Dr. Bailey is an Associate Professor and serves as the Associate Dean for Faculty Development at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine. She holds a Ph.D. in Higher, Adult and Lifelong Education and a M.A. in College and University Administration from Michigan State University. She has experience serving as an adjunct and full-time faculty member, in dean-level positions including chief academic officer at the community college level, and as director, assistant, and associate dean responsible for faculty development at two medical schools. Her research interests include teaching and learning, medical education scholarship, faculty and gender roles in higher education, reflection and mindfulness, and work/life navigation.

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). 

Dr. Tom Delaney is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Senior Faculty Advisor in the Division of Public Health at the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine. He is the Director of the Four Pines Fellowship, a Foundation-level combined research and clinical learning experience focused on mental health and suicide prevention. He earned his BA from Rutgers University and MA and PhD from the University of Denver in Psychology with a focus on research and experimental methods. He has developed and taught courses across medical and other graduate health care programs in areas including biostatics, research methods, public health, and mental health. He is the Course Director for Culminating Project Experience in which students work in small teams to design, conduct and report on a public health research project. In 2020 he was recognized as an Expert Educator by the Teaching Academy at the University of Vermont and has been a member of the Medical Education Research Certificate (MERC) Steering Committee since 2023.

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). 

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.

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.

Judy Spak, MLS is Head of Academic Research and Education at the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library at Yale School of Medicine. She regularly collaborates with educators on evidence and knowledge syntheses projects across the continuum of med ed, providing expert searching and methodological expertise.

Ms. Spak is faculty in several medical education fellowships as well as the Master of Health Science - Medical Education Pathway Degree Program. Her personal research focuses on the role of librarians in teaching and assessing the evidence-based information seeking skills of health professions trainees.

Arianne Teherani, PhD is Professor of Medicine, Director of Program Evaluation and Education Continuous Quality Improvement for UCSF School of Medicine, and Founding Co-Director University of California, Center for Climate Health and Equity. Arianne’s research has informed global conversations, research, and policies on equity and social justice in education and education for climate change and health. Arianne’s research into how educational disparities are perpetuated by learning environment practices has shifted how medical schools thinks about and act on inequities. Her research identifies and addresses the role of accepted assessment and learning environment practices in perpetuating disparities. She has led studies on interventions aimed at creating equity and she has led the development of novel evidence-based model for equitable assessment in the clinical setting. Additionally, Arianne’s research has positioned education as a core solution to the climate change and health crisis and has established globally utilized competencies, knowledge, and practice. She has examined the outcomes of successful endeavors to train practicing clinicians to educate their students and patients about climate-health impacts and climate justice. Arianne has published over 130 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters and work has been featured in venues such as National Public Radio, KTVU, Market Watch, and the Huffington Post. She was the recipient of the UCSF Faculty Sustainability Award and the UC Sustainability Champion Award. Arianne was named the Faculty Climate Action Champion - an award given to one faculty member at each University of California campus in recognition of their contribution to the mission of sustainability.