2025 APCCMPD ANNUAL CONFERENCE

SPEAKER BIOS

March 13-14, 2025
Philadelphia, PA

	Mark H. Adelman, MD NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Mark H. Adelman, MD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and serves as a pulmonary-critical care attending at NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn, where he is also a Site Director and an Assistant Program Director for the NYU Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine fellowship program. His teaching and research interests include the use of new technologies, such as virtual reality, in medical simulation and the use of objective structured clinical exams (OSCEs) for the assessment of communication and teaching skills.

	Amarpreet K. Ahluwalia, MD, MEd National Institutes of Health Clinical Center
Amarpreet Ahluwalia, MD, MEd is a Pulmonary and Critical Care fellow at the NIH Clinical Center and the University of Maryland. She earned her MD from the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine and completed her Internal Medicine residency at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. With a Master’s in Education and a robust background in medical education, Dr. Ahluwalia has contributed to numerous initiatives to enhance curriculum design and bedside teaching. She has served in roles at both the UME and GME levels and has led several innovative projects, including revitalizing preclinical courses and designing electives that integrate clinical reasoning and point-of-care ultrasound. Currently, Dr. Ahluwalia facilitates teaching sessions for medical students and residents in ICU physiology and serves as a preceptor for fellows in the national mechanical ventilator course. Her passion lies in leveraging educational strategies and AI tools to improve training in critical care medicine while simultaneously advocating for inclusivity and equity.

	Kelli Alderman University of Washington
Kelli Alderman is a Program Administrator at the University of Washington with 10 years of experience working in graduate medical education. She currently serves as Chair of the APCCMPD Program Coordinator 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.

	Mahmoud Alwakeel Cleveland Clinic
Mahmoud Alwakeel, MD recently graduated from a Critical Care Fellowship at Cleveland Clinic and is now pursuing a Clinical Informatics Fellowship at Duke University, alongside a Master of Management in Clinical Informatics. With a strong passion for leveraging data to drive healthcare and medical education innovation, Dr. Alwakeel focuses on integrating artificial intelligence and machine learning into clinical decision support systems and advancing personalized approaches to training and patient management. His research delves into the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on medical training and trainee performance, aiming to develop evidence-based strategies that improve education, enhance patient care, and build resilient healthcare systems.

	Shelly Anthony, MA, C-TAGME SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
Shelly Anthony, MA, C-TAGME is an accomplished Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Administrator with over two decades of experience in graduate medical education administration and program management. Shelly specializes in exceptional organizational skills, and continually seizes opportunities to develop her professional skills. She is a strong believer in the power of positive thinking, and her longevity as Program Administrator and Division Administrator of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Division is a result of her impressive attention to detail and organizational prowess. She leads the charge for diversity in the workplace and ensures that more under-represented applicants, especially women, are hired in the field of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. In addition, Shelly holds a Bachelor of Science degree in International Business from the City University of New York, where she graduated magna cum laude in 2000, and a Master of Arts in International Relations from the City College of New York where she graduated with honors. Shelly is an active member of the APCCMPD Program Coordinator Committee and is the recipient of several awards including the most recent award, the 2024 Residency Administrator of the Year Award which was awarded to her by the Graduate Medical Education Office of SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University. In her spare time, Shelly enjoys spending time with her family, traveling, and a good old-fashioned Netflix binge.

	Rendell W. 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, 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.

	Gabriel Bosslet, MD, MA Indiana University School of Medicine
Gabriel Bosslet, MD, MA is Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Occupational Medicine and is Assistant Dean for Faculty Affairs and Professional Development at Indiana University School of Medicine. He is the former Fellowship Director for Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine (2010-2023), and an affiliate faculty member at the Charles Warren Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics. Dr. Bosslet received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Notre Dame and his M.D. from The Ohio State University. He completed his residency in internal medicine and pediatrics at The Ohio State University/Columbus Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. Dr. Bosslet completed his fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Indiana University. During this time, he completed the Clinical Ethics Fellowship at the Charles Warren Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics, and a Master of Arts in Philosophy and Bioethics. In 2012, Dr. Bosslet founded the Indiana University Assisted Ventilation clinic, which sees patients with neuromuscular pulmonary diseases and collaborates with the Department of Neurology to join them for interdisciplinary clinics once monthly. Dr. Bosslet is also a co-founder and president of the Good Trouble Coalition, a grassroots coalition of Hoosier healthcare and public health stakeholders who collaborate to educate, empower, and facilitate political advocacy to improve life in Indiana in the areas of patient-centered care, public health, and health equity. He lives with his wife and 4 kids and enjoys running, reading, and hanging out with his family.

	Alicia Brewster, MPA NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Alicia Brewster, MPA has been a Fellowship Coordinator for Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine at New York University Grossman School of Medicine for three years. Her journey in Graduate Medical Education spans a decade, starting at New York Presbyterian Hospital in the Graduate Medical Education department. Columbia University's Rheumatology Division recognized her expertise and recruited her as their fellowship coordinator. Alicia is a member of the APCCMPD Program Coordinator Committee. She advocates for fellow and program coordinator wellness, efficiency, and time management. Her extensive experience has given her a strong foundation and instilled a high work ethic, making her a confident and capable professional.

	John (Jack) D. Buckley, MD, MPH Western Michigan University Stryker School of Medicine
Jack Buckley, MD, MPH is a medical educator and currently a Professor of Medical Education at the Western Michigan University Stryker School of Medicine. He’s been a Pulmonary/CCM program director at Henry Ford Hospital and Indiana University, and is a Past President of APCCMPD. He’s also been active with CHEST where he served as President during 2024.

	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.

	Erin R. Camac, DO University of Kentucky College of Medicine
Erin R. Camac, DO is a Pulmonologist, Critical Care Medicine physician, and Associate Professor of Medicine from Philadelphia, PA, where she was recognized as a leader in medical education and in the clinical care of patients with advanced pulmonary disease. She transitioned to the University of Kentucky in 2022, where she leads the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program. Dr. Camac's clinical interests focus on Interstitial Lung Diseases, including Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF), Connective-Tissue Disease associated Interstitial Lung Disease (CTD-ILD), Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis, Sarcoidosis, Drug-Related Lung Disease, and others. In addition, she provides comprehensive Critical Care for patients in the Intensive Care Unit. Dr. Camac believes that all patients deserve high-quality, evidence-based, respectful medical care considerate of core values of diversity, equity, and inclusion. LGBTQA+ patients can feel welcome under my care. Outside of medicine, Dr. Camac can be found perusing many interests including natural history, literature, and electric guitar.

	Elizabeth Cerceo, MD Cooper Medical School of Rowan University
Elizabeth (Lisa) Cerceo, MD is an associate professor of medicine at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University and a teaching fellow of their Academy of Master Educators. She is the Director of the Medical Humanities and the Director of Climate Health. Dr. Cerceo is the co-chair for Physician Engagement and serves as the Associate Program Director for the internal medicine residency where she develops novel curricula including a comprehensive research curriculum. She spearheads Wellness initiatives for Graduate Medical Education and runs Climate Health, Art of Medicine, and Medicine Grand Rounds. She is the faculty advisor for the CMSRU Green Team. She is the chair of Wellness and of Health and Public Policy for ACPNJ, in which role she has been advocating for sustainability efforts for healthcare systems by creating a task force for healthcare sustainability. The report from this group, the Sustainability Initiatives to Guide Healthcare Transformation (www.acpnj.org/sight/#/ ), forms a roadmap for greening healthcare. She speaks on healthcare sustainability and climate health at the regional, national, and international levels and is engaged in state and national policy discussions. As a clinical hospitalist, she is involved with medical education from the medical student level to faculty development. Her research interests focus on health and climate change, medical education, medical humanities, and the effects of gun violence with several grants supporting these interests.

	Neal F. Chaisson, MD Cleveland Clinic
Neal F. 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 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). Dr. Chaisson has active clinical and research interests in the hemodynamic evaluation of PAH patients and in medical education. He has been a runner-up for the Distinguished Teacher Award from the Internal Medicine Residency Program in 2015 and 2016 and was presented with the award in 2017. 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.

	Başak Çoruh, MD University of Washington
Başak Çoruh, MD is an Associate Professor of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine and the Program Director of the Pulmonary and Critical Care fellowship program at the University of Washington. She received her medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia and completed residency, chief residency, and fellowship at the University of Washington. Dr. Çoruh serves on the APCCMPD Education Committee and the American Thoracic Society Steering Committee on Advancement and Learning and is active in undergraduate, graduate, and continuing medical education both locally and nationally. Her interests in medical education include curriculum development, coaching, leadership, and remediation.

	Mauricio Danckers, MD, FCCP HCA Florida Aventura Hospital
Mauricio Danckers, MD, FCCP is a graduate of Universidad Mayor San Marcos in Lima, Peru. He completed his internal medicine residency and chief residency at Mount Sinai West/Morningside and his pulmonary and critical care medicine fellowship and chief fellowship at New York University. Dr. Danckers is board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary medicine, and critical care medicine. Dr. Danckers is the medical director of the Intensive Care Unit at HCA Florida Aventura Hospital. His areas of interest involve clinical quality improvement and innovation in medical education. He is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at Nova Southeastern University’s Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Allopathic Medicine. Dr. Danckers has been awarded in several opportunities for his teaching skills and commitment to graduate medical education at his institution.

	David J. De La Zerda, MD University of Miami
David J. De La Zerda, MD's interest in pulmonary and critical care medicine started as a clinical research associate for the lung-heart transplant program at the University of California, Los Angeles. This is the busiest thoracic transplant center on the West coast and the second busiest in the country. He went to the University of California, San Francisco where he trained in internal medicine, and completed his pulmonary and critical care fellowship at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). During this time, he also completed the UCSD-Clinical Research Enhancement through Supplemental Training (CREST Program). Dr. De La Zerda is currently the PCCM fellowship Program Director, the medical ICU Medical Director at Jackson Memorial Hospital, and Co-Director of the pulmonary vascular disease program.

	Neerja Desai, MD The MetroHealth System/Case Western Reserve University
Neerja Desai, MD is a Pulmonary & Critical Care fellow at The MetroHealth System/Case Western Reserve University. Her interests include health care administration and developing leadership skills to empower young physicians.

	Ernest K. DiNino, MD UMass Chan Medical School-Baystate
Ernest K. DiNino, MD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care at the UMass Chan Medical School - Baystate Campus. He completed medical school at the University of Massachusetts, residency and chief residency in Internal Medicine at Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, MA, and fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Brown University. Dr. DiNino is the Program Director for the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program at UMass Chan Medical School-Baystate Campus and Co-Director of the Pulmonary Rehabilitation program at Baystate Health.

	Kathleen Doo, MD, MHPE Kaiser Permanente Northern California-Oakland
Kathleen Doo, MD, MHPE specializes in adult pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine with a focus on medical education and advocacy. She serves as the Associate Program Director for the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship at Kaiser Permanente Northern California in Oakland. She’s obtained a Master’s in Health Professions Education at New York University.


	Sakshi Dua, MBBS Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Sakshi Dua, MBBS is a Professor of Medicine and Medical Education at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She received her medical degree in India, followed by residency in Internal Medicine at Good Samaritan Hospital of John's Hopkins University where she also served as Chief Resident. She completed her fellowship training in Pulmonary Diseases & Critical Care Medicine (PCCM) at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill followed by a Lung Transplant fellowship there. She is the Fellowship Director for Pulmonary and Critical Medicine training program and the Medical Director of Fellows’ Ambulatory Care Clinic at Mount Sinai Hospital. She also serves as the Associate Dean for GME Wellness in the Mount Sinai Health System. Dr. Dua’s medical education interests include trainee wellness, small group teaching, delivering effective feedback and teaching in resource poor settings. She serves on the Education Committee of the Association of PCCM Program Directors and has co-chaired several other committees of the American Thoracic Society. In her role as a medical educator she travels yearly to Africa for medical education missions.

	Arnulfo Duarte, DO University of Pennsylvania
Arnulfo Duarte, DO grew up in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. He completed his medical training at the Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine and his internal medicine residency at the University of Texas at Tyler. He is particularly interested in bedside procedures, point-of-care ultrasound, interventional pulmonology, and academic medicine. Outside of medicine, he enjoys playing tennis, wrestling with his dogs, and trying new restaurants with his wife.

	Ricardo Escobar, MHSA University of Miami/Jackson Health System
Ricardo Escobar, MHSA is a Physician Staff Specialist II at Jackson Health System. He received his Bachelor's in Biology at the University of South Florida in 2013 and his Masters in Health Service Administration from Florida International University in 2019.

	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 (UCSF) 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. His current academic interests include education leadership, teaching quality improvement and communication skills, professional/personal coaching, and curriculum development and implementation.

	Melanie S. Garbarino, MBBS Henry Ford Hospital
Melanie Garbarino, MD is an Assistant Professor of Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine at Henry Ford Hospital (HFH) in Detroit, MI. She received her medical degree from the University of London's St. George's Medical College in 2016, which was a unique experience that exposed her to multiple systems of health care delivery, fostering her early interests in social determinants of health and health equity. She completed her internal medicne residency at HFH in 2019, then moving to the University of Cincinnati to complete her pulmonary and critical care fellowship. During her fellowship, Dr. Garbarino entered the physician educator track through which she designed and implemented an EDI workshop occurring bi-annually for both fellows and faculty, and a quarterly airway curriculum capitilizing on spiral learning philosophies. She joined the ATS SoME EDIJ Subcommittee in 2021, and the APCCMPD JEDI Committee in 2022. She has also served on the ATS BSHSR Planning Committee since 2023. Clinically, Dr. Garbarino is interested in ICU Recovery and helped design a multispecialty PICS clinic in collaboration with trauma surgery and anesthesia while attending at the University of Cincinnati. She is also interested in advanced airways training for ICU fellows and hopes to continue her work in her position at HFH.

	Jayna Gardner-Gray, MD Henry Ford Hospital
Jayna Gardner-Gray, MD is a senior staff physician at Henry Ford Health in Detroit, MI. She trained in both emergency and internal medicine prior to completing a fellowship in critical care medicine. She currently functions as the program director for Henry Ford Hospital's critical care medicine fellowship, assistant unit medical director of the MICU, and the ECMO Director for the MICU. Her passions involve emergency and critical care medicine along with medical education, especially as it pertains to diversity, equity, inclusion and justice. She has been fortunate to publish on the importance of diversity within graduate medical education, specifically creating a safe, inclusive environment for trainees, and mitigating bias within the application process.

	Shewit Giovanni, MD, MS Oregon Health & Science University
Shewit Giovanni, MD, MS earned her undergraduate degree from The College of William and Mary and her medical degree from Tufts University. She completed internal medicine residency at the University of Chicago and Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine fellowship at the University of Washington where she earned a Masters' of Science in Epidemiology before joining the division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in 2020. She serves as core faculty for the OHSU PCCM fellowship where she is focused on teaching fundamentals of Quality Improvement and Patient Safety and engaging trainees to use these principles to improve patient care and part of a team focused on developing a longitudinal Health Systems Sciences curriculum for DOM fellowships. She is also the QI director for the critical care service line at OHSU. Her research interests include ARDS and the intersection between QI and implementation science in delivery of therapies in critical care medicine.

	Laura Hinkle, MD, MEd Indiana University School of Medicine
Laura Hinkle, MD, MEd received her medical degree from the Indiana University School of Medicine, where she also completed her residency and chief residency in internal medicine. She stayed at Indiana University for her pulmonary and critical care medicine fellowship, serving as chief fellow during her final year of training before accepting a faculty position on completion of her fellowship and since then has also earned a Masters in Education from the University of Cincinnati. She has been actively involved in medical education at both the graduate and undergraduate levels and currently holds institutional leadership roles in this area including Program Director for the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship and Key Clinical Educator for Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. She is actively engaged in medical education research and curriculum development and has won awards in these areas, including the Alison Clay Early Career Educator Award in 2023. She is an active member of the Association of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Program Directors and the American Thoracic Society. Clinically, Dr. Hinkle has a special interest in sarcoidosis and interstitial lung disease. She quickly recognized the need for a more comprehensive multidisciplinary approach to care of these patients and founded a sarcoidosis clinic at IU Health, which is the only World Association of Sarcoidosis and Other Granulomatous Diseases clinic in the state of Indiana.

	Van K. Holden, MD University of Maryland
Van K. Holden, MD is an associate professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She is an interventional pulmonologist within the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. In addition, she is the program director of the PCCM fellowship program. Dr. Holden specializes in minimally invasive methods of diagnosing and staging lung cancer, central airway obstruction and pleural disease. Dr. Holden graduated from Newman University in Wichita, KS with a BA in Biology and completed her MD at University of Kansas School of Medicine. She did her residency in internal medicine at Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, NJ and stayed for an additional year as Chief Medical Resident. She completed her fellowship training in pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of Maryland Medical Center and served as Chief Fellow during her last year. An additional year of fellowship training in Interventional Pulmonology was completed at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA.

	Tristan Huie, MD University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine
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.

	Esha Kapania, MD University of Louisville
Esha Kapania, MD is originally from Blacksburg, Virginia. She completed her undergraduate education in Engineering Science at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA. During this time, she developed a passion for research and academia. Her belief that research is the most powerful way to enhance patient care led her to work as a research associate for a biotech company in Charlottesville, VA prior to starting Medical School at Loyola University in Chicago. Esha went on to complete her residency in combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Rush University. She is currently a second-year fellow at the University of Louisville in Pulmonology and Critical Care. She has a particular interest in pulmonary pathology that starts during childhood and progresses into adulthood. She hopes to focus on curriculum development for adult providers on pediatric pulmonary pathology and how these patients are transitioned from pediatric to adult providers, as well as on fellowship remediation and how we provide the necessary support to struggling trainees to help them succeed.

	Aanchal Kapoor, MD, MEd Cleveland Clinic
Aanchal Kapoor, MD, MEd is an Associate Professor of Medicine, 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. She completed Master of Education in Health Professions Education (MEHPE) in August 2021.

	Stacey Kassutto, MD Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Stacey Kassutto, MD is the Undergraduate Medical Education Director of Simulation and Technology, Co-Director of the PSOM Virual Health System and Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine in Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Kassutto graduated summa cum laude with degrees in Chemistry and Music Performance from Franklin & Marshall College. She then received her medical degree from the Perelman School of Medicine and went on to complete her Internal Medicine residency and Pulmonary & Critical Care fellowship at Penn. Since her appointment to the faculty at Penn in 2016, she has served in numerous educational leadership roles including Associate Director of the Medical Education Leadership Track, Director of Simulation Education for the Internal Medicine Residency, Associate Program Director for Ambulatory Education for the Pulmonary & Critical Care Fellowship, and Course Director for the Transition to Internal Medicine Internship course. She also Co-Chairs PSOM’s Artificial Intelligence Committee and is the past chair of the APCCMPD's Ambulatory Care Curriculum Workgroup. As a result of her excellence in teaching and educational scholarship she was awarded the APCCMPD Emerging Educator Award in 2021 and the American Thoracic Society’s (ATS) Emerging Educator Award in 2022. She also received the APCCMPD, CHEST and ATS Medical Education Research Award and the APCCMPD Award for Novel Fellowship Education Implementation. She has published several original medical education research publications relating to curriculum development and use of novel technologies in education. Dr. Kassutto also serves on the NBME’s USMLE Step 3 Computer-Based Case Simulations Test Material Development Committee and as a member of the ATS Scholar’s Editorial Board.

	Diana J. Kelm, MD Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science
Diana J. Kelm, MD is a 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, Medical Director of the Multidisciplinary Simulation Center, and Program Director of the Mayo Clinic Clinician Educator pathway. She is also a medical education researcher with a focus on procedural training/supervision and interprofessional education.

	Jonelle Kelner, MSEd, C-TAGME University of Miami/Jackson Health System
Jonelle Kelner, MSEd, C-TAGME is an experienced and results-driven administrator with a strong background in program development, accreditation, contracts, data management, and strategic planning. Known for her exceptional communication skills and ability to build high-performing teams, Jonelle is celebrated for creating environments that foster commitment, support, and professional growth. She has extensive experience in Graduate Medical Education (GME) administration, regulatory compliance, and project management, with a proven track record of supporting successful program development and accreditation.

	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 since 2014 and, prior to that, as Associate Program Director for nine 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.

	Jacqueline Kruser, MD, MS University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Jacqueline Kruser, MD, MS is a faculty member in the Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her clinical focus is adult critical care, including acute respiratory distress syndrome, acute respiratory failure, sepsis, critical care ultrasound, and management of pain, agitation, and delirium in the intensive care unit. She works as a critical care attending in the Trauma and Life Support Center (TLC) at University Hospital. Dr. Kruser leads a health services and outcomes laboratory that studies healthcare delivery within the complex system and environment of the intensive care unit. Her cross-disciplinary approach applies multiple health services and systems engineering research methods to investigate the interactions between members of the healthcare team, patients, and families with a specific focus on improving high-stakes medical decisions and end-of-life care delivery. Her research has been supported by the National Health, Lung and Blood Institute at the NIH, the Wisconsin Partnership Program, and the Francis Family Foundation.

	May M. Lee, MD University of Southern California
May M. Lee, MD is a clinician-educator in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine (PCCM). She is currently the Program Director of the PCCM Fellowship Training Program and the Assistant Dean for Continuing Medical Education at the University of Southern California. She has served in various administrative roles, including Pulmonary and Critical Care Service Chief and the Medical Director of the medical intensive care unit at LAC+USC Medical Center. Dr. Lee obtained her MD from the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University in New York with a distinction in humanistic studies. She completed her internal medicine residency, fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine (PCCM), and a post-doctoral research program at the University of Chicago.

	Jennifer Maguire, MD University of North Carolina
Jennifer Maguire, MD is the Associate Division Chief of Inpatient Services for the Division of Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine and attends regularly in the general pulmonary clinic, Medical ICU and Hillsborough Pulmonary and Critical Care service. Her passion as a faculty member is creating and improving the educational experience of learners across all levels. Within undergraduate medical education she is the co-director of the Respiratory Block for the Foundation Phase (first-year medical students) integrating basic science and clinical aspects of the respiratory system and serves as the Critical Care Selective Director for the Individualization Phase (4th-year medical students), a required course for all students across campuses. She also leads the sepsis program as the physician champion at UNC Main Campus. This role incorporates sepsis education, compliance and quality improvement while representing Main Campus at the system sepsis level with the goal to reduce sepsis mortality. Dr. Maguire serves as the Associate Program Director for the Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship and was honored with the 2021 Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Faculty Educator of the Year by the Fellows.

	Stephanie Maximous, MD, MS University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Stephanie Maximous, MD, MS is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. She earned her medical degree from the George Washington University School of Medicine, completed her internal medicine and chief residency at Boston University/Boston Medical Center, followed by a year working with Partners in Health in Rwanda. She completed her pulmonary and critical care medicine fellowship and obtained her Master of Science degree in medical education in 2017 from the University of Pittsburgh. She now serves as Program Director for the UPMC Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine fellowship training program, core subspecialty faculty for the Internal Medicine Residency program, co-director of the pulmonary physiology course in the School of Medicine, and co-director of a graduate level course on enhancing teaching skills in the Institute for Clinical Research and Education. She is one of the co-founders of the UPMC Clinicians for Climate Action, a grass-roots group formed in 2022 by several physicians to address healthcare sustainability within the largest healthcare system in Pennsylvania. Dr. Maximous has an interest in how we train clinicians to both understand the implications of climate change on patients’ health and how clinicians can effectively advocate for environmental justice and healthcare sustainability.

	Jennifer W. McCallister, MD The Ohio State University College of Medicine
Jennifer W. McCallister, MD is a Professor of Clinical Internal Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine at the Ohio State University College of Medicine where she is also a leader in medical education. She currently serves as the Associate Dean of Medical Education for the College of Medicine and the Assistant Director of Faculty Affairs for the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine. She is a Past President of the Association of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Program Directors, a past Chair of the ATS Section on Medical Education, and she served as the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program Director at Ohio State from 2014-2022. Employing these positions to bolster clinician-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. Her current areas of interest include mentorship in medical education and minimizing bias in medical education.

	Mirna Mohanraj, MD Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Mirna Mohanraj, MD is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Medical Education at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She is Associate Program Director for the Mount Sinai Morningside-West Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship and the systemwide Deprtament of Medicine Vice Chair for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Dr. Mohanraj's interests and research focus on curriculum development, humanism in medicine, program remediation, bioethics improvement and education, and innovative education methods. Dr. Mohanraj received the prestigious 2023 Dr. Nathan Kase Innovations in Education Award and the 2023 APCCMPD Mid-Career Educator Award. She is the inaugural receipient of the ACGME 2022-2024 Back to Bedside Multisite Grant and an inductee into the inaugural 2024 Neustein Mid-Career Women Faculty Award Program. Dr. Mohanraj is an engaged member of the APCCMPD Education Committee.

	Darlene R. Nelson, MD, MHPE Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science
Darlene R. Nelson, MD, MHPE is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and the Program Director of the Pulmonary and Critical Care fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. She joined Mayo Clinic in 2012 after completing her pulmonary and critical care medicine fellowship at Mayo Rochester. Dr. Nelson's main clinical and research interests include interventional pulmonology, procedural education and assessment.

	Anna Neumeier, MD University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine
Anna Neumeier, MD is an Associate Professor of Medicine within the Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Colorado. She is the Associate Program Director for Education for the Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship and is the Director of the University of Colorado School of Medicine Trek Basecamp Curriculum, a longitudinal clinical transitions curriculum. Her education research focuses on advancing learning across the continuum of training focusing on innovative teaching methods, learning climate, and curriculum development.

	Melissa New, MD University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine
Melissa New, MD is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Colorado, where she serves as the Associate Program Director for Evaluation and Feedback for the Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship Program. Her clinical and academic focus has been on lung cancer, including lung nodule management, lung cancer screening, bronchoscopy simulation and procedural education, including the development of novel educational tools for procedural education.

	Stella Ogake, MD, FCCP The Ohio State University College of Medicine
Stella Ogake, MD, FCCP is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine at The Ohio State University. She serves as Associate Program Director for Procedural Training and Diversity in the PCCM Fellowship, where she oversees the procedural curriculum and leads efforts to diversify the fellowship program. Passionate about medical education, Dr. Ogake is keen on creating innovative training experiences while fostering an inclusive and supportive environment for trainees. She developed and co-directs the LEAD@OSU program, a leadership training program for GME trainees designed to foster scholarly output in health equity while developing leaders who will champion diversity and health equity in medicine. Dr. Ogake’s work focuses on advancing health equity, medical education, community service, and addressing health disparities within pulmonary and critical care medicine. Through her leadership in medical education, she mentors trainees to develop the skills necessary to provide equitable care to diverse populations. She also serves as an interprofessional education champion for the College of Medicine, strengthening cross-disciplinary collaborations. Dr. Ogake is an active member of multiple national professional organizations, including the Ambulatory Curriculum Workgroup of the APCCMPD.

	Emily Olson, MD Northwestern University
Emily Olson, MD is a Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine fellow at Northwestern University. She completed Internal Medicine residency and Chief residency at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN where she led curriculum changes for quality improvement, evidence-based medicine, and "Upstander Training". In addition to her work with the APCCMPD Fellows Working-Group, she is integral to some of the major changes occurring in her own fellowship program. This includes the initiation of an Academic Half Day and changing the current fellow feedback system. She is also passionate about merging her interests in medical education and addressing gender equity.

	Jaime Palomino, MD Tulane University School of Medicine
Jaime Palomino, MD earned his medical degree at Universidad del Valle in Cali, Colombia. He completed his internship, residency and chief residency in internal medicine at NYU Downtown Hospital in New York City. Dr. Palomino came to Tulane University for a fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. After finishing his fellowship training Dr. Palomino joined the Tulane faculty as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine. Dr. Palomino is board certified in Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine. He is a member of the American College of Chest Physicians, the American Thoracic Society, the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer, the American Association for Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology and the Society of Critical Care Medicine. His main clinical and research interests are early diagnosis of lung cancer, advanced bronchoscopic techniques, and molecular biology of lung tumors.

	Amee S. Patrawalla, MD, MPH Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Amee S. Patrawalla, MD, MPH is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Rutgers NJMS and the Program Director of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship. She graduated from Mount Sinai School of Medicine and completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Boston Medical Center. She completed her fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at New York University. Dr. Patrawalla also received a Masters in Global Public Health from NYU. Dr. Patrawalla is the Medical Director of the Lattimore Practice at the Global TB Institute. She is interested in global health and has worked in India, Sri Lanka and Ethiopia. She is board certified in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Patrawalla also attends in the MICU, as well as on the Pulmonary and TB Consult services at University Hospital. In addition, she is a fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians and a member of the American Thoracic Society. Dr. Patrawalla's main clinical and research interest is pulmonary mycobacterial infections, including tuberculosis. She is a dedicated educator with interests in innovative learning and medical education at both the GME and CME level.

	Paru S. Patrawalla, MD Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Paru S. Patrawalla, MD is the Program Director for the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship at Mount Sinai Morningside/West and 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.

	Rachel Quaney, MD, MAEd University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine
Rachel Quaney, MD, MAEd obtained her medical degree at University of Kansas School of Medicine before completing internal medicine residency at University of South Carolina-Greenville, pulmonary and critical care medicine fellowship at The Ohio State University, and a sleep medicine fellowship at University of Colorado. Her clinical interests include sleep disordered breathing in advanced lung disease and sleep in the hospitalized patient. Her research interests currently focus on feedback and assessments.

	Timothy J. Rowe, MD Northwestern University
Timothy J. Rowe, MD is a junior faculty member in the division of Pulmonary and Critical Care at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University Chicago. He obtained his medical degree from Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine and completed internal medicine residency and chief residency at the University of Wisconsin, followed by fellowship and chief fellowship at Northwestern. He is a core faculty member in the Internal Medicine residency, where he is responsible for procedural skills training. He is also co-director of the critical care clerkship and of the capstone transition to residency course in the Feinberg School of Medicine. His research focuses on asynchronous and self-directed learning among medical trainees, point-of-care ultrasound, and high-fidelity simulation for procedural and psychomotor skills in pulmonary and critical care medicine. He is a regular contributor to the “Core IM” Internal Medicine podcast. He enjoys bike commuting on Chicago’s beautiful lakeshore and trying new coffee brewing methods.

	Oscar A. Salguero, CHES® University of Texas at Austin
Oscar A. Salguero, CHES® received his Bachelor of Science degree in Public Health from Baylor University and currently works as a Fellowship Program Coordinator for Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, as well as Gastroenterology and Hepatology Fellowships at Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin.

	Lekshmi Santhosh, MD, MAEd University of California San Francisco
Lekshmi Santhosh, MD, MAEd is an Associate Professor in Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine and Hospital Medicine at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). She serves as the inaugural DOM Associate Chair for People Development and Mentorship. She received her MD from Harvard Medical School and completed her Internal Medicine residency, Chief Residency, and Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine Fellowship at UCSF. During her fellowship training, she received a Master's in Education from UC Berkeley. Clinically, she attends in the Medical ICU, the Neuro-ICU, the Hospital Medicine teaching service, and in the outpatient Pulmonary clinic. She is also the founder and former medical director of the post-ICU/post-COVID OPTIMAL clinic. Her educational leadership roles at UCSF include Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency, Associate Program Director for our Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine Fellowship, and Director of the Department of Medicine Grand Rounds. She has published extensively in the realm of medical education and issues around equity in medicine; her primary scholarly interests are related to ICU transitions of care, women in leadership, clinical reasoning, and subspecialty career choice. Nationally, she is one of the inaugural National Academy of Medicine Scholars in Diagnostic Excellence and is the Chair-Elect for the American Thoracic Society Section on Medical Education. She has recently been awarded the Gold-Headed Cane Endowed Education Chair in Internal Medicine.

	David A. Schulman, MD, MPH Emory University School of Medicine
David A. Schulman, MD, MPH is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine, where he also serves as director of the preclinical education for medical students. He received his undergraduate degree from Yale and his medical degree from Johns Hopkins, followed by Internal Medicine residency at the University of Rochester. During his fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Boston University, he obtained additional training in Sleep Medicine and performed research in sleep epidemiology using data from the Framingham Heart Study. He moved to Atlanta to join the Emory faculty in 2001 as a clinician educator. From the beginning of his career, Dr. Schulman has taken an active role in the training of pulmonary and critical care medicine fellows, having served as Program Director from 2006 until 2020. He has served in a number of leadership positions for national and international societies, including being a Past-President of the APCCMPD and a Past-President of the American College of Chest Physicians. His work in teaching and education has been recognized by awards from the APCCMPD, CHEST, the American Thoracic Society, and the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education.

	Nitin Seam, MD George Washington University Medical Center and the Uniformed Services University
Nitin Seam, MD is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at George Washington University Medical Center and the Uniformed Services University. Dr. Seam's areas of academic expertise and publication include mechanical ventilation, ARDS and innovation in health professions education, including e-learning, artificial intelligence and simulation-based education. He is Editor in Chief of ATS Scholar, a health professions education journal published by the American Thoracic Society. He was a member of the NIH COVID-19 Clinical Guidelines panel, providing expert recommendations for clinicians related to management of critically ill patients with COVID-19 disease. He is a past Associate Editor of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Medicine and prior editor of thoracic.org. He is also the former Chair of the Critical Care Section for the Society for Simulation in HealthCare.

	Ziad S. Shaman, MD, MHcM The MetroHealth System/Case Western Reserve University
Ziad "Zee" Shaman, MD, MHcM graduated from St. George's University School of Medicine in 2000. He trained in Internal Medicine and then in Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine at the MetroHealth programs of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH. He has been the Director for the Pulmonary and Critical Care fellowship program at MetroHealth since 2013, and has focused his career on medical education scholarship and on innovation in academic administration. Dr. Shaman is a registered diagnostic medical sonographer, and an authority on the use of point-of-care ultrasound in critical care. He has led many courses, regionally and nationally, for different levels of learners. Dr. Shaman holds a Master’s degree in Healthcare Management from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. His most recent focus includes business and leadership education for Pulmonary and Critical Care fellows to advance administrative skills in medical subspecialty graduates. Dr. Shaman has been an active member of the APCCMPD since 2009.

	Hari Shankar, MD Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Hari Shankar, MD is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care at the University of Pennsylvania where he practices general pulmonary and critical care medicine. He is the Associate Director of the Penn Presbyterian medical ICU and co-chair of Penn's medical sustainability committee: the Committee on the Institutional Response to the Climate Emergency (CIRCE). His interests include critical care ultrasound, airway education, and most importantly, healthcare sustainability and climate change.

	Briana T. Short, MD Columbia University Medical Center
Briana T. Short, MD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine whose academic focus is on medical education and wellbeing in the critical care setting. Her clinical expertise is in acute respiratory failure, mechanical ventilation and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. She is the Associate Program Director of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Her work focuses on advancing and standardizing airway training for fellows and faculty using simulation. She also serves as the Medical Director for Wellbeing for the Medical ICU and Medical Critical Care services. She works to improve improve access to mental health resources for critical care providers.

	Jami Simpson, MS, ACC, TICC University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Jami Simpson, MS, ACC, TICC Graduate Medical Education Program Manager Department of Medicine University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health Research interest: Studying the impact of team coaching on interprofessional teams working in the ICU

	Effie Singas, MD Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
Effie Singas, MD is Associate Professor of Medicine at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and Program Director of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship at Northwell’s North Shore University Hospital and Long Island Jewish Medical Center. Dr. Singas received her medical degree from New York University and completed her residency in internal medicine and fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine from the Mount Sinai Medical Center in NY. She has been actively involved in undergraduate and graduate medical education. Her academic interests include curriculum development and procedural training, and she has implemented innovative training programs into her fellowship. In 2017 she received the APCCMPD, CHEST, and ATS Education Research Award to study the impact of video monitoring during procedural training on fellow competency. She is the 2019 recipient of Northwell’s Department of Medicine Candee Award for Excellence in Education. Clinical interests include the care of patients with non-CF bronchiectasis and nontuberculous mycobacterial lung disease. She is Director of Northwell’s Bronchiectasis and Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Disease Center and Director of the Northwell site of the Bronchiectasis Research Registry, a national registry sponsored by the COPD foundation.

	Geneva Tatem, MD Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
Geneva Tatem, MD is Clinical Professor of Medicine at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. Her education interests include using behavioral-based interviews in fellowship recruitment and equitable recruitment practices.

	Vanessa Trafas, MS University of California San Francisco
Vanessa Trafas, MS is the Lead Program Administrator for the PCCM fellowship program at University of California San Francisco. She previously worked in other specialties as their fellowship administrator and has been in graduate medical education for over six years. She’s been actively involved in her Fellowship Advisory Council and continues to advocate for lasting improvements to fellowship administration.

	James M. Walter, MD Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
James M. Walter, MD is a Pulmonary and Critical Care physician focused on the care of critically ill patients in the medical intensive care unit. Dr. Walter attended Princeton University followed by medical school at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. He completed his Internal Medicine residency at the University of Michigan followed by fellowship training in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Dr. Walter’s clinical interests are in the care of adult patients with acute respiratory failure and shock including the use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). Dr. Walter has a strong interest in medical education and is involved in curricular leadership for both undergraduate and graduate medical education. He serves as the Director of the Phase 1a Pulmonary Module for 1st year students at the Feinberg School of Medicine. In addition, he is an Associate Program Director for both the Internal Medicine Residency and Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship programs. He is involved in research across the spectrum of medical education including how to effectively integrate educational technology into medical student teaching and the development of competency-based advanced communication skills training programs for clinicians in the ICU.

	Laura Watabu, BS, C-TAGME University of Pennsylvania
Laura Watabu, BS, C-TAGME serves as the Program Coordinator for the Nephrology Fellowship program at the University of Pennsylvania. She graduated from George Washington University with a BA in Human Resources and has worked in healthcare and human resources for over 10 years, prior to landing at the University of Pennsylvania in 2016. Laura is an advisory board member for Thalamus and has provided training to several coordinator groups at Penn and around the country.
	Rachel Wojcik,, MD, MS University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Rachel Wojcik, MD, MS is a faculty member in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). She recently completed her fellowship at UPMC and Masters in Medical Education at the University of Pittsburgh. She's been involved in many educational projects including an air pollution education curriculum for fellows, the ATS Environmental Health Policy Committee, and most recently joined a grant for community eduction on air pollution.

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