Faculty Development
The Graduate Medical Education (GME) Office hosts and co-hosts several faculty development programs throughout the year. Here, members of the SSM Health/Saint Louis University School of Medicine Residency Program community can find upcoming programs as well as view past presentations.
Most Recent Programs
GME February Faculty and Staff Development Conference 2024
February 29, 2024
- "Get SMART: Tips for Implementing & Sustaining QI"
Sara Chen, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine - "Event Reporting as Start Point of QI"
Ghazala Hayat, M.D., Director CQI - "Diagnostic Errors as Safety Issues"
Lia Lowrie, M.D., Medical Director Patient Safety and Quality - "Leveraging High Reliability Organizing in QI"
Adam Fritz, M.D, Assistant Professor of Medicine - "Transitioning M&M to Learning PSQI"
Christina Tsai, M.D., Quality & Safety Fellowship Chief - "Discussion of QI Topics and Hospital Connect"
Emma Misra, M.D., MHA - "QI Database Resource Tools"
David Pole, Ph.D., MPH, Assistant Professor Family & Community Medicine - "Creating Education Module and POC Resources as QI"
Nicole Burkemper, M.D., Dermatopathology Program Director
GME Winter Faculty and Staff Development Conference 2023
November 13, 2023
- "Domain-based Interviews for Residency Applicants in the Virtual Era"
Timothy Phillips, M.D.,FACS, Assistant Professor of Surgery - "The Evolution from Competency Based Medical Education (CBME) to Milestones to Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs)"
Ashley Ali, M.D., Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
GME Fall Faculty and Staff Development Conference 2023
September 14, 2023
- "Formative Assessment in Medical Education"
Carly Daniels, MA, MEd
GME Spring Faculty and Staff Development Conference 2023
May 10, 2023
- "Clinician Educator Milestone: Identifying and Assessing Your KSA's"
Laura Edgar, EdD
GME Winter Faculty and Staff Development Conference 2023
January 12, 2023
- "Board Prep Throughout the Continuum"
Migual Paniagua, M.D., FACP
M. Brownell Anderson, M.Ed
GME Spring Faculty and Staff Development Conference 2022
May 5, 2022
- "Introduction to Patient Safety & Quality Improvement"
Sandeep Jain, M.D., Quality & Safety Fellowship Chief - "Get SMART: Tips for Implementing and Sustaining a Quality Improvement Project"
Sara Chen, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine - "First Line of Duty: Decrease Medical Errors"
Ghazala Hayat, M.D., Director CQI - "Event Reporting: Patient and Employee Safety and Quality Improvement (NOT Tattling)"
Lia Lowrie, M.D., Medical Director Patient Safety and Quality - "Adverse Events: The Aftermath and Second Victims"
Safa Farrag, M.D., Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine - "Individual Roles in Effective Teamwork and a Culture of Safety"
David Pole, Ph.D., MPH, Assistant Professer Family & Community Medicine
GME Fall Faculty and Staff Development Conference 2021
November 16, 2021
- "Introduction to Population Health for Clinicians"
Leslie Hinyard, Ph.D., Professor of Health and Clinical Outcomes Research, Director, AHEAD Institute - "VA and Population Health"
Ajit Babu, M.D., Professor of Internal Medicine, Staff Physician, St. Louis VAMC - "SSM Health's Approach to Population Health"
Tim Johnson, M.D., System VP, Medical Group and Population Health Operations - "Population Health Updated & Value Based Car"
Jane Tucker, M.D., Medical Director, SLUCare
Past Programs
2021
- Title: "The Role of Video Games in Fostering Medical Education"
Presented by: Eric Gantwerker, M.D., M.S. M.M.S.C., Associate Professor, Otolaryngology Cohen Children's Hospital, Northwell Health/Hofstra, New York
Date: 5/6/2021 - Title: "Navigating the AAMC MedEd Portal"
Adam Merando, M.D., Section Chief, Medical Education, John Cochran VA Hospital
Date: 5/6/2021 - Title: "Introduction to the Standardized Resident Event Report"
Marya Strand, M.D., M.S., C.M.O., SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital
Date: 5/6/2021 - Title: "An Overview of the Annual Performance Evaluation Tool"
Barbara Y. Whitman, Ph.D, Professor of Pediatrics, Assistant Dean, GME
Date: 5/6/2021
2020
- Title: "Multi-Source Feedback"
Naila Ahmad, M.D., Professor, Department of Anesthesiology
Date: 11/5/2020 - Title: "Mentoring Junior Faculty"
Farid Sadaka, M.D., Program Director, Critical Care Medicine
Date: 11/5/2020 - Title: "SLU's Addiction Medicine Fellowship: Supporting Our Training Programs and Clinical Services On and Off Our Health Campus"
Fred Rottnek, M.D., MAHCM, Medical Director, Professor Family and Community Medicine
Date: 11/5/2020 - Title: "Examining Our Perspectives on Wellness and Resilience: It's Not Just Yoga, I Promise"
Presented by: Lauren Schwarz, Ph.D., Professor Psychiatry, Assistant Dean of Student Affairs
Date: 1/22/2020 - Title: "Using Social Media as a Tool to Further Your Career"
Presented by: Daniela Hermelin, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pathology
Date: 1/27/2020 - Title: "Is it Feedback or Mistreatment? Establishing Expectations and Providing Feedback in Today's Learning Environment"
Presented by: Lisa Israel, Director of the Office of Professional Oversight
Date: 2/10/2020
2019 & 2018
- Title: "ACGME Resident Survey: What is the ACGME Really Asking?" (GME Fall Faculty and Staff Development Conference 2019)
Presented by: Jafar Kafaie, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Neurology
Date: 10/29/2019 - Title: "Burnout in Medicine: A Brown Bag Discussion"
Presented by: William Rumbaugh, M.D. Maj. MC, 1st Cavalry Division Psychiatrist at Fort Hood, TX
Date: 5/1/2019 - Title: "Developing Competence in Assessing" (GME Fall Faculty and Staff Development Conference 2019)
Presented by: Stephen Cagle, M.D., Assistant Professor of Family Medicine
Date: 10/29/2019 - Title: “Direct Observation” (Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Combined Grand Rounds)
Presented by: Chris Peltier, M.D., Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and Joseph Gigante, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics
Date: 11/30/18 - Title: "Faculty Development: Exploring Diversity in Academic Medicine"
Presented by: Daniel Blash, Ph.D., Vice Dean of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, SLU SOM
Date: 12/19/2019 - Title: "Faculty Development in Assessment" (GME Spring 2019 Faculty and Staff Development Conference)
Presented by: Oscar Cepeda, M.D., Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine & Mohammad Ali Javed, M.D., Associate Professor of Internal Medicine
Date: 5/15/2019 - Title: "Getting Promoted at SLU SOM"
Presented by: Jane McHowat, Associate Dean, Office of Faculty Affairs and Professional Development, Lia Lowrie, Chair, SOM Credentials Committee, and Sharon Frey, SOM Representative, University Committee on Academic Rank and Tenure (UCART)
Date: 5/29/2019 - Title: "Hot Debriefing: Diffusing Intense Medical Events with Learners in Real Time"
Presented by: Marya Strand, M.D. and Kayla Heller, M.D.
Date: 7/10/2019 - Title: "Intergenerational Approaches to Professionalism"
Presented by: Lisa Israel, M.Ed., Director, Office of Professional Oversight
Date: 2/21/19 - Title: "Making the Extraordinary, Ordinary; How to Manage a Crisis in GME" (GME Fall Faculty and Staff Development Conference 2019)
Presented by: Cristin Hart, M.Ed., University of Florida College of Medicine
Date: 10/29/2019 - Title: "Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) Waiver Training"
Presented by: Providers Clinical Support System - Title: "Mentoring in Academic Medicine- Time Well Spent"
Presented by: Kevin P. Lally, M.D., M.S., Department of Pediatric Surgery
Date: 4/10/19 - Title: "Mentorship and Sponsorship of Physicians"
Presented by: Justin Dimick, M.D., Professor of Surgery, University of Michigan
Date: 6/12/2019 - Title: New Program Director/Coordinator Introduction 2018
Presented by: Julie Gammack, M.D., GME DIO
Date: 5/14/2018 - Title: New Program Director and Coordinator Introduction to GME 2019
Presented by: Julie Gammack, M.D., GME DIO
Date: 8/9/2019 - Title: "NIH Grant Writing Course"
Presented by: David Curiel, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Radiation Oncology, Washington University
Date: 4/23/2019 - Title: “Oversight of Underperforming Programs Through Special Reviews”
Presented by: Barbara Whitman, M.S.W., Ph.D., Assistant Dean for Graduate Medical Education
Date: 8/6/2018 - Title: "Pain Management: A Deep Dive into Evidence-Based Treatment, Psychological Factors of Pain and Multidisciplinary Approaches"
Presented by: Ronald Margolis, Ph.D., Saint Louis Behavioral Medicine Institute
Date: 11/13/2019 - Title: "Psychiatric Sequelae of Combat"
Presented by: William Rumbaugh, M.D. Maj. MC, 1st Cavalry Division Psychiatrist at Fort Hood, TX
Date: 5/2/2019 - Title: “Ready, Aim, Fire-Mission Accomplished” (GME Spring 2018 Faculty & Staff Development Conference)
Presented by: Gabriela Espinoza, M.D., Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
Date: 5/3/2018 - Title: "Remeditation Toolkit" (GME Spring 2019 Faculty and Staff Development Conference)
Presented by: Marya Strand, M.D., Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Date: 5/15/2019 - Title: “Root Cause Analysis”
Presented by: Jennifer Schmidt, M.D., Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine
Date: 9/6/2017 - Title: "Sleep and Fatigue Education for Health Care Providers"
Presented by: Raman Malhotra, M.D., Associate Professor of Neurology
Date: 8/29/2019 - Title: SLU's Third Annual Addiction Medicine Conference
Presented by: Dr. Jaye Shyken, Medical Director of the WISH Center, followed by panels and breakouts
Date: 12/11/2019 - Title: SLU Cura Workshop: Giving Effective Feedback in Personal or Work Situations
Presented by: Michelle Marshall, workshop facilitator
Date: 10/18/2019 - Title: "SonoSim Demonstration" (GME Spring 2019 Faculty and Staff Development Conference)
Presented by: Anthony Anderson, Sonosim Territory Manager
Date: 5/15/2019 - Title: “Strategies for Diagnosing and Resuscitating the Problem Learner” (GME Fall 2018 Faculty and Staff Development Conference)
Presented by: Chris Peltier, M.D., Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics & Joseph Gigante, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics
Date: 11/29/18 - Title: "Substance Use Disorder 101 Core Curriculum Training"
Presented by: David Fiellin, M.D.; Michelle Lofwall, M.D.; and Larissa Mooney, M.D. - Title: “Tools for Making Your Clinical Teaching Even Better: The Stanford Faculty Development Program in Clinical Teaching” (GME Spring 2018 Faculty and Staff Development Conference)
Presented by: Nandini Calamur, M.D., Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Date: 5/3/2018 - Title: "Understanding the Difference Between Professionalism and Sexual Harassment: A Primer on Reporting the Uncomfortable"
Presented by: Michelle Lewis, Director, Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity and Lisa Israel, Director, Office of Professional Oversight
Date: 5/9/19 - Title: "Women in Medicine and Science Symposium"
Presented by: Dr. Angela Sharkey (Keynote Speaker)
Date: 9/11/2019 - Title: "Writing Letters of Recommendation"
Presented by: Maureen Lyons, M.D., Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine
Date: 12/18/2019