SAEM25 Consensus Conference — Competency Based Training and Certification: Part Two

Dr. Linda Regan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Johns Hopkins, where she serves as the Vice Chair for Education and the director of the Medical Education Fellowship. Dr. Regan served on the program committee for both SAEM and CORD for many years, including three years as a track chair for the CORD Best Practices track. She served for four years as a member of the Board of Directors of CORD and is a well-known national speaker on a wide array of educational topics, having spoken at ACEP, CORD, SAEM, ACGME, and AMEE. She is the current Chair of the ACGME’s Residency Review Committee in EM. Dr. Regan is well known at Johns Hopkins for her work as an educational program builder and 13 years spent as the program director for the Emergency Medicine residency. She obtained her Masters in Education for the Health Professions from the Johns Hopkins School of Education, with a focus on educational research. Dr. Regan’s educational research interests lay mainly in the applications of adult learning theories and conceptual models to postgraduate education, in particular as they pertain to the development of adaptive expertise for learners, as well as how to best teach and represent yourself as an educator.

Dr. Tanski is associate professor and chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU).

She earned an undergraduate degree in business management and health and humanities from Michigan State University and received her medical degree from Wayne State University. Dr. Tanski completed her residency in emergency medicine at George Washington University, where she also served as chief resident. She then completed an emergency medicine administration fellowship and earned an MBA at OHSU.

Dr. Tanski has been a faculty member in the Department of Emergency Medicine at OHSU, where she teaches the health care operations and quality course. She previously served as medical director of operations before being appointed department chair.

Her expertise includes emergency department operations and quality improvement, with a focus on improving patient flow, implementing a no-divert trial, and addressing departmental boarding.

Joel Moll is Professor and Vice Chair of Education at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine. He previously served as Residency Program Director, Medical Education Fellowship Director, and Chair of the GME Executive Committee at VCU. Dr Moll was also Associate Residency Program Director at the University of Michigan, and Assistant Residency Director and Administration Fellowship Director at Emory University. Although always interested in education, Dr. Moll started his career in operations, and was medical director at Cleveland Clinic Florida and the University of Florida Gainesville prior to joining residency leadership. He has published multiple peer reviewed articles and textbook chapters, presents internationally and nationally, and has served on many national committees. He participated in the 2022 EM Model of Clinical Practice and the All EM Organization DEI Working Group. He is past recipient of the VCU Health Leadership in Medical Education Residency Director of the year, and the VCU School of Medicine Leonard Tow Humanism Awards. Interests include graduate medical education, curriculum development, diversity and inclusion, LGBTQIA+ health and education, and evidence-based medicine.

Dr. Druck is an emergency physician who focuses on treatment of emergent conditions at University Hospital. He is a member of the teaching faculty at the University and educates resident physicians and medical students.

His interests include mentorship, wellbeing, diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), medical education, and the intersection of education and clinical care. He has been involved in medical education at the undergraduate level, graduate level, and CME level. From a DEI perspective, he has been involved in DEI efforts on an undergraduate, graduate, and national level.

Dr. Jaime Jordan completed an Education Scholarship Fellowship at Harbor-UCLA and is currently the Associate Program Director for the Emergency Medicine Residency at UCLA and Vice Chair of the Acute Care College at the David Geffen School of Medicine. She has lectured extensively at both CORD and SAEM on education and education research related topics. She is an established education researcher with a successful track record and her interests include barriers educators face in performing scholarship, graduate and undergraduate medical education, curriculum design, and faculty development. Additionally, she is a decision editor for AEM Education and Training and a reviewer for multiple education research journals.

Sara Schulwolf is a MD/MPH student at UConn, currently applying into EM. She served on the RAMS board as a medical student representative and served as liaison to the Research Committee.

In addition to to her work with the research committee, she also served as ad-hoc representative to the Bylaws Committee and hosted webinars around changes to the residency application process such as program signaling and the proposed platform switch away from ERAS.

Kendra Parekh, MD, MHPE, is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Medical Education at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. She graduated from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine (2005) and completed her residency in emergency medicine at Vanderbilt (2008) where she had the privilege of being Chief Resident (2008-2009). She completed the American College of Emergency Physicians’ Teaching Fellowship (2014) and a Master of Health Professions Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago (2021) where her thesis explored the mindset and motivation of medical students. As assistant dean Dr. Parekh directs the two-year post-clerkship curriculum and the Portfolio Coaching Program—a longitudinal coaching program designed to foster students’ self-assessment skills and life-long learning practices. She is also the Director of Vanderbilt's Academy for Excellence in Education. Dr. Parekh’s interests are in assessment, educational transitions, coaching, the impact of motivation on learning, and educational policy.

Jeremy Branzetti, MD, MHPE, is a board-certified emergency medicine (EM) physician who received his doctorate of medicine from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook and received his MD. He completed a four-year residency in EM at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois, and was chief resident in his final year. Subsequently, he obtained a Masters in Health Professions Education from Maastricht University’s School of Health Professions, and certification as a Leadership and Professional Coach through ACT/Brown University. He has over a decade of experience in GME leadership and medical education scholarship, with extensive expertise in evidence-based learning science, adaptive expertise, professional identity development, and coaching as a faculty development tool. He is the founder of Academic Educator Coaching, and strives to use his accrued experience in academic medicine to coach medical educators to chart meaningful careers on their own terms.

Dr. Holly Caretta-Weyer is associate residency program director and director of evaluation and assessment for the Stanford University emergency medicine residency program as well as EPA/CBME implementation lead at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Caretta-Weyer attended medical school at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, where she graduated Alpha Omega Alpha with honors in research. She stayed at Wisconsin for her emergency medicine residency, where she was also chief resident. Dr. Caretta-Weyer then completed her medical education scholarship fellowship at Oregon Health & Science University and earned her master's in health professions education at the University of Illinois-Chicago. She is a PhD candidate at Maastricht University studying residency selection in a competency-based system.

Dr. Benjamin Schnapp graduated from the Mount Sinai Hospital emergency medicine residency program in New York City, where he completed a specialty track in medical education and served as chief resident. He completed his medical education fellowship at Northwestern University and is pursuing a master's in education with a focus on health professions at the University of Cincinnati. His interests include clinical teaching skills, resident assessment, and decision-making. He serves on the SAEM Graduate Medical Education and Fellowship Approval committees.

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Sara Krzyzaniak MD is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University where she serves as an Associate Vice Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine as well as the Residency Program Director. She completed medical school at Northwestern University followed by residency training at Denver Health Residency in EM. She has had several leadership roles in medical education for the past decade. Dr. Krzyzaniak is passionate about medical education and enjoys mentoring and working with medical students and residents. Her research interests are in strategies to address the remediation of struggling learners and issues related to gender and race representation in medicine and has authored several peer-reviewed articles on these topics. She is a peer reviewer for several journals and is a guest consulting editor for WestJEM's CORD/CDEM issue. She has lectured nationally on both clinical and education topics.

Sarah R. Williams, MD, MHPE, PCC is a Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine. She is also a professional certifed coach. Dr. Williams leads the Stanford Coaching Office: Advancing Coaching in Healthcare and Medical Education ("COACHME@Stanford", https://med.stanford.edu/content/sm/coachme.html.) and the Stanford Health Professions Education and Scholarship Program ("SHaPES", https://med.stanford.edu/academy/programs/CTSS_Schedule.html), our interdepartmental medical education certificate program. She has also been a residency and fellowship program director. Her goals are to 1) democratize the availability of quality coaching in medical education; and 2) provide educators with the skills they need for a successful and fulfilling career in medical education.

Sally Santen, MD, PhD, is professor of emergency medicine and medical education at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and vice-chair of education research in the department of medical education. She is the senior associate dean, assessment, evaluation, and scholarship and professor of emergency medicine at Virginia Commonwealth School of Medicine. Previously she was an assistant dean at the University of Michigan Medical School and Emory School of Medicine. 

Dr. Santen earned her MD from the George Washington University School of Medicine and completed a residency in emergency medicine at the George Washington/Georgetown hospitals. As a junior faculty at Vanderbilt University, she earned a PhD in education. 

Dr Santen is the recipient of several awards for her work in education, including the SAEM Hal Jayne Excellence in Education Award which recognizes outstanding contributions to emergency medicine through the teaching of others and the improvement of pedagogy.She is also a Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine® (ELAM) Program fellow

Dr. Santen has published more than 200 papers, including over 30 papers in Academic Emergency Medicine, as well as perspectives inJAMA and New England Journal of Medicine. While at the University of Michigan, she was the co-principal investigator for the American Medical Association Accelerating Change in Medical Education grant. Dr. Santen was responsible for the evaluation of several NIH grants including, CTSA, T32, R25, and PREP. She is currently the evaluator for a Virginia Department of Health grant and a Health Resources and Services Administration well-being grant. She is an evaluation and scholarship consultant for the American Medical Association Accelerating Change in Medical Education consortium.

Dr. Danielle Miller is currently a medical education researcher in the Department of Emergency Medicine at University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus. She completed her Medical Education Scholarship Fellow at Stanford Department of Emergency Medicine and Masters of Medical Education at University of Cincinnati. Dr. Miller's research has been in competency-based medical education in GME and UME including creating multiple mastery learning curricula in Emergency Department (ED) thoracotomy, donning and doffing PPE, and US-guided serratus anterior plan nerve blocks for rib fractures. Within the context of competency research, Dr. Miller received the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine Education Research Grant for her project entitled “Development of a Simulation Curriculum and Web-Based Modules to Teach Core EPA 10 to Medical Students. Additionally, Dr. Miller's research includes the integration of technology into assessment of learners and how the electronic the electronic health record (EHR) can track educational interventions and patient-centered outcomes.