MEMBERS FROM THE SCHOOLS OF MEDICINE, DENTISTRY, NURSING, AND PHARMACY
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INTERPROFESSIONAL, CLINICAL, AND BASIC SCIENCE DEPARTMENTS
CORE TEACHING SITES: EAST BAY, UCSF FRESNO, MISSION BAY MOUNT ZION, PARNASSUS, SFVAMC, AND ZSFG
Introduction
The mission of the Academy of Medical Educators is to support the people who carry out and advance the education mission of UCSF. Our values are community, diversity, advocacy, service, and innovation and this year’s highlights is a wonderful opportunity to focus on innovation. With the increasing importance of artificial intelligence and its application to education, it was the obvious topic to anchor the 2024 Education Showcase where we had the opportunity to learn from national experts at UCSF: Christy Boscardin and Brian Gin. In 2023, the Academy launched an Educational Technology Interest Group in partnership with the library. Under the spirited leadership of Christian Burke, Renee Kinman, Crystal Zhou and Chris Stewart, this group is developing a community of educators interested in AI and is also helping to engage the Academy in exploring, sharing best practices and developing skills in the use of AI for education.
Our Innovations Funding in Education program is another key Academy program that supports junior faculty across UCSF and our affiliate sites to do curricular innovation. One of the benefits of this program is that we can adjust our priorities every year to ensure they are aligned with important initiatives for the University such as diversity and education technology. This coming year thanks to a generous donation, we have one of the priorities focused on AI and education, with an AI educator community-building component for the grant recipients. At the heart, all of these efforts are about supporting educators and their creative work to the benefit of our learners and UCSF.
I have deep gratitude for all of the faculty who make these initiatives possible through their expertise and generosity. I am equally thankful for the many donors whose contributions to the Academy and the Innovations Funding in Education Program help bring these ideas to life.
Sincerely,
Ann Ann Poncelet, MD Director and William G. Irwin Endowed Chair
The Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators
Christy Boscardin, PhD: AI in Medical Education at UCSF
Christopher Stewart, MD, AME Education Technology Action Group member, interviewed the 2024 Education Showcase Keynote Speaker, Christy Boscardin, PhD on AI in Education at UCSF. Boscardin and UCSF colleague Brian Gin, PhD lead a number of efforts around AI at UCSF, including a commissioned report for the Macy foundation around the future of AI in medical education.
What are some key aspects of AI in Education that you might focus on this year?
I am super excited about the potential innovations in this space to support our learners, faculty, and staff to help lead in this new era of AI-augmented health care. This means 1) partnering with our learners and faculty to determine the needs around AI literacy and competencies, 2) identifying the key areas for AI innovations for maximal impact, and 3) creating institutional support structures for innovations, implementation, research, and dissemination.
For AI competencies and literacy, we need to focus on identifying what are the key knowledge and skills to support the successful integration of AI into learning and teaching. We also need to understand how to get everyone ready for the AI-augmented healthcare system and practice. Another crucial point is that UCSF can lead efforts around how to train our learners to be advocates for AI health equity and bias mitigation.
In terms of innovations, there are some interesting AI applications in the clinical care space that we need to be paying close attention to, but we also need to maximize learning and teaching by centering the innovations in educational and pedagogical theories to support sustainability and generalizability. To expedite innovations, we will need to partner with our local institutional innovators while also looking to external partnerships either with industries or other institutions.
Within UCSF, we need be thinking about how we can leverage some of the applications in clinical settings that are already being tested, such as AI scribes, clinical decision support tools, robotics, machine visual learning tools to be integrated into education.
Brian Gin and I are leading some efforts around AI currently including a commissioned report for the Macy foundation around the future of AI in medical education. This project came about due to Bob Wachter’s encouragement and support. We have been doing some application development and implementation with Versa Tiger team, industry partners, so we are excited to support our educational community around AI integration.
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What have been some challenges around AI in Education? Celebrations?
Some challenges that I foresee are related to current resource limitations. We do not currently have the infrastructure set-up to support all the potential great innovative ideas generated by our learners, faculty, and staff.
Also, unlike some institutions, our clinical innovations and informatics groups are not integrated with education, which could be potential challenge. I am hoping that this will not be a huge hurdle to overcome.
Another challenge is that AI companies interested in education may not share and align with our values and goals around education, so it will take initiative-taking advocacy on our part to steer the direction and co-lead on how AI will shape medical education.
I do think that UCSF is poised to be the leader in AI and medical education given our strong leadership, our dedicated educational community, and value we place on innovation as well as health equity and justice, but it’ll take some resources and commitment to get us there.
Where could AME take the lead or support campus efforts?
There are potentially three areas that AME could be most impactful in the immediate future:
• Supporting faculty development around AI literacy and competencies – leveraging the successful programs and models of CFE faculty development with Teachnology and Enhanced Education {TEE}.
• Supporting innovations through AME grants for piloting ideas.
• Advocating for more integration of education in the clinical and precision health initiatives focusing on AI innovations on campus.
Christopher C. Stewart, MD
Harnessing the Future: Leveraging AI and Educational Technology to Transform Medical Education
The AME 2025 Task Force identified leveraging educational technology as one of its five priority areas to advance its educational mission. To support this, we have created the Educational Technology Special Interest Group (SIG), bringing together educators, staff, and technology leaders to explore how technology can enhance teaching and learning in health professions education. Since its inception, the SIG has hosted two summer workshops. The first workshop, which marked the launch of the group, focused on building a community engaged in utilizing education-specific technology, health information technology, and everyday tools. The second workshop, titled "Make AI Work for You," explored practical and more creative applications of AI for educators. Additionally, we have started to introduce MedEd Tech Tips as part of the AME newsletter, offering insights on innovative tools and strategies.
The Educational Technology SIG aims to foster collaboration, sharing of best practices, and embracement of tools such as AI and virtual simulations. By exploring these innovations, we aim to engage learners, optimize curricula, and improve health professions education. By fostering a vibrant educational technology community and addressing AI's challenges and opportunities, the Educational Technology SIG aims to drive innovation in medical education, ensuring that health professions educators are wellequipped to lead in this era of AI-augmented healthcare.
Education Technology SIG Co-Leads
Christian Burke, Renee Kinman, MD, PhD; Christoper C. Stewart, MD; Crystal Zhou, PharmD (pictured below, starting from the left)
Reflections on Impact of Innovations Funding Grants
We asked a couple of Innovations Funding Grantees from five or more years ago to tell us about how their = Innovations Funding project transformed their careers or the work they were doing. Also, we wanted to know if this investment grew into a sustainable practice or transformed their work in some creative reflective way or if there were any lessons learned or things they would have done differently.
Defining Appropriate Use and Safe Integration of Bedside Ultrasound into Clinical Decision Making – Awarded 2018
Receiving several AME grants, and the very process of applying for them, transformed my career and helped me find a professional identity and home among like-minded colleagues who believe in the transformative power of education. The several innovations grants I received supported creative projects and scholarship, nurtured a sense of community, cultivated a sense of purpose, all of which are a main reason I have stayed at UCSF.
Meghan O'Brien, MD, MBE
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Director of Faculty Development
Division of Hospital Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital
Paper-Mounted Organ Sections for Medical Education – Awarded 2014
At the time that I submitted this proposal and carried it out, I was Vice Chair of the Department of Pathology and Director of Anatomic Pathology at ZSFG. Additionally, I ran an NIH and Cystic Fibrosis funded research laboratory. I had made a few paper-mounted anatomical sections (an old and mostly forgotten technique) very early in my career for use in teaching lung pathology. At that time, I also collaborated with chest radiologists at UCSF to correlate findings found on thin-section CT lung scans of lungs (both done on the postmortem lungs). Many years later, a young post-baccalaureate pre-med student came to me looking for a volunteer position. Together, we developed a less-toxic method for making these paper-mounted organ sections. It seemed natural to use this technique to produce nontoxic pathology specimens for use in teaching. I applied and received Innovations Funding to do this. We produced a large number of teaching specimens of lungs, brains (for neuroanatomy teaching) and other organs with pathology findings. The lung sections were used in several small group pathology sessions. As I am now an Emeritus Professor currently only doing research, I don't know if these sections are still in use.
Looking back at this now, I think the best thing that came out of this was that my student matriculated to UC San Diego School of Medicine and has since completed a residency in Emergency Medicine and fellowship in Pediatric Emergency Medicine. As we published our less-toxic method, this along with my letter of recommendation in some small way helped her gain admission to medical school. She is currently practicing in New York. There is some sadness in that this was not the primary intent of the project; however, I have no doubts that helping her towards a career in medicine was and will continue to be worth it.
Walter E. Finkbeiner, MD, PhD Professor Emeritus (Recalled) Department of Pathology, UCSF
For more about the impact of the Innovations Funding Program (Adler, Chang, Loeser, Cpple. Wang, Teherani)
First Project Supported With The Academy Endowment!
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Anti-Oppression: A Physician Identity Week Partnership with SFMOMA for Social Justice
Principal Investigator: Andrew Orr, MD, MSEd, working with Xiaochen Zhong, MSII; David Elkin, MD; Shieva Khayam-Bashi, MD; Somalee Banerjee, MD, MPH; Rahmat Balogun, DO, MS, MPH; Yoko Kiyoi, MFA; and Ethan Tanchoco, MSII.
"I am so grateful for the Innovations funding. It will allow my team and our workshop participants to gather together in a new way at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and open up conversations about advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion that we hope will propagate long after the workshop has ended."
Thank you to Denise Connor, MD Gold-headed Cane Endowed Teaching Chair in Internal Medicine
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A Fond Farewell: Kathleen Land Retires
I could not pass up the opportunity to connect with Kathleen Land one more time before she officially retired from UCSF. The pandemic cut our run-ins at AME meetings and events significantly. Our back-and-forth emails to find time to connect memorialized what I would classify as classic Kathleen – polite and helpful... With a dash of understated humor.
Kathleen has been a part of my AME experience since I was inducted in 2008. In truth, I did not think I met the AME height requirements, given the stature of Cynthia Ashe, Molly Cooke, and Kathleen. Over time I got to know some things about Kathleen- she is a local, went to University High School, and then ventured out to Barnard. However, I discovered in an hour over tea that there also is a lot I did NOT know about Kathleen.
Let’s play five truths and a lie. Kathleen….
1. Pursued an interest in film and TV production and worked with reporter Jeanne Moos at CNN. 2. Worked in marketing within the ski industry
3. Was trained and worked as a Court Appointed Special Advocates
4. Worked with Reproductive Freedom for All
5. Enrolled in the Berkeley post-baccalaureate, pre-med program
6. Joined the AME almost 20 years ago and was encouraged into medicine by Molly Cooke who gave her Osler’s biography
(see last paragraph for the answer)
Some highlights from her time at the AME include the early days of the AME Education Showcase when we had poster sessions. “Posters were worth it,” Kathleen reminisced. “People may think I am crazy, but it’s not like we were chiseling the posters from stone.” (Another example of a Kathleen quip). She describes the conviviality at the poster sessions and the active exchange of ideas. “Isn’t sharing scholarship with the community the goal?” As the pace of the world and the work at the AME has sped up, Kathleen says she sometimes finds it increasingly challenging to keep up with “lifelong highachievers.” “Sometimes work has been a lot like the last minute of a VO2 max treadmill test. But it’s never boring.” "Kathleen has deep gratitude for her role models and colleagues, Cynthia Ashe and Raquel Rodriguez. “Cynthia was a professional and maternal figure for us,” and “Raquel has enabled us to each raise our game and enjoy working together while also working even harder.”
From left: Cynthia Ashe, Kathleen Land, and Christine Khou
A Fond Farewell: Kathleen Land Retires (continued)
The past few years have been particularly challenging for Kathleen with the passing of her beloved mother after a long illness. She experienced the deep underbelly of the healthcare system which partly drives her desire to focus on advocacy. “I don’t have specific plans for retirement except to look for ways to support my AME/CFE family, advocate for patients, and tutor children and adults with reading challenges. I hope to stay in touch and promise to help resolve any unfinished work!”
An hour had flown by over tea, and we had reflected on a variety of topics from personal to universal. I walked to my car realizing that our conversation punctuated Kathleen’s observation of the important role that the AME has in creating space for educators to connect one-on-one and share ideas in person. I made a vow not to wait for colleagues to retire to learn more about them. (And, if you have read to the end, the answer to the five truths and a lie is that they are, of course, all truths).
Anda Kuo, MD
From left: Kathleen Land and AME member Marty Bogetz, MD
Academy Members 2023-2024
Shelley Adler, PhD
Nima Afshar, MD
Manish Aghi, MD, PhD
Celeste Allen, MD
Adnan Alseidi, MD, EdM
Loren Alving, MD*
Noriko Tei Boyd Anderson, MD, MPH
Meg Autry, MD
Amin Azzam, MD, MA
Jennifer Babik, MD, PhD
Kenny Banh, MD
Robert Baron, MD, MS
Rebecca Berman, MD
Martin Bogetz, MD
Sharya Vaughan Bourdet, PharmD, BCPS
Steve Braunstein, MD, PhD
Benjamin N. Breyer, MD, MAS
Kristine West Breyer, MD*
Erica Brode, MD, MPH*
Sam Brondfield, MD, MAEd
E. Alexandra Brown, MD
Marek Brzezinski, MD, PhD
Sara Buckelew, MD, MPH
Danielle Campagne, MD
Andre Campbell, MD
Lundy J. Campbell, MD
Anna Chang, MD
Jack Chase, MD
Lee-may Chen, MD
Pei Chen, MD
David Chia, MD, MSc
Rachel Chin, MD
Peter Chin-Hong, MD, MAS
Lei Choi, MD, MPH
Nancy Choi, MD
Calvin Chou, MD, PhD
Daniel Ciccarone, MD, MPH
Valerie Clinard, PharmD, Aph
Carmen Cobb, MD
Denise Connor, MD*
Molly Cooke, MD
Kelly M. Cordero, MD
Susannah Cornes, MD
Patricia Cornett, MD
Nicole M. Cresalia, MD
Eddie Cruz-Romero, MD, MPH
Madhavi Dandu, MD, MPH
Robert Daroff, MD
Denise Davis, MD
Mansi Desai, MD
Gurpreet Dhaliwal, MD
Anand Dhruva, MD
Anthony Ding, MD
Vanja Douglas, MD
Jacque Duncan, MD
David Duong, MD, MS
Tammy Duong, MD
Odinakachukwu Ann Ehie, MD, FASA
David Elkin, MD
Martha J. Elster, MD
Archna Eniasivam, MD
Christopher Fee, MD
Mitchell Feldman, MD, MPhil
Alicia Fernandez, MD
Sabrina Fernandez, MD
Marla Ferschl, MD
Darren Fiore, MD
Amber Fitzsimmons, PT, MS, DPTSc
Lynn A. Flint, MD
Shannon E. Fogh, MD
Audrey Foster-Barber, MD, PhD
James Frank, MD, MA
Tracy Fulton, PhD
Megha Garg, MD, MPH, FACP
Elizabeth Gatewood, DNP, RN, FNP-C, CNE
Alan Gelb, MD
Jeffrey Gelfand, MD, MAS, FAAN
Sarah Goglin, MD
Andrew Goldberg, MD, MSCE, FACS
Robin S. Goldman, MD, MPH
Ivan Gomez, MD
Valerie Gribben, MD
Beth Griffiths, MD, MPH
Katherine Gruenberg, PharmD, MAEd
Michelle Guy, MD
Monica Hahn, MD, MPH, MS*
Elizabeth Harleman, MD
Michael Harper, MD
Aaron Harries, MD
Karen Hauer, MD, PhD
Duncan Henry, MD
Academy Members 2023-2024
Kenzo Hirose, MD
Lily Hitchner, MD
Claire Horton, MD, MPH
Stephanie Lynn Hsia, PharmD
Gerald Hsu, MD
Marianne Hultgren, DNP, RN, CNE
Erick Hung, MD
Katherine Hyland, PhD
Corina Iacopetti, MD
David Irby, PhD
Rebecca Jackson, MD
S Andrew Josephson, MD
Elizabeth Joyce, PhD
Mindy Ju, MD, MAEd*
Marianne Juarez, MD
Katherine Julian, MD
Shruti Kant, MD*
Priya Kathpalia, MD
Shieva Khayam-Bashi, MD
Edward Kim, MD
Renee Kinman, MD, PhD
Abner Korn, MD
Marieke Kruidering-Hall, PhD*
Irina (Era) V. Kryzhanovskaya, MD
Anda Kuo, MD
Angel Kuo, RN, MSN, PNP
Jeannette Lager, MD, MPH
Cindy Lai, MD*
Harry Lampiris, MD
Ryan Laponis, MD, MSci
Ellen Laves, MD
Erica Lawson, MD
Phuoc Le, MD, MPH, DTM&H
Lorriana Leard, MD
Isabel D. Lee, MD
Kewchang Lee, MD*
Sara Lewin, MD
Ben C. Li, MD
Descartes Li, MD
Matthew Lin, MD
Margaret Jane Lin-Martore, MD
Daphne Lo, MD, MAEd
Helen Loeser, MD, MSc
Catherine Lomen-Hoerth, MD, PhD
Andrea Long, MD
Michele Long, MD
Daniel Lowenstein, MD
Catherine Lucey, MD
Katherine Lupton, MD, FACP
Conan MacDougall, PharmD, MAS
Solmaz Manuel, MD
Jyothi Marbin, MD
Mary E. Margaretten, MD, MAS
Marta Margeta, MD, PhD
Andrea Marmor, MD, MSEd
Erin Mathes, MD
Lindsay Mazotti, MD
Meg McNamara, MD
Katerina Melino, MS, PMHNP-BC
Biftu M. Mengesha, MD MAS
Anna Meyer, MD, FACS, FAAP*
Lisa Mihaly, RN, MS, FNP
Carol Miller, MD
Lynnea Mills, MD
Igor Mitrovic, MD
Bradley Monash, MD
Jillian Mongelluzzo, MD, MAEd
Jessica Muller, PhD
Andrew Murr, MD
Sirisha Narayana, MD
Heather Nye, MD, PhD
Bridget O'Brien, PhD
Meghan O'Brien, MD, MBE
Lisa Ochoa-Frongia, MD
Patricia O’Sullivan, EdD*
Iris M. Otani, MD
Maxine Papadakis, MD
Manuel Pardo, Jr., MD
Neeti Parikh, MD
J. Colin Partridge, MD, MPH
Alissa Peterson, MD
Michael Peterson, MD
Binh An P. Phan, MD
Edgar Pierluissi, MD
Steven Pletcher, MD
Ann Poncelet, MD, FAAN*
Evelyn Porter, MD, MS
Atif Qasim, MD, MSCE, FASE
Michael Rabow, MD
Raga Ramachandran, MD, PhD*
Sumant Ranji, MD
Nailyn Rasool, MD
Academy Members 2023-2024
Mike Reid, MD, MPH, MA
Stephanie Rennke, MD
Mehan Richie, MD
Nardine Riegels, MD
Josette Rivera, MD
Patricia Robertson, MD
Dana Rohde, PhD*
Sanziana Alina Roman, MD
Demian Rose, MD, PhD
Glenn Rosenbluth, MD
Laura H. Rubinos, MD*
George Rutherford, MD
Emma Samelson-Jones, MD
Henry Sanchez, MD
Lekshmi Santhosh, MD, MAEd
Jason Satterfield, PhD*
George Sawaya, MD
Stacy Sawtelle Vohra, MD
Sarah Schaeffer, MD, MPH
Nicole Schroeder, MD
Brian Schwartz, MD
Andreea Seritan, MD
Justin Sewell, MD, MPH
Ashkon Shaahinfar, MD, MPH
Yalda Shahram, MD
Bradley Sharpe, MD
Wen T. Shen, MD, MA
Jaekyu Shin, PharmD
Kanade Shinkai, MD, PhD*
William Shore, MD
Rebecca Shunk, MD
Wade Smith, MD, PhD
Jody Steinauer, MD
Chris Stewart, MD
Naomi Ellen Stotland, MD
Joseph Sullivan, MD
Kristina Sullivan, MD
Miranda Surjadi, RN, MS, ANP-BC
Jeffrey Tabas, MD
Sonny T. Tat, MD, MPH
Arianne Teherani, PhD
Larissa Thomas, MD, MPH
Vanessa Thompson, MD
Paul Alexander Toogood, MD, MS*
Kimberly Topp, PT, PhD, FAAA
Steven Tringali, DO
Rupa Lalchandani Tuan, PhD
Amanda R. Twigg, MD
Peter Ureste, MD
Ram Vaderhobli, DDS, MS
Sandrijn van Schaik, MD, PhD
Margo Vener, MD, MPH
Dina Wallin, MD
Maria Wamsley, MD
Emily Webb, MD*
Lori Weichenthal, MD
Heidi Werner, MD, MSHPEd
Daniel J. Wheeler, MD
Heather Whelan, MD, MSc
Sara Whetstone, MD, MHS*
Mia Williams, MD
Lisa Winston, MD
Susan Wlodarczyk, MD
Naomi Wortis, MD
Pinelopi Xenoudi, DDS, MS
Sharon Youmans, PharmD, MPH
VyVy N. Young, MD, FACS
April Zaat, MD
Lydia Zablotska, MD, PhD, MPA*
Carly Zapata, MD, MPH
Josué A. Zapata, MD, MBA
Crystal Zhou, PharmD
Tali Ziv, MD
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