DOM Education announces new Core Faculty

The Emory University Department of Medicine is thrilled to announce the new Core Faculty members in the J. Willis Hurst Internal Medicine Residency Program. The core faculty position is an exciting new opportunity for faculty to engage with the teaching and education missions of the DOM. The core faculty group will serve as the foundation for the Department of Medicine Education Community. This is an excellent opportunity for clinician educators seeking augmented roles in teaching, medical education, and educational scholarship. These six faculty members will be the first to take on the role of Core Faculty beginning October 15 and will join the team with a group of fantastic exiting core faculty members listed below.

New Core faculty for the Department of Medicine

Meredith Greer, MD
Dr Greer obtained her Medical degree at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and completed her Internal Medicine residency at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. She moved to Atlanta in 2017 for her Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine fellowship, subsequently completing a fellowship in Sleep Medicine and joining the faculty at The Emory Clinic and Grady Memorial Hospital in 2021. Throughout her time at Emory, she has been avidly involved in medical education at the medical student, residency, and fellowship levels. She won multiple teaching awards during both residency and fellowship and was given the 2022-2023 faculty teaching award by the Sleep Medicine Fellowship. Her educational interests include teaching complex concepts simply, improving multidisciplinary care and communication, hands-on learning, and reducing extraneous load.

 

Meredith Lora, MD
Dr. Lora, an Associate Professor of Medicine and graduate of Emory University School of Medicine, completed her internal medicine residency at the University of California San Francisco, where she also served as a chief medical resident. After her return to Emory in 2016, she assumed the role of directing the junior internal medicine clerkship for 5 years, leading a transformation in its learning and assessment methods. She has received recognition for her teaching skills impact through accolades including the Juha P. Kokko Teaching Award, Golden Apple Teaching Award, and the Emory School of Medicine Dean’s Teaching Award. At Grady, Dr. Lora has also applied her interest in systems transformation – she founded and now directs the successful Grady PrEP program, which has grown into a multifaceted HIV Prevention and early linkage program and has gained national recognition for her pioneering efforts in integrating HIV prevention into complex healthcare systems using a technology-driven approach. Beyond her professional commitments, she cherishes time with her husband Mauricio and their children Emilia and Santiago, particularly in the mountains where she finds joy in kayaking and hiking. Dr. Lora eagerly anticipates the opportunity to contribute her expertise in medical education and tech-driven innovation to graduate medical education as a core faculty member.

Sara Markley Webster, MD
Dr. Markley completed her undergraduate education at UCLA, medical school at Baylor College of Medicine, then came to Emory for Internal Medicine Residency, stayed for Endocrinology fellowship, and then stayed on as faculty based at the VA. Her interest in medical education includes improving endocrine knowledge within the residency program, using small group education in place of didactics for more focused teaching, and utilizing OSCEs to provide additional training on the less tangible parts of medicine – setting an agenda, breaking bad news, giving useful feedback, etc. In her non-work time, she shares two small human children and one large dog fur baby with her ID attending husband, all of whom keep her busy.

 

Jacqueline T. Brown, MD
Dr. Brown is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology at Emory University and a genitourinary medical oncologist. She attended medical school at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and completed her internal medicine residency at the University of Virginia, followed by a chief resident year and hematology and medical oncology fellowship at Emory University, where she served as chief fellow in her final year of training. She is a clinical investigator with special interests in urothelial cancer and improving the treatment of genitourinary cancers in older adults. She serves as the Associate Medical Director of the Ambulatory Infusion Center at Winship Cancer Institute. Jackie is a graduate of the ASCO Education Scholars Program and serves as Co-Chair of the ASCO Oncology Summer Internship program for medical students who identify as URiM. She is passionate about making oncology accessible for learners of all levels.

 

Dheepa Sekar, MD, MS
Dr. Sekar is an Assistant Professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine. She completed her undergraduate degree in bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and MD at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine. She went on to the University of Texas Southwestern to complete her Internal Medicine residency and chief residency. To enhance her interest in medical education, she pursued the Academic Clinician Educator Scholars Fellowship and Master’s in Medical Education at the University of Pittsburgh. She joined the Division of General Internal Medicine, Grady Section here at Emory in 2022, where she works closely with residents in the primary care clinic and general medicine wards. She contributes heavily to the resident education experience through her interest in improving observation and feedback practices and primary care education.  She also serves on the Grady ambulatory leadership team to improve primary care delivery for underserved patients.

 

Emily Pinto Taylor, MD
Dr. Taylor is an assistant professor in the Divisions of General Internal Medicine and Hospice and Palliative Medicine. She completed her Med/Peds residency at Yale and stayed on as a chief resident in internal medicine, followed by fellowships at Emory in Geriatrics and Hospice/Palliative Medicine. She sees patients at Grady and splits her time in the palliative care clinic and as an attending on the medicine wards. From a research perspective, she is interested in communication skill building among internal medicine residents, preventing trainee burnout around distressing patient care events, and end-of-life care for limited English proficiency patients – as well as many other things! Personally, she loves talking about foster care, narrative medicine/op-ed writing, baking, long-distance running, and her principal husband’s local charter school – as well as whatever cartoon characters her three kids are into these days.

 

These six new Core faculty join the full education leadership as listed on our Education webpage. Thank you to our DOM Education leadership team for their continued leadership and inspiration of our trainees, the next generation of Medicine physicians.