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2022 APCCMPD Annual Conference 

 

SPEAKER BIOS

March 9-11, 2022
Annual Conference

 

 
Rosemary Adamson, MB BS
University of Washington
Rosemary Adamson, MB BS is the Associate Section Chief of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at the VA Puget Sound Healthcare System and Associate Program Director of the PCCM Fellowship at the University of Washington. Her professional passions are providing excellent healthcare, improving medical education and attending to healthcare provider wellness. Her personal passions include raising her two children and outdoor exercise.
   
Kelli Alderman
University of Washington
Kelli Alderman is currently a Program Administrator at the University of Washington with 6+ years of experience working in graduate medical education. She is a member of the APCCMPD Program Coordinator Committee, and also serves on her local GME Policy Committee. Kelli graduated from DePaul University with a degree in Healthcare Policy and Administration. She is originally from Chicago and moved to the Pacific Northwest to get a taste of the great outdoors and continue advancing her career in health care.
   
Asha Anandaiah, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital / Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Asha Anandaiah, MD is an attending physician in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She serves as the Program Director of the combined Massachusetts General Hospital/Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship. She is a graduate of the Rabkin Fellowship in Medical Education and the Harvard Academy Fellowship in Medical Education Research, and her academic interests lie in optimizing how we approach and teach communication and collaboration in the intensive care unit.
   
Rendell Ashton, MD
Cleveland Clinic
 

Rendell W. Ashton, MD is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of the Case Western Reserve University, and has been a pulmonary and critical care physician in the Respiratory Institute at the Cleveland Clinic since July, 2008. He received his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD, and completed residency and chief residency in internal medicine, followed by fellowship in pulmonary and critical care at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, MN. He came to Cleveland after three years in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care at SUNY Upstate in Syracuse, NY.

He has directed the pulmonary/critical care fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic since 2010 and helped launch the critical care medicine fellowship in 2010 as well, which he directed until July 2013. He was the President of the Association of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Program Directors in 2017-18. He has served as the Associate Designated Institutional Official and Associate Director of Graduate Medical Education for the Cleveland Clinic since 2019. His clinical and scholarly interests include many areas of critical care and pulmonary medicine, but particularly respiratory failure, mechanical ventilation and sepsis. He is also interested in educational scholarship, including medical simulation as a learning tool.
   
Elizabeth Awerbuch, DO
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (Elmhurst)
Elizabeth Awerbuch, DO is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Medical Education at the Icahn School of Medicine. She is currently the Program Director for the Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine fellowship at Elmhurst Hospital Center in Queens, New York. She completed her Internal Medicine residency training at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital and Pulmonary/Critical Care fellowship training at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York. She went to medical school at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.
   
Elizabeth Batchelor, MD, MME
University of Arizona College of Medicine Phoenix
Elizabeth Batchelor, MD, MME received her MD at the University of Miami before completing her Internal Medicine residency at UT Southwestern and Pulmonary and Critical Care fellowship at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. During this time, she also obtained a Master in Medical Education at the Carver College of Medicine. She currently works in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine Phoenix, with clinical and research interests in Pulmonary and Critical Care medicine as well as medical education, healthcare disparities, patient communication, and palliative care in chronic lung disease. She additionally works within the College of Medicine as a Career and Professional Advisor and as the Director of Resident as Educator.
   
Lauren Blackwell, MD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Lauren Blackwell, MD is the Assistant Program Director of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship Program at Mount Sinai Morningside, Mount Sinai West, and Mount Sinai Beth Israel.

She joined the faculty in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Mount Sinai Beth Israel as Assistant Professor in 2019. Prior to this, she worked as an intensivist for Bayshore Medical Center in Holmdel, NJ.

Dr. Blackwell completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Maryland College Park and received her medical degree from Rutgers, New Jersey Medical School in Newark. She also completed residency and fellowship at NJMS. During her year as Chief Medial Resident, she pioneered a procedure simulation training program for residents. She taught critical care ultrasound during fellowship and as Chief Fellow revamped the board review lecture series for fellows. Her other interests include medical education and sepsis.
   
Lisa Brath, MD
Virginia Commonwealth University
Lisa Brath, MD is Professor of Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Division, Virginia Commonwealth University Health System in Richmond, VA. She is the Program Director for their PCCM Fellowship, and Medical Director for both Respiratory Care and the Unique Pathogens Unit.
   
Kristin M. Burkart, MD, MSc
Columbia University Medical Center

Kristin M Burkart, MD, MSc is Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center and the Program Director of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship since July 2011. Dr. Burkart earned her medical degree at Albany Medical College, where she was named to Alpha Omega Alpha; she completed her residency in internal medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center where she was honored to be selected as chief medical resident for an additional year. Dr. Burkart completed her fellowship training in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine during which time she also earned her Master of Science in Epidemiology from Boston University School of Public Health.

Dr. Burkart is respected nationally as a leader in fellowship training and education. She is the APCCMPD’s current Secretary-Treasurer and a Past President. As the Chair of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) Training Committee Dr. Burkart is actively involved in trainee education at the national level. This committee provides strategic guidance for ATS on issues related to clinical and research training in pulmonary and critical care medicine. Dr. Burkart is dedicated to providing an educational and research environment for her fellows that fosters their development into compassionate and exceptional physicians, clinician-educators, and physician-investigator.
   
Hugo Carmona, MD
University of Washington
Hugo Carmona, MD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine. He also serves as an Associate Program Director for the PCCM Fellowship. He has interests in medical education research as it relates to professional identity formation and clinical interests in the care of patients with neuromuscular disease.
   
Neal Chaisson, MD
Cleveland Clinic
Neal Chaisson, MD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and the Program Director of the Critical Care Medicine Fellowship in the Respiratory Institute at Cleveland Clinic. He joined the Cleveland Clinic in 2013 after completing his fellowship in Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. His primary area of expertise is in the evaluation and treatment of patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and pulmonary complications of congenital heart disease. Dr Chaisson has active clinical and research interests in the hemodynamic evaluation of patients and in medical education. He has been the recipient of the Distinguished Teacher Award from the Internal Medicine Residency Program in 2017. In 2019 he was named Teacher of the Year for the Critical Care Fellowship and in 2021 was named Educator of the Year for the Cleveland Clinic Respiratory Institute. He directs educational training for the Pulmonary Vascular Disease Program. He also maintains a strong interest in critical care medicine and in the understanding of hemodynamic parameters surrounding shock assessment.
   
Cait Clancy, MD
University of Pennsylvania
Cait Clancy, MD is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine and the Michael J. Cresenz VA Medical Center in Philadelphia, and the Vice Chief for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine. She is an Associate Program Director for the PCCM Fellowship, focused on Quality, Safety, and Value Education, and is the Director of Curricular Assessment, Innovation, and Technology for Undergraduate Medical Education in the Department of Medicine. She attended medical school at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and completed internal medicine residency and PCCM fellowship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. During fellowship, she completed additional training in medical education and as a Fellow of Diagnostic Excellence with the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine. She is interested in social justice and health equity, clinical reasoning education, and reduction of diagnostic error. She does medical education projects focused on technology-based curriculuar and assessment innovations. Her clinical focus is on sarcoidosis, and addressing health disparities.
   
Geoffrey R. Connors, MD
University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine
Geoffrey R Connors, MD is an Associate Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, the Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program at the University of Colorado, and the Vice Chair for Education in the Department of Medicine at Colorado. Educated at the University of Michigan and then Tulane University School of Medicine, he completed his Internal Medicine residency and a Chief Resident year at the University of Colorado. Following his residency, Dr. Connors completed a Pulmonary & Critical Care fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital. His first faculty position was at Yale University, where he was an Associate Program Director in Internal Medicine, the Director of Education for the Medical ICU as well as the Director of Clinical Reasoning for the School of Medicine before returning to Colorado in 2017.
   
Jenn Duke, MD
Mayo Clinic
Jenn Duke, MD received her Bachelor of Science degree in Biomechanical Engineering from Stanford University. During her transitional year, she taught high school biology and chemistry in Georgetown, Texas. She then earned her Doctorate of Medicine from the University of Texas at Houston Medical School with a concentration in medical humanities. She completed residency training in internal medicine at UT Houston and served as a Chief Medicine Resident where she received the Cheves M. and Isabella C. Smythe Endowment Award for Excellence in Resident Education. Currently, she is completing her second year as a pulmonary and critical care medicine fellow at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Her clinical interests include medical education, interventional pulmonology, and interstitial lung disease. Outside of medicine, she enjoys BBQ, TexMex, Indian food, and Blue Bell ice cream (in no particular order).
   
James Frank, MD, MA
University of California San Francisco
James Frank, MD, MA is a clinician-educator and professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco where he focuses on medical education across undergraduate and graduate learners. He is a medical student coach in the UCSF School of Medicine Bridges Curriculum and directs the medical student critical care immersion experience and critical care acting internship. He has been the program director for the UCSF Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship Program for the past four years. His clinical roles include critical care medicine and co-leading the pulmonary embolism response team, and the neuromuscular respiratory clinic at the SFVA. He formerly ran a biomedical research program and has experience in training and mentoring physician-scientists. His current academic interests include education leadership, teaching quality improvement and communication skills, professional/personal coaching, and curriculum development and implementation.
   
Christopher Ghiathi, MD
University of Pennsylvania
Christopher Ghiathi, MD is a pulmonary and critical care fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. He obtained his medical doctorate from Morehouse School of Medicine and completed internal medicine residency and chief residency at the University of Washington. His interests include critical care, interventional pulmonary, procedural education, and curricular development. When outside of work he enjoys hiking, gaming, playing guitar, and spending time with his fiancé and dog.
   
Antonio D. Gomez, MD
University of California San Francisco
Antonio D. Gomez, MD is a clinician-educator and Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco. He is the Assistant Program Director for critical care and procedures for the UCSF Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship. He is also the director of diversity, equity, and inclusion for the UCSF Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy, and Sleep Medicine. His academic interests include quality improvement in critical care, procedures training, and curriculum development.
   
Andrea J. Hadcock, C-TAGME
Upstate Medical University
Andrea J. Hadcock, C-TAGME is Fellowship Coordinator at Upstate Medical University. She is the Immediate Past Chair of the APCCMPD Program Coordinator Committee and Chapter Administrator, New York State Thoracic Society (NYSTS).
   
Candice J. Hankins
Cleveland Clinic

Candice J. Hankins is the Program Manager for the Pulmonary Disease/Critical Care, Critical Care Medicine, and Interventional Pulmonary Medicine Fellowship Programs at the Cleveland Clinic Respiratory Institute. She has been an employee of Cleveland Clinic Health System for 22 years.

Prior to accepting the position in the Respiratory Institute, she worked as a Research Coordinator in Experimental Therapeutics, as well as a Fellowship Education Coordinator in Neurology. She is the current Chair of the APCCMPD Program Coordinator Committee.
   
Tristan Huie, MD
University of Colorado
Tristan Huie, MD is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Colorado and National Jewish Health. He has directed the Fellowship Program at the University of Colorado since 2017. He specializes in the care of patients with interstitial lung disease and was the Clinical Director for ILD at National Jewish Health from 2013-17. He still enjoys attending in the ICU and is passionate about medical education.

Dr Huie graduated from Gonzaga University, attended Georgetown University for medical school and residency, and completed his fellowship training in Denver.
   
Meshell Johnson, MD
University of California San Francisco

Meshell Johnson, MD is Chief of Pulmonary, Critical Care Medicine, and Sleep for the San Francisco VA Health Care System and Professor of Clinical Medicine at UCSF. She received her undergraduate degree at Harvard University and her medical degree from UCSF. Upon completion of her internal medicine residency and chief residency at the University of Washington, she returned to UCSF for fellowship training in Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine at the Cardiovascular Research Institute. She joined the UCSF faculty in 2004.

Dr. Johnson is an outstanding clinician, educator, and scientist. Her research has focused on type I alveolar cells and their role in the inflammatory response to lung injury. She has published over 30 original articles (including in major journals such as PLOS One and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences), reviews, and book chapters. As an educator, she is highly regarded for her bedside teaching in the ICU. She is also a core teacher in the VA Simulation Center, where she has trained hundreds of diverse learners in acute resuscitation, airway management, massive transfusion protocols, and other scenarios. In 2016, she was the recipient of the Floyd Rector Housestaff Teaching Award from the Department of Medicine.
   
Arun Kannappan, MD
University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine
Arun Kannappan, MD is Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine. His clinical interests include work on improving hospital systems and processes with the care of patients, especially those needing life support and mechanical ventilation in ICUs. He has a passion for medical education and works with others to elevate curricula to keep up with the fast-paced changes of modern medicine. He enjoys exploring new music as well as delving deep into nerdy pop-culture. In his spare time, he explores the mountains of Colorado while hiking.
   
Aanchal Kapoor, MD, MEd
Cleveland Clinic
Aanchal Kapoor, MD, MEd is an Assistant Professor of Medicine, Associate Program Director of Critical Care Medicine fellowship and Medical Director of Medical Intensive Liver Unit (MILU). She completed her Internal Medicine residency from University of Cincinnati, Critical Care fellowship from Cleveland Clinic in 2012 and joined as Associate Program Director of Critical Care Medicine at Cleveland Clinic. In 2014 she completed a Medical Education fellowship to continue her path as an educator. She has designed the Critical Care Education Track for Critical Care fellowship and has completed Master of Education in Health Professions Education (MEHPE)in August 2021.

Her primary areas of clinical expertise are in the evaluation and treatment of critically ill patients with liver disease. Her scholarly interests include simulation=based training and curriculum development for procedures, airway management, hemodynamics and mechanical ventilation, Quality and Leadership programs for trainess and teaching faculty. She directs a simulation-based workshop in conjunction with the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) to assist faculty in developing competency-based assessments for trainees. Within the field of Critical Care her growing interests are in the field of management and research on critically ill liver patients.
   
Diana Kelm, MD
Mayo Clinic

Diana Kelm, MD is a core faculty physician and clinician-educator in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Mayo Clinic Rochester and Assistant Professor of the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine. She is the Associate Program Director for the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine fellowship program.

Dr. Kelm is actively involved in both APCCMPD and ATS. She is part of the Education Committees for both organizations. For APCCMPD, she is a co-host for the Medical Scholar podcast and an Associate Editor of the blog. For ATS, she is the Vice-Chair of the Critical Care Core Curriculum and the Practical Skills subcommittees of the Education Committee. Currently, she oversees the Section of Medical Education’s webinars and will be the international conference programming chair next year. Additionally, she is the Chair of the ‘Project Leadership’ working group for the section which involves building up education research across the country for multisite collaborative projects.

She is also a medical education researcher with a focus on procedural training/supervision and interprofessional education. She has received several internal grants including the Catalyst in Advancing Academics, Education Science Career Development Award, and the Endowment for Education Research Award. She has 23 publications, many of which are 1st-author publications.

Dr. Kelm has received several teaching awards as a faculty member including the ATS Alison Clay Early Career Educator Award, the Mayo Clinic Outstanding Emerging Educator Award, and IM Residency Excellence in Teaching Award.
   
Maryl Kreider, MD, MSCE
University of Pennsylvania
Maryl Kreider, MD, MSCE is a Professor of Clinical Medicine and the Vice Chief of Education and Faculty Development for the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She has served as the Fellowship Director of Pulmonary and Critical Care there since 2014 and, prior to that, as Associate Program Director for eight years. Clinically, she specializes in the evaluation and treatment of patients with diffuse parenchymal lung diseases and serves as the Director of the Interstitial Lung Disease Program at Penn. At the Harron Lung Center she is the Director of the Lymphangioleiyomatosis (LAM) and Rare Lung Disease Clinics. Dr. Kreider received her medical degree from University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. She completed a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in pulmonary disease and critical care at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
   
Erica Lin, MD
University of California San Diego
Erica Lin, MD is an Associate Physician Diplomate and Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep at the University of California, San Diego with a dual appointment as Staff Physician in the VA San Diego Healthcare System (VASDHS). Dr. Lin completed her undergraduate training at Duke University, her medical school training at University of Alabama at Birmingham, her Internal Medicine residency training at Mayo Clinic, and her Pulmonary and Critical Care fellowship training at University of California San Diego. She was awarded the 2020 Fellows Teaching Award for her dedication to medical education. During her fellowship, she received a grant to develop, implement, and study a telesimulation curriculum for graduating medical students during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a junior faculty member, she serves as a co-director for the Foundations of Medicine course for first-year medical students and second-year pharmacy students. Dr. Lin has a long-standing interest in medical education and medical education research, focusing on curricular development and the use of technology in medical education.
   
Jennifer W. McCallister, MD
The Ohio State University
Jennifer W. McCallister, MD is the Associate Dean of Medical Education at The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Professor in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, and Director of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program. She is also a Past President of the Association of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Program Directors and a recent Chair of the ATS Section on Medical Education. Employing these positions to bolster clinical educator career development and streamline the transition from undergraduate to medical education, she has made great strides in cultivating stronger pulmonary and critical care education programs. This year, Dr. McCallister has focused on finding ways for students to both heal and grow as they have faced the dual pandemics of racism and COVID-19 through systematically eliminating implicit bias in medical school curriculum and prioritizing well-being.
   
E. Mirna Mohanraj, MD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
E. Mirna Mohanraj, MD is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Medical Education and the Associate Program Director for the Mount Sinai Morningside-West Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship. Dr. Mohanraj graduated from The University of Connecticut School of Medicine. She completed her Internal Medicine Residency and Chief Residency at the University of Chicago Hospital and the John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County. She completed her Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Mohanraj is a leader and clinician-educator at the Icahn School of Medicine. She has received awards for teaching excellence, leadership, and innovative curricula design.

Dr. Mohanraj's research interests focus on curriculum development, physician trainee well-being, and bioethics improvement and education. Her longstanding Humanism in Medicine Series received a 2017 American Thoracic Society Innovation in Fellowship Education Award. Her novel study aimed at humanizing the ICU experience was awarded a 2019 ACGME Back to the Bedside grant and was featured in the Discovery+ documentary The Surge at Mount Sinai. Dr. Mohanraj developed and directs the innovative Teaching Scholars Curriculum for Fellows (funded by Icahn School of Medicine Institute for Medical Education). She leads initiatives to ensure equitable fellowship recruitment and to develop local partnerships that bridge the gap between hospital and community. Dr. Mohanraj serves as an Ombudsman and as Co-Chair of the Mount Sinai Morningside-West Hospitals Bioethics Committee. Her work in bioethics consultation, education, ethical climate, and research has been widely recognized.
   
Jason Moore, MD
University of Pittsburgh
Jason Moore, MD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Critical Care Medicine and Director of the Internal Medicine/Critical Care Medicine (IM/CCM) fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). After graduating from Critical Care fellowship in 2004, he served as the Associate Program Director of the IM/CCM fellowship at UPMC from 2005-2009 and as the Program Director since 2009. In 2009, he also received his Masters degree in Medical Education from the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Moore’s areas of academic interest include professional development education for Critical Care Medicine trainees, mentorship and development of mentoring programs, application of electronic and blended learning methods to GME training programs, and promotion of multidisciplinary Critical Care. He has been a member of the APCCMPD since 2015 and is a member of the Uniform Match Policy Taskforce.
   
Bart Moulton, MD
Oregon Health & Science University
Bart Moulton, MD received his MD from the University of Washington in 2005. He went on to complete his residency in 2008 at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and his fellowship in 2012 at Oregon Health and Sciences University (OHSU). He is the former Program Director for PCCM and CCM fellowships at OHSU. He currently spends the majority of his time working in undergraduate medical education.
   
Darlene Nelson, MD, MHPE
Mayo Clinic
Darlene Nelson, MD, MHPE is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and the Program Director of the Pulmonary and Critical Care, Critical Care Internal Medicine and Pulmonary Medicine fellowships at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester MN. She joined Mayo Clinic in 2012 after completing her pulmoanry and critical care medicine fellowship at Mayo Rochester. Dr. Nelson's main clinical and research interests include interventional pulmonlogy, procedural education and assessment. She recieved the Teacher of the Year award from the Mayo Fellows association in 2019 and is also the director of the annual Midwest Bronchoscopy and Pleural Procedures Course.
   
John Park, MD
Mayo Clinic
John Park, MD is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester MN. He currently serves as the Associate Program Director of the Critical Care Medicine fellowship. He currently also serves on the Education Committee for the Pulmonary and Critical Care Division. He has served as the division’s Quality Chair and the Vice-Chair of Quality for the institution’s critical care practice. His education research interest is in procedural mastery, while his clinical research is in sepsis as well as OSA.
   
Paru Patrawalla, MD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Paru Patrawalla, MD is the Program Director for the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship at Mount Sinai Morningside/West/Beth Israel and Director of Simulation and Ultrasound at Mount Sinai/Beth Israel. She is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Dr. Patrawalla received her medical degree from Brown University. She completed her residency training in Internal Medicine at Boston Medical Center, where she was also Chief Medical Resident. Dr. Patrawalla went on to complete her fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at New York University, where she also served as Chief Fellow. Her academic interests include point-of-care ultrasound training and evaluation, curriculum development, and competency-based education.
   
Jessica Ratcliffe, MBA, C-TAGME
Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
Jessica Ratcliffe, MBA, C-TAGME is Senior Residency Program Manager with Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine. She has been employed with Carilion Clinic in a Graduate Medical Education role for 11+ years. She has been with Pulmonary/Critical Care for 10 years and recently assisted in opening a Critical Care Fellowship at her institution. She currently serves as an Associate Blog Editor of the APCCMPD Voices in #MedEd Blog. She is also Membership Chair for Women in Healthcare.
   
Michael M. Rey, MD
University of Pennsylvania
Michael M. Rey, MD is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center in Philadelphia. He is an Associate Program Director for the PCCM Fellowship focused on Ambulatory Education and serves as a faculty mentor for current and prospective residents in the combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Residency Program at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Rey attended Medical School at the University of Pennsylvania and completed combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Residency at the University of Pennsylvania and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He then completed PCCM fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania during which time he also earned a Masters of Science in Health Policy Research and was awarded an ATS ASPIRE Fellowship. Dr. Rey has a clinical interest in transitions of complex pediatric patients to adult care, the care of patients with cystic fibrosis, and management of home assisted ventilation for patients with chronic respiratory failure.
   
Lekshmi Santhosh, MD, MAEd
University of California San Francisco
Lekshmi Santhosh, MD, MAEd specializes in adult pulmonary and critical care medicine with a focus on medical education. She attends in the Medical ICU, the Neuro ICU, on the Internal Medicine teaching wards, and has clinic at the Pulmonary Outpatient Faculty Practice at UCSF-Parnassus. She is the founder and Medical Director of the multidisciplinary post-COVID/post-ICU OPTIMAL Clinic at UCSF Health.

She serves as the Associate Program Director for the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship and the Assistant Site Director for the Internal Medicine Residency at Parnassus. She obtained her Master's in Health Professions Education from UC-Berkeley. She gives clinical lectures to students, residents, fellows, faculty and interprofessional team members. Her primary interests in medical educational research are related to ICU transitions of care, women in leadership development, clinical reasoning, and subspecialty career choice.
   
Aryan Shiari, MD
Wayne State University School of Medicine
Aryan Shiari, MD grew up in Ottawa, Canada. Prior to medical school, he attended University of Ottawa where he earned his BSc in Biochemistry. He attended St. George’s University and completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Ascension St. John Hospital. He is currently in his final year of Pulmonary & Critical Care fellowship at Wayne State University School of Medicine at Detroit Medical Center. As the Clinical Educator Track fellow, he instructs yearly medical education training and focuses on curriculum development, research, and development of teaching tools. His academic and research interests focus on mechanical ventilation, medical education, thoracic oncology, and pulmonary complications of hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation. After graduation, Dr. Shiari will be joining Mayo Clinic NWWI academic faculty.
   
Geneva Tatem, MD
Wayne State University
Geneva Tatem, MD is the Program Director for the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship at Henry Ford Hospital. She is also Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Wayne State University School of Medicine. Her education interests include using behavioral-based interviews in fellowship recruitment, and curriculum development.
   
Keriann Van Nostrand, MD
University of South Florida Morsani
Keriann Van Nostrand, MD completed her Doctor of Medicine degree in 2008 at the West Virginia University School of Medicine. She completed her Internal Medicine Residency and her Fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine. She then completed an Advanced Fellowship in Interventional Pulmonology at Emory University, and she remained as a faculty member at Emory from 2015 to 2021. She joined the University of South Florida in 2021, where she assumed the role of Fellowship Program Director. She was drawn to USF by the collegiality among the faculty, and by the educational mission and to be closer to family.  When she’s not at work, she likes hanging out with her giant schnoodle, Lilly. With time permitting she loves baking and attempting recipes from the Great British Baking Show.
   
Nha Voduc, MD
University of Ottawa
Nha Voduc, MD completed medical school at McGill University and Respirology subspecialty training at Queen’s University. He joined the University of Ottawa as faculty in 2002 and served as Program Director for the Respirology training program between 2003 and 2020. He currently serves as an Examiner for the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and is a content expert for the University of Ottawa medical school respirology block. He is a clinician-teacher with clinical interests in cardiopulmonary exercise testing and interstitial lung disease. He has an academic interest in medical education.
   
COL Heather Yun, MD
Brooke Army Medical Center
COL Heather Yun, MD received her BA from Colorado College, and her MD from Yale University School of Medicine. Her internal medicine and infectious diseases (ID) training were completed at SAUSHEC. Col Yun is a Professor of Medicine at USUHS and Adjunct Professor of Medicine at UTHealth, Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the ID Society of America (IDSA). She is currently the Deputy Commander for Medical Services at Brooke Army Medical Center/San Antonio Military Medical Center. Her prior positions have included Chair, Department of Medicine, and Program Director of the SAUSHEC Infectious Disease Fellowship. She has served on numerous national and DoD committees, including as Vice-Chair of the ACGME-Residency Review Committee for Internal Medicine; the American Board of Internal Medicine ID Specialty Board, and IDWeek Program Committee.

Her active areas of research include infectious complications of trauma, infections with multidrug-resistant bacteria, travel and deployment related illness, and respiratory viral infections.