The annual Educator Appreciation Day is a special acknowledgment for Emory University School of Medicine faculty members who lend their passion and skills to educate, encourage, and support scholars and learners across Emory. Their work extends beyond the classroom and into the community impacting generation after generation.
In recognition of this year’s Educator Appreciation Day, the Emory Medicine Recognitions Committee sent out a call for nominations for educators who go above and beyond the call of duty as teachers and mentors. The committee reviewed more than 90 submissions from peers, colleagues, and trainees.
Please join us in congratulating the following 17 Department of Medicine faculty members featured by the committee!
Quotes below were taken from the nomination materials.
Wendy Armstrong, MD (Infectious Diseases)
“Novel curricular design that goes beyond Emory”
“Dedicated to learners”
“Fantastic and engaging lecturer”
Yelena Burklin, MD (Hospital Medicine)
“Faculty preceptor for DELP PA program and is recognized by her PA students as an excellent educator; same on house staff team by residents”
“She is beloved by residents for her teaching skills on the EUHM wards rotation”
“She is a wonderful attending on the teaching wards. She is always reading new articles and teaching her team about new studies that have come out in medicine. She is definitely one of our favorite attendings”
Dominique Cosco, MD (General Medicine and Geriatrics)
“Our most engaged IM Program Associate Program Director”
“Developed the Global Health Program for Residency”
“Dedicated to the program and to the learners”
Kimberly Curseen, MD (Hospital Medicine)
“Sacrifices her time to teach medical students, residents, fellows, and other physicians”
“She spends a great deal of time educating patients about their diseases and prognosis”
“A national expert teaching MDs /NPs about cannabis, opiates, palliative care, and cultural humility”
Octavian Ioachimescu, MD, PhD (Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine)
“Best teacher of the year as chosen by pulmonary fellows in multiple years”
“Inspired residents to become pulmonologists”
“Successful research mentor from undergraduate student to early career faculty members”
Girish Kalra, MD (General Medicine and Geriatrics)
“Dr. Kalra stayed late after rounds to go over multiple EKG’s”
“Dr. Kalra would spend as much time as I needed at bedside to fine tune my physical exam skills and personally rounded with me when I asked for more directefeedback”
James Kim, MD (Hospital Medicine)
“Dr. Kim is an exemplary teaching physician”
“Dr. Kim is very dedicated to our HMS group and helps develop educational opportunities so we all remain up to date with our medical knowledge”
“Known to EUH faculty to be talented, thoughtful, compassionate, and a great team player”
Ashima Lal, MD (General Medicine and Geriatrics)
“Dr. Lal always takes time to include trainees in her palliative care discussions with patients and families”
“Dr. Lal never tires of teaching our medical student rotators. She meets with them at the beginning of each week and mentors them through the (often traumatic) week in their palliative care rotation”
Alyssa Majesko, MD (Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine)
“Alyssa revamped the Grady MICU didactic lectures and developed a series of high-yield PowerPoint presentations for resident lectures”
“Alyssa is a talented critical care physician and is dedicated to teaching the residents. During a very busy flu season, she volunteered her time to work overnight shifts in the Grady ICU so that she could assist the residents and provide additional support”
Annie Massart, MD (Hospital Medicine)
“Dr. Massart is the EUH teaching director and has led the many changes our Internal Medicine residency has undergone on EUH wards”
“She has pursued individual development through SGIM’s TEACH program and is sharing her teaching skills with residents and hospitalists as well as health care staff through her role as a medical director for a medical floor at EUH”
Lynn Schlanger, MD (Renal Medicine)
“Comes in at any hour of the day or night to help trainees”
“Organizes dinner events for teaching and comradery”
“Always goes the extra mile to teach and support trainees”
Stacie Schmidt, MD (General Medicine and Geriatrics)
“Dr. Schmidt is an indefatigable advocate of the patient-centered medical home and the primary care physician-doctor relationship”
“Dr. Schmidt works tirelessly to educate learners at all times. She is the first to volunteer for a teaching opportunity and teaches with enthusiasm and amazing skills”
Hasan Shabbir, MD (Hospital Medicine)
“Mentors multiple hospital medicine faculty in QI work and general career development”
“Chairs a quality committee in hospital medicine in which he oversees multiple others in projects and inspires others”
Melissa Stevens, MD (Hospital Medicine)
“Excellent teacher”
“She always tries to teach in a challenging and stressful clinical ER environment, even though it isn’t always possible”
“She spends additional hours in addition to her tour of duty to make sure the resident’s have a great teaching environment”
Seema Tekwani, MD (Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine)
“Creating a standardized medical critical care curriculum with core lectures for the residents each month”
“As an ICU leader, she identifies areas for improvement”
“She is tireless and passionate about integrating education and clinical care at the bedside”
Theresa Vettese, MD (General Medicine and Geriatrics)
“Eager mentor for junior faculty”
“Has volunteered to come in on weekends to ensure uniformity of attending coverage for residents on ward teams”
“Willingness to step in as associate program director for the IM residency program when we had an unforeseen vacancy, including resident mentorship, and faculty development for core faculty”
Anna Von, MD (Hospital Medicine)
“Serving as a Small Group Advisor in the Emory Society System”
“Volunteering to be a clinical discussant for Department of Medicine Grand Rounds”
“Serving as a Program Director for the Emory Physician Assistant Program Internal Medicine Clerkship”
Click here to view the entire list of featured School of Medicine faculty.
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