Educator Community News

Andre L. Churchwell, M.D. (Senior Associate Dean for Diversity Affairs) and Kimberly N. Vinson, M.D. (Assistant Dean for Diversity Affairs) welcomed the new trainees and faculty members during a dinner Monday, June 29. Click here for the faculty list.

Joey Barnett, Ph.D., Assistant Dean of Physician Researcher Training and Luke R. Finck, EdD, MOC, Assistant Director, Office of Medical Student Research  welcome their new faculty Dr. Mark de Caestecker and Dr. Jeremy Warner. To read more about the new faculty members click here.

Charlene M. Dewey, M.D., M.Ed., FACP and William Swiggart, M.S., MHSP, from The Center for Professional Health collaborated with the Vanderbilt School of Nursing to launch the first ever Proper Prescribing Course for Advanced Nurse Practitioners. The teaching faculty include: Caroline Cone, MSN, APRN, BC, Elizabeth Morse, DNP, FNP-BC, MPH, Chance Allen, MSN, APN, LMSW, PMHNP-BC, and Ginger Manley, MSN, APRN, PHCNS-BC. The team launched the three-day professional development program on June 23-26, 2015 in the Center for Professional Health.

 

Every other year, the Shapiro Institute Center for Education associated with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, along with the Association for American Medical Colleges hold the Millennium Conference that addresses a key issue facing the medical education community. Medical schools from across the county submit proposals to participate in the conference.  A team from Vanderbilt including Kim Lomis MD, Kim Dahlman PhD, Lourdes Estrada PhD, John McPherson MD, and Bill Cutrer MD, MEd was selected to participate.

On May 19, 2015, educators at Vanderbilt participated in a SGEA debriefing to share information, tips and lessons learned from the AAMC-SGEA annual meeting held in April 2015. Please click on the link to view slides from the session. SGEA Debriefing Slides

Dr. Neil Osheroff chaired the “Fifth International Conference of Biochemistry Course Directors,” which was held May 3-7 in Santa Fe, NM. The conference had 101 attendees from Schools of Medicine, Pharmacy, and Dentistry in the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean. At the meeting he presented a plenary talk on the “Integration of Basic Sciences into the Clerkship Years” by Neil Osheroff, Lourdes Estrada, and William B.

This distinguished award recognizes one individual from the southern region annually based on evidence of ongoing educational leadership and significant involvement in enhancing educational programs at an academic institution. Among other criteria, this award also acknowledges collaboration with others at an academic institution and beyond to enhance teaching effectiveness, the quality of educational programs, professionals development of self and others and/or the advancement of educational scholarship. Dr. Miller is among a group of elite educators nationwide.

Lindy Fenlason, MD, MPH and KIm Lomis, MD Julie Damp, MD, and Charlene Dewey, MD, M.Ed.