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FACULTY CO-CHAIRS:
Keith Baker, MD PhD
Program Director,
Anesthesia, MGH
khbaker@partners.org
Trainee opportunities
Collaboration in building a
bibliography on Med Ed
topics
Tracey Milligan, MD, MS
Program Director, Partners
Neurology Residency and
member of the Academy at
Harvard Medical School
tmilligan@partners.org
Keith Baker, MD, PhD is Vice Chair for Education in the Department of
Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine at the Massachusetts General
Hospital (DACCPM). He is Program Director for the Anesthesia Residency at the
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). As Education Director he developed the
didactic curriculum that continues as the core didactics for the residency. He also
developed a quantitative system for having residents evaluate faculty member’s
clinical teaching. This process led to enhanced clinical teaching by the faculty. He
has developed a system for quantitatively evaluating resident clinical
performance which allows focused intervention aimed at improving performance.
As Vice Chair for Education he has developed an educational pay-forperformance system to enhance resident teaching by faculty members. He has
recently begun the process of changing the goal of teaching and learning from a
minimum competency model currently used in graduate medical education
(GME) to one focused on expert performance. To this end he has led the
DACCPM through a paradigm shift in thinking about teaching and learning. He
also leads a seminar series for residents, fellows and faculty on expert
performance.
Tracey Milligan, MD, MS is the Program Director for the Partners Neurology
Residency and member of the Academy at Harvard Medical School. She is a
member of the faculty in the Division of Epilepsy and Department of Neurology at
Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). She completed an Academy Fellowship
in Medical Education and was a Harvard Macy Scholar in Medical Education. Dr.
Milligan is a graduate of the University of New Mexico, Emerson College and the
Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She is the BWH Director for Patient-Doctor
III, former BWH core clerkship director in neurology, and winner of BWH’s
Bernard Lown Award for Excellence in Teaching. She also leads HMS courses in
the Neurological Examination and Integrative Mind Brain Medicine and is the
recipient of HMS Best Clinical Instructor in Neurology and Harold Amos Faculty
Diversity Award. She is the Associate Editor of Neurology for AAMC
MedEdPortal, Co-Chair of the Behavioral Sciences Committee for the National
Board of Medical Examiners and has served on the AAMC Milestone
Committees. Her scholarly interests include neurologic education and simulation,
communication skills, difficult to treat seizure disorders, and teaching in the
inpatient and outpatient settings.
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FACULTY PARTICIPANTS
Stan Ashley, MD
Chief Medical Officer,
BWH
sashley@partners.org
Dr. Stanley Ashley is the Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President for
Medical Affairs at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Dr. Ashley was previously
program director in general surgery first at UCLA and from 2000 to 2011 at
BWH. He has participated in a variety of educational research projects and has
been a director and chair of the American Board of Surgery. He currently is on
the board of ACGME. Dr. Ashley is focused on practical aspects of measurement
of quality and how these can be applied to improve outcomes. Closely related to
this, he has an interest in education, both at the graduate and postgraduate (MOC)
levels, and its integration into a certification/re-certification process that ensures
quality of care.
Trainee opportunities
Didactic sessions
Mentoring
Joint teaching: shared
lecture, teaching rounds
session, medical student
case discussion, etc.
Projects in curriculum
development or program
improvement
Dr. Bazari has been the Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency for
the last 19 years and has been involved nationally with the Association of Program
Directors in Internal Medicine. He has also been part of the ACGME-ABIM
Milestones Writing Group which produced the Milestones for Internal Medicine.
He has interests in Educational Research as well as clinical teaching.
Hasan Bazari
Program Director, Internal
Medicine Residency
Associate Professor
Internal Medicine, MGH
hbazari@partners.org
Trainee opportunities
Mentoring
Joint teaching: shared
lecture, teaching rounds
session, medical student
case discussion, etc.
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Gene Beresin, MA, MD
Professor of Psychiatry,
HMS; Director of Child
and Adolescent Psychiatry
Residency Training,
MGH/McLean Hospitals
eberesin@partners.org
Trainee opportunities
Didactic sessions
Mentoring
Joint teaching: shared
lecture, teaching rounds
session, medical student
case discussion, etc.
Projects in curriculum
development or program
improvement
Robert J. Birnbaum, MD,
PhD
Director of Continuing
Professional Development,
PHS
rjbirnbaum@partners.org
Trainee opportunities
Mentoring
Projects in curriculum
development or program
improvement
Gene Beresin, MA, MD is Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He
is Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residency Training Program at
Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital. He is Director of the
Elizabeth Thatcher Acampora Endowment, an outreach program to meet the
needs of underserved youth and families in three community settings. Dr. Beresin
is Co-Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Mental Health
and Media. He served President of the American Association of Directors of
Psychiatry Residency Training and as Editor-in-Chief of the Psychiatry Residents
in Training Examination (PRITE). He is director of the year-long required third
year course, Patient Doctor III, at Harvard Medical School. He is a member the
Academy at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Beresin is Associate Editor and Media
Editor for Academic Psychiatry. His educational awards include the Parker J.
Palmer “Courage to Teach” Award in 2002, given annually by the Accreditation
Council of Graduate Medical Education to 10 Program Directors. In 2004, he was
awarded the American Psychiatric Association and National Institute of Mental
Health Vestermark Award for Outstanding Teaching. Dr. Beresin has consulted to
a variety of television shows including ER and Law and Order SVU. He was
Consultant to the Emmy Award winning HBO children’s specials, Goodnight
Moon and Other Sleepytime Tales (2000), Through a Child’s Eyes: September
11, 2001 (2003) and Classical Baby (2005). He co-produced a Parenting
Resource website for abcnews.com. Dr. Beresin has published numerous papers
and chapters on a variety of topics in medical education, media, patient-doctor
relationships and child and adolescent psychiatric treatments.
Dr. Birnbaum is the Director of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for
Partners Healthcare and is the Director of Knowledge Translation
(implementation science) Research at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)
Academy. Dr. Birnbaum's clinical training is in psychiatry and his Ph.D. training
is in molecular neurobiology. The Partners CPD Office is committed to
improving patient care by providing quality medical education and to foster
quantitative and qualitative improvements in competence, performance and
patient outcomes. Learning activities are designed to improve clinical decision
making, enhance treatment strategies, interpret new findings as they apply to
patient care, and analyze health policy. Our education training environment
encompasses exposure to methodologies to determine gap analyses, needs
assessments, learning goals, curricula design, and impact assessments. Our
innovative healthcare education programs are consistent with adult learning
principles and include live activities, self-directed learning, e-learning and
clinical simulation technology. The PHS CPD Office is focused on strategically
deploying its educational resources throughout Partners to facilitate the
harmonization of proficiency requirements (e.g., licensure, credentialing, and
certification), the integration of quality improvement and educational
interventions, and to enhance health care redesign efforts under the Affordability
Care Act (ACA), CMS Accountable Care Organization (ACO) designation, and
population health management.
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Dr. Borus is currently the HMS Stanley Cobb Distinguished Professor of
Psychiatry and Faculty Dean for Education at BWH, coordinating undergraduate
and graduate medical education efforts at BWH with those at the Medical School.
He served from 1976-1990 as Director of Psychiatric Residency and Fellowship
Training at MGH and from 1983-1990 as Chair of the MGH Executive
Committee on Teaching and Education. From 1990-2008 he was Chairman and
Psychiatrist in Chief of the BWH Department of Psychiatry, and was instrumental
in the development of the Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Residency Program.
From 2008-2010 Dr. Borus was the Director of Medical Education for BWH,
fostering the teaching and careers of medical educators in all specialties, and from
2006-2010 served as Co-Chair of both the BWH and Partners Education
Committees. Since 2009 he has Co-Chaired the Partners Education Review Board
which oversees all interactions between industry and educational programs
throughout Partners. Dr. Borus has served as the President of the Association for
Academic Psychiatry (AAP), the national organization of educators in psychiatry,
and Editor of the journal Academic Psychiatry. Among his honors are the 1992
AAP Outstanding Psychiatric Educator Award, the 1997 American Psychiatric
Association and National Institute of Mental Health Vestermark Award for
Psychiatric Education, and the 1998 HMS Excellence in Mentoring Lifetime
Achievement Award.
Jonathan F. Borus, MD
Stanley Cobb
Distinguished Professor of
Psychiatry and Faculty
Dean for Education at
Brigham and Women's
Hospital, Harvard Medical
School; Co-Chair, Partners
Education Review Board
Psychiatry
jborus@partners.org
Trainee opportunities
Didactic sessions
Mentoring
Projects in curriculum
development or program
improvement
Elizabeth (Lisa) Breen
Core Surgery Clerkship
Director, BWH
Assistant Professor of
Elizabeth Breen has been a colon and rectal surgeon at the Brigham and
Women’s Hospital (BWH) for over 15 years. Her academic efforts are centered
on the model of a clinician–educator. As such, she has functioned as the
Clerkship Director of the Core Surgery Clerkship at the Brigham and Women’s
Hospital/Harvard Medical School since January 2005. In the role of Clerkship
Director she has had opportunity to reassess the BWH clerkship in light of the
changing needs of students and the environment in which today’s surgeons
practice. From this needs assessment she proposed and implemented curriculum
changes particularly with respect to methods of instruction. She increased student
exposure to faculty time as well as to outpatient settings. In addition, she worked
successfully with faculty to improve teaching strategies. In keeping with the
recommendations for a surgeon-educator as put forward by the Association for
Surgical Education her educational activities are focused on teaching skills,
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ebreen@partners.org
Trainee opportunities
Mentoring
Joint teaching: shared
lecture, teaching rounds
session, medical student
case discussion, etc.
Projects in curriculum
development or program
improvement
John Co, MD
Director, Partners Graduate
Medical Education
jco@partners.org
curriculum development and instructional material design, advising activities,
trainee assessment, faculty development, and educational scholarship. The
majority of her research projects focus on surgical workforce, faculty
development and trainee assessment.
Dr. Co is currently the Director of Graduate Medical Education (GME) at
Partners Healthcare. He has a background in health services research and a
Masters in Public Health, with an interest in better integrating quality
improvement and measurement into graduate medical education. He oversees the
annual retreats for Interns and Clinical Fellows that are organized by the GME
office. He formerly was the Associate Director of the MGH Pediatric Residency
Program, as well as the Chair of the Association of Pediatric Program Director's
Research Task Force. Dr. Co is also an Associate Editor for Academic
Pediatrics, helping oversee and review manuscript submissions related to medical
education research.
Trainee opportunities
Projects in curriculum
development or program
improvement
Marc de Moya
Surgical Clerkship Director
Associate Program
Director, Surgery, MGH
mdemoya@partners.org
Trainee opportunities
Mentoring
Joint teaching: shared
lecture, teaching rounds
session, medical student
case discussion, etc.
Projects in curriculum
development or program
improvement
Susan E. Farrell, MD
Program Director
Partners Healthcare
After completing surgical residency in New Jersey and trauma/critical care
fellowship at the University of Miami, Dr. deMoya joined the faculty at the
Massachusetts General Hospital in the department of surgery in 2005. He became
one of the first faculty to develop the Division of Trauma, Emergency Surgery,
and Surgical Critical Care. In 2007, he became the MGH Surgical Clerkship
director and has become more involved in surgical education for both
undergraduate and graduate medical education. His areas of focus are assessment
and evaluation of critical thinking, the use of simulation for surgical education,
and development of competency based curricula for both students and surgical
residents. He has received funding from the Academy of Medical Education to
develop simulation based programming and has interests in educational research.
Dr. Farrell graduated from Syracuse University with a BS in engineering, and
earned her M.D. at Tufts University School of Medicine in 1990. Her clinical
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sefarrell@partners.org
Mary Ellen Goldhamer,
MD, MPH
Education Specialist,
Partners GME
mgoldhamer@partners.org
training was in emergency medicine and medical toxicology, both at The Medical
College of Pennsylvania. She has worked in medical education at Harvard
Medical School for 15 years, as the Director of Student Programs and the
Emergency Medicine Clerkship at BWH for seven years, and as a course tutor
and lecturer at HMS. She completed her Masters in Education at the Harvard
Graduate School of Education in 2008, with a focus on assessment and evaluation
methods. Dr. Farrell has been a Rabkin Fellow in Medical Education, a Harvard
Macy Scholar, and faculty and steering committee member of the Harvard Macy
Educator courses. She is the Director of the comprehensive clinical skills OSCE
examination at Harvard Medical School, and worked as an educator in the
Partners Healthcare Office for Graduate Medical Education, before taking her
current position as a Program Director at Partners Healthcare International in
2011. At PHI, Dr. Farrell creates and implements faculty development programs
in undergraduate, post-graduate, and inter-professional clinical curriculum and
assessment methods. Her international work includes the development of
resident-teacher programs in New Zealand, the creation of inter-professional
programs in Singapore, the design of new post-graduate training programs, and
physician curriculum development for a hospital system in India. She also
oversees the PHI resident exchange program. Dr. Farrell’s interests are in
curriculum development, methods for assessing clinical skills and program
evaluation, and faculty development related to teaching and assessment skills.
After graduating from Jefferson Medical College, Dr. Goldhamer completed a
residency in Internal Medicine and a Clinician Educator Medical Education
Fellowship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, focusing on
curriculum development and effective teaching strategies. She has taught core
clinical and communication skills to medical students and residents for a decade.
She developed primary care curricula for the University of Pennsylvania Internal
Medicine residency program and the University Of Connecticut School Of
Medicine, where she also served as the Clinical Remediator for the Schools of
Medicine and Dentistry and was active in medical student and resident teaching
and evaluation using Standardized Patients in the Clinical Skills Assessment
Center. In 2005, Dr. Goldhamer came to MGH for the Harvard Faculty
Development Fellowship Program in General Internal Medicine and completed a
Masters in Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. Her research
and thesis focused on a large-scale program evaluation of the HSPH Program in
Clinical Effectiveness, the largest program to train physicians to conduct clinical
research. She has worked with the Massachusetts General Physician Organization
(MGPO) and the MGH Practice Improvement Division to develop and implement
the MGPO Core Communication Skills Trainee Initiative, which utilizes casebased specialty-specific workshops to train physicians in evidence-based core
communication skills. In 2010, Dr. Goldhamer joined the Partners Office of
Graduate Medical Education as an Education Specialist, focusing on an initiative
to improve competency-based trainee assessment and feedback across Partners
training programs. Since 2010, Dr. Goldhamer has worked with the Evaluation
and Feedback Subcommittee of the Partners Education Committee to develop
360-degree assessment tools of trainees, faculty, and programs and has developed
numerous case-based, specialty specific conferences for both trainees and faculty
to promote effective feedback and evaluation in residency and fellowship
training.
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Annekathryn Goodman
Fellowship Director, Gyn
Oncology, MGH
agoodman@partners.org
Trainee opportunities
Mentoring
Joint teaching: shared
lecture, teaching rounds
session, medical student
case discussion, etc.
Joel Katz
Program Director
Vice Chair for Education
Internal Medicine, BWH
jkatz@partners.org
Trainee opportunities
Mentoring
Joint teaching: shared
lecture, teaching rounds
session, medical student
case discussion, etc.
Projects in curriculum
development or program
improvement
Theresa McLoud, MD
Residency program
director, Vice-chair for
Education, Department of
Radiology, Professor of
Radiology, Massachusetts
General Hospital
Dr. Annekathryn Goodman was born in Washington, DC She grew up in Tokyo
and Singapore. She attended undergraduate school at The University of
Pennsylvania, and went on to receive an MS in Chemistry. She obtained her
medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine, where she then
completed a residency in obstetrics and gynecology. She completed her
fellowship in gynecology oncology in 1990 at the Massachusetts General
Hospital (MGH) in Boston where she has been on staff since 1993. Dr. Goodman
was certified in acupuncture in 2002. She has completed four units of clinical
pastoral education. She joined the national disaster team, IMSuRT (International
Medical Surgical Response team), a branch of the US department of health and
human services and has deployed to various international disasters including
Bam, Iran 2004, Banda Aceh 2005, and Haiti 2010. Dr. Goodman is an Associate
Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology at Harvard
Medical School. She is the Director of the Gynecologic Oncology Fellowship
Program at Massachusetts General Hospital. She is the past president of The
Obstetrical Society of Boston and of the New England Society of Gynecologic
Oncologists. Teaching experience includes teaching didactically in medical
school, informal and didactic teaching on the gyn oncology service at MGH,
development of a curriculum for gyn oncology fellowship, small group facilitator
in Harvard palliative care for educators course, Primed lectures for primary care
providers on topics in gyn oncology, teaching team members obstetrics in field
hospitals during disasters.
As Vice Chair for Education, Dr. Katz oversees medical education for the BWH
department of medicine, including for student, resident, fellow and CME. He is
available to advise and mentor physicians with interests that overlap his own
experiences, including:
•
Curricular innovation
•
Global health equity and technology delivery education
•
Management skills education
•
Physical examination education
•
Measuring the impact of educational change through clinically meaningful
outcomes measures
•
Electronic educational tools
•
Utilizing fine arts and humanities to improve medical education
•
Educational administration and financing
Theresa C. McLoud, MD, is a pioneer in thoracic radiology and has led the way
for innovations in improving radiologic education worldwide. A Boston native,
Dr. McLoud received her BS degree from Boston College in 1964. After
obtaining her MD degree from the McGill University Faculty of Medicine in
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, she completed a thoracic imaging fellowship at the
Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut, and soon
became an assistant professor of diagnostic radiology at Yale. In 1976, she
returned to Boston and joined Harvard Medical School where she has been
professor of radiology since 1993. Dr. McLoud is the first woman in the
department of radiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston to hold
the rank of professor at Harvard. Dr. McLoud served as the Division Head of
Thoracic radiology from 1982-2001 and she is currently a vice chair and director
of education for the department of Radiology at the MGH. A world-renowned
expert in thoracic imaging, Dr. McLoud has conducted more than 150
postgraduate courses and published more than 200 scientific papers, reviews, and
book chapters. Her 1998 text, now in its second edition, Thoracic Radiology: The
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Trainee opportunities
Mentoring
Projects in curriculum
development or program
improvement
Roy Phitayakorn, MD
MHPE (MEd)
Director of Surgical
Education Research,
Massachusetts General
Hospital, Faculty Lead,
Strategic Initiatives and
Operations
The Massachusetts General
Hospital Learning
Laboratory
rphitayakorn@partners.org
Martin A. Samuels, MD
Professor of Neurology
Neurologist-in-Chief
Brigham and Women’s
Hospital
msamuels@partners.org
John H. Stone
Director, Clinical
Rheumatology,
Massachusetts General
Requisites (St. Louis, MO: Mosby), is a popular and comprehensive introductory
work. In 2004, she was awarded the Gold Medal of the American Roentgen Ray
Society (ARRS), and in 2003 she received the Marie Curie Award, the highest
honor bestowed by the American Association for Women Radiologists. She has
also received the Gold Medals of the Society of Thoracic Society and
International Cancer Imaging Society. She is past president of the Fleischner
Society, the Society of Thoracic Radiology, and ARRS. She served as president
of RSNA in 2008. She is an honorary member of the European Society of
Radiology, and also the Spanish, Argentinean, Italian, Mexican and AustralianNew Zealand societies of radiology.
Dr. Roy Phitayakorn completed his residency training in general surgery at Case
Western Reserve University in 2009 and completed an endocrine surgery
fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital in 2011. He is currently an
Instructor in Surgery with a practice in general surgery and endocrine surgery.
Dr. Phitayakorn is also the Faculty Lead for Strategic Initiatives and Operations
at the MGH Learning Laboratory and a medical educational consultant with the
Office of Graduate Medical Education for the Massachusetts General and
Brigham and Women’s hospitals. Dr. Phitayakorn also has a Masters degree in
Medical Education from the University of Illinois at Chicago (MHPE). His
MHPE thesis was on phone communication preferences of general surgery
residents and attendings and won the best thesis award in 2007 and also best
presentation at the 2008 MHPE medical education conference. Finally, Dr.
Phitayakorn is an external consultant for the American Board of Surgery and a
faculty member for several national medical education courses and institutions
including the Harvard Macy Institute, the ACS Surgeons as Educators course, and
the Institute of Medical Simulation.
Martin A. Samuels, MD, FAAN, MACP, DSc (hon), is Professor of Neurology at
Harvard Medical School and winner of the institution’s first Faculty Prize for
Excellence in Teaching. He is the Neurologist-in-Chief at Brigham and Women's
Hospital, Boston, and former Director of the Harvard-Longwood Neurology
Training Program. Dr. Samuels is an internationally renowned teacher-clinician,
a premier diagnostician, and a leading authority on the interface between
neurology and general medicine. His major fields of expertise include
neurocardiology, neurohematology, neurogastroenterology, neurohepatology,
neuronephrology, and the neurologic aspects of organ transplantation. He has
edited several seminal neurology textbooks, developed a definitive instructional
video on clinical neurology for practicing physicians, and authored numerous
articles and book chapters. He is the 2006 recipient of the AB Baker Award for
Lifetime Achievement in Neurologic Education. Dr. Samuels was the Founding
Editor of Journal Watch Neurology in 1999 and was Editor-in-Chief from 1999 to
2010.
Dr. Stone has written widely on issues related to clinical rheumatology, including
editing the book, A Clinician's Pearls and Myths in Rheumatology. This book was
a compilation of clinical wisdom from 125 experts in a variety of different fields
on fifty different topics in the rheumatic diseases. His particular area of expertise
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Associate Professor of
Medicine, Harvard Medical
School
jhstone@partners.org
Trainee Opportunities
Mentoring
Joint teaching: shared
lecture, teaching rounds
session, medical student
case discussion, etc.
Frederick J. Schoen
Professor of Pathology and
Health Sciences and
Technology; Executive
Vice Chairman,
Department of Pathology,
BWH
fschoen@partners.org
pertains to the vasculitides and he has lectured widely on topics related to those
conditions. However, since coming to the MGH in 2008 he has broadened by
clinical interests to include all of Rheumatology and much of Internal Medicine,
as well. Dr. Stone attends annually on the Bigelow Service at the MGH and is the
Subspecialty Education Coordinator for Rheumatology. In addition to teaching
and clinical work, he has performed a substantial amount of clinical investigation,
with of focus on clinical trials in vasculitis and the development of novel
therapies.
Dr. Schoen is Professor of Pathology and Health Sciences and Technology, HMS
and Executive Vice-Chair in the Department of Pathology at BWH. He has
leadership responsibilities in academic programs in the HMS and BWH
Department of Pathology, and in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences
and Technology (HST) as co-chair of the HST Graduate (Curriculum) Committee
and member, HST MD Curriculum Committee, and as Chair, BWH Department
of Pathology Education Committee. Dr. Schoen is also a member of several task
forces in the recent Medical Education Reform initiative at HMS and is active as
a teacher/director of courses in Pathology, Cardiovascular Pathology, and
Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering in HST and HMS. Dr. Schoen is past-chair,
BWH Graduate Medical Education Committee and co-chair Partners Graduate
Medical Education Committee (2003-06) and a member, BWH Graduate Medical
Education Committee. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the BWH
Center for Faculty Development and Diversity, author/editor of several textbooks
in Cardiovascular, Pathology and Biomaterials Science and Director of the BWH
Biomedical Research Institute (BRI) Technology Innovation Program. He serves
as the BWH liaison to (Site Miner for) the Center for Integration of Medicine and
Innovative Technology (CIMIT) (both with educational/career development
activities).
Trainee Opportunities
Mentoring
Projects in curriculum
development or program
improvement
Kate Treadway, MD
Assistant Professor of
Medicine
ktreadway@partners.org
Trainee Opportunities
Mentoring
Dr. Treadway, a general internist, graduated from University of Pennsylvania
(BA, MD) and trained in internal medicine at MGH, where she also completed a
fellowship in hypertension/primary care. She has been co-director of Pt/Dr II at
MGH since 1992 and has integrated a number of innovations into the course,
including “selectives” to enhance areas of students’ uncertainty, case studies to
teach assessment and planning, incorporation of the Heart Sound Simulator, and a
model for teaching students about communicating difficult news to patients in
collaboration with the Wellness Community. She has been nominated numerous
times for the Faculty Prize for Excellence in Teaching, which she received in
2002. In 2006, she developed a 2-week course which is given to all incoming
Harvard Medical and Dental students in the beginning of school titled
“Introduction to the Profession,” which aims to introduce students to the
intellectual, moral, professional and emotional demands of medical school. In the
last 2 years she has created a pilot for a capstone course which occurs at the end
of medical school to prepare students for internship. She is particularly interested
in the professional and humanistic development of students.