Optimal Strategies for Your Residency Application, with a focus on Internal Medicine - June 12

Join us for this AAMC-hosted Specialty Spotlight webinar featuring Internal Medicine, a participating specialty in the ERAS® application process. During this session, ERAS applicants and medical school advisors will hear directly from a Internal Medicine program director and advisor who will share key insights, helpful practices, and valuable resources to support preparation for the 2025-2026 application season.

Richard Peng
Director of Outreach and Engagement, ERAS Program

Richard Peng is a Director for ERAS Outreach and Engagement. He was previously a manager for that team. Before joining Outreach and Engagement, he was an ERAS Senior Account Relationship Management Specialist, a Lead Program Relations Specialist and a Training Senior Specialist. After 10 years with the AAMC he has a deep and thorough understanding of the ERAS systems, an appreciation for the needs of individuals across medical education and a desire to ensure that they receive timely and accurate information and guidance.

Reeni Abraham, MD
Associate Vice Chair for Undergraduate Medical Education
Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Dr. Reeni Abraham is the Associate Vice Chair of Undergraduate Medical Education at UT Southwestern, where she has led the Internal Medicine advising process for over 10 years. The program focuses on using national and local data to individualize strategies for their high volume of applicants. As a previous President of the Clerkship Directors of Internal Medicine, Dr. Abraham is greatly involved in many national endeavors to support the UME to GME transition, including improving IM Departmental letters as the Co-Chair of the IM Structured Evaluative Letter Taskforce. She has the good fortune to collaborate with other institutions to standardize advising practices across the country through consultative services and creation of advising consortiums. Her research on UME to GME transitions has been published in Academic Medicine, American Journal of Medicine and the Journal of Graduate Medical Education.

Lauren DiMarino, DO, FACOI, FACP
Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency – Central (Danville)
Assistant Professor, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine
Associate, Hospital Medicine

Dr. Lauren DiMarino has been the Internal Medicine Program Director at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Pennsylvania since 2016. Prior to this role, she served as Associate Program Director at the same institution for six years. Currently, she is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Geisinger College of Health Sciences.

Dr. DiMarino has earned Fellow status from both the American College of Osteopathic Internists and the American College of Physicians. She is also a Distinguished Member of the Geisinger College of Health Sciences Academy of Educators, recognized for her excellence in teaching, assessment, curriculum design, educational leadership, mentoring, and educational scholarship. In her clinical role, Dr. DiMarino works as an Academic Hospitalist, where she is passionate about teaching, coaching, and mentoring medical students and residents. Her academic interests include curriculum development, leadership, mentorship, and facilitating learner transitions across the medical education continuum.

Dr. DiMarino is an elected member of the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine (AAIM) Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine (APDIM) Council and represents AAIM on the American College of Physicians (ACP) Education Committee. She has contributed to several AAIM task forces and workgroups, including the Learner Handoff Standards Task Force, Individualized Learning Plan (ILP) Task Force, GME-GME ILP Workgroup, and serves as Co-Chair of the Residency Application Process Interview Optimization Subgroup.

Kathleen M. Finn, MD, M.Phil, FACP, SFHM
Vice Chair of Education and Residency Program Director in IM, Tufts Medical Center
APDIM Survey and Scholarship Committee Chair
AAIM Residency Application Working Group Subcommittee Chair

Dr. Kathleen M. Finn is the Vice Chair of Education and Residency Program Director at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. Previously, she served as the Senior Associate Program Director for Resident and Faculty Development in the Medical Residency Program at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Dr. Finn has received multiple awards, including the 2020 Society of Hospital Medicine Excellence in Teaching Award and the Alfred Krane Award for Excellence in Teaching at MGH. In 2010, she was honored with the David E. Rogers Junior Faculty Education Award from the Society of General Internal Medicine for leading one of the best workshops. In recognition of her outstanding contributions to hospital medicine, she was named one of the 2014 ACP Top 10 Hospitalists. Dr. Finn is also a recipient of the National Board of Medical Examiners' Stemmler Grant in Education Research. She co-led the Boston Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) chapter for over a decade and served on the SHM Annual Meeting Planning Committee culminating in her being Course Director for HM18.  Dr. Finn's professional interests encompass medical education, diagnostic reasoning, faculty development, inpatient management of alcohol withdrawal, and transitions of care. She has successfully completed two NEJM CPCs and has published several studies, including a 2018 study in JAMA Internal Medicine on resident supervision and a recent study on familiarity and performance in simulation, also in JAMA Internal Medicine. Currently, she chairs the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine's Survey and Scholarship Committee leading a yearly research survey.  Beyond her professional life, Dr. Finn enjoys traveling, running, hiking, biking, and skiing. She is also a fan of theatre, movies and music.