Assistant Professor
Western University

Andrew Deweyert is an assistant professor at Western University's Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology. He currently teaches Histology, Head and Neck, and Neuroanatomy in the medical curriculum and has ongoing research interests in assessment for Medical Science Education.

Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Education
Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University

Angelique N. Dueñas, PhD, MS, (she/her/hers) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Education at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, where she teaches embryology, anatomy, ultrasound, and medical education content in the MD and PA programs. She has won numerous Outstanding Teaching awards since joining Northwestern for her teaching in the anatomical sciences. She has a background in anatomy education research from her Master’s of Modern Human Anatomy and Teaching Certificate in Anatomical Sciences Education (University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus), where her interest in embryology and anatomy started. Her doctorate work (Hull York Medical School, York, England) focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion in medical and anatomy education, with particular emphasis on qualitative methodologies to better understand these principles.

Associate Professor of Anatomy & Neurobiology
Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine

Kelly M. Harrell, PhD, MPT (she/her/hers) is an associate professor in the Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine in Richmond, Virginia. She has over 20 year of experience teaching anatomical sciences, primarily across Medical and Health Science (PT, CRNA, PA) programs. Her research interests are in professionalism and teamwork in medical education, and anatomical education.

Associate Dean for Curriculum
Associate Professor of Medicine
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Katie is a practicing general internist and clinician educator. She has held roles as preclinical course director, clerkship director, as well as curriculum committee chair prior to assuming her current position as Associate Dean for Curriculum in July 2023.

Carol B. and Jerome T. Loeb Professor of Medical Education, Senior Associate Dean for Education, Vice Chancellor for Medical Education

Eva Aagaard, MD, is the Loeb Endowed Professor, Vice Chancellor and Senior Associate Dean for Education at Washington University School of Medicine. She oversees health professions education across the continuum and graduate training. She spearheaded large-scale curriculum reform in the MD program and development of multiple initiatives to support educators.

Assistant Dean, Educational Technology and Innovation

Dr. Carolyn Dufault’s work focuses on the design and implementation of core educational technology and infrastructure in support of curriculum and assessment delivery, and she leads efforts to enable comprehensive curriculum mapping and reporting within competency-based medical education. She received her BA in Neuroscience from Mount Holyoke College and her PhD in Cognitive Psychology from Washington University in St. Louis.

Dr. Colbert-Getz's scholarly work focuses on validity frameworks and other elements of assessment utility, survey design, and program evaluation. Dr. Colbert-Getz received her MS degree in Psychology from Illinois State University and her PhD degree in Educational Psychology from the University of Utah.

Rachel Bonnett's work in curriculum evaluation and quality improvement has focused on student feedback, academic performance and faculty research collaborations.  She received her BA from California State University, Fullerton.

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Service Learning Course Director
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Dr. Roth is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and inaugural director of the Service Learning Course at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She received the Award for Innovation in Medical Student Education from Einstein in 2022 and recently received the National Board of Medical Educators (NBME) Emerging Innovators Grant for her work developing a 360-assessment tool for Service Learning.

Service Learning Program Manager
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Holly Nuthmann is a social worker and the inaugural Program Manager of the Service Learning Course at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Prior to working at Einstein, Holly has worked in a variety of nonprofit settings and serves as the connection point between Einstein and the community organizations that serve as key partners in the Service Learning Program.

Assistant Dean for Integrated Medical Education
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Janice Thomas John is the Assistant Dean for Integrated Medical Education at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She oversees the longitudinal courses at Einstein including the Service Learning Course, and she has extensive teaching and leadership experience in health equity, community engagement, and curricular innovation.

Medical Student, Class of 2026
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Alexandra (Ali) Hoffman is a rising third year medical student at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She is part of the class of 2026, which is the inaugural class that participated in Einstein’s new required Service Learning Course. Through Service Learning, Ali played an active role in launching a Bronx chapter of Achilles International, a global organization that provides athletic programs and social connection for people with disabilities.

Elizabeth Ryan, EdD, Associate Dean for Educational Integration at Indiana University School of Medicine, earned her MEd and EdD through Loyola University of Chicago in Curriculum and Instruction. She has held leadership roles within the AAMC in the GEA, CGEA and currently serves on the steering committee of the GRMC.

Vice Dean and Dean for Education
Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine Hofstra/Northwell

Samara B. Ginzburg, MD, graduated magna cum laude in Biopsychology from the University of Michigan, and earned her MD, completed residency in Internal Medicine, and fellowship in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism all at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Dr. Ginzburg is the Vice Dean and Dean for Education at the Zucker School of Medicine and a founding member of the leadership team that established the medical school.

Dr. Mara Feingold-Link went to medical school at Brown University. She completed her internal medicine residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital where she was first introduced to the My Life, My Story project at the Boston VA. She came back to Brown for her hospice and palliative medicine fellowship, and she now works as a palliative care physician at the Lifespan Cancer Institute at Brown and as the associate program director for Brown's HPM fellowship.

Dr. Rachel Kishton is a dual-boarded Family Medicine and Psychiatry physician. She completed residency at the University of Cincinnati and then a Masters in Health Policy Research at the University of Pennsylvania. Currently at Penn she works to improve the integration of mental health care into the larger medical system.

Dr. Saul Weiner is a medicine-pediatrics physician and health services researcher in the UIC College of Medicine, where he also served as senior associate dean for educational affairs. He is a graduate of Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, and is a former Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Generalist Physician Faculty Scholar.

Dr. John Ragsdale is the UME Cross-Continuum Consultant for the AAMC, assisting with strategic initiatives across the continuum of medical education. At the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, he is the Assistant Dean for Clinical Education and the Director of Clinical Education Faculty Development. He practices as an internal medicine hospitalist.

Dr. Chris D’Adamo is an epidemiologist and Assistant Professor with dual appointments in the Departments of Family & Community Medicine and Epidemiology & Public Health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He serves as the Director of the Center for Integrative Medicine and as a Fellow at the Nova Institute for Health.

Lisa Howley is an Educational Psychologist and Senior Director for Transforming Medical Education at the Association of American Medical Colleges. She joined the AAMC in 2016 and currently leads a diverse portfolio and multiple teams to advance the continuum of medical education, support experiential learning, and curricular transformation across its member institutions and their clinical partners. Under her leadership and vision, the long-standing national initiative FRAHME (pronounced ‘frame’) was born and built which is designed to realize the Fundamental Role of Arts and Humanities at improving the practice, education, and wellbeing of medical learners and practicing physicians. Prior to her national role, she spent eight years as the Associate DIO and AVP of Medical Education and Physician Development for Carolinas HealthCare System, one of the largest independent academic medical centers in the U.S. In that role, she led several medical education initiatives across the professional development continuum, including graduate medical education accreditation, as well as physician leadership development for the large integrated healthcare system. She holds an adjunct faculty appointment at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. She began her career as a member of the medical education faculty at the University of Virginia School of Medicine where she designed and led performance-based assessments and simulation-enhanced curricula. She received her bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Central Florida, and both her M.Ed. and Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Virginia.

Stutee Khandelwal is a board-certified Internist with specialty interest in nutrition education for physicians and patients as well as public health nutrition. She has extensive research experience and publications as first author. Stutee is a teaching scholar with UCSF and has won a teaching award as well. She runs workshops on motivational interviewing for physicians-in-training. Stutee is passionate about educating the community on food as medicine. Her latest interest is in alternative medicine, especially mind-body medicine, and practices daily meditation. Most recently, she served as a Asst. Medical Director of the COVID Equity Project at UCSF Fresno, where they provided free, equitable, and community-based testing for COVID19. Her hobbies include cooking, dancing, and art and she is fluent in Hindi and English.

Dr. John Ragsdale is the UME Cross-Continuum Consultant for the AAMC, assisting with strategic initiatives across the continuum of medical education. At the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, he is the Assistant Dean for Clinical Education and the Director of Clinical Education Faculty Development. He practices as an internal medicine hospitalist.

MS4SF Executive Chair and MD/MPH Candidate at The George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Class of 2024

As the current Executive Chair of MS4SF, in her second term, Savita is committed to promoting environmental justice in the climate action initiatives this organization undertakes. She has co-led the newly established Climate Change and Human Health MD Program curriculum theme. Savita plans on applying into OBGYN for residency and is incredibly passionate about the intersectionality of reproductive health, climate change, and environmental justice. Prior to her role as Executive Chair, she served as one of the Climate Smart Health Care co-chairs for MS4SF. Her organizational priorities for 2023 include expanding student representation to regions new to climate change and health, collaborating with professional medical societies on shared priorities in climate action to amplify student voices, and leading the organization’s transition to a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.

MS4SF Vice Chair, MD Candidate at The George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Class of 2024

Taylor’s interest in environmental health, climate change, and related social justice began young and was fostered through a BA in Environmental Studies and a BS in Biology at The George Washington University. She served as GW Medical School’s Climate Health Interest Group president in addition to co-pioneering GW SMHS’s Climate Change and Human Health curricula theme. Pediatric oriented, she also has a special interest to integrate climate health principles into child healthcare to create a longitudinal mutually beneficial relationship.

MS4SF Vice Chair

Douglas currently serves as a Vice Chair for MS4SF. Additionally he leads sustainability efforts as an MD/PhD Student at the University of Colorado. Douglas knows climate change, social justice, and health are increasingly connected, and he expects our medical schools to be on the forefront of addressing it.

Douglas knows climate change, social justice, and health are increasingly connected, and he expects our medical schools to be on the forefront of addressing it. While his work as a Vice Chair for MS4SF is focused on addressing these expectations nationally, as a MD/PhD student in Colorado, his research interests trace the intersections of infectious disease and the climate crisis. he works with local community members to addresses heat-stress in Denver and leads a fantastic team of residents, fellows, and med students sustainability initiatives on campus.. passionate about interweaving climate change more deeply into med school curricula and elevating what physicians can to address the climate crisis.

Harleen Marwah, MD MS, is a pediatric resident at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and was the founding chair of Medical Students for a Sustainable Future (MS4SF), a community of 500+ medical trainees across 100+ medical schools who recognize the urgency of the climate crisis on health. They combine the spark of youth activism and the perspective of medicine to advocate for policies that protect patients. She was selected as a 2021 Grist 50 Fixer and earned the 2020 Health Care Without Harm Emerging Physician Leader Award in recognition of her work founding and leading MS4SF Prior to medical school, Dr. Marwah earned her M.S. in Global Medicine and B.S. in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention from the University of Southern California. She has represented health and intergenerational equity stakeholders at the United Nations COP20 in Lima, Peru and the COP21 in Paris, France.

Founder & Project Director, Climate Resources for Health Education (CRHE)

Natasha Sood is a fourth-year medical student at Penn State College of Medicine. She is the Founder and Project Director of the Climate Resources for Health Education (CRHE) initiative at the Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education (GCCHE).

Taylor is a third-year medical student at Indiana University School of Medicine. She is the Co-Director and former Implementation & Analytics Chair (2020-22) of the Planetary Health Report Card.

MD MPH Candidate at Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Julia is a fourth-year MD MPH student at Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.  As a co-leader of Students for Environmental Awareness in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, she and her peers have led the integration of climate health content into the medical curriculum.

MD candidate (expected graduation: 2024)

Madhu Manivannan is a 4th year medical student at Emory University School of Medicine. She serves as co-president of the student organization Medical Students for Climate Action, and is currently working on projects related to implementing climate education into the medical school curriculum. Her other interests include climate justice & advocacy, health inequities, and the intersection of climate change on maternal and fetal health outcomes.