Previous Education Scholars
OHSU's yearly Education Scholars Program is made up of individuals with clinical teaching responsibilities who anticipate career paths significantly dedicated to scholarship in health professions education. The program is open to physician chief residents, fellows and faculty, and educators with clinical teaching responsibilities from the professions of dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, and physician assistants.
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2022-23 Cohort
2021-22 Cohort
2020-21 Cohort
2019-20 Cohort
| Name | Role (At time of participation) |
|---|---|
| Karen Alles, M.N., R.N., C.P.N. | Clinical Instructor, OHSU School of Nursing |
| Silvia Amaya-Pajares, D.D.S., M.S. | Associate Professor, OHSU School of Dentistry |
| Michael Armstrong, D.O. | Fellow, General Medicine Ultrasound |
| Christopher Bender, M.D. | Chief Resident, Internal Medicine, Providence Portland Medical Center |
| Simone Dekker, M.D., Ph.D. | PGY-3 Resident, Internal Medicine |
| Sherie Gause, M.D. | Assistant Professor of Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine |
| Heather Hawk, D.N.P., B.S.N. | Assistant Professor of Clinical Nursing, RNBS Program, OHSU School of Nursing |
| Ryan Kane, M.D., M.P.H. | Chief Resident, Internal Medicine |
| Molly Kornfield, M.D. | Fellow, Obstetrics & Gynecology |
| Grace Lambert, M.D. | Education Fellow, Emergency Medicine |
| Erin Lemon, M.N., R.N., CCM | Instructor and Faculty in Residence, Clinical Nursing, OHSU School of Nursing |
| Kelvin Ng, M.D. | Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) Fellow, Internal Medicine |
| Nicole Rapista, M.D. | 2nd Yr Fellow, Critical Care |
| Max Rusek, M.D., M.P.H. | Chief Resident, Quality and Safety, Portland VA |
| Staci Saunders, M.D. | Medical Educator, Portland VA |
| Adi Shafir, M.D. | Assistant Professor, Hematology and Oncology |
| Barry Swerdlow, M.D., FASA | Didactic instructor and lead simulation educator, Nurse Anesthesia Program, OHSU School of Nursing |
| Scott Warner, M.D. | Chief Resident, Quality and Safety, Portland VA |
| Name | Role (At time of participation) |
|---|---|
| Sarah Biel, M.D. | Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine |
| Chad Brown, M.D. | Fellow, Emergency Medicine |
| Tomas Cordova, M.D. | Fellow, Pulmonary and Critical Care |
| Kara Detwiller, M.D. | Adjunct Assistant Professor, Division of Rhinology and Sinus Surgery |
| Forrest Orme, D.O., M.P.H. | Chief Medical Resident, Legacy Health |
| Michelle Kim, D.M.D, M.S. | Assistant Professor, Orthodontics, School of Dentistry |
| Jacqueline Levene, D.O. | Chief Resident, Internal Medicine |
| Kate Marshall, M.D. | Fellow, Addiction Medicine |
| Cassie Mullen, M.D. | Chief Resident, Internal Medicine |
| Laurel Hoffmann, M.D., M.P.H. | Assistant Professor, Pediatrics |
| Paul Musgrave, M.D. | Fellow, Internal Medicine |
| Kathryn Ritter, M.D. | Fellow, Emergency Medicine |
| Monica Saladik, M.D. | Fellow, Pediatric Emergency Medicine |
| Aaron Silver, M.D. | Fellow, Internal Medicine |
| Courtney Temple, M.D. | Fellow, Medical Toxicology |
| Brandon Temte, D.O. | Chief Medical Resident, Providence Portland Medical Center |
| Angele Theard, M.D. | Associate Professor, Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine |
| Kim Trieschmann, M.D. | Assistant Professor, Pediatric Gastroenterology |
| Rachel Westwood, M.D. | Chief Resident, Internal Medicine |
| Lokesh Yadav, M.D. | Assistant Professor, Division of Hospital Medicine |
| Mengyu Zhou, M.D. | Clinical Associate, OHSU-Hillsboro Medical Center |
| Name | Role (At time of participation) |
|---|---|
| Hayley Baines, M.D., M.C.R. | Assistant Professor, Division of Pediatric Endocrinology |
| Bradley Buchheit, M.D., M.S. | Assistant Professor, Division of General Internal Medicine & Geriatrics |
| Joel Burnett, M.D. | Chief Resident, Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine |
| Emily Carter, M.D., M.P.H. | Assistant Professor, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine |
| Antwon Chavis, M.D. | Assistant Professor, General Pediatrics |
| Grace Chen, M.D., M.P.U. | Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Pain Management |
| Andrew Corcoran, M.D. | Assistant Professor, Adult Anesthesiology |
| Jordan Graeme, D.C., M.S., D.C.N. | Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine |
| Emily Janetos, M.D. | Assistant Professor, General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics |
| Kaleb Keyserling, M.D. | Assistant Professor at OHSU and Clinician Educator at the VA |
| James Kornfield, M.D., M.A. | Internal Medicine Ultrasound Fellow |
| Amy Kwon, M.D. | Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine |
| Alan Labrum, O.D. | Assistant Director of Optics Course for Residents |
| Rand Ladkany, M.D. | Assistant Director OHSU Tuality Hospitalist Service |
| Christine Luo, M.D. | Medical Education Fellow, Department of Emergency Medicine |
| Edward Maldonado, M.D. | Chief Resident, Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine |
| Kelsi Manley, M.D. | Chief Resident, Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine |
| Marin McCutcheon, M.D., MPHTM | Fellow, Pulmonary and Critical Care |
| Matthew O'Donnell, D.O. | Chief Resident, Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine |
| Brook Pittenger, M.D. | Resident, Internal Medicine (VA) |
| Hind Rahmouni, M.D. | Cardiovascular Fellowship Program Director |
| Kristen Schultz, M.D. | General Surgery Resident, Department of Surgery |
| John Thompson, M.D., M.S. | Adjunct Instructor, Emergency Medicine |
| Samuel Torres Landa, M.D. | General Surgery Resident, Department of Surgery |
| Keenan Yanit, M.D. | Clinical Experience Director, OBGYN |
| Name | Role (At time of participation) | Capstone Project Description |
|---|---|---|
| Jane Babiarz, M.D. | Assistant Professor of Medicine, General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics | Create a set of interactive clinical problem-solving modules for training residents to care for people living with HIV. The goals are to teach core primary care skills for managing HIV, promote self-directed learning, and have a replicable program that can be evaluated, shared interdepartmentally, and published. |
| Shahana Baig-Lewis, M.D. | Chief Resident, Department of Internal Medicine | Design a structured ambulatory report curriculum aimed at standardizing the process between clinic sites with ultimate goal of teaching evidence based approach to outpatient medicine. |
| Adam Blumenberg, M.D. | Fellow, Medical Toxicology | Develop an original and useful sim case. |
| Alanna Braun, M.D., F.A.A.P | Clinical Skills Lab Facilitator, School of Medicine | Pediatric ECHO for community pediatricians, partnering with psychologists and rotating specialists. |
| Alia Broman, M.D. | Fellow, Pediatric Critical Care, Doernbecher | |
| Kimberly Chesteen, M.D. | Chief Resident, Internal Medicine | Improve online IMRESPDX educational documents for the residency programCollate up to date landmark articles for topics of internal medicine to update our IMRESPDX.COM educational documents. |
| Mackenzie Cook, M.D. | Assistant Professor, Division of Trauma, Critical Care & Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery | Build a didactic curriculum for interns (general surgery / orthopedics / EM) rotating on the trauma ward service to supplement the clinical teaching. |
| Lindy Craft, D.O. | Fellow, Critical Care Medicine | Write a grant (Medic 1 grant) for funding for research in neurologic prognostication after cardiac arrest. Having a community standard for post cardiac arrest prognostication we can help residents explain to family member the process and what to expect after a loved one has suffered a cardiac arrest. |
| Daniel Crowder, M.D. | Residency in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities | Complete a research project reviewing information availability from child neurology and NDD training program websites and submit to a journal for publication. |
| Seunggu Han, M.D. | Assistant Professor, Neurological Surgery | |
| Kathy Jorda, M.D. | Assistant Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology | I want to publish education scholarship after teaching trauma-informed care principles to medical students during their ob/gyn clerkship. Medical students often feel uncomfortable and unprepared to obtain a sexual history, particularly for female veterans who have experienced military sexual trauma. Im planning a 1hr session introducing trauma-informed care principles to medical students at the beginning of their ob/gyn rotation. Id like to administer a pre- and post-intervention survey, as well as at the end of their rotation to see if they used or observed trauma-informed care principles in the clinical setting. I will also collect qualitative data on medical students' perceived barriers to obtaining a sexual history and use that data to incorporate new educational content as appropriate. Eventually I'd like to incorporate standardized patients as well as a panel of survivors to speak to the group and study which intervention is more useful for medical students during their clerkship. |
| Jonathan Karademos, M.D. | Fellow, Education, Department of Emergency Medicine | Produce a faculty development e-learning curriculum covering resident teaching and feedback. |
| Jeremy Kim, M.D. | Chief Medical Resident, Legacy Emanual and Good Samaritan Hospitals | Create a 2 week clinical ethics elective curriculum for internal medicine residents that potentially includes implicit bias training and time with ethics consultants. |
| Patricia Liu, M.D. | Chief Medical Resident, Internal Medicine | (With Riana Wurzburger) Create a 2-week IMPACT resident elective with an accompanying self-directed learning curriculum. In regards to evaluation and feedback, we plan on creating a pre- and post- survey to assess knowledge, and perceived knowledge and comfort. |
| Matthew Miller, M.D. | Fellow, Pulmonary and Critical Care | |
| Michael Northrop, M.D. | Fellow, Point of Care Ultrasound and Clinical Instructor, Department of General Internal Medicine | Publish an US curriculum that encompasses one year for rural track PAs. |
| Patricio Riquelme, M.D., Ph.D. | Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine | Implement a coaching program where residents are mentees and faculty are mentors, with the latter using positive psychology techniques to help prevent resident burnout. |
| Lauren Sigman, M.D. | Fellow, Emergency Medicine Education | Revise and expand upon the curricula for the medical student sub-I rotation and the teach resident rotations in the department of emergency medicine. |
| Robin Tittle, M.D., M.S. | Hospital Medicine Attending, Division of Hospital and Specialty Medicine, Portland VA Medical Center | Publishing on the curriculum designed for the HEAL Initiative global health fellowship. |
| Mandy VanSandt, D.O. | Assistant Professor of Pathology | Build a didactic curriculum for pathology residents in coagulation testing. |
| Holly Villamagna, M.D. | Fellow, Infectious Disease | Developing online modules that cover the content currently taught in an education intersession simulation lab for medical students. Medical students will be divided into groups - sim lab versus online modules - and I will be comparing how the two different educational interventions affect their invention prevention/PPE practices as well as their long-term infection control/PPE knowledge. |
| Laura Waagmeester, M.D. | Fellow, Pediatric Emergency Medicine | |
| Riana Wurzburger, M.D., M.P.H. | Chief Medical Resident, Internal Medicine | (With Patricia Liu) Create a 2-week IMPACT resident elective with an accompanying self-directed learning curriculum. In regards to evaluation and feedback, we plan on creating a pre- and post- survey to assess knowledge, and perceived knowledge and comfort. |
| Leila Zuo, M.D. | Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine | Study the feasibility of using the Anesthesia Toolbox to deploy a "standardized curriculum" across a few participating institutions, and analyzing resident/faculty satisfaction. |