2022 Educator Appreciation Day | Emory School of Medicine

The committee reviewed each nomination and selected those who exemplify the outstanding faculty of the Emory School of Medicine. The quotes below were taken from the nomination materials. Read more about these inspiring educators below and join us in congratulating these faculty!

Department of Medicine Bhavin Adhyaru

Dr. Adhyaru has been the best mentor and faculty member in my medical school experience. He is always committed to teaching us and prioritizing our small group. He has helped us perfect our physical exam, understand the class material, and better our skills as future physicians. He explains very clearly during small group and helps us understand difficult concepts, such as valvular diseases in cardiology. He is also invested in our wellness, meeting with us one-on-one to check in and see how he can best support our professional and personal development.

Department of Medicine Khaalisha Ajala

Dr. Ajala serves as the Site Assistant Director for Education for our Grady Hospital Medicine group. In this role, she has organized an outstanding internal professional development series that is highly-rated by our hospitalists. Dr. Ajala regularly attends on the teaching service at Grady where her engaging approach to teaching is very impactful for students, residents, and patients. Dr. Ajala has presented an incredibly impressive Grand Rounds entitled "Rounding While Black" to our division and to a number of other institutions.

Department of Surgery Olamide Alabi

Dr. Olamide is a fantastic educator who demonstrates an incredible commitment to her patients and trainees. She is a great role model for anyone from an underrepresented group that is interested in a surgical career. Dr. Olamide is a favorite attending for many and is perceived as always teaching and always approachable.

Department of Neurology Casey Albin

Dr. Albin hosts innovative simulation sessions, creates QR codes for quick teaching reference, and has formed excellent tweetorials for learner-directed education. She is developing new ways to study how we provide education in neurocritical care. She sustains efforts to enhance regional and national education efforts in our field.

Department of Medicine Pooja Amarapurkar

Dr. Amarapurkar is an enthusiastic and compelling teacher and mentor! She is an active lecturer in the Nephrology Core Curriculum for Internal Medicine Residents and started a sickle cell kidney clinic with nephrology fellows rotating in her clinic. She mentors fellows on scholarly activity projects involving the sickle cell kidney population. She takes outstanding care of those vulnerable patients at Grady!

Department of Medicine Monee Amin

Dr. Amin is a great mentor who takes the time to be available despite her busy schedule. For example, whenever a resident is returning to the site, she carves time out of her schedule to sit down and check in with them. She is very cognizant of the difficulties one can face with residency and makes it a point to give time to the residents to talk about them. She is quick to recognize when a medical trainee is in need of support, and goes out of her way to understand how she can help them. She takes time outside of her inpatient activities to create content that helps to further education for faculty and students. She presents content in a manner that is fun and easy to digest, which is very different from other podcasts. She is always available to help guide the residents in their areas of interest.

Department of Medicine Tolu Amzat

Dr. Amzat leads the group on educational initiatives by being the site Assistant Director for education, which includes arranging conferences with specialist and other teams around the hospital. Dr. Amzat engages the group on the support of educational missions by bringing in upper level family medicine residents to rotate in the community setting and giving junior faculty an opportunity to teach and shine.

Department of Gynecology & Obstetrics Jessica Arluck

A teacher is not just someone who gives a good lecture or a bedside teaching point, it is also someone who cares deeply about the learner, the person. Dr. Arluck is that person who cares about the whole learner. She treats her residents with the care necessary for their professional and personal success. A Program Director's job is never done. It is 24/7 and not just about a curriculum. It is about their personal life, their future careers, and their wellness. Dr. Arluck provides that sort of mentoring that does not end with a test or a procedure log. She is a mentor, advisor, and at times, a friend to her trainees.

Department of Medicine Wendy Armstrong

Dr. Armstrong is dedicated to the education of medical students and fellows. She is always available to support her learners, and she enthusiastically teaches even though she is busy with so many other responsibilities. Wendy is a phenomenal mentor and sponsor. Not only does she set aside time in her schedule for regular meetings, but she is always looking out for opportunities to sponsor her mentees and help them succeed.

Department of Medicine Byron Au-Yeung

Dr. Au-Yeung is an extremely generous teacher and carefully provides very constructive feedback to each student individually. He makes himself available outside office/class hours so the students can come to his office to discuss their projects one-on-one. During these meetings, he further emphasizes the importance of elaborating a strong scientific question that is grounded in prior rigorous research. He never rushes these meetings and is always extremely generous with his time and his feedback. Dr. Au-Yeung truly cares about the student’s progress and he will go out of his way to train and support the students.

Department of Medicine Eric Baken

Dr. Baken is clearly passionate about teaching and learning. Not only does he teach residents POCUS at the VA, he also talks through patients with his colleagues ensuring we learn from our patients as well. He represented the VA at our division's annual teaching competition and did an amazing job. Dr. Baken is a great colleague, eager to listen to questions we have in the work room, provide his thoughts and create discussion of his own. His passion sets forth a good example for the trainees to follow in his footsteps. As a colleague, he continues to share new literature to our group on a regular basis.

Department of Medicine Arpita Basu

Dr. Basu is a wonderful teacher! She has always taken the time to explain and teach complicated topics in transplant nephrology that her students may have difficulty grasping. Given the pandemic when it was hard to stay accountable, Dr. Basu always encouraged and motivated her students and fellows to remain focused. She is an excellent teacher who is always simplifying difficult topics to a more palatable form. She always takes the time no matter how busy to help and troubleshoot.

Department of Medicine Sivan Ben-Moshe

Dr. Ben-Moshe dedicates a huge amount of time to caring for her patients and teaching her residents - she has a great eye for follow up details and involving the learners in caring for patients after the visit. She is very dedicated to thinking about the next generation and how we care for the elderly in aging and dying, and she puts her heart into writing a curriculum for 1st year medical students to start them thinking about these questions before they enter the clinical setting. She synthesizes complex topics with ease and provides very specific and helpful focus areas. It's clear that not only is she an extraordinary clinician, but she is also an amazing teacher, rendering her vast knowledge base on the next generation of effective leaders.

Department of Radiology & Imaging Sciences Zachary Bercu

Dr. Bercu has been coordinating the interventional radiology resident and fellow lecture series for several years, which has proven to be highly attended. Dr. Bercu mentors medical students, residents, and fellows in innovation, and he is involved in the GA Tech capstone design program. He is extremely approachable and always willing to teach and explain new concepts and procedures to other specialists. He is part of multiple interdisciplinary rounds and his knowledge is crucial to patient care.

Department of Orthopaedics Tom Bradbury

Dr. Bradbury has spent years tirelessly showing and educating residents on how to do hip and knee replacements and then observing them do the steps while providing feedback. He takes time after each operative day to review cases with trainees. Dr. Bradbury also dedicates 30 minutes in the mornings before operative days to review cases with junior colleagues, fellows, and residents.

Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Kyle Bradley

Dr. Bradley is willing to be honest and candid with feedback and generously invests his time into helping trainees and colleagues navigate through difficult situations. He is a role model in Pathology and demonstrates a high level of professional integrity daily. When Dr. Bradley is consulted on a challenging case, he takes the extra step to contact us and provide his analysis. We all invariably learn something new.

Department of Medicine Jason Brown

Dr. Brown is an exemplary teacher on the wards - he always stops by to discuss mutual patients with our team and promotes the autonomy of his learners. You can always see the joy that teaching brings him whether he's talking to a learner or another faculty member. Dr. Brown spends countless hours developing teaching sessions for the IM residency program, and it is evident by the product of his work. His sessions are always high-yield, creative, and delivered with exceptional enthusiasm.

Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Janetta Bryksin

Dr. Bryksin is a lead educator in clinical chemistry at EUH for the pathology residency program. She is devoted and creative in teaching clinical chemistry, provides one-on-one teaching sessions, discusses interesting cases and mentors residents in clinical pathology. She is passionate, knowledgeable and always available to answer questions not only for residents, but staff and other faculty. Dr. Bryksin is a highly regarded consultant for clinicians, laboratory personnel, colleagues, and pathology trainees with excellent work ethic and professionalism.

Department of Pediatrics Rebecca Burger

Dr. Burger is known to engage her trainees with warmth and help them improve as physicians. She works hard to assist them to grow in their careers. Dr. Burger educates physicians across the country in her area of expertise, pediatric sedation. Her dynamic didactics make her a sought-after teacher in many national courses.

Department of Medicine Elena Cabb

Dr. Cabb is a great teacher, energetic, and up to date on all aspect of Geriatrics. Through her role with the Geriatric course for first-year students, she coordinates a whole day of activities to teach the students about geriatric syndromes. She has also been teaching residents and fellows in the subacute and nursing home setting the importance of patient care and safe transitions. Dr. Cabb mentors fellows and teaches in departmental lectures.

Department of Medicine Hila Calev

Dr. Calev has done exceptional work as the site IM clerkship director for our medical students. She is a wonderful resource for them and ensures they're getting a robust educational experience while rotating at our site. She has also organized education sessions for our HMS faculty on topics related to medical student education such as evaluations and feedback.

Department of Pediatrics Andres Camacho-Gonzalez

Dr. Camacho-Gonzalez is a committed and passionate teacher who inspires our pediatric infectious disease fellows to be productive and succeed. He has a gentle way of helping fellows to aspire to accomplish more than their stated goals, but he does so in a way that is supportive and helpful. Dr. Camacho-Gonzalez is the physician's educator with expertise in caring for children and adolescents living with HIV. His availability to educate physician colleagues is recognized by those who frequently call him at all hours of the night and weekend, when he is always helpful and responsive.

Department of Radiation Oncology Richard Castillo

Dr. Castillo is known to have great teaching skills that help his students excel. He gives outstanding lectures and presentations that help his students engage, learn, and understand the materials. Dr. Castillo possesses an exceptional depth of medical physics knowledge and is very skilled at instilling it in his students.

Department of Medicine Shen Chen

Dr. Chen holds MKSAP questions sessions for the site both in person and on Zoom to assist the students in their understanding. She helps organize Lunch and Learn sessions on Zoom, which have been highly rated and effective. She encourages and helps organize multiple poster and clinical vignette submissions for faculty members at our site.

Department of Pediatrics Shanelle Clarke

Dr. Clarke developed and organized simulation teaching for staff and trainees, which was proven to be very successful. She also created a feedback system and determined educational points of improvement around CPR and ECMO that have helped with continuous growth and development. Dr. Clarke has also been instrumental in junior faculty mentorship and guidance.

Department of Pediatrics Stephanie Cohen

Dr. Cohen puts her soul into her work to educate the next generation. She is extremely dedicated to her learners and willing to spend extra time teaching them to ensure their understanding and retention. Dr. Cohen continuously provides high quality teaching and support to her learners.

Department of Gynecology & Obstetrics Elizabeth Collins

Dr. Collins led the Emory University Hospital Midtown baby-friendly accreditation, which included teaching on all levels - lactation consultants, nurses, physicians and staff. This designation then leads to more education for our patients to be able to breastfeed with support. Dr. Collins serves as a L&D site instructor for the GYN/OB clerkship, where she guides the educational experience of M3 students starting their clinical experience in our field. Her presence sets the stage for an inclusive learning experience for our students.

Department of Human Genetics Karen Conneely

As the chair of GMB Curriculum Committee, Dr. Conneely successfully dedicated herself to re-design multiple courses to improve the quality of education and instruction provided by GMB graduate program. She has spent a tremendous amount of time with her trainees and provided important guidance that has impacted many of their careers. Dr. Conneely is an impactful educator.

Department of Medicine Lisa Daniels

Dr. Daniels tirelessly advocates for medical students during their critical care clerkships. During the pandemic, when the simulation lab shut down, she created her own simulation lab for monitoring so students could continue to participate in simulation. Dr. Daniels is a great ICU bedside teacher who goes out of her way to support individual learning and growth, helping learners to form clinical plans based on critical care principles and cutting edge research. She is a champion teacher and practitioner of evidence-based medicine.

Department of Radiology & Imaging Sciences Amir Davarpanah

Dr. Davarpanah is a voracious reader of the radiology literature and provides great information and instruction during trainee readouts. He always adds to the discussion at the weekly "Interesting Case Conferences" that further everyone's knowledge and understanding. Dr. Davarpanah encourages us all to keep reading and learning, which is one of the most important things we can do as educators and teachers.

Department of Family & Preventive Medicine Amber Davis

Even as a student, Dr. Davis would volunteer to teach her peers, and now as a PA in the department, she is always willing to precept a student. She is one of our most highly ranked preceptors. During COVID and the initiation of virtual learning, she was one of the first to meet the changing needs of the students in virtual office hours for anyone that needed extra help. Dr. Davis is also looking to innovate with different teaching methods, flipped classrooms, the use of technology, as well as controversial topics. She is such an asset to our program and our students.

Department of Rehabilitation Medicine Beth Davis

Dr. Davis is a linchpin of the Interprofessional Team Training program for our WHSC pre-licensure students. She has a keen sense of curricular needs and has recently developed innovative learning modules for our diverse set of students. She is a very well respected educator in her division. Through quantity and superior quality, she is an excellent educator: well respected by her students and colleagues.

Department of Surgery Maggie Diller

Dr. Diller has been running weekly chiefs' mock oral sessions on her own time to prepare the students for oral boards. She started an enhanced stress resilience program for resident wellness and has acted as a faculty mentor to residents who are remediating tasks, requiring substantially extra time. Dr. Diller accomplished all of this in her second year as an attending (where she lets residents operate and doesn't keep them from doing cases because she's a younger graduate).

Department of Emergency Medicine Christopher Dudley

Dr. Dudley is an incredible educator in the simulation lab and in the clinical setting. He brings cases to life in the simulation center providing our students and residents the opportunity to manage difficult cases in a safe environment. At the bedside in the ER, he is a calm, knowledgeable educator. Dr. Dudley teaches on shift in a way that meets the learners where they are while balancing patient care. Dr. Dudley always welcomes medical students onto his team and takes the time to teach something with every patient encounter.

Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Sarah Dunn

Dr. Dunn is very dedicated to teaching trainees not only how to do psych testing, but how to think about psych testing. Dr. Dunn stands up for her trainees, especially when there are complicated patient dynamics. She is very knowledgeable about working with complex patients with significant trauma histories and psychopathology and generously imparts her wisdom to the psychology trainees.

Department of Anesthesiology Joseph Kirk Edwards

Dr. Edwards has overseen the internship creation as we have undergone a departmental transition. He has established a system to check in with all of the interns to ensure adjustment and reliable mentorship to help with navigating the intern year. He has created monthly didactics for the interns that has included wellness activities (including field trips to local museums), DEI curriculum, and simulation. In addition, Dr. Edwards has created a committee to address onboarding of interns into the operating room to help optimize preparation. Dr. Edwards is a fantastic mentor to both junior as well as more senior residents. He routinely mentors residents both professionally as well as personally during the challenging time of residency.

Department of Anesthesiology Michael Fiedorek

Dr. Fiedorek has spent untold hours organizing practice oral board and OSCE exams to prepare our Pediatric Anesthesiology fellows for their real tests. Dr. Fiedorek personally helped each of our Pediatric Anesthesiology fellows prepare and submit an abstract to this year's Society for Pediatric Anesthesia annual meeting, all of which were accepted for presentation at the meeting. He has recently been selected as the Associate Program Director of our Pediatric Anesthesiology fellowship program.

Department of Urology Christopher Filson

Dr. Filson is one of the most dedicated faculty in our department and is focused on resident didactic education. He takes hours out of his week to make sure residents learn how to think about prostate cancer and the scientific method. He is patient and incredibly passionate about teaching. Dr. Filson runs our Journal Club and is the driving force for resident learning. He is one of the most prolific researchers in our department and always has residents engaged on the research projects.

Department of Anesthesiology Babar Fiza

Dr. Fiza has been a great advocate and educator for the critical care fellows. He is available day or night. He is always looking to improve trainee education and create a supportive environment for learning. He has brought his extensive knowledge in ultrasound to the ICUs. In addition, he is always looking into ways to improve the POCUS knowledge of all the critical care team members. He is passionate about teaching and has a knack for understanding his audience's strengths and weaknesses, making him a great teacher.

Department of Pediatrics Thomas Fox

Dr. Fox developed a partnership with the Morehouse School of Medicine in which medical students and residents will have an opportunity to rotate with our pediatric infectious disease services at all of our clinical locations. He has developed a structured curriculum that has inspired many Morehouse students who previously did not have structured opportunities to pursue training in pediatric ID. Dr. Fox is widely revered for his patience, passion, and dedication to ensuring that trainees at all stages are inspired and motivated by caring for children with infectious diseases. He has a very kind and gentle way in which he inspires students to read and reflect about patients and patient care and conveys the importance of applying research in the literature to support decision making.

Department of Medicine Michael Gallagher

Dr. Michael Gallagher is a great preceptor, who engages in various teaching opportunities with learners of all levels. In addition to teaching on Internal Medicine wards at Grady, he frequently participates with the sub-internship elective as part of the Emory hospitalist group at Grady and receives many compliments about his teaching. Dr. Michael Gallagher also takes a role in teaching colleagues by presenting at education conference for the Emory hospitalists at Grady.

Department of Pediatrics Roshan George

Dr. George provides dynamic lectures to faculty and fellows. As fellowship director, Dr. George expertly mentors and supports the clinical education of nephrology fellows. Dr. George also successfully mentors multiple fellows for research and QI projects, both within and outside of nephrology.

Department of Family & Preventive Medicine Neena Ghose

Dr. Ghose always goes out of her way for learners at all levels. She is flexible and adapts to the teaching needs of our residents. As medical director for our large academic practice, she has gone above and beyond during the pandemic to accommodate and maximize the learning experience for our learners.

Department of Emergency Medicine Matthew Gittinger

Dr. Gittinger has implemented a curriculum that focuses on the aspects of professional life after residency graduation including searching for a job, contract negotiation, financial management, and malpractice. His dedication to ensuring his residents are well prepared for their careers and professional lives after graduation is appreciated and contributes greatly to our residents' future success. Dr. Gittinger is also dedicated to teaching while on shift. His high expectations for his learners ensure that they are well-versed in both the basics of emergency medicine and emerging literature and are able to apply it to patient care situations. He is a dedicated bedside teacher, always finding ways to educate on patient presentations and subtleties that can make large differences in patient care.

Department of Emergency Medicine Melissa Gittinger

Dr. Gittinger is an exemplary educator, particularly in her subspecialty of medical toxicology. Faced with the issue of educating multiple rotators with differing lengths of rotation and differing start dates and wanting to ensure they all received the same quality education, she organized the development of an online curriculum in medical toxicology that ensures all rotators receive the same basic education regardless of their duration on the clerkship. The curriculum is visually engaging, accessible online for the learner's convenience and continuously reviewed for quality improvement. It has received excellent reviews in its first year of use and will continue to be used for years to come.

Department of Medicine Alison Gizinski

Dr. Gizinski consistently goes above and beyond for her learners and her patients. She always provides learning point summaries and useful teaching points during fellowship didactics and grand rounds. Dr. Gizinski created a cadaver lab for the rheumatology fellows to learn injection techniques. She holds herself to a very high standard for patient care and is extremely committed to the rheumatology fellows' learning and pushes them to grow in their knowledge and patient care through didactics and rounds with her.

Department of Medicine Allie Goins

Dr. Goins made excellent contributions to journal club this year regarding COVID updates and planned an excellent resident conference on infectious disease topics. Dr. Goins is a wonderful educator to our colleagues and a great team player, who always keeps us up to date on new literature on hospital medicine. She is a passionate teacher.

Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Toby Goldsmith

Dr. Goldsmith is very skilled at encouraging the residents in our Women's Mental Health clinic to have hard conversations with their patients. She is thoughtful and considerate of patients and staff alike. She fosters the specific interests of residents and junior faculty by creating space for their interests in the clinic and supporting opportunities for individual learning.

Department of Anesthesiology Stephanie Grant

As the program director of our Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesiology fellowship program, Dr. Grant has been instrumental in not only finding excellent fellows, but helping the program to grow and thrive as it becomes an ACGME accredited fellowship in 2022. Dr. Grant has played a major role in revamping our didactic lecture series in Pediatric Anesthesiology to weather the evolving landscape of education in the era of COVID and to continue to make it a comprehensive educational experience. She dedicates her time to making sure pediatric cardiac anesthesiologists stay up to date on the newest information.

Department of Neurosurgery Robert Gross

As the Director of the MD/PhD program at Emory, Dr. Gross has led changes in the curriculum for the better, has served as a great role model, and has nearly tripled the number of graduates going on to surgical residencies. Dr. Gross has mentored numerous learners at all levels. Since 2006, he has mentored 21 high school students in his lab, in addition to 68 college students, 13 PhD students, 6 MD/PhD students, 5 master's students, 12 post docs, 17 post-residency fellows, 10 neurosurgery residents, and 1 neurology resident in research projects.

Department of Pediatrics Jamika Hallman-Cooper

Dr. Hallman-Cooper has tirelessly built a pediatric neurology residency program from the ground up. We now recruit 4 pediatric neurologists a year, which is a huge feat for a small field (most programs have 1-2 residents per year). Dr. Hallman-Cooper makes extra time for the residents and medical students. She is constantly rated as giving excellent bedside teaching.

Department of Pediatrics Nicole Hames

Dr. Hames is a star teacher at the bedside as a Pediatric Hospitalist. She finds the right balance between giving her residents autonomy and providing them with the support they need. She has championed resident education on the complicated subject of High Value Pediatric Healthcare. Dr. Hames is generous in sharing her expertise in Quality Improvement with all of our trainees.

Department of Medicine Minh Hang

Dr. Hang created an innovative program to further faculty education on evidence-based practice at our monthly Education meeting, a new way to keep us all updated on new guidelines and practical treatment of common pathologies we see. He is great working with residents and students - he participated in the med student capstone course, and his session was well received. When on the teaching teams, he specifically works with learners on physical exam findings, an important aspect of medicine that generally seems to get overlooked.

Department of Neurology Taylor Harrison

Dr. Harrison has served as the neurology clerkship director for several years and has always worked hard to make it a high-yield experience, including exposing students to sub-specialty clinics (e.g. movement disorders) where they work with international experts. He did an outstanding job of modifying the clerkship due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the challenges, he used a combination of varying clinical locations/schedules, online modules, and remote interactive didactics to make sure students got the critical information/experience they needed.

Department of Gynecology & Obstetrics Jessica Harroche

Dr. Harroche arranged for her specialty to come teach during our Geriatrics course at the medical school and was instrumental in ensuring its success. She is dedicated to teaching fellows, residents, and medical students at 3 different sites including Emory Decatur, Emory Midtown, and Grady. Dr. Harroche has been mentoring Uro/Gyn fellows since she started. She has been dedicated to their success and well-being.

Department of Medicine J. Sonya Haw

Dr. Haw is highly committed to fellow diversity. She has taken active steps to ensure that we have a highly diverse and inclusive set of trainees. She has created a curriculum to teach our trainees about transgender medicine- being one of the first in Georgia to do so. Dr. Haw has actively worked on a national level to develop cases to teach our trainees about health disparities and how to address them during patient care.

Department of Biomedical Engineering Karmella Haynes

Dr. Haynes taught a high level biomedical engineering course at the very beginning of the pandemic and the black lives matter movement. She went above and beyond to help us grow as students and people. Dr. Haynes was my only lecturer who was honest about her own struggles and genuinely cared about all of her students even outside of the classroom. It is one thing to have a discussion to address issues, but another more difficult task entirely to follow up with solutions. Dr. Haynes took all of our feedback and ideas into account and applied them to her class. Her flexibility, attentiveness, and quick response is indicative of a great mentor who is in tune with the changing needs of each new generation of students.

Department of Orthopaedics John Heller

Dr. Heller has spent his career training the next generation of spine surgeons by focusing his efforts to encourage, embolden, and train exemplary surgeons. The fruits of his labor are the spine surgeons sprinkled across the country who are forever indebted to his passion for teaching. Dr. Heller has devoted his life to training spine surgeons, and no words can completely describe what he has done for the field both intellectually, in regards to research, as well as personally by training a generation of spine surgeons.

Department of Emergency Medicine Megan Henn

Dr. Henn cares so deeply about her students whether in the ER or classroom. She is attentive to their needs both professionally and personally. She brings innovation into the classroom or zoom room. Whether during the pandemic or when we reentered the classroom, she brings warmth and innovation to the teaching. Her ability to take a 5 dollar model and create an interactive simulation session is unsurpassed.

Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Adriana Hermida

Dr. Hermida is very knowledgeable about geriatric psychiatry and makes sure she pours this knowledge on all students that rotate through the department. She is a good listener and supports her trainees in all aspects. Dr. Hermida looks out for awards and other professional training opportunities for all her students, trainees, and mentees to grow; she presents opportunities for network, research, and teaching. Dr. Hermida teaches with her genuine passion for geriatric psychiatry and inspires the entire team.

Department of Radiology & Imaging Sciences Keith Herr

Dr. Herr goes above and beyond in trying to ensure that every individual medical student's experience in optimized. This includes small things like notifying residents and faculty that a medical student is arriving, and more substantial planning like identifying good times of day, rotations, and experiences that students can benefit from. On top of that, he incorporates feedback from both faculty and trainees and iterates the experience over time! Dr. Herr is an expert educator, and devotes one-on-one time in cases where residents are struggling.

Department of Gynecology & Obstetrics Cherie Hill

Dr. Hill is leading our resident robotic minimally invasive training program in GYN. She always holds her learners to the highest standards and exemplifies clinical excellence. Dr. Hill goes out of her way to make sure residents get lot of hands on experiences in GYN surgery and is incredibly patient in the operating room with learners. She also graciously teaches her colleagues who are learning new surgical skills.

Department of Gynecology & Obstetrics Heather Hipp

Dr. Hipp’s passion for teaching is evident in every interaction she has with learners at all levels. She is frequently noted as being one of the best teachers in our department, for her clinical acumen, her approachability, and her demeanor. She always makes time to include learners in the patient care process – to discuss an REI topic during a busy clinic day or to deliver feedback to learners in between OR cases. Dr. Hipp is an very active participant in research education in our department.

Department of Anesthesiology McKenzie Hollon

Dr. Hollon created a perioperative POCUS (point of care ultrasound) service and educational curriculum for trainees across multiple departments during her few years at Grady Memorial Hospital. She is a nationally recognized champion of POCUS, speaking at national and international conferences on the subject and serving on the American Board of Anesthesiology committee for POCUS education. She truly inspires those around her to be better and is always looking for ways to use her influence to support others both across departments and institutions (e.g., getting people involved in national meetings and presentations).

Department of Pediatrics Sherita Holmes

Dr. Holmes is always readily available to provide guidance despite her busy schedule as an Assistant Program Director. Dr. Holmes goes above and beyond to ensure that the educational opportunities available to the pediatrics emergency medicine (PEM) fellows is top class. She revitalized the simulation program and has worked on ensuring that the program’s board review lectures lead to success on the PEM boards. Dr. Holmes serves as a research mentor and personal mentor for several PEM fellows concurrently. In addition, she is readily available to her colleagues as well.

Department of Pediatrics Susan Hupp

Dr. Hupp provides excellence in her mentorship of cardiology and ICU fellows. She continues to make influential strides and improvements in didactics and bedside teaching. Dr. Hupp has been instrumental in the development of professorial rounds for trainees to learn from multiple leaders in our institution.

Department of Medicine Sophia Hussen

Dr. Hussen incorporates students into her ongoing research projects, so they can have hands-on learning during their research fellowship. Her excitement is contagious when helping students through the research process step-by-step as they apply for their first grant. Dr. Hussen always takes the time out of her busy schedule to meet and to troubleshoot research complications. Dr. Hussen designed and taught a workshop on how to develop/write a manuscript for her research staff/mentees when we explained that we would like additional mentorship on writing.

Department of Medicine Patricia Hwang

Dr. Hwang has been spearheading the quality improvement initiative regarding Diabetes education amongst clinical staff (nursing and medical providers) at EUHM and has achieved much scholarly success over the past year in this area of interest Dr. Hwang is highly regarded as an excellent teacher to the residents and medical students and has been involved in multiple scholarly projects with learners. She helps lead our division's Clinical Vignette Competition and is an active participant in our division's research day as well.

Department of Neurosurgery Adriana Ioachimescu

Dr. Ioachimescu makes time for questions regarding patient care, spends countless hours teaching students about pituitary medicine, and involves students in conferences and talks. From a research standpoint, with her support and guidance, she has helped her students publish articles in peer-reviewed journals and present abstracts at multiple national conferences. She supports many trainees, having mentored endocrine fellows, undergraduate and medical students. Dr. Ioachimescu is also dedicated to advancing education at a national and patient level.

Department of Ophthalmology Nieraj Jain

Dr. Jain always has learners in mind. He always take time out of his day and ends his clinic with imaging rounds for the students and residents. Dr. Jain also mentors so many students, residents, and junior faculty to help them get involved with research. He has spearheaded and led the monthly journal club for the retina fellows. He volunteers his time, despite his busy clinical schedule.

Department of Medicine Kyle James

Dr. James has been leading our monthly journal club sessions for the hospital medicine group. Despite the challenges of the pandemic, he has continued to work on motivating faculty to present at the Journal Club sessions and to promote learning. Dr. James is an incredible teacher to the residents and medical students who all love working with him; he consistently gets high praise for his work on the teaching service.

Department of Anesthesiology Nerlyne Jimenez

Dr. Jimenez is a strong mentor to students and residents. She teaches, she encourages, she allows them to thrive. Dr. Jimenez is one of the reasons why residents make it through residency, with her mentorship and ability to teach. She is a strong capable teacher in and out of the OR. She takes the time necessary to run through cases even at nights!

Department of Family & Preventive Medicine James Jo

Dr. Jo is an excellent teacher of residents, emphasizing the autonomy of residents while also tactfully suggesting alternative treatment plans when appropriate. He creates a welcoming, judgment-free learning environment that allows residents and students to focus on learning. Dr. Jo has excellent clinical knowledge, but if a learner asks a question he doesn’t know, he shows learners it is ok to say “I don’t know,” and research the answer to a clinical question.

Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Nadine Kaslow

The support provided by Dr. Kaslow throughout the pandemic and beyond is remarkable. While most people focused on the medical aspects she tackled the important fear factor and its impact on the well-being of our faculty, learners, and staff. We have made it to the light at the end of the tunnel because of her contributions. She serves as a mentor and friend to so many in multiple departments. She gives 110% to everyone surrounding her and cares deeply about their success.

Department of Gynecology & Obstetrics Jennifer Kawwass

Dr. Kawwass serves as the MS4 REI rotation educator, where she coordinates 5-10 MS4s who rotate with the division and makes sure they have a fabulous experience during their month. She meets with them ahead of time to outline expectations, incorporates them easily into her clinic flow, and makes sure they leave the rotation with excellent support for their future residency applications and career. Dr. Kawwass' love for her job is genuine and infectious. There are many students and residents who have decided to pursue Gyn/OB and/or REI because of the time they spent with her in clinic and in the operating room.

Department of Gynecology & Obstetrics Robert Kelley

Dr. Kelley is an instrumental part of our OB/GYN residency education team. He is an outstanding teacher in the operating room as well as the outpatient clinic. Learners love his approach to teaching in the OR. He shares his knowledge of research methods and curiosity with learners at all stages. Through his leadership of the faculty development Teaching Pod, Dr. Kelley also serves as an education mentor for junior faculty. He is working with this team to investigate some novel approaches to educating residents.

Department of Pediatrics Sabina Kennedy

Dr. Kennedy shows a dedication to educating people worldwide via lectures (even if late at night) and via direct travel to various locations. He has created a dynamic and successful education curriculum for fellows to learn about dialysis. Dr. Kennedy mentors, guides, and instructs pediatric residents as they navigate their nephrology rotation.

Department of Emergency Medicine Emily Kiernan

Dr. Kiernan has demonstrated exceptional commitment to education. She has demonstrated skill at teaching her fellows in medical toxicology in engaging ways and also engages on national and international stages to educate around medical toxicology. She is active at all levels of teaching (medical student, resident, fellow and attending) and even engages ancillary staff, always tailoring her education to the audience at hand. She makes a complex topic like toxicology enjoyable and ensures that acutely poisoned patients will be expertly cared for by all staff and providers.

Department of Medicine Erin Kim

Dr. Kim runs the Education Committee at Atlanta VA, and is committed to providing useful sessions to engage the faculty in discussion and keep them up to date on evidence-based practice. Dr. Kim is innovative and resourceful with the sessions and spends time to invite speakers that talk about topics that are necessary but not always discussed. Once again she always does an excellent job of having speakers in various traditional and non-traditional topics. She also does an excellent job in conducting the sessions and presenting engaging questions to further the discussion.

Department of Pediatrics Anjali Kirpalani

Dr. Kirpalani directs the recently ACGME accredited Fellowship program for Pediatric Hospital Medicine at Emory. This is a newly recognized subspecialty of the American Board of Pediatrics and Emory has one of the most respected programs in the country. The program has grown from one to four post-residency fellow trainees in the last 5 years. In addition to mentoring Pediatric Hospital Medicine fellows, she is a talented instructor for our residents and medical students.

Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Brandon Kitay

Dr. Kitay is engaged in both undergraduate and graduate medical education across the School of Medicine including provision of didactics and bedside teaching on themes of treatment refractory mood disorders, "Interventional Psychiatry," and understanding the role of stigma in limiting patient access to potential lifesaving treatments. He is Director of the Longitudinal Mood and Anxiety Disorder Module for the Adult Psychiatry Residency Program, which is the largest, most complex module in the Psychiatry Residency Program.

Department of Medicine Srinija Konduru

Since joining our division two years ago, Dr. Srinija Konduru has had an impressive impact as a clinician and clinical teacher at Grady Memorial Hospital. She is one of a limited number of hospitalists in our division to have received a perfect 5.0 composite score on resident evaluations during the past year.

Department of Family & Preventive Medicine Ambar Kulshrestha

Dr. Kulshrestha is a great lecturer who makes learning and longer lectures tolerable and interactive. Dr. Kulshrestha is very dependable and knowledgeable. His students always learn something new from his teaching. He extols words of wisdom and help whenever needed. Dr. Kulshrestha is enthusiastic, practices and encourages evidence-based medicine, and loves to teach. He is a great attending.

Department of Hematology & Medical Oncology Mary Jo Lechowicz

Dr. Lechowicz constantly goes above and beyond to assure medical students receive high-quality education, mentoring, sponsorship and all-around care. She’s someone for all faculty to emulate in what can be offered to students. Dr. Lechowicz has personally mentored medical students and residents in high-quality research, including methodology, execution, analysis and manuscript completion. She expresses true compassion and is a committed educator for our university.

Department of Pediatrics Gerald Lee

Dr. Lee has completely overhauled the immunology curriculum for the medical students in a way that has not only increased scores but also desire for the field. Dr. Lee is the clerkship director for allergy that supports learners from medical students through fellows. He does a fantastic job at organizing schedules for many learners that come through our clinics, which has significantly affected the number of residents who ultimately apply for allergy/immunology fellowship. Dr. Lee is also the allergy/immunology fellowship program director who has mentored fellows into becoming great clinicians but also has supported their academic endeavors.

Department of Human Genetics Lauren Lichten

Despite the extra challenge of the pandemic, Dr. Lichten worked tirelessly to coordinate rotations, ensuring that our students still receive well-rounded and excellent clinical training. She has been creative and collaborative in coming up with additional opportunities for students based on their interests and program needs. She has also become a resource on educational scholarship for other faculty in the program and is a very willing and helpful resource for students on their own research projects.

Department of Emergency Medicine Steven Lindsey

Dr. Lindsey effortlessly teaches on shift - including residents and medical students - while providing excellent patient care. He has been a creative force in the EM clerkship with novel ideas, new content, and engaging classroom skills. Dr. Lindsey is confident, approachable, and humble and dedicates his time to teaching residents and medical students alike.

Department of Emergency Medicine Emberlynn Liu

Dr. Liu provides an exemplary experience to residents on the emergency medicine ultrasound rotation. She provides excellent feedback and oversight on the emergency medicine ultrasound fellows' teaching. Dr. Liang is always willing to step in when needed for all educational efforts and go above and beyond to assist wherever needed.

Department of Orthopaedics John Louis-Ugbo

Dr. Ugbo is an excellent teacher in the OR who leads by example and by work ethic. He goes above and beyond in conferences to teach residents and our fellow by providing good and constructive feedback and clinical knowledge. He is a great colleague and partner. Dr. Ugbo stresses that resident wellness is an important part of our education and takes time to speak with us daily about how we are doing. His unwavering and tireless dedication to education resulted in well-trained and well prepared Emory orthopedic residents, Morehouse medical students and orthopedic staff.

Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Daniel Lubin

Dr. Lubin helped develop CANVAS for the residents - including recording lectures, writing notes and creating quizzes. Additionally, he creates and delivers brilliant and engaging lectures, even when last minute. Dr. Lubin has mentored several residents, and they have been inspired to join cytology.

Department of Anesthesiology Christopher Ma

Dr. Ma always goes above and beyond to challenge our thinking of the relevant clinical topics in order to solidify our understanding. He treats us as peers but is always trying to make us better by challenging us to improve our anesthetic management each day. Dr. Ma self-reflects frequently to continue to improve as an educator and attending.

Department of Surgery Anuj Mahajan

Dr. Mahajan is a great technical coach for the residents rotating on vascular surgery. He is approachable, thoughtful, and measured. Never flustered, Dr. Mahajan truly understands the importance of role modeling for trainees.

Department of Medicine Noble Maleque

Dr. Maleque, Associate Program Director for the internal medicine residency focusing on EUHM, is revered by residents and particularly by Chief Residents whom he personally mentors. He was recently a featured expert on an episode of the podcast, "The Curbsiders", educating about inpatient management of hypertension. Dr. Maleque also serves as a small group advisor in the School of Medicine and has mentored countless students, residents, and faculty over the years.

Department of Medicine Kimberly Manning

Dr. Manning is always there when I need help with a learner. Her wealth of experience helps her understand the root cause of the problem and is invaluable to her ability brainstorm ways to approach the learner and/or address the problem.

Department of Family & Preventive Medicine Lawson Marcewicz

Dr. Marcewicz is a fantastic teacher. He is thoughtful and detailed to review all components of an encounter - he is often able to debrief for an hour or more, reviewing all the components of the conversation and considering different ethical implications of how we talk and what we share. The dutiful way he reviews every encounter so thoroughly is critical for how the palliative care fellows grow, and all learners (medical students and residents) on the rotation benefit from this feedback and debriefing.

Department of Medicine Annie Massart

Dr. Massart is an outstanding clinician educator who rotates frequently on the resident teaching service at EUH. Dr. Massart serves as the Assistant Division Director of Faculty Development for the Emory Division of Hospital Medicine and as the Site Assistant Director for Education for our EUH Hospitalist Service. In these roles, she has implemented outstanding professional development activities that provide evidence-based updates and serve as a vehicle for our faculty to teach each other. She also serves as the Co-Chair of the Emory Division of Hospital Medicine Education Council. Her development of an exchange program with other leading institutions (Hopkins, Cleveland Clinic, MGH, Northwestern, Duke, etc.) has allowed our hospitalists to hear from experts in our field and has given our faculty chances to speak to national audiences.

Department of Family & Preventive Medicine Meredith Maxwell

Dr. Maxwell is an extraordinary and dedicated educator for palliative care fellows. She is currently arranging all the educational experiences for learners in the Supportive Care Clinic and has created a curriculum and provides a tremendous amount of support to all level of trainees. She is working on developing a national curriculum in outpatient palliative care with several other institutions which will change the way provider education in this area in our field.

Department of Surgery Jonathan Meisel

Dr. Meisel is a fantastic bedside teacher! He makes the subject material easy to understand an in both his clinical teaching and in formal lectures.

Department of Orthopaedics Andrew Milby

Dr. Milby is an engaged educator for both medical students and residents. He is effective and efficient in his teaching and a role model to orthopedic residents who admire his bedside manner.

Department of Medicine Amy Miller

Dr. Miller is an amazing colleague and educator - she works with residents when she is on service and is well regarded among them as a great teaching and attending. She also works with the medical students, helping organize their capstone course, specifically in transitions of care. Dr. Miller clearly values the education of her peers as well; she is involved with the mentoring team and regularly assists and encourages colleagues to create clinical vignette or case reports for interesting cases.

Department of Gynecology & Obstetrics Taniqua Miller

Dr. Miller is very involved at the School of Medicine in advising medical students, especially when COVID required creation of a virtual advising approach. She is an exemplary teacher and mentor to her Harvey Society small group of medical students. Dr. Miller worked closely with leadership and current residents to revamp the recruitment process to prioritize URIM applicants and successfully increased our URIM matches by over 50% to GYN/OB.

Department of Rehabilitation Medicine Hassan Monfared

As the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation residency program director, Dr. Monfared spends many hours dedicated to the resident’s education. He supports all educational activities for residents and spine fellows and sets time aside with rotating residents for mentoring and education.

Department of Orthopaedics Tom Moore, Jr.

Dr. Moore is an excellent orthopedic resident teacher and has done much to improve resident test scores and academic preparedness. He is an outstanding role model and advocate for those on orthopedic rotations and appreciated by residents for his demeanor and decision making.

Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Michael Morrier

Dr. Morrier has extraordinary patience with undergraduate students new to the field of research. He is available at a moment's notice for trainees to assist with applying their learning to interactions with clients. He taught parents and family members how to implement teaching strategies at home and in the community.

Department of Anesthesiology Shivani Mukkamala

Dr. Mukkamala is an outstanding mentor. She has created her own elective that is widely popular among applicants applying into anesthesiology. It’s also a unique way for students to learn all the peri-op responsibilities that anesthesia offers. She created a learning environment that fosters growth and has developed a network of recent Emory grads that makes learning about different programs and making connections easier.

Department of Pharmacology & Chemical Biology TJ Murphy

Dr. Murphy is an education leader of the department directing multiple courses. He developed biostatistical methods and educational books for students and advises students for their career planning beyond graduation.

Department of Pediatrics Brittany Murray

Dr. Murray goes out of her way to help trainees find their niche and explore how to merge clinical work with their area of academic interest. She provides opportunities for those of us who are premed to engage in Global Health and sits down with fellows to discuss career plans. Her lectures in the Global Health course that includes Human Heath students as well as medical and nursing students are engaging and demonstrate how to be involved in global health!

Department of Emergency Medicine Kahra Nix

Dr. Nix helps run the medical student ultrasound rotation. Despite working nights in the ER, she spends every Wednesday teaching ultrasound skills! On shift, she engages students who rotate through the ER to understand the entire patient and their unique issues and obstacles to care. During the peak of the pandemic, while on maternity leave, she helped develop an online ultrasound curriculum for use at several EM programs.

Department of Surgery Nick Papandria

Dr. Papandria is an incredible asset to our residency program. His interest in simulation has helped numerous trainees advance in their technical skills. He is incredibly easy to talk to and understands the concerns and goals of the residents. He has overseen the technical development of our department's surgery program and has implemented numerous technology-based innovations to assist with real-time feedback.

Department of Surgery Dipan Patel

Dr. Patel’s virtual mock oral exam session for residents at Emory and Morehouse has been a huge benefit to trainees as they prepare for their board exams. As a young faculty member, he has encouraged resident autonomy in a way that allows them to progress with their operative skills and really learn how to manage general surgery. He has taken on mentorship of residents with dedication and compassion and with the goal of truly helping them progress over time.

Department of Anesthesiology Gaurav Patel

Dr. Patel is a super-star teacher. He knows how to place the trainee at ease while making sure they are learning critical skills. Dr. Patel teaches all level of trainees and excels at it at all levels -- medical students, AA student, resident, junior faculty member. He is a great mentor and works with students to help them excel in a variety of arenas.

Department of Medicine Varun Phadke

Dr. Phadke works tirelessly year after year to create innovative teaching sessions for medical students, residents, and fellows. As clerkship director, he is available, knowledgeable and cares about the success and growth of each of his students. As a colleague, he always inspires and motivates me to improve my teaching. He gives specific, actionable feedback and always has suggestions to make my teaching even better.

Department of Medicine Ingrid Pinzon

Dr. Pinzon is an expert on care coordination and clinical documentation improvement and provides constant education for fellow hospitalists in these topic areas. Dr. Pinzon's greatest educational impact is in the Latinx community where she regularly teaches lay audiences on medical topics including COVID-19, diabetes, and hypertension.

Department of Biomedical Engineering Felipe Quiroz

Dr. Quiroz is an inspiring role model for our growing community of LatinX BME students. He goes above and beyond his responsibilities as a professor to serve as primary faculty advisor for LOGRAS, a major LatinX graduate student organization at Georgia Tech. There, he leads discussion panels and hosts regular office hours to promote PhD-to-postdoc and postdoc-to-faculty transitions among our LatinX students in STEM. Dr. Quiroz is an inspiration for others!

Department of Microbiology & Immunology Philip Rather

Dr. Rather is dedicated to the education of scientists in microbial physiology and has been the Director/co-Director of IBS 504, Introduction to Prokaryotic Genetics, for many years He is an outstanding mentor to PhD graduate students in his laboratory and serves as a mentor to junior faculty in the department.

Department of Emergency Medicine Elijah Robinson

Dr. Robinson is a great teacher in the ER who cares for his patients while simultaneously teaching at the bedside. Dr. Robinson's reach is not just limited to the ER or the classroom. Through social media, he is expanding his value to the community. His fun, relevant and meaningful content is reaching a huge community audience through his social media outlets.

Department of Pediatrics Saidee Rodriguez

Dr. Rodriguez has worked to develop a career mentorship conference series with national leaders in our field and supported the formalization of a coaching/mentoring program for trainees. She is dedicated to supporting trainee mentoring and wellness.

Department of Surgery Jason Sciarretta

As program director of the acute care surgery fellowship, Dr. Sciaretta is always pursuing the best educational opportunities for his fellows. He takes every possible opportunity to create teachable moments. He is very approachable and offers sensible explanations and provides a great balance of supervision and autonomy in the operating room.

Department of Radiology & Imaging Sciences Aarti Sekhar

Dr. Sekhar is a terrific teacher. She collects and shares interesting cases in her teaching file, provides great lectures during conference and takes the time to organize complex topics into digestible PowerPoints. Dr. Sekhar encourages us to never stop learning!

Department of Medicine Hasan Shabbir

Dr. Shabbir always provides education at our site meetings about quality measures. He represented our site and presented at the division’s annual teaching competition for 2022. He has mentored many faculty members who are interested in doing quality improvement projects.

Department of Emergency Medicine Philip Shayne

Being a role model is a vital teaching skill. We sometimes forget that our learners are paying attention to our actions. Whether caring for a patient, interacting with staff or just their presence, learners gain a great deal of experience from their role models. Dr. Shayne fits that model through years of experience and expertise. He epitomizes the ability to teach the next generation without a PowerPoint presentation.

Department of Pediatrics Sarah Slocum Freeman

"Sarah left on maternity leave shortly after I began at a postdoctoral fellow in clinical and translational research. My role was to co-direct our Single-Subject Research Laboratory with Sarah. Sarah ensured that she not only talked me through her expectations and how to complete necessary tasks, but modeling tasks for me, and gave ample time for me to contact situations under her guidance before she left. Her pre-emptive guidance allowed me to confidently grow the lab from 2 staff to 5 undergraduate research fellows and from 1 to 3 ongoing research projects. Sarah and I also have worked on two clinical cases together in our Intensive Outpatient Program for children with severe challenging behavior. She allowed me to take the lead on responsibilities she felt I would thrive at. For other tasks, we would role-play before I took the lead on completing the actual task. I now oversee my cases independently with weekly supervision meetings. I've witnessed Sarah lead several staff and caregiver trainings. She is very thorough and clear. Her tactful approach achieves buy-in from all parties while allowing her to explain our approach to assessment and treatment.

Department of Family & Preventive Medicine Ryan Smith

Dr. Smith leads the UGME program for Family and Preventive Medicine. He single-handedly developed a mentorship program to match Emory medical students to Family Medicine mentors. He has shown a commitment to teaching learners at all levels. Dr. Smith is a "yes" guy, he is always willing to step up and represent our department. He advocates for students and is an exemplar of the very best in primary care.

Department of Medicine Jennifer Spicer

Dr. Spicer is a beloved clinical teacher whose skills are sought out and admired within and outside the institution. She has transformed the residency core conference curriculum, and in the process, she helped develop the teaching skills of numerous faculty colleagues. She regularly provides exemplary educational research and career mentorship to learners across the entire spectrum.

Department of Medicine Bashar Staitieh

Dr. Staitieh has singlehandedly spearheaded an entirely new curriculum for teaching ventilator management to critical care fellows and has extended the program across the critical care subspecialties from pulmonary to pediatrics, emergency medicine, surgery, anesthesia, and neurology. He is consistently a sought after teacher on the wards and has received the Division's teaching award from our fellowship multiple years.

Department of Emergency Medicine Alaina Steck

Dr. Steck is well-loved as an educator by medical students, residents, and fellows. Despite being quite busy with the opioid use disorder treatment service, she always makes time to educate all learners. She recently received the exemplary teaching award from the medical toxicology fellows for her ability to turn even the most complex concepts and chemical structures into clinically relevant facts. She is engaging and well-prepared for both her formal and bedside teaching and is an irreplaceable asset to emergency medicine and medical toxicology.

Department of Gynecology & Obstetrics Sejal Tamakuwala

Dr. Tamakuwala is an award-winning educator and innovator who works tirelessly in her pursuit of an excellent clinical experience for rotating medical students. She works closely with students and residents at all possible opportunities and is very receptive to feedback regarding their experiences. Dr. Tamakuwala was recently named the Associate Director of the Ob/Gyn Medical Student Clerkship. In this role she has been a critical part of the reimagination project for our clerkship, for which she has provided invaluable insight and innovative suggestions for improvement.

Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Yilang Tang

Dr. Tang is an outstanding medical educator who has positively impacted many trainees. He is the training director of the Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship program and brings incredible enthusiasm to his role as a medical educator. He is a real master in “Teaching in the Moment”, and he has great skills in identifying teaching points from each patient. He genuinely cares about trainees’ career development and wellbeing, and he values trainees’ feedback.

Department of Medicine Meredith Trubitt

Dr. Trubitt has found a niche in educating her colleagues and residents about naloxone and when/how to prescribe it at the VA. She is a co-host of the inpatient medicine portion of the internal medicine podcast "The Curbsiders." Through this forum she is able to reach all levels of learners inside and outside of Emory. Dr. Trubitt is thoughtful and dedicated when it comes to working with the residents - teaching using her extensive medical knowledge, but also showing them what it takes to be a great physician to your patients.

Department of Radiology & Imaging Sciences Smyrna Tuburan

Dr. Tuburan created a professional video highlighting the reasons one might choose a career in pediatric radiology. Through her mentoring of radiology residents, several of them have decided to go into Pediatric Radiology, a field in need of physicians. Through her work with the clerkship, the interest in radiology as a whole has been rejuvenated.

Department of Medicine Jason Velasquez

Dr. Velasquez has shown outstanding leadership as the director of care coordination engaging all faculty on new initiatives, including giving opportunities to junior faculty for greater involvement. He serves as an official and unofficial mentor to so many faculty members and is the ultimate role model for providing great patient care and being an outstanding citizen at the hospital.

Department of Emergency Medicine Joshua Wallenstein

Dr. Wallenstein is the epitome of a 21st century educator. He teaches at the bedside, in the classroom and in small group sessions. He is a curricular leader and also a small group leader. One of his students commented that in the ER he cared about their education, was a great teacher, and spent time getting to know them.

Department of Cell Biology Jill Ward

Dr. Ward teaches human anatomy, both lecture and laboratory instruction, in both the medical school and physician's assistant programs. As a NIH-funded investigator with an independent laboratory, Dr. Ward has a strong commitment to research and education, inspiring the next generation of physicians, scientists, and other health care professionals.

Department of Medicine Stacey Watkins

Dr. Watkins co-leads a two week-long MD/PhD re-entry course at Grady Memorial Hospital. She is instrumental in developing the curriculum and teaching the students as they return upon completion of their PhD years. She also coaches faculty to help improve their preceptorship skills when helping with the course. She is actively involved in helping teach learners both traditional teaching while rounding on inpatient wards, as well as non-traditional teaching on resident and sub-intern electives with the Emory hospitalists group at Grady.

Department of Pediatrics Stephanie Wechsler

Dr. Wechsler goes above and beyond in coordinating and preparing for her genetic counseling class. She receives uniformly high ratings as a caring and committed educator! She always takes the time to patiently explain both common and rare presentations and her familiarity with both genetics and pediatric cardiology position her uniquely to teach about these complex patients.

Department of Anesthesiology Devin Weinberg

Dr. Weinberg manages the medical student rotation at Emory University Hospital. He is a great teacher and mentor for these students and truly allows them develop a sense of autonomy. Not only is he a great anesthesiologist, but a strong teacher in critical scenarios.

Department of Ophthalmology Jill Wells

Dr. Wells is a great mentor. She helps me establish my goals, reassures me whenever I feel like I'm running behind, and inspires me to be better. I always look forward to our mentoring sessions. She makes an active effort to improve her teaching skills, and even asks her mentees for feedback. Dr. Wells is an excellent ocular oncologist. Observing her work and interactions with patients inspires me to become a compassionate doctor.

Department of Emergency Medicine Melissa White

Dr. White's department nickname, "Mama White" says it all. Teaching is not just about the transfer of medical knowledge or care it is also about the soul of the physician. Dr. White cares so deeply about her learners. Her teaching extends beyond the knowledge and extends to caring for each other and ourselves. Without this influence, our learners would be lost.

Department of Medicine Jason Williams

Dr. Williams has a talent for explaining complicated topics and physiology to residents and colleagues. Leading the POCUS team at the VA, he has many opportunities to share his knowledge. He regularly attends and actively participates in faculty education meetings and lunchtime resident educational conferences - his input is consistently insightful. Dr. Williams regularly collaborates across Emory sites to work with POCUS and teach for procedure day.

Department of Surgery Josh Winer

Dr. Winer is an important resource and tireless teacher for the medical students on surgery. He is easy to approach and always offers great advice! He is a great small-group educator, wonderful teacher, a true student advocate.

Department of Pediatrics David Wolf

Dr. Wolf takes time to include all learners at all levels in his clinics and inpatient. He is an enthusiastic teacher and explains difficult concepts clearly .

Department of Pediatrics Brian Zanoni

Dr. Zanoni is a calm, supportive, and effective research mentor; he walked me step-by-step through the research process from formulating a thoughtful research question, to writing my first (successful) grant, to creating and submitting an international research protocol. Dr. Zanoni is the type of mentor that is always willing to teach; he is happy to answer any patient diagnostic or treatment question and provide insightful evidence based responses, sending me literature and guidelines to help me formulate my own patient management plan.