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Yerko Berrocal, MD, MHPE, serves as Associate Dean, Curricular Affairs for Alice L. Walton School of Medicine. In this role, he provides leadership to the Office of Curricular Affairs and is primarily responsible for developing, implementing, and evaluating the School’s integrative curriculum.

Prior to this position, Dr. Berrocal was a clinical associate professor in the Department of Health Sciences Education at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria (UICOMP), where he served as the Director of the Circulation & Respiration Block and chaired the Phase 1 Curriculum committee. Dr. Berrocal was involved in all aspects of pre-clinical medical education, including the delivery, development, and improvement of the curriculum. Prior to his work at UICOMP, Dr. Berrocal was an assistant professor with a focus on medical education at Florida International University’s Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine (HWCOM), where he held several leadership positions.

Before becoming a medical educator, Dr. Berrocal worked on developing cellular transplantation strategies to repair human central and peripheral nervous system injuries at University of Miami’s Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine. He contributed to studies required by the FDA to approve phase 1 clinical trials for patients with spinal cord injuries.

A native of Chile, Dr. Berrocal earned his medical degree from Catholic University Santiago de Guayaquil, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in neuroscience from the Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine. He also received a Master of Health Professions Education from the University of Illinois Chicago.

Dr. Melissa Chen is the Clinical Director and faculty leader for the Interprofessional Community Clinic, RFU's student-led pro bono clinic. She is an internist keenly interested in upstream health care and illuminating the social and structural determinants and disparities that fundamentally affect patient health. She is creating and directing the incorporation of health equity content into the CMS longitudinal curriculum.

Dr. Chen is certified in internal medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine. She completed her residency at the University of Washington, medical degree from Vanderbilt, and undergraduate degree from Harvard. Professional experience includes hospitalist work in Seattle and 10 years of experience as a clinician for the underserved at HealthReach, Lake County's only free clinic for a time. RFU honors include the Laurence Medoff Award for outstanding teaching and clinical practice, CMS Champion Award, AOA Volunteer Clinical Faculty Award, M2 Champion of Change, and Outstanding Online Elective Professor.

Dyron Corley, Ed.D. is the Director of the Center for Student Success at Rowan-Virtua School of Osteopathic Medicine. He has over fifteen years of experience in academic advising and developing student success programs for first-year, transfer, first-generation, adult, and medical students.

Stephanie assists with the Center for Student Success (CSS) operations. Stephanie also provides advising and academic support to first- and second-year students, oversees the SOM Tutoring Program, and coordinates the Pre-Matriculation and Guided Learning Groups Programs.

Dr. Katie Huggett is the Director of the Teaching Academy, Assistant Dean for Medical Education, and Robert Larner, MD Professor in Medical Education at the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont. Dr. Huggett leads faculty development for teaching, assessment, and educational scholarship. In addition, she leads the team responsible for curricular evaluation and serves as the co-chair of the medical school’s Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) committee. Her research and publications address academic program quality; mentoring and faculty recognition; curricular innovation, especially for substance use disorder education curricula; and interprofessional education (IPE). Dr. Huggett is lead editor of the book, An Introduction to Medical Teaching: The Foundations of Curriculum Design, Delivery, and Assessment published by Springer. The third edition is now in preparation.

Dr. Meeks is an expert in disabilities in medical education. As an administrative leader and researcher, she is helping to inform policy and best practice in the area of disability inclusion for medical education, training and practice. Her research interests include: Improving access to medical education for learners with disabilities, medical student and resident well-being, reducing health care disparities in patients with disabilities, and the performance and trajectory of learners and physicians with disabilities. Her work has been published in the NEJM, Lancet, JAMA, and Academic Medicine and featured on NPR(link is external), in the Washington Post, CNBC, Bloomberg Law, Time Magazine, and AAMC News.

Dr. Meeks is the co-founder and Past President of the Coalition for Disability Access in Health Science and Medical Education, co-developer of both the AAMC Disability Webinar Series and edited and authored the leading books on the topic, including Disability as Diversity, the casebook companion, and Equal Access for Students with Disabilities: The Guide for Health Science and Professional Education, Second Edition. She is also the lead author of the AAMC Special Report: Accessibility, Inclusion, and Action in Medical Education: Lived Experiences of Learners and Physicians with Disabilities, co-creator of the social media campaign #DocsWithDisabilities, co-host of the Docs With Disabilities Podcast, and director of the DocsWithDisabilities Initiative.

Prof Robert Opoka graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine & Surgery in 1996 from Makerere University and an MMed in Paediatrics & Child Health in 2003 from Guangxi University, China. He then completed a MPH in Epidemiology at University of California Berkeley, USA in 2007; a MHPE in Medical Education in 2013 from Maastricht University, Netherlands and most recently achieved his PhD in Health Sciences in 2020 from Makerere University.

Previously, Prof Opoka was an Associate Professor and Consultant Paediatrician at Makerere University in Uganda. He is also an adjunct lecturer at the Indiana University in USA, a position he has held since 2017.

He was also instrumental in the introduction of a course in health professionals’ education at Makerere University which is currently in its fourth year. Prof Opoka was the Founder and Executive Director for Global Health Uganda since 2010, Coordinator of the undergraduate training in the department of Paediatrics & Child Health; Head of the Acute Care Unit at Mulago National Referral Hospital and a member of the Teaching and Learning Committee at the College of Health Sciences, Makerere University.

Prof Opoka has been actively involved in medical education for the last 10 years including the areas of Problem-Based Learning curriculum at Makerere University College of Health Sciences, the adoption of OSCE clinical methods of assessment both at Makerere University and nationally in Uganda.

J. Corey Williams, MD is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Medstar-Georgetown University Hospital. He is a child & adolescent psychiatrist with the Wellness in School Environments (WISE) program, where he helps deliver school-based mental health services for children & families. He is the Director of Mental Health Services Innovation for the Early Childhood Innovation Network (ECIN). He is also co-chair of a national antiracism curriculum initiative entitled, National Anti-Racism in Medicine Curriculum Coalition (NAMCC), which is currently sponsored by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN).