DME Directory

Photo of Suah Cho MA, M.Ed
Assistant Director Education and International Programs
Work Phone: 312-996-4666
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Administration & Staff, Health Humanities, Master of Health Professions Education
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Photo of Margaret M. De La Cruz
Assistant to the Head
Work Phone: 312-996-5899
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Administration & Staff
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Director of IT Operations University of Illinois at Chicago – College of MedicineDepartment of Medical Education
Work Phone: 312-355-2949
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Administration & Staff
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Director of Administrative Operations University of Illinois at Chicago – College of MedicineDepartment of Medical Education
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Administration & Staff
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Photo of Yoon Soo Park PhD
The Ilene B. Harris Endowed Professor and Department Head Department of Medical Education
Work Phone: 312-355-5406
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Administration & Staff, DME Faculty, Master of Health Professions Education
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Research Information Specialist Medical Education
Work Phone: 312-996-5406
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Administration & Staff, Master of Health Professions Education
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Photo of Yolonda Silas
Associate Director of HR Medical Education
808 South Wood Street 9th Floor M/C 591 Chicago IL 60612 Work Phone: 312-996-2696 Work Fax: 312-413-2048
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Administration & Staff, Neurology & Rehabilitation, Neurology & Rehabilitation Staff
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Photo of David Ansari MSc, PhD
Assistant Professor Medical Education
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty
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Associate Professor Department of Medical Education
Work Phone: 312-996-7954

Custom Metadata Fields

  • Research and Teaching Interests: Dr. Blackie’s scholarly and teaching interests include health humanities, narrative medicine, death studies, and medical education. He is associate editor of The Journal of Medical Humanities, book review editor for Literature and Medicine, and editor of the Literature and Medicine book series published by Kent State University Press.
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty, Health Humanities, Master of Health Professions Education
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Photo of Jeffrey J.H. Cheung PhD
Assistant Professor Medical Education

Custom Metadata Fields

  • ORCID: 0000-0002-6037-5811
  • Research and Teaching Interests: Cognitive psychology, integration, transfer of learning, instructional design, expertise development, conceptual knowledge, procedural skills, guided-discovery learning, prior knowledge, clinical reasoning, simulation, technology-enhanced learning, fidelity, realism, authenticity, theory in health professions education research, experimental methods, consilience
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty, Master of Health Professions Education
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Photo of Raymond H Curry MD, FACP
Professor of Medicine and Medical Education Senior Associate Dean for Educational AffairsUniversity of Illinois College of Medicine
Website: Curriculum Vitae

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  • ORCID: 0000-0003-3381-0125
  • Research and Teaching Interests: Dr. Curry’s academic interests include the study and teaching of doctor-patient communication and the role of learner-centered educational methods in promoting patient-centered care. He also focuses on the enhancement of access to medical education for those under-represented in the profession, including students with disabilities, and has extensive experience in curriculum development and in medical school accreditation.
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty
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Photo of Laura E. Hirshfield PhD
Associate Professor in DME, Co-director of the PhD program in Curriculum Studies/HPE and the Associate Director of Graduate Studies for DME Department of Medical Education
Website: Laura’s Personal Website

Custom Metadata Fields

  • ORCID: 0000-0003-0894-2994
  • Research and Teaching Interests: Socialization, qualitative methods, professional identity, inequality, leadership, and sociology
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty, Health Humanities, Master of Health Professions Education
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Photo of Kristi L Kirschner MD
Clinical Professor Department of Medical Education
Home Phone: 312-355-5418

Custom Metadata Fields

  • ORCID: 0000-0003-0651-3678
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty, Health Humanities, Master of Health Professions Education
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Professor of Philosophy in the Biomedical Sciences Department of Medical Education
Work Phone: 312-996-3595

Custom Metadata Fields

  • Research and Teaching Interests: Dr. Murphy teaches and conducts research in the areas of professional ethics, assisted reproductive technologies, medicine and sexuality, and ethical aspects of genetic research. He is the author or editor of nine books, such as Justice and the Human Genome Project (University of California Press), Gay Science: The Ethics of Sexual Orientation Research (Columbia University Press), and Case Studies in Biomedical Research Ethics (The MIT Press). His most recent book is Ethics, Sexual Orientation, and Choices about Children (The MIT Press). He has published widely in professional journals such as the Journal of Medical Ethics, American Journal of Bioethics, Bioethics, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, and Reproductive Biomedicine Online, among others. His work has been supported by grants from the U.S. Department of Defense and the National Institutes of Health.
  • ORCID: 0000-0001-8003-550X
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty, Health Humanities, Master of Health Professions Education
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Photo of Amanda Osta MD
Associate Dean for Medical Education (oversees both Curricular Affairs & Student Affairs)
University of Illinois at Chicago 1853 W. Polk Street (MC 784) Suite 115 CMWT Chicago, Illinois 60612 Work Phone: 312-413-3739
Categories: DME Faculty, DOM – AIM – Faculty
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Photo of Yoon Soo Park PhD
The Ilene B. Harris Endowed Professor and Department Head Department of Medical Education
Work Phone: 312-355-5406
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Administration & Staff, DME Faculty, Master of Health Professions Education
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Assistant Professor Medical Education

Custom Metadata Fields

  • ORCID: 0000-0002-4773-201X
  • Research and Teaching Interests: Nicole’s research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of education, race and ethnicity, immigration, and social inequality. As a trained sociologist, she looks forward to applying frameworks and theories rooted in sociology of race and ethnicity to medical education. Currently, she is working on a project that focuses on the identities of Latinx leaders that are involved with STEM pipeline programs to increase access and persistence among Latinx students. She has also contributed to numerous projects that center the role of family throughout student’s postsecondary experiences. In future research she will focus on undocumented Latinx young adults pursuing health professions to further understand how they navigate intersectional identities throughout their personal and professional lives.
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty
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Photo of Maura Polansky PA-C, MHPE, PhD
Visiting Clinical Professor Medical Education

Custom Metadata Fields

  • Research and Teaching Interests: Her teaching interests include curriculum development and program evaluation, clinical education, and interprofession and interdisciplinary teaching, learning and clinical practice. Her research focuses on interprofessional education and practice.
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty, Master of Health Professions Education
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The Michael Reese Endowed Professor of Medical Education The Michael Reese Endowed Professor, Research ProfessorMedical Education, Department of Pediatrics
Work Phone: 312-996-2070 Website: Alan’s personal home page Website: Curriculum Vitae

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  • ORCID: 0000-0003-3809-6637
  • Research and Teaching Interests: Medical decision making, contextual error in health care, competency-based assessment (especially in Pediatrics GME), research methods in medical education, medical education research networks, quantitative data analysis.
Categories: Department of Medical Education, Department of Pediatrics, DME Faculty, Education Faculty, Master of Health Professions Education
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Photo of Sandra Sufian PhD, MPH
Professor of Health Humanities and History – College of Medicine, Professor of Disability Studies – College of Applied Health Sciences Medical Education
Work Phone: 312-413-0113

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  • Research and Teaching Interests: Dr. Sufian specializes in the history of medicine and disability. She has published two books: Healing the Land and the Nation: Malaria and the Zionist project in Mandatory Palestine, 1920-1947 (U Chicago Press, 2007) and Reapproaching the Border: New Perspectives on the Study of Israel/Palestine (Rowman Littlefield, 2007). Sufian is currently working on a book project about the history of disability and adoption in America in the twentieth century. She teaches courses on the history of disability and the modern history of medicine and public health to medical students, PhD students and undergraduate students. She co-organizes the Health and Society working group of the Institute for the Humanities and is the founder of the Global Network of Researchers on HIV/AIDS in the Middle East and North Africa. Sufian is chair of the Disability History Association and serves on the editorial boards of Disability Studies Quarterly and the International Journal of Middle East Studies.
  • ORCID: 0000-0001-5545-5801
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty, Health Humanities, Master of Health Professions Education
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Photo of Ara Tekian PhD, MHPE
Professor and Director of International Programs Associate Dean for the Office of International EducationDepartment of Medical Education
Work Phone: 312-996-8438 Website: Curriculum Vitae

Custom Metadata Fields

  • ORCID: 0000-0002-9252-1588
  • Research and Teaching Interests: Dr. Tekian’s teaching interests include assessment in health professions education (HPE), curriculum development, and medical simulation. He is involved in teaching both core and elective courses in HPE. Ara Tekian is a leading scholar in professions education with significant and sustained research contributions that have made groundbreaking and longstanding impact on educational practices of health professionals, both within the United States and around the world. His work has advanced educational research and influenced practice in four programmatic research areas: (1) underrepresented minorities in medicine, (2) international faculty development, (3) simulation in medical education, and (4) assessment of competence in medicine. His research has vastly improved standards for educational practice and training of health professionals and transformed international guidelines that have direct consequences on the quality of patient safety and public good. Overall, Ara has published over 150 peer-reviewed journal articles and presented over 140 peer- reviewed presentations. He teaches widely, conducting over 295 invited workshops and courses, and 235 invited presentations, in 45 countries. During the past decade, he has secured over 5 million dollars of external grant and contract funds to conduct educational research and to train leaders and scholars in health professions education. In July 2012, the Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASME) conferred its ASME Gold Medal to Ara, in recognition of his scholarship and leadership in international contexts. In 2017, Ara received the prestigious AERA Division I Distinguished Career Award. He was also the 2017 recipient of the highly acclaimed Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty, Master of Health Professions Education
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Photo of Rachel Yudkowsky MD, MHPE
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies Department of Medical Education
Work Phone: 312-996-3598 Website: Curriculum Vitae

Custom Metadata Fields

  • ORCID: 0000-0002-2145-7582, 0000-0002-2145-7582
  • Research and Teaching Interests: Dr. Yudkowsky’s teaching interests are in the scholarship of Health Professions Education and professional development programs for faculty and staff who develop and implement standardized patient (SP)-based educational programs (SP educator certificate program, and others). Research interests focus on simulation-based assessments: (1) promoting and assessing clinical reasoning through SP encounters (exploring methods to assess clinical reasoning through post-encounter notes and promoting clinical reasoning while teaching and assessing physical exam skills via a hypothesis-driven physical exam); (2) setting pass/fail cut scores for simulation-based assessments, especially in mastery-learning environments (How does benchmark performance information provided to judges need to be modified for a repeated-testing mastery environment? What is the impact on standard setting judgments of different benchmark information, or other evidence-based information?); and (3) improving SP checklist and rating scale design by focusing on high-salience items for a given purpose (for example clinically discriminating items or high salience communication items).
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty, Master of Health Professions Education
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Associate Professor Department of Medical Education
Work Phone: 312-996-7954

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  • Research and Teaching Interests: Dr. Blackie’s scholarly and teaching interests include health humanities, narrative medicine, death studies, and medical education. He is associate editor of The Journal of Medical Humanities, book review editor for Literature and Medicine, and editor of the Literature and Medicine book series published by Kent State University Press.
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty, Health Humanities, Master of Health Professions Education
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Photo of Jeffrey J.H. Cheung PhD
Assistant Professor Medical Education

Custom Metadata Fields

  • ORCID: 0000-0002-6037-5811
  • Research and Teaching Interests: Cognitive psychology, integration, transfer of learning, instructional design, expertise development, conceptual knowledge, procedural skills, guided-discovery learning, prior knowledge, clinical reasoning, simulation, technology-enhanced learning, fidelity, realism, authenticity, theory in health professions education research, experimental methods, consilience
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty, Master of Health Professions Education
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Photo of Suah Cho MA, M.Ed
Assistant Director Education and International Programs
Work Phone: 312-996-4666
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Administration & Staff, Health Humanities, Master of Health Professions Education
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Photo of Memoona Hasnain MD, MHPE, PhD
Professor of Family and Community Medicine Associate Head for Faculty Development & ResearchAssociate Dean for Faculty Development
Categories: Department of Family Medicine - Faculty, Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty - Adjunct and Affiliate, Master of Health Professions Education
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Photo of Laura E. Hirshfield PhD
Associate Professor in DME, Co-director of the PhD program in Curriculum Studies/HPE and the Associate Director of Graduate Studies for DME Department of Medical Education
Website: Laura’s Personal Website

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  • ORCID: 0000-0003-0894-2994
  • Research and Teaching Interests: Socialization, qualitative methods, professional identity, inequality, leadership, and sociology
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty, Health Humanities, Master of Health Professions Education
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Photo of Kristi L Kirschner MD
Clinical Professor Department of Medical Education
Home Phone: 312-355-5418

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  • ORCID: 0000-0003-0651-3678
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty, Health Humanities, Master of Health Professions Education
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Professor of Philosophy in the Biomedical Sciences Department of Medical Education
Work Phone: 312-996-3595

Custom Metadata Fields

  • Research and Teaching Interests: Dr. Murphy teaches and conducts research in the areas of professional ethics, assisted reproductive technologies, medicine and sexuality, and ethical aspects of genetic research. He is the author or editor of nine books, such as Justice and the Human Genome Project (University of California Press), Gay Science: The Ethics of Sexual Orientation Research (Columbia University Press), and Case Studies in Biomedical Research Ethics (The MIT Press). His most recent book is Ethics, Sexual Orientation, and Choices about Children (The MIT Press). He has published widely in professional journals such as the Journal of Medical Ethics, American Journal of Bioethics, Bioethics, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, and Reproductive Biomedicine Online, among others. His work has been supported by grants from the U.S. Department of Defense and the National Institutes of Health.
  • ORCID: 0000-0001-8003-550X
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty, Health Humanities, Master of Health Professions Education
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Photo of Christine Park MD
Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology, Dept of Anesthesiology; Professor of Clinical Medicine, Dept of Medical Education Associate Department Head of Anesthesiology for Innovation and LearningDirector, Simulation and Integrative Learning Institute
Work Phone: 312-996-4020 Work Phone: 312-413-1245
Categories: Anesthesiology, Attending Faculty, Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty, Master of Health Professions Education, Simulation and Integrative Learning Institute
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Photo of Yoon Soo Park PhD
The Ilene B. Harris Endowed Professor and Department Head Department of Medical Education
Work Phone: 312-355-5406
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Administration & Staff, DME Faculty, Master of Health Professions Education
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Photo of Maura Polansky PA-C, MHPE, PhD
Visiting Clinical Professor Medical Education

Custom Metadata Fields

  • Research and Teaching Interests: Her teaching interests include curriculum development and program evaluation, clinical education, and interprofession and interdisciplinary teaching, learning and clinical practice. Her research focuses on interprofessional education and practice.
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty, Master of Health Professions Education
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Photo of Laura Paige Schaaf
Research Information Specialist Medical Education
Work Phone: 312-996-5406
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Administration & Staff, Master of Health Professions Education
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Photo of Alan Schwartz PhD
The Michael Reese Endowed Professor of Medical Education The Michael Reese Endowed Professor, Research ProfessorMedical Education, Department of Pediatrics
Work Phone: 312-996-2070 Website: Alan’s personal home page Website: Curriculum Vitae

Custom Metadata Fields

  • ORCID: 0000-0003-3809-6637
  • Research and Teaching Interests: Medical decision making, contextual error in health care, competency-based assessment (especially in Pediatrics GME), research methods in medical education, medical education research networks, quantitative data analysis.
Categories: Department of Medical Education, Department of Pediatrics, DME Faculty, Education Faculty, Master of Health Professions Education
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Photo of Sandra Sufian PhD, MPH
Professor of Health Humanities and History – College of Medicine, Professor of Disability Studies – College of Applied Health Sciences Medical Education
Work Phone: 312-413-0113

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  • Research and Teaching Interests: Dr. Sufian specializes in the history of medicine and disability. She has published two books: Healing the Land and the Nation: Malaria and the Zionist project in Mandatory Palestine, 1920-1947 (U Chicago Press, 2007) and Reapproaching the Border: New Perspectives on the Study of Israel/Palestine (Rowman Littlefield, 2007). Sufian is currently working on a book project about the history of disability and adoption in America in the twentieth century. She teaches courses on the history of disability and the modern history of medicine and public health to medical students, PhD students and undergraduate students. She co-organizes the Health and Society working group of the Institute for the Humanities and is the founder of the Global Network of Researchers on HIV/AIDS in the Middle East and North Africa. Sufian is chair of the Disability History Association and serves on the editorial boards of Disability Studies Quarterly and the International Journal of Middle East Studies.
  • ORCID: 0000-0001-5545-5801
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty, Health Humanities, Master of Health Professions Education
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Photo of Ara Tekian PhD, MHPE
Professor and Director of International Programs Associate Dean for the Office of International EducationDepartment of Medical Education
Work Phone: 312-996-8438 Website: Curriculum Vitae

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  • ORCID: 0000-0002-9252-1588
  • Research and Teaching Interests: Dr. Tekian’s teaching interests include assessment in health professions education (HPE), curriculum development, and medical simulation. He is involved in teaching both core and elective courses in HPE. Ara Tekian is a leading scholar in professions education with significant and sustained research contributions that have made groundbreaking and longstanding impact on educational practices of health professionals, both within the United States and around the world. His work has advanced educational research and influenced practice in four programmatic research areas: (1) underrepresented minorities in medicine, (2) international faculty development, (3) simulation in medical education, and (4) assessment of competence in medicine. His research has vastly improved standards for educational practice and training of health professionals and transformed international guidelines that have direct consequences on the quality of patient safety and public good. Overall, Ara has published over 150 peer-reviewed journal articles and presented over 140 peer- reviewed presentations. He teaches widely, conducting over 295 invited workshops and courses, and 235 invited presentations, in 45 countries. During the past decade, he has secured over 5 million dollars of external grant and contract funds to conduct educational research and to train leaders and scholars in health professions education. In July 2012, the Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASME) conferred its ASME Gold Medal to Ara, in recognition of his scholarship and leadership in international contexts. In 2017, Ara received the prestigious AERA Division I Distinguished Career Award. He was also the 2017 recipient of the highly acclaimed Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty, Master of Health Professions Education
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Photo of Rachel Yudkowsky MD, MHPE
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies Department of Medical Education
Work Phone: 312-996-3598 Website: Curriculum Vitae

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  • ORCID: 0000-0002-2145-7582, 0000-0002-2145-7582
  • Research and Teaching Interests: Dr. Yudkowsky’s teaching interests are in the scholarship of Health Professions Education and professional development programs for faculty and staff who develop and implement standardized patient (SP)-based educational programs (SP educator certificate program, and others). Research interests focus on simulation-based assessments: (1) promoting and assessing clinical reasoning through SP encounters (exploring methods to assess clinical reasoning through post-encounter notes and promoting clinical reasoning while teaching and assessing physical exam skills via a hypothesis-driven physical exam); (2) setting pass/fail cut scores for simulation-based assessments, especially in mastery-learning environments (How does benchmark performance information provided to judges need to be modified for a repeated-testing mastery environment? What is the impact on standard setting judgments of different benchmark information, or other evidence-based information?); and (3) improving SP checklist and rating scale design by focusing on high-salience items for a given purpose (for example clinically discriminating items or high salience communication items).
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty, Master of Health Professions Education
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Photo of Leah Eisenberg
Department of Medical Education
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty, DME Part Time Faculty, Health Humanities
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Photo of Matthew Gambino
Clinical Assistant Professor Psychiatry
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Part Time Faculty, Health Humanities
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Director of Instructional Design and Learning Innovation Curricular Affairs
115 CMWT MC 785 Home Phone: 312-996-5898 Website: Personal website Website: Curriculum Vitae

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  • ORCID: 0000-0001-6765-4015
  • Research and Teaching Interests: I am interested in providing faculty with appropriate tools to improve the teaching and learning experience for them and their students. Currently, I work closely with teaching faculty at UICOM to determine how to develop multimedia content that is supported by adult learning theories.
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty - Adjunct and Affiliate
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Clinical Assistant Professor of Medical-Surgical Nursing in Medical Education, College of Nursing,UIC; Clinical Director, Clinical Ethics Consult Service, University of Illinois Medical Center
Work Phone: 312-413-3805
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty - Adjunct and Affiliate
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Adjunct Associate Professor
Work Phone: 312-464-5531
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty - Adjunct and Affiliate
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Adjunct Lecturer Department of Medical Education
Categories: DME Faculty - Adjunct and Affiliate
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Adjunct Instructor
Work Phone: 312-355-0610
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty - Adjunct and Affiliate
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Adjunct Assistant Professor
Work Phone: 847-492-3040
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty - Adjunct and Affiliate
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Professor (RT)
Work Phone: 312-996-7670
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty - Adjunct and Affiliate
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Adjunct Assistant Professor
Work Phone: 507-282-1612
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty - Adjunct and Affiliate
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Adjunct Assistant Professor
Work Phone: 847-296-0468
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty - Adjunct and Affiliate
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Work Phone: 312-413-8910
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty - Adjunct and Affiliate, Health Humanities
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Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty - Adjunct and Affiliate
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Health Sciences Librarian (Peoria)
Work Phone: 309-671-8489
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty - Adjunct and Affiliate
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Instructor
Work Phone: 312-996-0218
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty - Adjunct and Affiliate
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Associate Professor
Work Phone: 312-996-9506
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty - Adjunct and Affiliate
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Associate Professor
Work Phone: 312-355-0550
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty - Adjunct and Affiliate
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Work Phone: 312-996-3297
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty - Adjunct and Affiliate, Health Humanities
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Photo of Memoona Hasnain MD, MHPE, PhD
Professor of Family and Community Medicine Associate Head for Faculty Development & ResearchAssociate Dean for Faculty Development
Categories: Department of Family Medicine - Faculty, Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty - Adjunct and Affiliate, Master of Health Professions Education
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Associate Professor
Work Phone: 312-413-3886
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty - Adjunct and Affiliate
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Photo of Jordan Hupert MD
Chief, Section of General Pediatrics; Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Work Phone: 312-413-3762
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty - Adjunct and Affiliate, Education Faculty
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Adjunct Instructor
Work Phone: 312-996-3594
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty - Adjunct and Affiliate
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Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty - Adjunct and Affiliate
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Clincal Professor of Psychology, UIC Department of Psychiatry
Work Phone: 312-413-4609
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty - Adjunct and Affiliate
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Assistant Professor
Work Phone: 312-996-6219
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty - Adjunct and Affiliate
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Adjunct Assistant Professor
Work Phone: 312-996-3590
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty - Adjunct and Affiliate
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Director of Medical Student Learning Environment
Categories: DME Faculty - Adjunct and Affiliate, Health Humanities
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Instructor
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty - Adjunct and Affiliate
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Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty - Adjunct and Affiliate
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Associate Director Urban Medicine Program- College of Medicine University of Illinois College of MedicineDepartment of Medical Education
Work Phone: 312-996-6920
Categories: DME Faculty - Adjunct and Affiliate
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Photo of Aria Razfar
Professor UIC College of EducationCurriculum and Instruction
3428 ETMSW 1040 W. Harrison St. (MC 147) Chicago IL 60607 Work Phone: (312) 413-8373 Website: Curriculum vita
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty - Adjunct and Affiliate
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Information Services Librarian
Work Phone: 312-996-8993
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty - Adjunct and Affiliate
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Adjunct Associate Professor
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty - Adjunct and Affiliate
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Assistant Professor
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty - Adjunct and Affiliate
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Photo of Eric Swirsky JD, MA
Clinical Associate Professor Medical Education

Custom Metadata Fields

  • ORCID: 0000-0002-8949-1103
  • Research and Teaching Interests: Eric Swirsky, JD, MA is a clinical associate professor, director of graduate studies, and PhD program director in the College of Applied Health Sciences, Department of Biomedical and Health Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Eric also serves as preceptor for the ethics rotation in the clinical informatics fellowship program and teaches in the health humanities curriculum in the UIC College of Medicine. Eric’s research interests include moral distress in health professions education; vaccine hesitancy in care givers, and the ethical milieu of healthcare technology.
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty - Adjunct and Affiliate, Health Humanities
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Lecturer
Categories: DME Faculty - Adjunct and Affiliate, Health Humanities
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Photo of Patrick Tranmer MD
Professor Emeritus of Clinical Family Medicine University of Illinois College of MedicineFamily and Community Medicine
Categories: Department of Family Medicine - Faculty, Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty - Adjunct and Affiliate
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Work Phone: 312-996-4181
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty - Adjunct and Affiliate
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Photo of Saul Weiner MD
Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics and Medical Education Director, Clinical Leaders and Academic Scholars (CLASS) FellowshipSenior Advisor to the Provost
Work Phone: 312-413-3054 Work Phone: 312-355-1700 Website: PubMed Website: Clinical Profile
Categories: DME Faculty - Adjunct and Affiliate, DOM – AIM – Faculty
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Photo of Sandra L Yingling PhD
Clinical Associate Professor University of Illinois College of Medicine and Medical Education
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty - Adjunct and Affiliate
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Photo of Dr Lawrence Zeidman M.D., FAAN
Work Phone: (312)-996-6496 Work Fax: (312)-996-4169
Categories: DME Faculty - Adjunct and Affiliate, Health Humanities
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Photo of Tanja Barac
Simulation Technology Coordinator Simulation and Integrative Learning Institute
Work Phone: 312-996-7365
Categories: Simulation and Integrative Learning Institute
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Photo of Rupak Basu
IT Assistant Simulation and Integrative Learning
Work Phone: 312-355-7297
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Photo of Amy Binns-Calvey
Research Specialist Simulation and Integrative Learning Institute
Work Phone: 312-413-2022
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Photo of Jose Cardenas
Information Technology Coordinator Simulation And Integrative Learning
Work Phone: 312-996-1412
Categories: Simulation and Integrative Learning Institute
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Photo of John Colagrossi
Assistant Director of Operations Simulation and Integrative Learning Institute
Work Phone: 312-996-2989
Categories: Simulation and Integrative Learning Institute
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Photo of Angelo Dindia CC-EMTP, CHSOS
Simulation Technology Coordinator Simulation and Integrative Learning Institute
Work Phone: 312-996-7365
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Photo of Edward Fraim
Operations Manager/AHA Coordinator Simulation and Integrative Learning Institute
Work Phone: 312-413-8030
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Photo of Benjamin Kass
Standardized Patient Coordinator Simulation and Integrative Learning
Work Phone: 312-355-2801
Categories: Simulation and Integrative Learning Institute
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Simulation And Integrative Learning
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Photo of Aidan Kernochan
Simulation Technology Assistant Coordinator Simulation and Integrative Learning Institute
Categories: Simulation and Integrative Learning Institute
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Photo of Robert Kiser
Associate Director Simulation and Integrative Learning Institute
Work Phone: 312-996-6551
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Photo of Raina Long
Standardized Patient Coordinator Simulation and Integrative Learning Institute
Work Phone: 312-996-5707
Categories: Simulation and Integrative Learning Institute
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Assistant Director Simulation and Integrative Learning Institute
Work Phone: 312-355-3441
Categories: Simulation and Integrative Learning Institute
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Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology, Dept of Anesthesiology; Professor of Clinical Medicine, Dept of Medical Education Associate Department Head of Anesthesiology for Innovation and LearningDirector, Simulation and Integrative Learning Institute
Work Phone: 312-996-4020 Work Phone: 312-413-1245
Categories: Anesthesiology, Attending Faculty, Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty, Master of Health Professions Education, Simulation and Integrative Learning Institute
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Standardized Patient Coordinator Simulation and Integrative Learning Institute
Work Phone: 312-355-0562
Categories: Simulation and Integrative Learning Institute
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Standardized Patient Coordinator Simulation and Integrative Learning
Work Phone: 312-355-7296
Categories: Simulation and Integrative Learning Institute
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Associate Professor Department of Medical Education
Work Phone: 312-996-7954

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  • Research and Teaching Interests: Dr. Blackie’s scholarly and teaching interests include health humanities, narrative medicine, death studies, and medical education. He is associate editor of The Journal of Medical Humanities, book review editor for Literature and Medicine, and editor of the Literature and Medicine book series published by Kent State University Press.
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty, Health Humanities, Master of Health Professions Education
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Assistant Director Education and International Programs
Work Phone: 312-996-4666
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Administration & Staff, Health Humanities, Master of Health Professions Education
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Work Phone: 312-413-8910
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty - Adjunct and Affiliate, Health Humanities
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Department of Medical Education
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty, DME Part Time Faculty, Health Humanities
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Clinical Assistant Professor Psychiatry
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Part Time Faculty, Health Humanities
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Work Phone: 312-996-3297
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty - Adjunct and Affiliate, Health Humanities
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Associate Professor in DME, Co-director of the PhD program in Curriculum Studies/HPE and the Associate Director of Graduate Studies for DME Department of Medical Education
Website: Laura’s Personal Website

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  • ORCID: 0000-0003-0894-2994
  • Research and Teaching Interests: Socialization, qualitative methods, professional identity, inequality, leadership, and sociology
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty, Health Humanities, Master of Health Professions Education
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Adjunct Lecturer Medical Education

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  • Research and Teaching Interests: Dr. Jackson is a licensed Physical Therapist who has interest in community health delivery models, health equity, ethics and food insecurity. Her clinical and research interest include health equity and access in vulnerable communities, post-secondary educational resources for those with physical and intellectual disabilities and addressing food insecurity among those with chronic health conditions.
Categories: Department of Medical Education, Health Humanities
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Clinical Professor Department of Medical Education
Home Phone: 312-355-5418

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  • ORCID: 0000-0003-0651-3678
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty, Health Humanities, Master of Health Professions Education
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Director of Medical Student Learning Environment
Categories: DME Faculty - Adjunct and Affiliate, Health Humanities
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Adjunct Lecturer Medical Education
Website: Personal web site Website: Physician Just Equity

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  • Research and Teaching Interests: Dr. Miller is board certified in general surgery and hospice and palliative medicine. She practices acute care surgery, provides palliative medicine and clinical medical ethics consultation, and has worked as an associate medical director of an inpatient hospice unit. Her clinical and research interests include integrating palliative medicine and clinical medical ethics into the care of seriously ill or injured surgical patients and this passion has led to becoming a founding member of the Surgical Palliative Care Society. Additionally, Dr. Miller is a fierce advocate for gender and racial equity, diversity and inclusion in medicine and surgery as a founding member of TIME’S UP Healthcare and the Founder and President of Physician Just Equity. Physician Just Equity is a 501(c)3 non-profit foundation that exists to support learners, physicians, and surgeons experiencing bias, harassment, discrimination and retaliation through workplace conflicts, championing a balanced resolution, while simultaneously seeking to facilitate institutional culture change.
Categories: Department of Medical Education, Health Humanities
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Professor of Philosophy in the Biomedical Sciences Department of Medical Education
Work Phone: 312-996-3595

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  • Research and Teaching Interests: Dr. Murphy teaches and conducts research in the areas of professional ethics, assisted reproductive technologies, medicine and sexuality, and ethical aspects of genetic research. He is the author or editor of nine books, such as Justice and the Human Genome Project (University of California Press), Gay Science: The Ethics of Sexual Orientation Research (Columbia University Press), and Case Studies in Biomedical Research Ethics (The MIT Press). His most recent book is Ethics, Sexual Orientation, and Choices about Children (The MIT Press). He has published widely in professional journals such as the Journal of Medical Ethics, American Journal of Bioethics, Bioethics, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, and Reproductive Biomedicine Online, among others. His work has been supported by grants from the U.S. Department of Defense and the National Institutes of Health.
  • ORCID: 0000-0001-8003-550X
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty, Health Humanities, Master of Health Professions Education
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Professor of Health Humanities and History – College of Medicine, Professor of Disability Studies – College of Applied Health Sciences Medical Education
Work Phone: 312-413-0113

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  • Research and Teaching Interests: Dr. Sufian specializes in the history of medicine and disability. She has published two books: Healing the Land and the Nation: Malaria and the Zionist project in Mandatory Palestine, 1920-1947 (U Chicago Press, 2007) and Reapproaching the Border: New Perspectives on the Study of Israel/Palestine (Rowman Littlefield, 2007). Sufian is currently working on a book project about the history of disability and adoption in America in the twentieth century. She teaches courses on the history of disability and the modern history of medicine and public health to medical students, PhD students and undergraduate students. She co-organizes the Health and Society working group of the Institute for the Humanities and is the founder of the Global Network of Researchers on HIV/AIDS in the Middle East and North Africa. Sufian is chair of the Disability History Association and serves on the editorial boards of Disability Studies Quarterly and the International Journal of Middle East Studies.
  • ORCID: 0000-0001-5545-5801
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty, Health Humanities, Master of Health Professions Education
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Clinical Associate Professor Medical Education

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  • ORCID: 0000-0002-8949-1103
  • Research and Teaching Interests: Eric Swirsky, JD, MA is a clinical associate professor, director of graduate studies, and PhD program director in the College of Applied Health Sciences, Department of Biomedical and Health Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Eric also serves as preceptor for the ethics rotation in the clinical informatics fellowship program and teaches in the health humanities curriculum in the UIC College of Medicine. Eric’s research interests include moral distress in health professions education; vaccine hesitancy in care givers, and the ethical milieu of healthcare technology.
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty - Adjunct and Affiliate, Health Humanities
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Lecturer
Categories: DME Faculty - Adjunct and Affiliate, Health Humanities
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Work Phone: (312)-996-6496 Work Fax: (312)-996-4169
Categories: DME Faculty - Adjunct and Affiliate, Health Humanities
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Clinical Assistant Professor, Associate Member Moffitt Cancer CenterDepartment of Anesthesiology

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  • ORCID: 0000-0002-6429-0321
Categories: Department of Medical Education, PSL Faculty
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Adjunct Instructor, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner University of Illinois at Chicago, Cleveland Clinic

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  • ORCID: 0000-0003-4772-1975
Categories: Department of Medical Education, PSL Faculty
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Risk Management Specialist University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston
Categories: Department of Medical Education, PSL Faculty
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Clinical Assistant Professor

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  • ORCID: 0000-0003-0700-3231
Categories: Department of Medical Education, PSL Faculty
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Adjunct Instructor, Associate Vice President, Quality and Patient Safety University of Illinois at Chicago, Edward Elmhurst Healthcare

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  • ORCID: 0000-0001-9968-0947
Categories: Department of Medical Education, PSL Faculty
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Program Director – Patient Safety Leadership Programs – Department of Medical Education, Medical Director – Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Director – Quality and Safety Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics
Work Phone: 312-355-4140
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty, Education Faculty, PSL Faculty
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Adjunct Instructor/ Vice President of Programming University of Illinois at Chicago, 1871
Categories: PSL Faculty, Uncategorized
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Clinical Assistant Professor
Categories: PSL Faculty
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Professor Emeritus Department of Medical Education
Work Phone: 312-996-7349 Website: Curriculum Vitae

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  • ORCID: 0000-0002-0717-9336
  • Research and Teaching Interests: My research includes the study of clinical reasoning, the written and oral assessment of clinical decisions, the key features approach (first developed for the Medical Council of Canada in the early 90s and now used worldwide), the hypothesis-driven approach to teaching and assessing the physical exam, and scientific writing.
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty, DME Faculty Emeritus
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Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty Emeritus
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Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty Emeritus
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Director Emerita of Patient Safety Leadership Programs Department of Medical Education
Work Phone: 312-996-1452

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  • Research and Teaching Interests: With funding from the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ), Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Department of Defense (DOD), Dr. Valenta’s research and teaching focus on social and organizational issues related to health technology, including the role information systems play in patient safety. She was a consulting faculty member for the AHRQ-funded grant entitled “The Seven Pillars: Crossing the Patient Safety-Medical Liability Chasm”. The purpose of this AHRQ-funded project was to evaluate the impact of the “Seven Pillars” – a comprehensive response to patient harm that links effective and honest communication with improvements in patient safety and reducing medical liability risk.
Categories: Department of Medical Education, DME Faculty Emeritus
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