Information About Virtual Posters
Thank you for viewing the TTR Symposium 2020 Virtual Posters.
Each poster was peer-selected through a competitive abstract process. Authors have created short 3-5 minute videos of them talking about their poster than can be viewed by clicking on the video links on each page.
We hope you are able to view the posters prior to they symposium but posters will remain remain available after the symposium.
Virtual posters can be viewed sequentially by clicking the links at the bottom of the page or by returning to the main page where they are all listed.
We encourage you to leave comments for the authors at the bottom of each page and have encouraged the authors to respond to questions.
Virtual Poster Author Biographies
(listed alphabetically by last name)
Gauri Agarwal, M.D., F.A.C.P. is the Associate Dean for Clinical Curriculum/Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine (UMMSM). She serves as the course director for the Senior Capstone Course at the Gordon Center for Research in Medical Education, the Transitioning to Residency Course, and the Medical Education Senior Elective. She completed her undergraduate and medical school training at UMMSM and residency training in internal medicine at Northwestern University and the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Agarwal was on the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh and Harvard Medical School prior to returning to UMMSM.
Dr. Brittany Allen is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Michigan Medical School.
Dr. Ratna Charishma Boppana, Assistant professor of Internal Medicine at Texas Tech University, El Paso is the co-director for Specialty Neutral Bootcamp for MS4 Students at Paul L Foster school of Medicine(PLFSOM).
Dr. Courtney Brantley is a pediatric hospitalist at Atrium Health Levine Children’s Hospital in Charlotte, NC. She is the clerkship director for the third year outpatient pediatric rotation and helps with the fourth year transition course. Dr. Margaret Lewis is an emergency medicine physician at Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center. She is the individualization phase director and director of ultrasound education for undergraduate medical education. Dr. Lewis also coordinates the Transition to Residency Course for the UNC School of Medicine Charlotte Campus. Dr. Brantley and Dr. Lewis enjoy working with students and creating innovative curriculums aimed at improving medical education.
Catherine Chen, MD is an Assistant Professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine and the Director of the Internal Medicine Bootcamp program at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Her work as an academic hospitalist includes furthering the point-of-care ultrasound education in student and residents. She and frequent collaborators Payal Parikh, MD, Kristen Coppola, PhD, and Paul Weber, MD, are continuing the evolution of Health Systems Science teaching in Undergraduate Medical Education at RWJMS. In addition to Patient Safety and Quality Improvement, other areas of focus include Telehealth in education, and Environmental Sustainability and Advocacy.
Dr. Anna Donovan is a clinician-educator and the Associate Program Director for inpatient medicine for the IM Residency Training Program at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. She is one of two course directors for the Get Ready for Residency Boot Camp Course at Pitt, which just started in 2020. She practices inpatient and outpatient General Internal Medicine. Her recent medical education scholarship work ranges from teaching physicians to teach to improving patient-physician communication among residents to evaluating gender bias in learner assessment.
Dr. Colleen Donovan is a board-certified Emergency Medicine Physician at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in NJ. In her role as Simulation Director at Rutgers RWJMS, Dr. Donovan creates and runs new simulation scenarios for medical students and residents. She performs simulation demonstrations for undergraduate and bioengineering students. She is an adjunct assistant professor at the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy for her advisory role in simulation development. Over the last 6 years, Dr. Donovan has personally run the simulation sessions for RWJMS’ Transition to Residency Bootcamp Sessions, facilitating ~90 small group sessions over 4 weeks in the Spring Semesters.
Kinga Eliasz is a PhD-trained medical education researcher at New York University Grossman School of Medicine. She has expertise in motor learning, and studies the impact of 1) peer-referenced feedback across the medical training continuum, and 2) immersive simulation to assess and support readiness for independent practice.
Dr Risa Farber-Heath is Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY. She grew up on a farm in a small town in Upstate NY and later graduated from PCOM in Philadelphia, PA in 2008. She completed her residency at SUNY Upstate in 2011, became the course director for the transition to residency course at Upstate in March of 2015, and has been involved in education since the beginning of her career. She is passionate about medical student education, cooking, gardening, spinning, her husband Derek and children Leah, Daniel and Benjamin.
Dr. James Fitzgerald is a Professor Emeritus of Learning Health Sciences at the University of Michigan Medical School.
Dr. Maureen Francis, College Master and Professor, Assistant Dean for Medical Education at PLFSOM, played key role in designing and executing the MS4 Bootcamp.
Dr. Lauren Heidemann is an Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School.
Amber Inofuentes, MD, SFHM, is faculty in the Department of Medicine, Division of Hospitalist Medicine. She is co-director for the Acute Care/Internal Medicine Internship Readiness Course.
Beth Jones is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Michigan. She is the Assistant Clerkship Director for the Family Medicine Clerkship and Co-Director of the Family Medicine Residency Preparation Course. She works closely with the co-authors of this poster, who are directors of the 6 specialty-specific Residency Preparation Courses offered at University of Michigan Medical School.
Dr. Michelle Keating is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at Wake Forest School of Medicine. She completed her Doctorate of Osteopathic Medicine at VCOM-Virginia and completed Family Medicine Residency and Faculty Development Fellowship at Wake Forest School of Medicine. She is near completion of her Masters of Education in the Health Professions (MEHP) from Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Keating currently serves as faculty in the Family Medicine Residency, co-developer of the interprofessional Medical Education Certificate Program, FMIG Advisor, and Course Director for the Transitions to Residency Course.
Dr. Samantha Kempner is an Assistant Professor of OBGYN at the University of Michigan Medical School.
Dr. Shan Renee Luong is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and is a practicing hospitalist at Parkland County Hospital. Dr. Luong has been involved in Transitions to Residency Course since 2016 and is a recipient of the UT Southwestern Academy of Teachers (SWAT) Fellowship in 2019. Dr. Luong enjoys course curriculum design, simulation, and teaching on wards. She is married with two young children. Outside of medicine, Dr. Luong enjoys watching movies, reading books, and listening to podcasts under the current travel limitations.
Dr. Jennifer Molokwu, Assistant professor Family medicine, played a key role in designing the cases for the Day in the Clinic activity.
Dr. Helen Morgan is an Associate Professor of OBGYN and Learning Health Sciences at the University of Michigan Medical School.
M. Kathryn Mutter, MD, MPH is faculty in the Department of Emergency Medicine. She is the course director for the Internship Readiness Courses at the University of Virginia and co-director for the Acute Care/Internal Medicine section of the Internship Readiness Course.
Kimberly Pilkinton, M.D., M.P.H, is a University of Houston College of Medicine associate professor and a board-certified obstetrician and gynecologist. She is co-director for the Transition to Clerkships and Residency courses. She joined UH from McGovern Medical School at UT Houston where she engaged in clinical and educational endeavors. Prior to UT Health, she was faculty at Texas A&M College of Medicine for over ten years, where she also served as a program director for the Baylor Scott & White Obstetrics and Gynecology residency program. In addition to teaching, she has enjoyed taking care of patients for over 20 years.
Aditi Rao is a 3rd year medical student at the University of Michigan Medical School. She is interestd in medical education, specifically transition to residency and efforts to improve representation in medicine. She hopes to pursue residency in internal medicine.
Deborah Rooney, PhD (dmrooney@med.umich.edu) has nearly thirty years’ experience in medical education, with the last sixteen focused on simulation-based education and assessment. Dr. Rooney is Associate Professor of Learning Health Sciences, the Director of Education and Research for the Clinical Simulation Center, and Director of the 3D & Innovations Lab at the University of Michigan Medical School. Her interests include simulation innovation and research with an emphasis on assessment and measurement. Special thanks to the 3DI student engineering team, Drs. Clifford Craig and Michelle Caird (Pediatric Orthopaedics), Dr. Maria Skoczylas and Theresa Nemetz (Pediatrics, CS Mott Children’s Hospital)
Dr. Jocelyn Schiller is an Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Michigan Medical School.
Dr. Neha Sehgal, Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine, is co-director for MS4 Bootcamp.
Eric Signoff graduated from George Washington University School of Medicine and completed residency training at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. As a Hospitalist at the University of California Davis, he enjoys clinical medical education and serves as the co-Instructor of Record for the Transition to Residency course for fourth year medical students. Amanda Phares is a Surgery Resident at UCDavis. Zachary Chaffin was a Pediatric Chief Resident during the 2020 TTR course and is now a Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellow at UCDavis. Jennifer Plant is a Pediatric Intensivist at UCDavis and co-Instructor of Record for the TTR course.
Jaini Sutaria MD, MBBS is an academic hospitalist by trade and clinician educator by passion. As the course co-director of the Residency Essentials course at UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dr. Sutaria enjoys designing curricula for students transitioning to residency. She shares a passion for simulation-based curricula particularly designing high-fidelity scenarios involving decompensating patients alongside other simulation enthusiast colleagues Dr Luong, Dr Rizvi, Dr Agharokh and Dr Perwez. Dr. Sutaria was also chair the education committee in the UT Southwestern Hospital Medicine group, a role that has been very fulfilling. Outside of Med-Ed, She enjoys Zumba work-out, travelling and ping-pong.
Dr. Rachel Vanderberg is a clinician-educator in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. She completed the Academic Clinician-Educator Scholars (ACES) Fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh in 2018. Her medical education interests include bedside presentations and transition to residency courses. Dr. Anna Donovan is a clinician-educator and the Associate Program Director for inpatient medicine for the IM Residency Training Program at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Her recent medical education work includes developing curricula teaching physicians to teach, improving patient-resident physician communication, and quality and safety work with hospitalized patients.
Dr. Homan Wai and Dr. Zehra (Gigi) Gaudiano are clinician educators at the Inova Internal Medicine Residency Program in Virginia. They serve as the Clerkship Director and Associate Clerkship Director, respectively, for the Internal Medicine Clerkship at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine Inova Campus. Dr. Wai’s medical education interests include M4 to internship transition and optimizing medical student performance through the use of technology. Dr. Gaudiano’s medical education interests include learner remediation and critical thinking skills.
