DME Health Professions Education (HPE) Faculty

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Photo of Michael Blackie PhD
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

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  • 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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Photo of Timothy Murphy PhD
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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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

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  • 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

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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

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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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