Carol Hodgson, MS, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor with tenure in Pediatrics, the former J. Alan Gilbert Chair in Medical Education Research, Director of the IDEAS Office, and directs the Teaching Scholars Program at the University of Alberta, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry and the Teaching Scholars Program in the Alberta Institute with Wenzhou Medical University.  She received a Master of Science degree in biochemistry from the University of California, Riverside and a doctorate in Education at UCLA.  Before entering the field of medical education in 1992, she was a researcher in preventive medicine at the University of Southern California.  She has been an Assessor for the World Federation for Medical Education since 2013. Dr. Hodgson actively mentors numerous faculty members and residents.  She is an expert in curriculum design, program evaluation, assessment, health professions educational research, faculty development, and medical school accreditation.  Dr. Hodgson’s research focuses in the areas of professionalism, program evaluation, cancer education, and training for better care of people with disabilities.

As part of the Research and Education Department at the Virginia Commonwealth University Health Sciences Library, John works with physicians, students, and residents in the VCU School of Medicine and at VCU Health to support research, learning, and patient care. John also served as Interim Co-Head of the Research and Education Department for 2020-2021. His scholarly interests include uncertainty in evidence-based practice and decision-making, evidence synthesis methods, and assessment of consultative library services. Before joining the faculty at VCU Libraries in 2012, he was a health sciences librarian at Louisiana State University in Shreveport, Louisiana. John earned his MLIS from Louisiana State University in 2009.

Karen Richardson-Nassif, PhD, Professor Emeritus, was the Associate Dean for Faculty and Staff Development and Diversity in the Office of the Dean, College of Medicine.  She was previously the Predoctoral Director and Director of Research in the Department of Family Medicine and Director of Assessment in the Office of Medical Education at the University of Vermont College of Medicine.  She has served on numerous committees on curriculum change, program evaluation, and leadership. She was an advisor for the LEAD AAMC program and Advisor to the Women’s Mentoring Program and the New Hampshire/Vermont Schweitzer Fellowship Program.  She is also a reviewer for several journals.  She attended the Harvard Macy Physician Educators Scholars Program in 1999 and the Evaluator’s Institute in 2000 and 2001.  In 2005, she received the Vermont Women in Higher Education Jackie M. Gribbons Leadership Award.  She received the Research in Medical Education Best Paper Award, AAMC, in 2008 and Outstanding Service Award from the Northeast Group on Educational Affairs in 2010.

Larry Gruppen is Professor in the Department of Learning Health Sciences at the University of Michigan Medical School, where he directed the competency-based Master in Health Professions Education program. His research interests center around the development of expertise, knowledge and performance assessment, self-regulated learning, and educational leadership development. He has held the offices of president of the Society of Directors of Research in Medical Education and chair of the Association of American Medical College’s (AAMC) Central Group on Educational Affairs. He was also the founding Chair of the AAMC’s Medical Education Research Certificate (MERC) program. He has over 200 peer-reviewed publications on a variety of topics in medical education and presents regularly at national and international professional meetings. He was recognized for career productivity by the AAMC’s Central Group for Educational Affairs’ Medical Education Laureate Award, the John P. Hubbard Award from the National Board of Medical Examiners, the Merrel Flair Award from the AAMC Group on Educational Affairs, and University of Michigan Medical School’s Lifetime Achievement Award in Medical Education

Jorie Colbert-Getz, PhD, MS, is Associate Professor in Internal Medicine and the Assistant Dean of Education Quality Improvement for the Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine. She is also an adjunct faculty member for Johns Hopkins Masters of Education in the Health Professions. At the national level, Dr. Colbert-Getz serves on the Research in Medical Education (RIME) program planning committee. She has also served on the executive committee for the Society of Directors of Research in Medical Education, was the Medical Education Scholarship, Research, and Evaluation chair for the Western Region Group on Education Affairs and was the founding director of the Learning Community Institute Research Network. She has over 50 publications in medical education, mostly focused on assessment.  Her overarching mission is to ensure assessments measure developmentally appropriate learning objectives / milestones. To that end, her research 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.

Dr. Janet P. Hafler is Associate Dean for Teaching and Learning and a Professor of Pediatrics at the Yale School of Medicine. As an institutional priority to support the YSM mission, the Center for Medical Education (the Center) was created under the leadership of Dr. Hafler. In this role, Dr. Hafler oversees two important entities, Continuing Medical Education (CME) and the Teaching and Learning Center (TLC). Both entities are organized under the Center to meet the increasing needs of medical educators in Undergraduate, Graduate Medical Education and Continuing Medical Education.

Dr. Hafler received her master's degree in education specializing in maternal and child health from Columbia University and her doctorate in Education from Harvard University. She focuses on assisting faculty, students, and residents to explore innovative ways to effectively promote learning in both the classroom and the clinical settings. Promoting, influencing and nurturing a climate in which physicians, residents and students can teach — and learn — has been foremost among her career objectives.

Through the TLC, Dr. Hafler continues to direct the Medical Education Fellowship for faculty educators as well as the Master of Health Science-Medical Education Pathway Degree. She also collaborates with Yale New Haven Hospital Graduate Medical Education overseeing Resident-as-Teacher programs for all Yale residents. Dr. John Encandela leads the TLC as its Executive Director overseeing student, faculty and program assessment and additional programs offered to YSM educators and departments.

Dr. Hafler leads the CME office, which is under Allison Rentfro, PhD as its Executive Director. Together they will expand the focus of the CME office to include continuing professional development (CPD), with a broader focus on professional development while continuing to provide courses on clinical medical education. YSM CME is positioned to broaden their scope to include a greater national presence and a new global outreach.

Dr. Hafler runs an active research program applying qualitative research methods in medical education. She collaborates with and mentors faculty on the elements of qualitative research in the field of medical education and medical care. In turn, mentored faculty members have learned to develop and demonstrate the tools necessary to effectively teach and lead others. Dr. Hafler is very widely published with book chapters, curriculum materials and original articles in medical education and clinical journals. She frequently serves as visiting professor internationally and has been invited to present regularly at regional and national professional meetings.

Dr. Cayla R. Teal is the Associate Dean for Assessment and Evaluation and an Education Associate Professor in the Department of Population Health at the University of Kansas School of Medicine (KUSOM).  Dr. Teal received her B.A. degree in Chemistry from William Jewell College and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Community/Clinical Psychology from Wichita State University, with emphases in applied research methods and psychometrics. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Health Services Research at the Center of Innovation in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety at the Michael E. DeBakey Houston VA Medical Center.  She served as the Director of Educational Evaluation and Research at Baylor College of Medicine and an Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs and Associate Dean for Evaluation and Assessment at Texas A&M College of Medicine prior to coming to KUSOM.  Dr. Teal is responsible for the assessment of student performance in and program evaluation of the KUSOM’s curriculum and a member of its continuous quality improvement team.  She is a mixed-methods medical education researcher, an Associate Editor for Medical Education Online, a Deputy Editor for Teaching and Learning in Medicine, teaching faculty for AAMC Medical Education Research Certificate (MERC) program, and a 2022 AMA Scholar in Health Systems Science.  Dr. Teal recently completed her two-year term as the national chair for the Medical Education Scholarship, Research and Evaluation (MESRE) section at the AAMC’s Group on Educational Affairs (GEA) and serves as the Treasurer for the Society of Directors of Research in Medical Education (SDRME). 

Gary L. Beck Dallaghan, Ph.D., is the assistant dean for evaluation and assessment and professor of medical education at the University of Texas at Tyler School of Medicine.  Dr. Beck Dallaghan collaborates with faculty and staff to develop program evaluations and assessment strategies for the medical students.  

Dr. Beck Dallaghan has nearly three decades of experience in medical education. For over 20 years, he was at the University of Nebraska College of Medicine, completing a masters in mathematics and doctorate in educational psychology.  He served as their assistant dean for medical education for five years.  In 2018, he joined the University of North Carolina School of Medicine as director of educational scholarship. During that time he published nearly 80 peer-review articles with a variety of collaborators. 

Nationally, he is actively involved in several medical education organizations, including the Alliance for Clinical Education, Association of American Medical Colleges, and Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics.