Are you interested in applying for the Summer Health Professions Education Program (SHPEP)?  Join the kick-off SHPEP webinar to hear about the free, educational opportunities and resources the program has to offer, directly from past scholars and alumni themselves.  You’ll also receive the best tips and tools for a successful 2019 SHPEP application.  

This webinar event is your first step towards jumpstarting your career in the health professions!  SHPEP is a summer career-enrichment opportunity that lasts a lifetime.

• Lauren Jordan attended SHPEP in 2018 at the University of Louisville.

Ms. Jordan is currently a junior at St. John’s University in Queens, New York where she is expected to earn her bachelor’s in psychology in the Spring of 2020.

Ms. Jordan’s interest in preventative healthcare was ignited during a pre-med student internship in Ahmedabad, India. Disturbed by the alarming number of health challenges faced by individuals of underserved communities, she is committed to being the change agent that improves the inequitable deliverance of healthcare in today’s society.  It was not until Ms. Jordan’s completion of SHPEP, that it became quite clear how she planned to fulfill her intentions in healthcare.

Ms. Jordan transitioned her career plans from medicine to dentistry after her intense six-week experience in SHPEP. After leaving Louisville, she immediately solidified her decision by continuing to shadow in different dental specialties. She currently shadows and volunteers at a Dental office in New York. Upon graduation, Ms. Jordan plans to attend Dental school and provide dental care in underserved communities.

• Shauntel Thomas attended SHPEP this past summer at the University of Washington- Seattle Campus. 

She is currently studying Public Health with an emphasis in pre-medicine. She plans to work towards a MD/MPH after completion of her undergraduate year.

SHPEP inspired her to pursue medicine to bridge the gap between Public Health and Medicine with an Indigenous perspective. She is passionate about both public health and medicine and with knowledge in both fields, she hopes to go back to her reservation and serve her Navajo people and their communities. 

• Karen Morris-Priester, M.D. attended MMEP in 2001 at Yale University and later graduated from Yale University Medical School in 2007.

She is an anesthesiologist practicing in Allentown, Penn. Dr. Morris-Priester gained national attention in 2007 when she appeared as a guest on the “Oprah Winfrey Show,” where Ms. Winfrey recognized her for completing medical school as a single mother of five children and as the first grandmother to attend Yale School of Medicine.

Since then, Dr. Morris-Priester has traveled the country as a motivational speaker encouraging her audiences to follow their dreams. She also acts as a mentor to young people who aspire to become physicians. Serving as Chair of the alumni advisory board, Dr. Morris-Priester hopes to use her time to develop a process that will allow alumni to reach back to assist current participants in their journey to becoming aspiring physicians.

• Andy Tang attended SMDEP in 2010 at the University of Washington.

Mr. Tang received a Bachelor of Science in biology and environmental health from the University of Washington in 2014. He is currently a research scientist in the Department of Radiology, Body Imaging Section at UW Medicine where he participates in ontological imaging research and provides tumor response assessments for patients enrolled in clinical trials.

“My personal commitment to serve on the SHPEP National Advisory Alumni Board is grounded in the belief of improving the health and well-being of medically underserved patients and communities. Our pursuit of this goal may be met by establishing a culture of health through the alignment of a diverse, inclusive, inter-professional team that informs and improves high quality patient, family, and community centered care. As such, I believe the educational pipeline through SHPEP and engagement of our alumni is critical to achieving this goal. Serving on the Alumni Board propagates my passion of reducing health and health care disparities, ensuring that the doors to medicine are wide open to those marginalized and those working towards reducing health and social inequities in health care delivery systems.”

• Rosemary Vergara attended SMDEP in 2014 at the University of California Los Angeles.

Ms. Vergara describes her experience in the program as, “a life-changing experience that really motivated [her] to envision a career in medicine.”

Ms. Vergara grew up in the Bay Area in California. In 2016, she received her Bachelor of Science in biology with a double minor in biotechnology and public health science at Santa Clara University. After graduation, she had the amazing opportunity to join a lab at the Stanford University School of Medicine as a Life Science Research Professional.

Ms. Vergara currently serves as the Chief Technology Officer for MiMentor and has volunteered in K-12 Outreach with Latinas in STEM. She has also worked as an Emergency Department scribe and serves as a Hispanic Scholarship Fund Scholar. Her role models include her parents and her little sister. In the future, she plans to attend medical school and work in an underserved community.

• Stephanie Vink has been working for SHPEP (formally known as SMDEP) since 2013. 

Ms. Vink recently transitioned and was promoted to the role of program specialist earlier this year. Ms. Vink has extensive knowledge of program operations, policies, and the overall application process.  She received her Bachelor of Science in Kinesiotherapy at the University of California, Long Beach in 2009. Ms. Vink is responsible for supporting the centralized application service from testing enhancements to SHPEP Web applications, troubleshooting, to the Web application system. She also maintains the SHPEP social media channels, assists with onboarding of new SHPEP Ambassadors and other outreach initiatives. Ms. Vink’s passion is focused upon helping others, whether it be through therapy, customer service, or supporting the career pathway of aspiring healthcare professionals. 

• Chantez Bailey has served as the Senior Communications and Outreach Specialist for the SHPEP initiative since 2016. 

Ms. Bailey works to increase visibility and awareness of the initiative to potential applicants throughout the year.  She received her Bachelor of Arts in English and Journalism at the University of Maryland in 2007.  Her passion has always been non-profit outreach and engagement, which is evident with the great amount of nonprofit outreach and work experience she has obtained since 2011.  She also currently works with the SHPEP alumni advisory board to create educational resources and opportunities for past alumni of the SHPEP, SMDEP, SMEP and MMEP iterations of the program.

Please join the AAMC-Vizient Faculty Practice Solutions Center (FPSC) for a webinar discussing the Medicare Quality Payment Program Final Rule.

During this 60 minute webinar, AAMC and Vizient staff will present on physician quality provisions from CMS’s 2019 Quality Payment Program final rule.  Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions once the presentations have concluded.

Gayle Lee, JD
Director, Physician Payment & Quality
 
Gayle Lee is the Director of Physician Payment Policy and Quality at the Association of American Medical Colleges. Ms. Lee has an expansive background in health care law, regulation, advocacy, and policy. She is responsible for educating and advocating on federal regulations and policies that impact teaching hospitals and physicians.  Prior to joining AAMC, Ms. Lee served as Senior Director of Health Finance and Quality at the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) where her key areas of responsibility involved Medicare, Medicaid, HIPAA and health care reform regulations impacting rehabilitation. Before APTA, Ms. Lee was the Assistant Counsel and Policy Coordinator at the American Rehabilitation Association where she worked on issues that affected rehabilitation hospitals and units.   
Ms. Lee received her law degree at the Washington College of Law at the American University DC and completed her undergraduate work at Pennsylvania State University located in University Park, Pennsylvania.

Kate Ogden, MPH
Policy & Regulatory Analyst

Kate Ogden is a Policy & Regulatory Analyst focusing on physician payment & quality at the Association of American Medical Colleges. At the AAMC, Ms. Ogden analyzes and advocates on a wide range of physician payment and quality federal regulatory issues impacting academic medical centers and faculty practices. Prior to joining the AAMC, Ms. Ogden was Health Policy Associate at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, where she advocated for members on health care payment policies. Ms. Ogden holds a master's degree in public health from Drexel University.

Chelsea Arnone
Regulatory Affairs and Government Relations Director

Chelsea Arnone is the Regulatory Affairs and Government Relations Director in Vizient’s Washington, DC office. She joined the Public Policy team in 2016 after serving as the regulatory and policy director at a DC-based health care consulting firm. Chelsea has also previously worked in the House of Representatives and consulted for several U.S. Senate, House and Gubernatorial campaigns. Before coming to Washington, Chelsea worked for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a legislative aide. She attended West Chester University where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science.

Please join the AAMC-Vizient Faculty Practice Solutions Center (FPSC) for a webinar discussing the 2019 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule.

During this 60 minute webinar, AAMC and Vizient staff will present on physician payment provisions from CMS’s 2019 Physician Fee Schedule final rule.  Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions once the presentations have concluded.

Gayle Lee, JD
Director, Physician Payment & Quality
 
Gayle Lee is the Director of Physician Payment Policy and Quality at the Association of American Medical Colleges. Ms. Lee has an expansive background in health care law, regulation, advocacy, and policy. She is responsible for educating and advocating on federal regulations and policies that impact teaching hospitals and physicians.  Prior to joining AAMC, Ms. Lee served as Senior Director of Health Finance and Quality at the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) where her key areas of responsibility involved Medicare, Medicaid, HIPAA and health care reform regulations impacting rehabilitation. Before APTA, Ms. Lee was the Assistant Counsel and Policy Coordinator at the American Rehabilitation Association where she worked on issues that affected rehabilitation hospitals and units.   
Ms. Lee received her law degree at the Washington College of Law at the American University DC and completed her undergraduate work at Pennsylvania State University located in University Park, Pennsylvania.

Kate Ogden, MPH
Policy & Regulatory Analyst

Kate Ogden is a Policy & Regulatory Analyst focusing on physician payment & quality at the Association of American Medical Colleges. At the AAMC, Ms. Ogden analyzes and advocates on a wide range of physician payment and quality federal regulatory issues impacting academic medical centers and faculty practices. Prior to joining the AAMC, Ms. Ogden was Health Policy Associate at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, where she advocated for members on health care payment policies. Ms. Ogden holds a master's degree in public health from Drexel University.

Dave Troland
Ambulatory and Physician Analytical Director

Mr. Troland is responsible for overseeing and producing analytic output primarily related to the Vizient-AAMC Faculty Practice Solutions Center®, the RVU Benchmarking process, and analysis relating to changes in healthcare policy. With seventeen years of experience in clinical benchmarking and support for faculty productivity concerns, and an earlier career supporting financial system IT, he has collected considerable experience to assist the academic medicine community with comparative data and analytics.

Chelsea Arnone
Regulatory Affairs and Government Relations Director

Chelsea Arnone is the Regulatory Affairs and Government Relations Director in Vizient’s Washington, DC office. She joined the Public Policy team in 2016 after serving as the regulatory and policy director at a DC-based health care consulting firm. Chelsea has also previously worked in the House of Representatives and consulted for several U.S. Senate, House and Gubernatorial campaigns. Before coming to Washington, Chelsea worked for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a legislative aide. She attended West Chester University where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science.

The ACGME made a commitment from the outset all Milestones would be reviewed in the first four to five years to assess the need for revisions, edits and updating. The lessons learned (presented in Webinar 2) have provided rich data to move forward with a full-scale review and revision process for all Milestones sets between 2018 and 2021. The Milestones team refers to this initiative as Milestones 2.0. A number of specialties have already begun work on Milestones 2.0, including the inclusion of the UME voice in the process. 

Dr. Laura Edgar will share the new Milestone development and revision process and provide an update on progress and lessons learned to date.

Laura Edgar, EdD, CAE
Vice President, Milestones Development

Dr. Edgar is the Vice President for Milestone Development. She previously served as the Executive Director for Milestones Development and the Review Committees for Medical Genetics and Genomics, Pathology, and Radiation Oncology. In her current role, she leads volunteers and staff members through the development of Milestones and related materials. She has been influential in the development of Milestones for more than one hundred specialties. Dr. Edgar is a frequent speaker on topics related to the Milestones, Clinical Competency Committees, assessment, education, and accreditation.

Prior to joining the ACGME, Dr. Edgar worked in a clinical laboratory for 10 years, and then moved on to direct certification, education, and accreditation programs for various domestic and international medical and scientific organizations. Dr. Edgar earned her doctorate in organizational leadership after obtaining a baccalaureate degree in medical laboratory sciences and a master’s in business administration. She is a certified medical technologist and a certified association executive.

During this 60 minute webinar, AAMC staff will present on hospital payment and quality provisions from CMS’s Calendar Year (CY) 2019 Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) final rule. 

Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions once the presentations have concluded.

Mary Mullaney
Director, Hospital Payment Policies

Andrew Amari
Policy and Regulatory Analyst, Hospital and GME Payment Policy

Phoebe Ramsey
Senior Regulatory Analyst, Quality & Payment Policy

Susan Xu
Lead Research Analyst, AAMC

Our first webinar since the live launch of WebAdMIT for AMCAS will examine what we have learned in the recent months of implementation and how we can best apply these lessons moving forward. We will share feedback from our current users in the admissions community and look at usage examples that will help to improve processes. You will hear informative insights about the system and how to best prepare your users for this new tool. This webinar is open to everyone in the AMCAS community. If you are currently using WebAdMIT or if you simply want to learn more, you will find this webinar valuable.

Steve Goldbeck

AMCAS Medical School Engagement Senior Specialist
AAMC

Lynn S. Coward

Director of Admissions
Brody School of Medicine 
East Carolina University

Please register to view the recording.

The first webinar in the AAMC/FASEB-hosted webinar series, The Impact and Implementation of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 2018 Reports on the Biomedical and Medical Workforce, will cover what NASEM is and how their research changes the tides of science, how NASEM committees of experts tackle science policy issues, and the process the committees use to create their reports. Next, the report study directors will present the key findings for each of the five NASEM reports.

This is the first part of the series “The Impact and Implementation of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 2018 Reports on the Biomedical and Medical Workforce.” If you would like information on the full series, please click here.

Join the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth leadership as they provide a look back at the 2016 reorganization of the school’s operating model, departmental structure and associated financial underpinnings. Topics to be covered include a synopsis of the challenges facing the school prior to the reorganization and the specific levers the School employed to stabilize its financial performance and strengthen support for its research and education missions. We will discuss specific tools and approaches used in advancing change at Geisel, and the lessons learned throughout this process.

Speakers:

Wesley A. Benbow
Executive Dean for Administration and Finance
The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

Jennifer K. Friend
Director of Institutional Reporting and Analysis
The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

Leslie P. Henderson
Dean for Faculty Affairs
The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

Andrew Rose
Director of Finance
The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

When the Milestones were formally implemented in seven specialties in 2013, the ACGME made a commitment at that time to study the validity and impact of the Milestones on GME training. 

The first five years of Milestone use by residencies and fellowships has catalyzed a number of important quantitative and qualitative studies on the validity and utility of Milestones. Multiple studies have involved either national or multi-institutional Milestone data to study key components of validity. We have learned lessons about what works and what doesn’t, success factors and approaches for residents, helpful and unhelpful characteristics of Milestone design and content, and early lessons about effective clinical competency committees.

Dr. Stan Hamstra with provide an overview of the research lessons learned to date, with a special emphasis on validity research.

Stanley Hamstra, PhD
Vice President, Milestone Research and Evaluation

Dr. Hamstra is the Vice President, Milestone Research and Evaluation, and is responsible for oversight and leadership regarding research in Milestones and assessment systems that inform decisions around resident physician progression and board eligibility. Dr. Hamstra works with medical subspecialty societies, program director organizations, the American Board of Medical Specialties, and specialty certification boards. His research addresses medical education broadly, including competency assessment for residency programs, and developing administrative support for educational scholarship within academic health settings. Prior to joining the ACGME, Dr. Hamstra was at the University of Michigan, the University of Ottawa, and the University of Toronto’s Department of Surgery. He has also worked closely with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada on developing policies regarding competency-based medical education for graduate medical education.

This webinar will feature presentations from the three recipients of the 2018 AAMC Innovations in Research and Research Education Award, developed in collaboration with the GREAT Group and GRAND leadership. The primary goal of this year’s awards program is to highlight innovative institutional models to promote tech transfer, entrepreneurship, and research or research education partnerships with the private sector. 

The three award-winning projects will be presented by:

First Prize Winner: Women in Innovation and Technology (WIT), Washington University in St. Louis, Nichole Mercier, PhD

Second Prize Winner: Health Sciences Entrepreneurship Boot Camp for Undergraduate and Post-graduate Students, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Nancy Gray, PhD

Third Prize Winner: SINAInnovations, Sparking an Innovation Ecosystem, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Scott L. Friedman, MD

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