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Faculty Development Series Workshop
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Jack Brose, DO
Jack Brose, DO graduated from the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1976 and subsequently completed his family practice residency training at Scott Medical Center in 1978 plus a Fellowship in Family Medicine at The Ohio State University College of Medicine in 1986. Dr. Brose has been Dean of the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine since 2001. From 2004-2007, he chaired the Ohio Council of Medical School Deans. Dr. Brose is author of the Guide to EKG Interpretation and is an active medical teacher, researcher, and CME lecturer. Dr. Brose has received more than 25 awards for student and resident teaching including being name the 2001 “Family Practice Educator of the Year” by the Ohio Academy of Family Physicians.
Holly Cronau, MD
Holly R. Cronau, MD is an Associate Professor of Clinical Family Medicine in the Department of Family Medicine at The Ohio State University. She received her MD from The Ohio State University in 1985 and completed her residency in family medicine at Mt. Carmel Family Practice in 1988. She entered private practice returning to Ohio State in 1995. Dr. Cronau has served as the clerkship director since 1996 and continues to teach in several medical student courses. She has an interest in faculty development for clinical preceptors.
Pat Ecklar, MD
Patrick Ecklar, MD, FACP is Assistant Dean for Medical Education for the Mount Carmel Health System in relation to the Ohio State University College of Medicine. From 1994 through 2007, he served as Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Mount Carmel Medical Center. Dr. Ecklar earned his medical degree from Ohio State and completed graduate medical training at Mount Carmel Medical Center. Dr. Ecklar has precepted medical students and residents at all levels and has given many large and small-group didactic presentations at local, regional, and national levels. In his role as Assistant Dean for Medical Education at Mount Carmel, Dr. Ecklar has served on numerous curriculum committees and task forces representing the perspectives of community practitioners. Dr. Ecklar’s awards include Teacher of the Year at Mount Carmel Medical Center, the Community-based Teaching Award from the American College of Physicians, the AOA Volunteer Clinical Faculty Award, the OSU Distinguished Educator Award, and the OSU Physician Development Preceptor of the Year.
Curt Gingrich, MD
Curt Gingrich, MD received his medical degree from The Ohio State University College of Medicine in 1988. After completing a family medicine residency at Riverside Methodist Hospital he started a rural practice in Logansport, Indiana. After six years he returned to Columbus to assume the role of Associate Program Director in the Riverside Methodist Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program. In this role he teaches in both the family practice center and on the in-patient service. Dr. Gingrich’s special interests include in-patient medicine, geriatric medicine, the application of evidence based medicine to everyday practice, and medical missions.
Tammy Gutierrez, MD
Tamara L. Gutierrez received her medical degree from Case Western Reserve School of Medicine in 2002. After completing her residency in Family Medicine at Stanislaus Family Practice in Modesto, California, Dr. Gutierrez returned in 2005 to Ohio to join the Ohio State Department of Family Medicine. Currently, Dr. Gutierrez is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Family Medicine, as well as Associate Program Director for Patient Centered Medicine in the Ohio State College of Medicine. Primary departmental responsibilities include full-scope family medicine patient care including OB, supervising students and residents in both clinic and on Labor and Delivery, OB chart review, and didactics on women and children’s health for residents. At the college level, Dr. Gutierrez is involved in curriculum development and review, writing exams, and facilitating small groups in the Patient Centered Medicine course.
Doug Knutson, MD
Doug Knutson, MD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. He graduated from The Ohio State University College of Medicine in 1993 and completed his internship and residency at Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus. After being in private practice for 3 years, he joined the Ohio State Department of Family Medicine faculty in 2000. As an educator, he has achieved recognition locally, regionally, and nationally for his innovative programs and teaching techniques. Currently, he is Program Director for the Department’s residency program and the College of Medicine’s Physician Development course.
Cynthia Ledford, MD
Cynthia Ledford, MD graduated from The Ohio State University College of Medicine in1992 and completed the combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Residency Program at Cincinnati Children’s Hospitals and Medical Center in 1997. Additional training includes a Fellowship in Medical Education and the Stanford Faculty Development Program in Clinical Teaching. Dr. Ledford holds dual appointments as Assistant Professor in Internal Medicine and in Pediatrics. Dr. Ledford is the clerkship director of Internal Medicine. Her academic areas of focus are faculty development, professionalism, clinical reasoning skills, and core curriculum advocacy.
Randall Longenecker, MD
Randall L. Longenecker, MD graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1979 and subsequently completed his residency training at St. Mary’s Hospital Medical Center of the University of Wisconsin Department of Family Medicine. Dr. Longenecker has practiced family medicine in a group practice in west central Ohio for the past 25 years. Over the past 10 years, he has designed, implemented, and continues to refine the Ohio State Rural Family Medicine Residency Program, the only integrated rural training track program in family medicine in the nation. His passion is reflective practice, an intentional learning experience that continually expresses itself in action.
Catherine Lucey, MD
Catherine Lucey, MD earned her medical degree from the Northwestern University School of Medicine in 1982 and completed her residency in internal medicine at San Francisco General Hospital. She held faculty positions at Harvard University School of Medicine, University of Texas, San Antonio, George Washington University School of Medicine, and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences before joining Ohio State in 2002. She presently is a Professor of Clinical Internal Medicine and serves as Division Director of General Internal Medicine. Additionally, Dr. Lucey is Vice Dean of Education and Associate Vice President for Health Sciences Education. Dr. Lucey has received numerous teaching awards the most recent of which are the American College of Physicians Master Teacher Award for Ohio in 2004; Outstanding Teacher by the OSU College of Medicine classes of 2005, 2006 and 2007; Teacher of the Year by Internal Medicine residents in 2005, 2006, and 2007; plus four additional teaching awards since joining the Ohio State faculty.
John McConaghy, MD
John R. McConaghy, MD, FAAFP is currently an Associate Professor of Clinical Family Medicine in the Department of Family Medicine at The Ohio State University. Dr McConaghy received his MD from the University of Pittsburgh in 1989. After completion of his Family Medicine Residency, he served in the United States Air Force for several years. He went into teaching in 1989 and joined the Ohio State Department of Family Medicine faculty in 2002. Currently, Dr McConaghy teaches residents and students in the ambulatory and in-patient settings, chairs several Quality Committees, and is integrally involved in multiple administrative and leadership functions within the Health System. Dr McConaghy has a strong interest in teaching and evidence-based medicine.
Scott Merryman, MD
Scott Merryman, MD graduated from the Ohio State College of Medicine in 1977 and subsequently completed his family medicine residency training at St. Joseph Hospital in Denver, CO in 1980. Dr. Merryman pursued solo practice from 1980 through 1995 in two sites, Marion and Worthington, and then was in two group practices from 1995 through 2000, both in Worthington, Ohio. In January 2001, Dr. Merryman joined the Ohio State Department of Family Medicine as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine with a primary assignment at the OSU Family Medicine -Worthington site. From July 2005 to the present, Dr. Merryman has served as Co-Director of Behavioral Medicine in the Ohio State Family Medicine Residency Program. Beginning January 2006, Dr. Merryman became the Co-Director of the OSU/Ross Lipid Clinic, and from January 2007 to the present, Dr. Merryman has been Lead Physician at the Rardin Family Medicine Center.
W. Fred Miser, MD, MA
W. Fred Miser, MD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at The Ohio State University. Dr. Miser graduated from the Ohio State College of Medicine in 1982. He subsequently completed residency training at the Family Practice Residency Program at Eisenhower Army Medical Center, a Faculty Development Fellowship at Madigan Army Medical Center, a Master of Arts degree in Social Sciences from Pacific Lutheran University, and a one-year Teaching Scholars Program at the University of Washington. An active speaker at regional and national levels, Dr. Miser has given numerous talks and seminars on multiple topics, including diabetes, physician-patient relationships, faculty development, education, and research. He has won numerous teaching and research awards.
Jeri O’Donnell, MA, LPCC
Jeri A. O’Donnell, MA, LPCC is Director of Behavioral Science for the Doctors Hospital Family Practice Graduate Program in Columbus, Ohio. She has a Masters Degree in Counseling from The Ohio State University and is a licensed counselor by the State of Ohio. She currently holds faculty appointments at the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine and the Ohio State College of Medicine as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine. Ms. O’Donnell has over 25 years of experience working with residents and medical students. In addition to current responsibilities with the Family Practice Residency, she is also works with the Internal Medicine and OB residents at Doctors Hospital.
Oralea Pittman, RN-C, MS
Oralea Pittman, MS, CNP has been a family nurse practitioner for 18 years in Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Ohio. She has practiced for the last 9 years at the Ohio State University Rural Program. She teaches family nurse practitioner students at Ohio State in the classroom and precepts them in the clinical setting.
Doug Post, PhD
Douglas Post, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at The Ohio State University. He received his PhD from Ohio State in 1992 and is a licensed psychologist. For the past five years, he has been the director of a two-year behavioral science course for medical students and previously served as behavioral science director for the Ohio State Family Medicine Residency Program. He is currently working on several NIH-funded research projects, and is PI on an NCI-funded study to assess the effects of a patient communication PDA tool for breast cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy.
Milisa Rizer, MD
Milisa K Rizer, MD received her medical degree from the University of Cincinnati. She completed a Family Medicine Residency at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She also received her Masters in Public Health from the University of Alabama, Birmingham. Dr. Rizer has taught in many academic settings and especially enjoys teaching obstetric and gynecologic related subjects. Recently, Dr. Rizer was named Clinical Director regarding the out-patient EMR for The Ohio State University Medical Center Information Systems. In this capacity, she is integral to the system-wide implementation of the EMR system.
Joan Simon, PhD
Joan Simon, PhD holds a doctorate in Clinical Psychology, a doctorate in Sociology, and a Masters in Educational Research and Evaluation from The Ohio State University. Her professional interests and expertise focus on curriculum development and the treatment of mood and anxiety disorders. She is currently the Behavioral Science Director in the Ohio State Department of Family Medicine. Her responsibilities include the continuing development and implementation of an 18-month behavioral health curriculum for interns and residents in Family Medicine. Dr. Simon also maintains a clinical practice in the Department.
Judith Westman, MD
Judith A. Westman, MD received her medical degree from the Ohio State University College of Medicine in 1981. Following this, she completed a residency in pediatrics and a fellowship in clinical genetics at Children's Hospital and the Ohio State University. She received a Master's degree in molecular genetics from Ohio State as well. After spending 9 years in pediatric clinical genetics, she joined the James Cancer Hospital in March 1996, developed the Clinical Cancer Genetics portion of the Human Cancer Genetics Program, and continues to serve as clinical geneticist for the program. Dr. Westman is an Associate Dean in Medical Education Administration. Dr. Westman is the author of Medical Genetics for the Modern Clinician, released in April 2005.