovative practices into how I teach and give feedback. More broadly, I hope to explore ideas for improving surgical education in Otolaryngology but also across all surgical and medical subspecialties. 

Name: Dabin Ji

Specialty: Anesthesiology

Medical Education Interests: 

My current interests in medical education are centered around resident and medical student education in Anesthesiology as well as developing my capabilities as a more effective teacher and learner. I hope to become a more empathetic communicator, to help enable students to access appropriate support and mentorship, to learn various teaching methods tailored specific to each trainee’s needs, and to discover how to build more personalized professional relationships with my peers, colleagues, and trainees. Through the medical education track, I hope to garner the skills and qualities to be a better version of myself for both my future patients and trainees.

Name: Justin Williams

Specialty: Neurology

Medical Education Interests: 

My current medical education interests include increasing the yield of educational experiences for learners.  I am specifically interested in creating effective longitudinal curriculums that make use of a near-peer educational model to help individuals transition into the next phase of their training.  I think that by allowing senior medical students/residents to instruct junior medical students/residents through simulated experiences during protected time, rather than solely relying  on unprotected time, will better facilitate the transfer of knowledge to learners as well as create opportunities to further develop medical students/residents as teachers.

Name: Christopher Kinter

Specialty: Internal Medicine

Medical Education Interests: 

Teaching is an important part of my career plan because it adds another dimension to what I can accomplish as a doctor. I find great value in being an educator and want to do it well., Through the Medical Education Track, I hope to learn evidence-based strategies to optimize my delivery of medical knowledge to students, residents, colleagues, and my patients in a diverse array of settings. 

Name: Youssef Saklawi

Specialty: Internal Medicine

Medical Education Interests:

Whenever someone asks me “What would you have been if you weren’t a doctor?” I quickly answer “teacher”.  I’ve always valued education and mentorship, especially the lasting impact they can leave on mentees. During residency I hope to further   develop my “chalk-talks” along with bed-side teaching skills and to help medical students tackle the broad field that is internal medicine. I also hope to learn about curriculum development and scholarship as I hope to work with residents & students throughout my career. 

Name: Joanna Gao

Specialty: Obstetrics and Gynecology

Medical Education Interests: 

My interests in medical education include applying educational learning theories to bedside teaching, developing educational curriculums, and improving simulation training. As an ob/gyn resident, I am especially interested in enhancing the hands-on learning experience of medical students on this busy rotation and helping junior residents hone their surgical skills in the operating room. Through the Medical Education Track, I hope to learn effective strategies in becoming a better educator to different learning styles and to apply these skills in my career as a future academic obstetrician and gynecologist.

Name: Eric Galante

Specialty: Psychiatry

Medical Education Interests: 

I joined the Medical Education Track to understand how to best approach medical education with students in both the hospital as well as the classroom. I hope the track not only provides more exposure to working with students, but also helps prepare me to educate those outside of medicine on all things psychiatry and mental health. A goal of mine is to become a leader in mental health advocacy, and I believe this track is one of the important steps on my exciting journey ahead.     

Name: Brian Curry

Specialty: Pediatrics

Medical Education Interests: 

Current medical education interests include learning how to best engage medical students in the clinical setting during their pediatric rotations. I am also passionate about improving my ability to discuss complex medical information with my patients and their families from diverse backgrounds. I am looking forward to learning more about how to most effectively apply my teaching skills to learners at all levels of education.

Name: Sarah Wood 

Specialty: Internal Medicine Hematology/Oncology 

Medical Education Interests:  

My particular interest within medical education is to effectively apply tenets of hematology-oncology more broadly across disciplines--so learners of all levels feel more comfortable and confident caring for oncology patients. Additionally, I am interested in trainee wellness, particularly juggling parenthood during training. I am looking forward to honing my teaching skills to better enable me to provide education to learners at all levels and perhaps most importantly, my patients. 

Name: Earllondra Brooks 

Specialty: Neurocritical Care 

Medical Education Interests:  

My interests in medical education are anchored on being a more effective learner and teacher. As a future neurointensivist, much of my clinical time will be in the inpatient setting where time is often emphasized. My goal is to become a better teacher so that I can deliver information that is accessible, useful, and retainable in a timely manner.  As someone who wishes to pursue a career in academic medicine, I am interested in participating in the medical education residency track so that I can better understand the frameworks/core principles of our medical education system, learn more about tailoring the delivery of information for different learning styles, and further hone the skills that I hope will make me a more effective medical educator.   

Name: Jessica Beardsley 

Specialty: Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine 

Medical Education Interests:  

My current medical education interests include enriching the learning experiences of medical students and residents on their Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) rotations. I aim to eliminate healthcare disparities for children and adults with neurodevelopmental and related disabilities by improving disability education and allowing learners to feel more comfortable caring for people with disabilities. I am also interested in using virtual platforms such as social media to promote disability education and advocacy. The Medical Education Track will allow me to achieve my goals by providing valuable insight and training into adult learning theories, medical education research, and curriculum development. 

Name: Alexandra Himes

Specialty: Pediatrics

Medical Education Interests: 

As a member of the medical education track and a future pediatrician, I aim to develop teaching strategies catered toward learners of all ages and backgrounds. I look forward to designing creative approaches for lectures and feedback to apply in the academic setting. I also recognize the importance of being able to explain diagnoses and treatment plans in a way that my young patients and their families can understand.

Name: Margaret Wohlleber

Specialty: Psychiatry

Medical Education Interests:

I believe the Medical Education Track at Emory will provide the prefect forum in residency for continuing to work towards my goal of becoming a physician-educator. Given my background in the humanities, I am particularly interested in the intersection between the humanities and medicine. I believe that the humanities can offer a unique lens through which to learn medicine and can help students grow professionally. Creative outlets such as reflective writing, art, or poetry offer learners the opportunity to develop the competence needed to absorb, interpret, and respond to the stories of human beings, which lie at the center of the practice of medicine. With these benefits in mind, I hope to develop an integrated curriculum that can provide a space for students to reflect on their experiences in meaningful ways.

Name: Andrew Peter

Specialty: Pediatrics 

Medical Education Interests:

Medical Education Interests: Teaching has always been a rewarding experience for me, and in pediatrics, learners can come in all forms - from young children to other experienced medical professionals. Additionally, not all learners benefit from the same teaching style. My goal is to develop a wide array of education strategies that will help me tailor my teaching to meet the learner at their level, and to deliver it in the way they learn best.

Name: Zachary West

Specialty: Pediatrics

Medical Education Interests:

My teaching interests include enhancing the learning experience of medical students on their pediatric rotation as well as developing my own capabilities as a teacher on the wards and in the classroom. I am particularly interested in making literature more accessible to medical students and helping them progress further in their skills during their short time with us in pediatrics. I look forward to becoming more effective as a medical educator as I learn more about adult learning theories and curriculum development.

Name: Pranav Gupta

Specialty: Pediatric Endocrinology 

Medical Education Interests:

I am a pediatric endocrinology fellow and a major component of my job in the hospital and clinic setting is teaching the residents and medical students on my team. I enjoy that thoroughly and as part of this track, I aim to learn the most effective, interactive, and engaging teaching strategies. 

I also have an interest in LGBTQIA+ healthcare and since it is an area in pediatrics which is in the process of undergoing new research and understanding, I also envision myself educating my peers effectively around the same topic. To conduct that, the Medical Education track would be immensely helpful. 

Name: Marshall Howell IV

Specialty: Emergency Medicine

Medical Education Interests:

My current interests in medical education include effective on-shift teaching in the busy emergency department environment, scholarly writing, and procedural education through simulation. I am also interested in curriculum development and the application of the fundamentals of adult learning theory to enhance the residency didactic experience. My goal within the medical education track is to continue to explore different educational theories and develop practical, evidence-based teaching strategies to use with my future students and residents

Name: Sitara Koneru 

Specialty: Neurology   

Medical Education Interests:

My interest in medical education began as a student as I loved to teach and explore new teaching methods. Medicine is a continually evolving field that has an important place for lifelong learners and teachers. The COVID-19 pandemic brought a variety of changes, especially in medical education. The bulk of it switched to a virtual medium and I became very interested in diversifying my teaching style and learning to use new platforms, such as social media, to continue medical education. Through the Medical Education Track, I hope to develop skills and comfort for the many different areas of medical education and expand on area of particular interest, bedside teaching. The medical educators I have interacted with as a student and resident have been incredibly impactful in my life and I hope to fill that same role for learners in the future. 

Name: Hanna Beth Freeman 

Specialty: Internal Medicine   

Medical Education Interests:

The medicine wards present a complex, dynamic and challenging learning environment. Yet, it is one that is critical to the education and advancement of medical students and residents. As a participant in the Medical Education Track, I am interested in becoming knowledgeable and experienced in the most effective teaching methods, and in gaining a skillset that will allow me to develop and study novel methods. As a future academic hospitalist, I believe this experience will better equip me to help students and trainees meet their clinical potential and experience the many joys of this unique, rich, and challenging profession. 

Name: Dhruvil V. Brahmbhatt

Specialty: Preventive Medicine   

Medical Education Interests:

My interest in medical education is focused on medical student and residency training. By being a part of this program, I hope to sharpen my skills in being an effective educator by learning different teaching techniques and mechanisms of learning. A passion of mine is the dispersion of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) knowledge, as much of it is not known throughout the medical community. My goal is to create a curriculum that imparts foundational PM&R knowledge to varying healthcare professionals. I hope to implement these skills to reaching my career aspiration of becoming a residency program director

Name: Trisha Patel

Specialty: Peds Cardiology  

Medical Education Interests:

My current interests in medical education are to learn the skills necessary to teach to the adult learner in both the clinical and lecture setting, curriculum development, and patient education. As a pediatric cardiology fellow, I would like to be able to create resident-directed educational materials to have standardized teaching tools to go over common cardiology topics, given the complex cardiac anatomy of many pediatric patients. My hope is that by better learning how to teach to the adult learner, I will become a more effective teacher to trainees as well as the parents of my patients, and can use these skills in a future career as a clinician and medical educator.

Name: Rabia Zia

Specialty: Family Medicine 

Medical Education Interests:

My goal with the medical education track is to become the most effective and compassionate teacher. I actively want to work to make learning as a joyful, self-fulfilling and exciting experience by fostering humanism and praising resilience, free of shame.  My passion is in primary care teaching- both in outpatient and inpatient setting- bedside to bench and re-invigorating interest in family medicine as full spectrum care that makes medical students and residents, effective teachers and healers for patients of all age groups, able to especially take care of under-privileged or under-represented communities- where primary care as a basic human right, is not accessible. I especially seek to learn methods and strategies to improve my teaching technique to best adapt to my students’ unique learning styles and background with a focus on strategies for “smart learning” to improve wellness in the path of medical education. I also would like to learn the art of constructive feedback- giving and receiving, to help me become a most helpful educator.

Name: Jessica Dunn

Specialty: Emergency Medicine 

Medical Education Interests: 

I am interested in the educational development of undergraduate and graduate medical education and excited to gain experience through this track. I have a strong interest improving my own teaching skills as well as developing coaching skills for training residents in a busy emergency department. I also have an interest in exploring development of online curriculum for medical students and residents. My goal is to incorporate all that I learn in the pathway into my future career.

Name: Melad Dababneh

Specialty: Pathology

Medical Education Interests: 

My interests revolve around finding the best and most attractive ways to deliver information to students, colleagues, and the public. I aim to work in an academic institute, and this track will help me explore my potential as an educator and learn the right skills to make a true impact in medical education.

Name: Anna Beth West

Specialty: General Surgery

Medical Education Interests:

My current medical education interests are centered around the transition away from classroom-based learning that occurs during the second half of medical school and then continues in graduate medical education, particularly how teaching styles can adjust to these changes in educational settings to allow for more immersive learning and earlier autonomy. As a quality improvement fellow, I also hope to also explore how to better incorporate undergraduate and graduate medical education learners into healthcare system processes for improved educational experiences

Name: Benjamin Fiorillo

Specialty: Anesthesiology

Medical Education Interests:

As an anesthesiology resident here at Emory, I am deepening my understanding of human physiology, pharmacology, and pathology, and the relationships between these different areas. My goal is to become involved in resident and medical student education with particular focus on these areas, while sharing my experiences in life-saving measures, including ventilation and maintenance of hemodynamics. As part of the medical education track, I look forward to learning more about different educational theories including the flipped classroom approach and applying these in real life to help develop and improve curriculums to better engage learners.

Name: Fabian Rodriguez

Specialty: Rheumatology

Medical Education Interests:

My interests in medical education include acquiring new knowledge about different learning and information-delivery styles that will allow me to help medical students and residents to understand the basic principles of rheumatic diseases and apply them to patient care. I believe that teachers make an impact in peoples’ lives and can help students identify their true passions. When students get discouraged, it is the teacher’s job to show them their potential and find out what works best for their individual learning style. The medical education track at Emory will give me the knowledge and experience I desire to become an outstanding rheumatologist, but it will also allow me to explore the field of medical education and serve as a basis for a career in academic medicine.

Name: Maureen Nsofor 

Specialty: Pediatrics

Medical Education Interests:

My interest in medical education stems from my desire to become a more effective learner and teacher. Specifically, I would like to sharpen my approach to teaching, learn strategies that optimize retention, and identify best strategies for preparing for board exams. I would love to utilize social media as an avenue of knowledge sharing, to target my peers and other learners. After fellowship, I hope to continue to work with medical students, residents, and fellows. Therefore, my participation in the Medical Education Tract is essential as I advance in a career in academic medicine.

Name: Vanessa Monroig

Specialty: Pediatrics

Medical Education Interests:

I am passionate about engaging learners by delivering information that is meaningful. My goal is to diversify my teaching methods to meet the needs of the individual. I hope to learn strategies that will help medical students during their transition to clinical years and to inspire their curiosity by making learning an enjoyable experience.

Name: Melissa N. Rodriguez Rodriguez

Specialty: Pediatrics Hospital Medicine

Medical Education Interests:

My current interests in medical education are centered around resident and medical education in hospital based pediatrics. I am interested in how we teach physical examination and history taking skills as well as how we create and define illness scripts in this setting. Going forward, I would like to use this track to learn how to develop curriculum that achieves this in a standardized and simple way for all types of learners. I am also interested in the role simulation can play in bridging gaps by covering clinical cases or procedures not always seen by a learner during their time in this setting.

Name: Vidya Menon

Specialty: Pediatrics 

Medical Education Interests:

My interests in medical education include developing my teaching skills, curriculum design, and using simulation as a teaching tool to develop clinical skills. Creating med ed-focused electives for medical students and designing simulations for residents to improve clinical skills in the hospital setting are project areas in which I have a particular interest. I aspire to be involved in both medical student and resident education in the future as an academic hospitalist as well as becoming a mentor for others interested in medical education.

Name: Ashley Monsrud

Specialty: Pathology  

Name: Jenna Gorbatkin, MD, M.S.Ed. 

Specialty: Pediatrics

Medical Education Interests:

I envision teaching and medical education being a part of my everyday work and future career. I am particularly interested in education of medical students and residents on the wards as well as in the classroom in both small group and large group formats. As part of the medical education track, I look forward to learning and better understanding the most effective teaching strategies that will engage learners in these unique and varied settings, including during rounds and at the bedside. I also have a strong interest in the development of medical school curriculum and sequencing of content, and I hope as part of the track, I can learn from and partner with others who share this interest.

Name: Andrew Elson

Specialty: Neurology

Medical Education Interests:

A significant reason for my pursuit of a medical degree and desire to remain active in academic neurology is the ability to participate in a field with continuing educational opportunities and the opportunity to teach others. Medical educators have an immediate, direct impact on their students’ training and instill knowledge and habits that students will utilize throughout their careers. My hope is that the Medical Education Track will help me further develop the skills necessary to effectively teach my future students to be forward-thinking, evidence-based, clinicians. Specifically, I hope to further diversify my teaching style to better fit the needs of the learners with whom I am working as well as gain more comfort in the numerous ways of passing along knowledge, whether through formal lectures, small group sessions, or brief lessons that can be distributed while on teaching rounds.

Name: Bailey B. Hunkler

Specialty: Rheumatology

Medical Education Interests:

My interests include developing my teaching skills in different settings, learning new innovative teaching strategies and methods, and to gain knowledge on how to effectively teach based on existing evidence in the field of medical education. I would to pursue a career as a medical educator and rheumatologist. In addition to my goal of being an educator working with students and trainees, I also believe learning to be a better teacher will make me a better Rheumatologist. I would like to gain the skill set to effectively explain and educate patients about their own complex rheumatic condition.

Name: Bernadette Baker

Specialty: Family Medicine

Medical Education Interests:

Currently my interests in medical education include: expanding my understanding of adult learning theory, curriculum development and medical scholarship. In addition, I have a special interest in helping medical students better understand the principles of family medicine. I hope to develop a scholarly activity that will explore the reasons medical students have a declining interest in family medicine and develop strategies to maintain student engagement.

Name: Blake Vander Wood

Specialty: Pediatrics

Medical Education Interests:

My current medical education interests are investigating ways to support learners making the abrupt transition from preclinical years to clinical years, and from clinical years to residency. These are the times of the most rapid development for budding physicians but can range from stressful to overwhelming. I am interested in developing programs that support learners during this time while still giving them space to grow.

Name: Brooke Hyman

Specialty: Obstetrics & Gynecology

Medical Education Interests:

My teaching interests include expanding current medical student and junior resident education in the field of obstetrics and gynecology. I hope to engage in both formal and bedside didactics, as well as interdisciplinary communication regarding women’s health. My overall mission is to improve provider knowledge of ob/gyn issues, and thereby improve women’s health and health care experience.

Name: Camille Beecher

Specialty: Emergency Medicine

Medical Education Interests:

My current teaching interests include enhancing both resident and medical student education with an emphasis in simulation. Understanding learning theories and styles will assist in complementing bedside and simulation education. Through the medical education track, I hope to develop strategies to support learners in bringing concepts acquired in the classroom and simulation environments to the bedside of patient cases within the emergency department. As I plan to pursue a medical education fellowship after residency, involvement within this program will reinforce my path as an educator within Emergency Medicine.

Name: Ekta Bery

Specialty: Pediatric Neurology

Medical Education Interests:

My particular interest in medical education is fueled by my current position as a pediatric neurology resident. I am looking forward to strengthening my skills of effective teaching and communicating with adult learners. I am hoping to apply what I learn in this program to create a curriculum to teach pediatric residents and medical students about high-yield neurology topics and neurologic emergencies. I believe this will not only spread awareness of the field of pediatric neurology, but it will also help residents feel more comfortable examining and treating this patient population.

Name: Emily Pinto Taylor, MD

Specialty: Geriatric Medicine

Medical Education Interests:

Emily Pinto Taylor is an incoming fellow in Geriatric Medicine. She graduated Med-Peds residency at Yale in 2019 and stayed on to complete a chief residency in Internal Medicine. During her time at Yale, she received a Clinician Educator Distinction, as well as multiple teaching awards from residents and medical students. She plans a career in palliative care and medical education, and her current research interests include communication skill building at the end of life, prognostication, and caregiver perspectives in decision-making.

Name: Franck H. Azobou Tonleu

Specialty: Internal Medicine

Medical Education Interests:

My main interest is in undergraduate medical education. My goal is to acquire skills and learn about various teaching methods to provide excellent learning experience for medical students rotating through internal medicine. I also want to learn about the art of creating curriculum and lesson plans to set myself up for a career in undergraduate medical education.

Name: James Janopaul-Naylor

Specialty: Radiation Oncology

Medical Education Interests:

I am interested in graduate and undergraduate medical education in oncology. Specifically I hope to help improve virtual resources and simulation based learning for residents and interested medical students in radiation oncology. I want to expand access to feedback and expert opinion on cancer management, contouring, and radiation planning for all. Furthermore I plan to research the effectiveness of different education and simulation modalities.

Name: Mariem A. Sawan

Specialty: Cardiology

Medical Education Interests:

My current interests include learning adult learning theories, strategies for curriculum development, and understanding innovative educational technology. My participation in the Medical Education Track will provide me with the knowledge and skills to design high-quality educational programs for healthcare professionals in an ever-changing healthcare environment.

Name: Shan M. Elahi

Specialty: Internal Medicine / Psychiatry

Medical Education Interests:

As a resident in the combined internal medicine and psychiatry program, my teaching interests revolve around bridging education between the two fields, I hope to create an internal medicine curriculum that provides psychiatry residents a foundation for managing general primary care needs, psychiatric medication side effects, and acute medical emergencies in both the inpatient and outpatient psychiatric settings. Serving as an education liaison between both specialities as well as teaching medical facility about the interplay between the two is my ultimate career goal.

Name: Alex Dent

Specialty: Pathology

Medical Education Interests:

I'm a pathology resident interested helping medical students, laboratory technologists, and other residents better understand the principles of transfusion medicine and blood banking. My current medical education interests are effective learning within an increasingly complex and distracting environment. I am also interested in how medical professionals use social media as a platform for education.

Name: Alyson Pierick

Specialty: Pediatrics

Medical Education Interests:

My medical education interests began in medical school with a teaching track and medical education course, where I learned to importance and variety of things I could pursue in the subject. During residency I want to further pursue and optimize my ability to give short and meaningful talks like the "5-minute" talks. After residency and fellowship, I plan on pursuing a masters in medical education and working extensively with medical students and/or residents and their education.

Name: Brad Drumheller

Specialty: Pathology

Medical Education Interests:

My interests focus around teaching pathophysiology to colleagues, technologists, and future doctors. Technology has brought forth new platforms with potential to replace some of the old standard approaches. I hope to pick up new evidence based strategies to enhance organization and optimize material retention.

Name: Brendan P. Lovasik, MD

Specialty: Surgery

Medical Education Interests:

I am a resident in the Department of Surgery with a specific interest in medical education, currently on a research sabbatical in Emory's transplant immunology laboratory. My current interests include developing best-practices for integrating evidence-based clinical scenarios into resident education, improving high-fidelity simulation curriculae and their effects on resident operative autonomy, and promoting inter-departmental collaboration between the residency programs across our system. My participation in the Medical Education Track will be a foundational platform for my career as an academic surgeon with a strong focus on teaching.

Name: David Faber, MD

Specialty: General Surgery

Medical Education Interests:

As technology advances, the adjunct tools available to surgery residents and medical students have multiplied rapidly. However, the best way to learn how to operate is to do exactly that: operate. My current interests in medical education revolve around this fact - figuring out how to maximize the learning opportunities available to trainees in the OR by leveraging new and emerging technologies; focused, guided curriculum design; and progressive experience and deliberate practice. Through the medical education research track, I hope to learn how to build the most effective versions of these tools and critically analyze their impact.

Name: Farah Kudrath

Specialty: Preventive Medicine

Medical Education Interests: 

My interests in medical education include expanding the use of media (podcasts, short films depicting patient cases, and infographics) to teach basic science and clinical concepts to medical students. I also would like to develop wellness curriculum that does more than force students to take another online module. My overall career goal is to promote healthcare workforce diversity by working in undergraduate medical education administration to increase the matriculation of underrepresented minority students into US medical schools while also participating in curriculum development and teaching basic science coursework to medical students. 

Name: Hillary O'Boyle

Specialty: Pediatrics

Medical Education Interests:

I can't imagine my future career without teaching involved, and I foresee myself teaching both medical students and residents in the years to come. Through the medical education track at Emory, I am looking forward to learning about adult learning styles and the principles in developing a medical school curriculum. I am also interested in how humanism and patient-centered education can be incorporated into medical education. I also believe that peer teaching is a huge aspect of medical education, and I hope to learn strategies of empowering my future students to motivate and teach one another.

Name: Mina Ghobrial

Specialty: Emergency Medicine

Medical Education Interests:

My current interests in medical education involve the utilization of simulation, research, and development of resources. I hope to contribute to developing a simulation curriculum that involves the identification and resuscitation of patients in emergent scenarios and practicing diagnostic, therapeutic, and critical procedures. Additionally, I would like to further research an optimal system of bedside teaching, particularly useful in the busy ED. Lastly, I plan to develop educational resources for medical students and incoming interns that outlines an approach to patients one may have in emergent clinical situations.”

Name: Neil Kapil

Specialty: Internal Medicine

Medical Education Interests:

My interests in medical education are centered around utilizing research-based teaching strategies to improve learning in both medical students, as well as residents. I hope to expand my educational research interests to develop methods specific to clinical reasoning. I believe that through developing effective clinical educational strategies, students can be better equipped to transition into their future roles as residents.

Name: Rima Sestokas Rindler, MD PGY5

Specialty: Neurological Surgery

Medical Education Interests:

I am interested in learning how to optimize surgical resident education. It is challenging to provide consistent, comprehensive training for each resident, many of whom are spread across many clinical sites, immersed in heavy clinical duties. Surgical programs have the additional requirement of imparting both factual knowledge and manual operative skills to its residents, and there is often a tension between making time for didactic learning, and preserving the sacred learning space of the operating theatre. I aim to learn how adults learn best, to identify the most appropriate formats to disseminate specific types of information, and to apply techniques to make education efficient and effective within the unique world of surgical residency. My goal is to contribute to the ongoing efforts to improve resident education in general, and within my program in particular.

Name: Susan May Wiltrakis, MD

Specialty: Pediatrics Emergency Medicine

Medical Education Interests:

As a Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellow, my medical education interests have been focused on at-the-bedside teaching and simulation education. Looking forward, I’m excited to enhance my interest in simulation education, developing research projects to use simulation as a way to augment education and improve patient outcomes. Additionally, I’m very interested in learning more about curriculum development and adult learning theory, applying this to improve the education of our learners in the Pediatric Emergency Department.

Name: Teshi Kaushik

Specialty: Anesthesiology

Medical Education Interests:

I believe medical education is a very powerful tool to improve patient care. This requires mutual exchange of knowledge and skills between different specialties of medicine and surgery as well as between the medics, paramedics and the supporting staff. Whether someone is a surgeon, anesthetist, Internist, intensivist, respiratory technician, pharmacist or a nurse he/she has some life saving skills or knowledge that should be taught to the others so that several lives can be saved and medical errors can be minimized. My goal is to learn to develop student compliant methods of teaching so that medical knowledge can be shared intra and interdepartmentally. As a budding anesthesiologist I would like to teach the life saving skill of bag mask ventilation and maintaining airway patency to everyone.

Name: Timothy Cartwright Jr

Specialty: Emergency Medicine

Medical Education Interests:

Medicine is a career of lifelong learning, but how we best learn differs as we progress through this amazing journey. My interest in medical education is in recognizing these differences and applying evidence-based strategies to maximize efficiency of learning across this spectrum. I have a particular interest in the education of the pre-clinical and clinical medical students, specifically within in the fast-paced environment of the emergency department. My ultimate goal is to develop and apply practical, efficient, evidence-based teaching strategies for learners within a busy emergency center.

Name: Amrita Karambelkar

Specialty: Internal Medicine

Medical Education Interests:

Currently my interests are in improving resident and medical student education, especially in Internal Medicine. Improving educational quality in the ambulatory setting as well as in inpatient critical care settings are of particular interest to me. I would like to explore the possibility of simulation in improving clinical skills in critical care scenarios. I also wish to develop educational curricula for peer-teaching in clinic settings.

Name: Jack (Will) Shteamer

Specialty: Anesthesiology

Medical Education Interests:

My teaching interests involve instructing medical students (and in the future, residents), as well as public education. My educational research interests include the use of simulation as a part of training in Anesthesiology residency, strategies for teaching advanced airway management, and future directions of resident education in Anesthesiology.

Name: Katie Waters

Specialty: Pediatrics

Medical Education Interests:

My interests currently include improving my own teaching skills as well as potentially developing a set of guidelines/tips to help other residents in my position hone their teaching styles. I am interested in being involved in the clinical education of both medical students and residents. I hope to be able to incorporate these features into my future career post-residency in addition to my clinical duties. I am excited to learn more about and gain experience in the field of medical education through this track.

Name: Mallory Raymond MD

Specialty: Otolaryngology

Medical Education Interests:

My current interests in medical education revolve around understanding how surgical residents are learning and should be learning surgical skills, particularly in the subspecialty of otolaryngology. Simulation activities have had quite a buzz, but in advanced surgical settings, such as neck dissections, simulation is underdeveloped, and success with it is quite difficult to measure. Through this track I hope explore ideas for improving the education of otolaryngology surgery residents and ways to apply these ideas more broadly across the medical education community.

Name: Melanie Wooten, MD

Specialty: Pathology

Medical Education Interests:

As I am pursuing fellowships in Hematopathology and Transfusion Medicine, my current interests in medical education include teaching medical technologists and medical students important concepts in transfusion medicine/blood banking, coagulation, and hematopathology. I also have a particular interest in improving the "wellness" of our medical trainees, at all levels, and currently serve as a co-chair of the Pathology Residency Program Wellness Committee. I personally feel that technology has a great role to play in the future of medical education and hope to explore, and potentially develop, applications that will be useful for training.

Name: Raheel Jajja, MD

Specialty: Surgery

Medical Education Interests:

I am a third-year general surgery resident at Emory currently on a research sabbatical. I have an immense interest in studying the use of simulation techniques to improve operating room performance of trainees. Additionally, I am studying the impact of directed incentives on in-training examination performance. 

Name: Raymundo A. Quintana

Specialty: Cardiology

Medical Education Interests:

My primary interest within medical education is to gain an understanding of diverse adult learning theories and learning assessment strategies. By employing these concepts and strategies consistently throughout my career, I hope to increase my effectiveness in delivering education to medical students and trainees.

Name: Richard Ramonell, MD

Specialty: Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

Medical Education Interests:

In the past, my interest in medical education centered around bedside teaching and developing skills for giving short didactic presentations but this has expanded as I’ve gained more clinical experience. Since starting my fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, I’ve become interested in education theory and methods through which medical education research is conducted. By being a part of the Emory Medical Education Residency Track, I hope to develop my skills in ways that put me closer to my ultimate goal of being a master clinical educator who is able to conduct rigorous, pragmatic medical education research.