Calvin Chou
Professor of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco

Calvin Chou, MD, PhD is Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of California at San Francisco, and staff physician at the Veterans Affairs Health Care System in San Francisco. After undergraduate work at Yale, he received his PhD in microbiology and his MD at Columbia University, and subsequently completed residency training in internal medicine at UCSF. As Senior Faculty Advisor for External Education with the Academy of Communication in Healthcare (ACH), he is recognized internationally for leading workshops in relationship-centered communication, feedback, conflict, and remediation in health professions education. Currently he is director of VALOR, a longitudinal program based at the VA that emphasizes humanistic clinical skill development for medical students. He also held the first endowed Academy Chair in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning at UCSF. He has delivered communication skills curricula for providers at health systems across the country, including Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, Stanford Health, New York Presbyterian, AdventHealth System, Wake Forest, and Texas Children’s Hospital, and internationally as well. His research interests include assessment of curricular developments in clinical skills and clinical skills remediation, forces influencing feedback in health sciences education, and enhancing humanistic communication for interprofessional trainees. A member of the UCSF Academy of Medical Educators since 2002, he has received numerous teaching awards at UCSF, including the Henry J. Kaiser Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Inpatient Setting, and two of ACH’s national awards, the 2019 Healthcare Communication Teaching Excellence Award, and the 2018 Lynn Payer Award for outstanding contributions to the literature on the theory, practice, and teaching of effective healthcare communication and related skills. He is co-editor of the books Remediation in Medical Education: A Midcourse Correction, and Communication Rx: Transforming Healthcare Through Relationship-Centered Communication.

Adina Kalet
Chair, Department of Medical Education
CUNY School of Medicine

Adina Kalet, MD, MPH, Sophie Davis Class of 1982, previously served as Professor of Medicine and Surgery at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, where she led federally funded teams linking medical education research to long-term outcomes for learners and patients. In 2015 she piloted Night onCall, a simulation program later expanded with Josiah Macy Foundation support into a national platform and consortium. She co-directs the U.S. site of the University of Maastricht’s master’s in health professions education and leads multiple mentor development programs. Widely published, Dr. Kalet co-authored the second edition of Remediation in Medical Education: A Midcourse Correction (2023). Her leadership has been recognized with the NBME’s John P. Hubbard Award and the AAMC Award for Excellence in Medical Education. She currently chairs the International Academic Review Committee for Ben Gurion University’s School of Medicine. Dr. Kalet earned her MD at Cornell University and MPH at Columbia University.

Laurah Turner
Associate Dean for Artificial Intelligence and Educational Informatics
University of Cincinnati

Dr. Laurah Turner, PhD, is the Associate Dean for Artificial Intelligence and Educational Informatics and Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Health Informatics and Data Sciences, and Medical Education at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. She is also co-founder of 2-Sigma, an educational technology company developing AI-powered platforms for personalized learning in healthcare.

An interdisciplinary scholar with expertise in artificial intelligence, natural language processing, fuzzy logic, and educational informatics, Dr. Turner leads national and international initiatives to integrate AI responsibly into medical education. Her work focuses on leveraging multi-agent architectures, learning analytics, and adaptive assessment systems to advance precision medical education and reduce disparities in training.

She has secured multiple competitive grants, holds several patents pending on AI-driven educational platforms, and has been invited to contribute to advisory committees for the AAMC, AMA, ABMS, and the International Advisory Committee on AI in Health Professions Education.

Widely recognized as a thought leader, Dr. Turner has delivered invited keynotes, grand rounds, and workshops at leading institutions around the world. Her vision is to democratize access to individualized, mastery-based medical training by harnessing AI to scale feedback, foster equity, and capture the richness of clinical reasoning.