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.
Please join us in congratulating the following 10 Department of Medicine faculty members featured by the committee!
Quotes below were taken from the nomination materials.
Khaalisha Ajala, MD (Hospital Medicine)
“The founder/leader of a nonprofit organization (Heart Beats and Hip Hop) which is responsible for organizing and conducting public health fairs to educate vulnerable populations on health prevention”
“Site director for education for hospitalist group – arranging weekly conferences of faculty education opportunities related to clinical/patient care and systems based practice, QI/PI etc.”
“Just traveled to Adidas Ababa, Ethiopia to Lion hospital and served as an attending educator of Emory residents and residents training in Ethiopia as well as sharing the field of hospital medicine with local health care staff”
Sivan Ben-Moshe, MD (General Medicine and Geriatrics)
“Dr. Ben-Moshe is greatly admired by IM residents who rotate through geriatrics, for her passion in teaching principles of geriatric medicine and palliative medicine”
“Being the director of aging and dying week, she leads a week of educational activities for 1st year medical students to introduce them to geriatric medicine and palliative medicine.”
“She also participates in interprofessional educational initiatives as undergraduate events to disseminate principles of caring for older adults with cognitive impairment”
Jason Brown, MD (Digestive Diseases)
“Created and implemented a new twice monthly lecture series for all IM residents rotating on GI system wide”
“Divisional award for Attending of the Year Award in Gastroenterology”
“GI Division Champion for revising, organizing, delivering IM Resident GI Core Conferences”
Adriana Ioachimescu, MD, PhD (Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Lipids)
“Adriana has presented many Endocrine grand rounds and also presented in Medicine grand rounds. Her love of learning and her desire to teach. She has been a speaker in Endocrine Society and AACE National conferences.”
“She frequently mentors residents and fellows. Her mentees have been consistently successful in publishing their results.”
“Adriana has worked with medical students, residents and fellows to help them understand and research endocrine diseases and has helped them publish in well reputed journals. Many of them have won awards for their presentation. A firmer fellow won an Endocrine Society Award, and another won an AACE poster.”
Noble Maleque, MD (Hospital Medicine)
“Residency APD for Midtown”
“Fantastic mentor to students and residents”
“Role model for anyone interested in education”
Kimberly Manning, MD (General Medicine and Geriatrics)
“She’s an invaluable mentor to our students, residents, and faculty.”
“Kim is an all-around badass – great person, doctor, and teacher.”
“She consistently provides helpful insight and practical solutions to challenging situation”
Annie Massart, MD (Hospital Medicine)
“Annie is a very active participant in our Divisional educational activities, including MedEd Journal Club, facilitation of Emory Division of Hospital Medicine website, preparation for the national workshop submission.”
“Annie is a 2019 recipient of FAME grant focused on improving bedside teaching, and she has been actively involved in peer bedside teaching with great success.”
“Annie is a site assistant Director for Education at EUH and has done a lot of wonderful academic work with a newly onboarded faculty there.”
Julie Mitchell, DO (Hospital Medicine)
“Patience in teaching and educating everyone she works with”
“Welcoming of new ideas and ways to care for patients with colleagues”
“Always elevating the providers around her and helping all of us achieve our goal”
Bashar Staitieh, MD (Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine)
“Bashar is an enthusiastic and prolific teacher during his clinical service time in the ICU and in the pulmonary clinics. He can excite and engage all levels of learners and has an intuitive ability to draw out the best from his learners and inspire them to bring their best to their patient care.”
“He is a frequent and popular teacher for grand rounds and lunchtime chalk talks, where he presents a wide range of clinical and physiology topics in a way that is approachable and digestible.”
“Bashar also teaches extensively outside of traditional venues, and has piloted teaching talks for ICU nurses and respiratory therapists at Midtown.”
Quratulain Syed, MD (General Medicine and Geriatrics)
“Director for geriatrics rotation for IM residents and preceptor for IM residents at Grady primary care centers, inpatient wards and geriatrics clinic. She is dedicated to creating meaningful curriculum for the residents and teaching them Geriatrics concepts to help them in their medical careers.”
“Coordinated exceptional experiences in geriatrics during a month when we had 12 residents rotating at once (we usually have 4-6). The evaluations from this busy month were the highest of the entire academic year.”
“Serves on the editorial board for Aquifer Geriatrics, which is a the national curriculum for the American Geriatrics Society”
“Assistant director for the Southern Geriatrics conference. She helps organize a southeast conference for current providers and trainees to expand their fund of knowledge in caring for elderly patients.”
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