The annual Educator Appreciation Day is a special acknowledgment for Emory University School of Medicine faculty members who lend their passion and skills to educate, encourage, and support scholars and learners across Emory. Their work extends beyond the classroom and into the community impacting generation after generation.
In recognition of this year’s Educator Appreciation Day, the Emory Medicine Recognitions Committee sent out a call for nominations for educators who go above and beyond the call of duty as teachers and mentors.
Please join us in congratulating the following Department of Medicine faculty members featured by the committee!
Quotes below were taken from the nomination materials.
Bhavin Adhyaru, MD (General Internal Medicine)
“Took the time and effort to help me complete an observed H&P with the whole team present and managed to make it a comfortable yet challenging learning experience.
“Tested the limits of our knowledge on rounds with friendly questioning and then taught us the newest evidenced-based data on the relevant topic, tailored to our current level of knowledge.”
“Created a friendly team environment on the wards and took extra time to ensure the wellness of every team member.”
Pooja Amarapurkar, MD (Renal Medicine)
Dr. Amarapurkar always brings in “teaching points” for each patient on rounds”
“Explains difficult concepts in very simple lucid and fun ways”
“Her PowerPoint presentations on formal teaching topics are exemplary and very easy to remember ”
Monee Amin, MD (Hospital Medicine)
“She has worked on education for hospitalists at the VA, specifically assisting with the monthly education meetings and then taking over running them when a member was on leave. She is adding valuable perspective to the meetings and contributing new ideas that will improve our overall learning environment.”
“She is an active member of our Division’s Education Council and was the director of this year’s EDHM Teaching Competition.”
“Separate from her duties at the VA, Dr. Amin has co-hosted a podcast about physician wellness (Rescue Page), allowing her to both teach and learn from colleagues from all over.”
“She coordinates monthly education meetings for the VA HMS team.”
Tolu Amzat, MD (Hospital Medicine)
“Innovative in the topics and teaching styles for educational conferences at Emory St Joseph’s hospital, for the hospitalist group ”
“Led education efforts during a time of covid 19 when hospitalist services were incredibly busy ”
“runs educational conferences at ESJH and has been innovative and tenacious even with recent busy services ”
Jason Brown, MD (Digestive Diseases)
“He volunteers a lot of time on nights and weekends and for fellows, residents, and medical students of all levels for mentoring and advising. He’s known by trainees as a “go-to” faculty member and cares deeply for all levels of trainees, putting words into action for them.”
“He delivered a successful GI Core Lecture series for the Internal Medicine residents that was very well received. He utilized a novel format for brand new material, and he successfully conducted it entirely over ZOOM (due to the pandemic).”
“He created a special rotation for a medical student who was interested in rotating in GI. The experience has now grown into the creation of the first medical student GI interest group to apply for a charter at EUSOM, for which he will be the faculty advisor.”
Hila Calev, MD (Hospital Medicine)
“Hila brings incredible enthusiasm to her role as an educator. She’s one of our new, dynamic faculty members on our teaching service and she’s already in the process of developing new lectures to teach to our EUH hospitalist team.”
“Despite being new, has already taken on a very active role in our Division’s Education Council.”
“Leading as a site clerkship director for medical students at EUH”
Lisa Cassani, MD (Digestive Diseases)
Dr. Cassani is actively involved in curriculum development for endoscopy via ASGE training committee”
“As the VideoGIE co-quiz editor, she makes CME/board type questions with images provided thru the endoscopic videos to use as teaching tools.”
“She has also been the c-director of multiple endoscopic hands-on courses for fellows including the FYF course and 2nd/3rd year fellows – ASGE training center, DDW, ACG.”
Shen Chen, MD (Hospital Medicine)
“She runs educational conferences for the site – creative, board style interactive sessions.”
“Developing a niche in evidence based medicine.”
“She serves on EDHM division education council.”
Jason Cobb, MD (Renal Medicine)
“Dr. Cobb has an excellent ability to get Nephrology knowledge to all levels of learners. He has spearheaded the movement of teaching residents and fellows at Emory.”
“He has served as a great mentor and successfully published several projected that he has guided fellows to complete”
“He is very loved by medical students. He has a unique ability to use the latest social media tools and appeal to learners at all stages. His lecture delivery is exceptional!”
Bashir Geer, MD (Hospital Medicine)
“Co-leading efforts for developing and sustaining an annual “procedure day” for annual faculty education in procedural medicine at EUHM.”
“Enthusiasm for interaction with residents and students and respected as an excellent ward teacher”
“He rotates on teaching service – enthusiasm for working with learners”
Alison Gizinski, MD (Hospital Medicine)
“She has designed an intensive curriculum for the fellows that prepares them very well for the rheumatology boards.”
“Her commitment to the fellows never waivers.”
“She is very involved in the rheumatology fellows’ continuity clinic at Grady- helping with their education, schedules, and streamlining referrals to make the experience better for the fellows’ education.”
Stephan Goebel, MD (Digestive Diseases)
“As junior faculty, I have appreciated the continued support of someone so knowledgeable and full of experience. Whether it’s assistance in completing a difficult procedure, input on unique pathology (even after hours by phone/FaceTime), reviewing difficult cases or providing guidance on navigating your career, Dr Goebel is always there and always helps. I feel incredibly lucky to have him as a mentor and feel he truly deserves this recognition.”
“Dr. Goebel goes above and beyond in his role as a mentor to the junior faculty. Without hesitation, he is always available to discuss a difficult case, provide a second opinion for an endoscopic procedure, or teach new skills on tackling difficult cases. He is more than our “boss” or section chief, he is a mentor and teacher.”
“No matter how busy he is or how many meetings he has, he is willing to help you out with an endoscopy”
Kathy Griendling, PhD (Cardiology)
She was an amazing career mentor during the inaugural Emory Underrepresented in Medicine (URIM) Faculty Development Program”
“She is currently leading the Junior Faculty Development Course 2021”
“Great lecturer for postdocs and early faculty to understand the promotion process at Emory”
Audrey Jernigan, MD (Hospital Medicine)
“Best described as a “shining star” in medical education – in her short time as a hospitalist at EUHM, already named as site clerkship director for M3 students at EUHM”
“Took the lead on enabling the correct technology in the physician work room to allow for faculty education conferences to restart after covid pandemic as a source of education and camaraderie for the EUHM hospitalist group”
“She delivers great talks when on wards for students/residents as well as delivering talks for capstone for students.”
“Audrey has incredible enthusiasm for education, case conferences, creative teaching techniques for students.”
Maan Jokhadar, MD (Cardiology)
“Dr. Jokhadar is a clear role model as an educator, teaching all levels of medical trainees as well as staff in cardiology. His thought provoking style with historical anecdotes leave an impression on most of us. He is truly a master educator!”
Malavika Kapuria, MD (Hospital Medicine)
“Taking over the sub-I program for Hospital Medicine at Grady, assisting medical students get acquainted with the program and guiding them through the rotation”
“Educating other hospitalist on medical updates and gold standards”
“Taking time to educate patients and their families on their medical issues”
Erin Kim, MD (Hospital Medicine)
“Dr. Kim has taken the lead at the Atlanta VAMC for the past several years in coordinating Education Activities with the local Hospital Medicine Section”
“Coordinates educational conferences at the VA medical center and excellent VA ward attending for medical residents and students”
“Dr. Kim has been an effective communicator and coordinator with the entire Division of Hospital Medicine with engagements such as Chairing the Visiting Professor Subcommittee, Membership in the Clinical Vignette Sub-Committee, and Membership in the Education Council”
Manpreet Malik, MD (Hospital Medicine)
“Dr. Malik’s passion for mentoring and teaching POCUS at Grady through our Procedure Service is inspiring. He has recruited, and continues to recruit, colleagues across the division to the wonders of POCUS. At Grady, he meticulously recruits colleagues who are interested in POCUS and procedures and makes it his mission to ensure their success. He comes in early, stays late, and even comes in on his days off, which is amazing given his works outside of the hospital, to teach/strengthen his colleagues’ abilities. Truly an inspiration to us.”
“Even on his non-SCA (senior clinical adviser), he makes sure to answer junior faculty’s medical questions and sending us references for up to date care”
“He goes above and beyond for all learners, including writing his cell phone number on a wall in the call room for all to use at any time. He introduces himself to all the residents and medical students, and is always available to educate and help them in any way he can.”
Varun Phadke, MD (Infectious Diseases)
“Dr. Phadke works tirelessly each year to completely revise the MANY lectures that he gives the medical students. He ensures that they are targeted with the level of knowledge necessary for a medical student to master and works hard to create slides that convey his main points in a visual format that aids comprehension.”
“Each week, one of our Infectious Diseases fellows gives an hour-long presentation on recent cases that they have seen at our “Case of the Week” conference. Dr. Phadke always spends time giving detailed feedback to all of the fellows who send their slides to him ahead of time for review. His responses are always very thoughtful regarding how to frame the clinical question appropriately.”
“Educating our department on critical issues in clinical reasoning.”
Meena Prasad, MD (Digestive Diseases)
“Dr. Meena Prasad has a passion for teaching GI fellows endoscopy techniques”
“Dr. Prasad has worked to develop the IBD program at the VA and enhance the fellows’ medical knowledge regarding the comprehensive care of IBD patients”
“A comment from one of our fellows about Dr. Prasad – ‘You inspire us to become better gastroenterologists'”
Diego Remolina, MD (Geriatrics and Gerontology)
“Dr. Remolina is the lead physician for our rotating residents. He works hard to make the rotation meaningful for them.”
“Dr. Remolina hosts medical students through OPEX and teaches them critical Geriatrics skills.”
“Dr. Remolina has given lectures to the Latinx community to help spread awareness of COVID in the elderly population.”
Jennifer Spicer, MD (Infectious Diseases)
“Dr. Spicer has completely revitalized the Internal Medicine residency’s Core curriculum. She has created a longitudinal lecture series as part of the Y-week didactics to ensure that all residents have access to this curriculum. The program is in its first year of implementation but is already widely popular with the trainees.”
“Dr. Spicer is a superb one-on-one educator. Rotating with her in her HIV-primary care clinic at IDP was one of the most instructive formative experiences in my medical training. She is quite adept at focusing on a high-yield teaching point for each patient encounter so the learner can focus their efforts.”
“Consistently takes time to both formally educate residents through didactics while also giving them constructive feedback on their clinical skills and presentations.”
Beth Tong, MD (Primary Care)
“Beth is always flexible with precepting medical students in the clinic. She routinely precepts APC (M3)students, is always willing to take on extra precepting sessions, and filled in for a colleague to complete the second half of OPEX (M1-M2) for a student during COVID.”
“She created an interactive preventive medicine talk for the APC students rotating in our clinic that has been well received.”
“Beth has also made time to supervise Preventive medicine residents in clinic and is in the process of creating an M4 PReventive medicine elective.”
TaRessa Wills, MD (Hospital Medicine)
“Co-leader and innovator in DEI education – includes monthly site meeting education on issues pertinent to DEI, organization of multicultural appreciation through lunch shared by hospitalist members, includes DEI book club”
“Fantastic educator on wards for residents and students – excellent at assessing learner performance, particularly for struggling learners and providing specific directed feedback, support and coaching to guide learners with enthusiasm and encouragement”
“She known as a fantastic evaluator and teacher on wards for medical residents and students, has been instrumental in helping learners in need to develop their skill sets”
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