2020 Educator Appreciation Day

"Leads our Diversity Efforts in EM and consistently published our newsletter inclusive of information addressing all facets of diversity"

"Tirelessly participates & educates or learners in our South GA Farmworker's Initiative"

"Galvanized our expansion of inclusion to include accommodations/disability in EM and as a founding Co-Chair of the Disabilities sub-committee in EM on a National Scale"

"Dr. Ben-Moshe is very passionate about teaching principles of geriatrics and palliative medicine to learners."

"Dr. Ben-Moshe is full of innovative ideas to modify the curriculum."

"Dr. Ben-Moshe is a very talented rising star in Emory Department of Medicine." 

"Dr. Brandt recognized that rheumatology fellows were not receiving frequent clinical feedback and that faculty members were uncomfortable with giving feedback. On her own, she created a new feedback program for the rheumatology clinic and set up an educational session for the rheumatology faculty!"

"Dr. Brandt took over the position as assistant program director of the rheumatology fellowship program this past year, and she has gone above and beyond with innovating the rheumatology curriculum and mentoring the fellows."

"When Dr. Brandt is covering the inpatient service, she always makes a point to e-mail articles to the residents and fellows about each patient case."

"Spends countless hours (including many sleepless nights!) creating simulation models for residents to learn critical skills"

"Completely dedicated to education in the OR, trainees truly have ownership over cases under excellent supervision and guidance"

"Includes residents and medical students in review of most up-to-date evidence based medicine guidelines for diagnosis and treatment"

"Creates in-depth and relatable monthly simulations that fully encompass improving our clinical skills"

"At Emory, Dr. Garber has been involved in genetics education on several levels. She is running the genetics curriculum for medical and physician assistant students. She is directing courses for the genetic counseling training program."

"At the national level, Dr. Garber founded a curriculum resource exchange for genetic educators for the Association of Professors of Human and Medical Genetics."

"Emory greatly benefits from her national leadership in nuclear medicine education."

"Her approach to teaching is evidence-based and humanistic."

"Beloved teacher and mentor for many pathology trainees, one of the “go-to” people in the department for trainees and a valuable member of the residency leadership team."

"Krisztina has recently applied and just received initial accreditation for a Gynecologic Pathology Fellowship program at Emory and will be the fellowship director."

"Comments from trainees: "Dr. Hanley’s dedication to resident education simply cannot be overstated. She consistently goes above and beyond to find time for resident teaching, whether it be through research projects, career advice, or most recently through weekly Zoom teleconferences for Gynecologic Pathology teaching sessions.""

"Excellent pathologist and cytopathologist with high standards who holds trainees accountable"

"Focused, individualized teaching goals before EVERY operation."

"Wise, objective counseling for career mentorship for residents, fellows, attending staff"

"30 years of dedication to being a surgical educator"

"Program director for Emory’s successful Pathology Residency for 10 years; during that time he has overseen the development of a research track for the residency, encouraged numerous wellness activities, and provided a steady hand"

"An expert in molecular pathology, Charlie has taught numerous residents and fellows and provided mentorship and sponsorship to both trainees and colleagues."

"Provides a great example for pathologist trainees and colleagues through his roles in managing a wide variety of testing over time, including high-profile roles in our Ebola and COVID-19 testing response."

"Created, implemented and directed a new patient care and teaching service at Grady"

"Lectures nationally on POCUS to Anesthesiologists and CCM physicians"

"Selected to American Society of Anesthesiologists committee tasked with creating guidelines for performance of POCUS exams"

"As an OB Anesthesiologist she routinely works with trainees caring for high risk patients. This includes developing simulation sessions and numerous lectures."

"She has given lectures to OB MFM fellows and AA students."

"She won the Anesthesiology Excellence in clinical teaching award from the graduating class last year."

"Excellent teacher for neurology residents in clinic"

"Dedicated to supporting colleagues in difficult clinical cases"

"Inspirational as a wonderful clinician and human being"

"As Director of the graduate immunology class, Concepts of Immunology for 3 consecutive years, Dr. Kissick spearheaded expansion of this didactic offering (that teaches fundamentals of immunology) to include students from the Georgia Tech/Emory combined Biomedical Engineering program, the GDBBS Cancer Biology program, Microbiology program, and Immunology program, that has led to doubling of class enrollment and exceptional teaching evaluations by the students."

"He is highly sought by graduate students and their mentors to participate in thesis committees, and currently serves as a thesis committee member for 15 graduate students in the BME, Cancer Biology and Immunology programs."

"As PI of a laboratory investigating tumor immunology, he has mentored 4 current PhD students who have been have been highly productive in their research, leading to high profile first author trainee publications in prestigious journals including Nature, and recognition by awards to the trainees from Emory Departments and national professional associations alike."

"Energizes surgery resident and student education at Midtown"

"Site mentor for medical, PA and NP students and values their contribution"

"Teaches something new every day"

"Since starting at Emory, Dr. Liu has dedicated at least 2-3 shifts per week to our ultrasound learners with hands on practice and weekly lectures. She has enhanced the process for timely and comprehensive feedback to resident learners with hands on teaching, updates in quality assurance review/guidelines and collaboration with IT to improve annotations/presets on all ultrasound machines."

"In response to COVID-19 and cessation of ultrasound rotations, Dr. Liu developed a national remote learning curriculum used by over eleven different residency programs around the country to connect learners to ultrasound experts via a virtual platform. The curriculum includes pre-work, daily virtual classrooms and opportunities to utilize handheld ultrasound devices to scan and obtain real time feedback. This also provides faculty from all institutions with national teaching opportunities, and exposes learners to unique teaching methods and content specific experts."

"It is rare to meet a brand new faculty who immediately commits wholeheartedly to our educational mission. As an ultrasound trained faculty she saw an opportunity to fill a hole in our educational program. She jumped in and provided much needed didactic and bedside educational time for our non-EM learners."

"Bill has taken our model of IR education to new heights."

"He demonstrates constant caring and concern for the learning and well being of our trainees."

"Highly committed to outstanding teaching"

"Course and module director who works closely with all faculty for coordination and effective and outstanding teaching"

"Leader helping to continually improve the curriculum, facilitate other medical educators and develop improved methods in teaching"

"For more than a decade, Eddie served as the Director of the Molecular & Systems Pharmacology (MSP) graduate program. Eddie was such a beloved leader of this program that the program's top award for student service and leadership is now named after him."

"For the past seven years, Eddie has served as the Graduate Coordinator of the Emory Initiative for Maximizing Student Development (IMSD) program. This program promotes and celebrates diversity in the Emory research community. Such promotion of diversity has been a passion of Eddie's for his entire career."

"For many years, Eddie has been in the leadership ranks of the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET), and last year he served as the society's President. In this role, he strongly promoted pharmacology education as well as a culture of diversity in biomedical research."

"As coordinator and organizer of the pediatric anesthesiology rotation, Dr. Mukkamala has created a unique and excellent environment for students. She puts so much emphasis on learning my individual strengths and weaknesses to push me to be a better future resident. I have never had an attending put so much personal devotion into my education, and I know I will be a better physician because of her."

"As a future female anesthesiologist, Dr. Mukkamala has been a wonderful role model and mentor. She is a confident and capable anesthesiologist who is also a wonderful wife, mother and supporter of other women in medicine. I am so glad I was able to work with her and learn not only anesthesia, but also how to navigate the extra difficulty of being a woman in medicine."

"Dr. Mukkamala is the faculty advisor for Emory’s Crawford Long Anesthesiology Interest Group. She assists the students in developing educational sessions geared towards teaching procedures and physiology relevant to anesthesiology. She also guides the students through their career planning process for anesthesiology, residency, and even beyond in one’s own personal life. She is an excellent mentor and friend – she expresses a true interest in getting to learn more about the lives of her students, their families, and their personal goals."

"Established the most robust robotic surgery curriculum for trainees."

"Creates a rotation that teaches the hard work and rewards of being a surgeon."

"Sought after teacher and lecturer in robotic and minimally invasive surgery."

"Dr. Patel is an excellent teacher. He works so hard for all learners. "

"He has excelled at teaching for both medical students and residents. He is now a strong educator for the Anesthesiology Assistant school."

"He teaches everyone. I saw him teach my resident how to teach and what he could do better so that I could learn better. Who does that?!"

"Great teacher. He brings incredible enthusiasm to teaching and mentoring."

"Great attending on teaching service, her interns love working with her."

"Has worked very hard on Open Mic education series at EUHM for interesting clinical cases"

"Great communicator among different healthcare providers"

"Has been leading the telemetry initiative for Emory and has provided significant education surrounding this for faculty"

"Comments from trainees: Dr. Quigley is an incredibly hard-working and detail-oriented Pathologist. However, no matter how heavy his workload may be, he is always willing to spend time teaching, whether it be at the microscope, in the frozen section room, or at the grossing bench. It has been an extremely valuable opportunity to work with Dr. Quigley and observe his approach, especially as it pertains to preparing us for independent practice."

"Brian gives some of the best constructive feedback to our trainees of any I have seen as a program director. Every evaluation includes detailed information about what the trainee does well, areas the trainee may improve upon, and concrete guidance on activities the trainee should pursue to improve."

"Direction of a robust set of live telemedicine conferences during the COVID outbreak to maintain education"

"Mentorship through role modeling- I have never met another surgeon put so much of a personal touch into patient care"

"Creation and maintenance of multi-disciplinary Grady GI oncology conference involving the residents from Emory and Morehouse to give patients access to full standard of care treatment"

"Most productive Discovery Phase mentor for the SOM"

"Many students go into surgery because of Dr. Sharma."

"The go-to person if you want a career in Thyroid and Endocrine cancer surgery"

"A role model, mentor, teacher and incredible educator"

"Goes above and beyond to take care of the well being of his fellows by teaching about stress relief, mindfulness, work/life balance"

"Humble and always looking for feedback to improve teaching and academics in the department"

"Exemplary leadership during the COVID Pandemic"

"Taught me the importance of taking a second and being prepared so that I won't be scrambling when a situation arises"

"I watched as she patiently instructed a first year AA student through a very difficult but successful airway intubation on a 550lb patient. This was this students first intubation on a morbidly obese patient and to this day they bring up Cinnamon's patience and willingness to teach. Especailly most attendings would not have given a first year student that oppotunity to intubate"

"Extremely knowledgeable"

"Dr. Tang has quite a lot of clinical and research responsibilities. Despite this, he always makes time for us Fellows in terms of making sure that he provides us "teaching moments." He has a vast amount of knowledge in the field of Psychiatry and Addiction Psychiatry. He is able to share this knowledge with us in terms/ways that we can understand. He is a wonderful educator who I hope to emulate one day."

"His lectures are always well attended and loved by residents."

"Dr. Tang really stands out among all the attendings for his clear enjoyment of spending time with trainees for teaching and mentorship."

"Dr. Vettese is a stellar and outstanding educator both for the residents and faculty for whom she teaches and mentors. She provides systematic feedback to improve our own clinical and educational skills."

"Dr. Vettese’s opioid curriculum has been quite timely and well received by the residents. The information taught has empowered and equipped residents to mitigate the opioid epidemic with safe prescribing practices."

"She is an innovator educator whose passion allows her to be an effective teacher in skills-training in physician-patient communication."

"Since taking over as the Emergency Medicine Clerkship Director he has taken the curriculum to a new level. He has introduced innovative pedagogy that is truly interactive."

"The COVID-19 pandemic has allowed him to take what he already developed and continue to innovate using on-line resources. He has taken cases that are meant for oral board style in person sessions and converted them to an interactive on-line experience. Students work together in groups to prepare the material and then present their findings. This has provided our students with ongoing impactful education."

"He has served as a mentor to junior faculty, stepped up as a member of our executive committee and continues to serve an important role mentoring and teaching students from Morehouse School of Medicine who are pursuing Emergency Medicine as a career."

"Since joining Emory University in 2016, Christina has established an enviable education portfolio at Grady Memorial hospital GI Oncology clinic, supervising and advising residents and fellows rotating through the clinic. She goes above and beyond in helping them navigate their academic programs and has consistently been rated extremely high on departmental evaluations."

"Outstanding mentoring of hematology oncology fellows"

"Dr. Christina Wu is passionate about medical education and has been a role model for scholars and learners, across Emory University School of Medicine and the medical community as a whole. She has given numerous lectures on gastrointestinal cancers at multiple national and international fora. An excellent example is the Ohio State University MedNet21 which has been viewed by 18,000 physicians worldwide."