Full Name
Ronald Harden
Position
General Secretary, Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE)
Institution
AMEE
Bio
Professor Ronald Harden graduated from medical school in Glasgow, UK. He completed training and practised as an endocrinologist before moving full time to medical education. He is Professor of Medical Education (Emeritus) University of Dundee, Editor of Medical Teacher and General Secretary and Treasurer of the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE). Professor Harden has pioneered ideas in medical education including the OSCE and has published two books and more than 400 papers in leading journals. His contributions to excellence in medical education have attracted numerous international awards and an OBE by Her Majesty the Queen.
Ronald Harden
Full Name
Brenda Roman
Position
Associate Dean for Medical Education
Institution
Boonshoft School of Medicine at Wright State University
Bio
Brenda Roman, MD is Associate Dean of Medical Education and Professor in Psychiatry at Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine in Dayton, OH. Previously she was the Director of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry for 18 years. Dr. Roman received her medical degree from the University of Nebraska Medical Center in 1988, and completed her residency in psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati Hospital system in 1992, then joined the faculty at Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine. She is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. She is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society and the Gold Humanism Honor Society. Her clinical work has focused on the college population and the homeless population. Her scholarly work focuses on medical education, curriculum development, and women’s mental health issues.

Dr. Roman has extensive experience with the medical school curriculum, being on the forefront of introducing Team-Based Learning into the psychiatry curriculum, and working to introduce peer instruction and a unique brand of problem-based learning (WrightQ) to the overall curriculum. When she was Assistant Dean for Curriculum, she led the transformation to a lecture free curriculum that debuted in 2017.

In addition to numerous school and university committees, Dr. Roman served on the Executive Council of the Association of Directors of Medical Student Educators for 10 years, including President. She served as chair of the USMLE Step 2 Psychiatry Test Material Development Committee, and continues to serve on Interdisciplinary Review Committees. In 2013, she completed the prestigious Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) program for women. Recent awards at the Boonshoft School of Medicine include the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award in 2014, and the Faculty Mentor Award and Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012. She is currently faculty and mentor for the Leadership Education and Development Program (LEAD) Certificate Program of the American Association of Medical Colleges, and is chair elect of the Undergraduate Medical Education Section of the GEA. Most recently she received the Laureate Award in the CGEA for her contributions as a mentor in medical education and to the CGEA. She has over 50 publications, most in the area of medical education.
Brenda Roman
Full Name
Mary Jo Trout
Position
Director of Therapeutics Assistant Professor, Departments of Geriatrics and Pharmacology & Toxicology
Institution
Wright State University
Bio
Mary Jo Trout, Pharm D, is the Director of Therapeutics Curriculum and Assistant Professor, Geriatrics and Pharmacology & Toxicology at Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine. Prior to assuming this role in May 2013, she was the Clinical Pharmacist in the Intensive Care Unit at Good Samaritan Hospital for 13 years.

Dr. Trout received her BSPh in 1985, and became licensed as a registered pharmacist that same year. Thirteen years later she began studies towards her Doctorate in Pharmacy which she achieved in 2000. She has worked in Pediatrics, Home Health Care and in-patient pharmacy for 28 years before joining the faculty at Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine. She has been a member of Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society since 2017.

Dr. Trout has been extensively involved with the innovations to our medical school curriculum, being on the forefront of introducing Peer Instruction throughout our curriculum. She has been a productive member of the Wright Curriculum Steering Committee, helping to lead the transformation to a new curriculum, built upon the principles of effective learning and moving to a lecture-free curriculum.

In addition to numerous school committees, Dr. Trout serves on the United States Medical Licensure Examination (USMLE) Pharmacology and Biochemistry Test Material Development Committee since 2016. In 2015, she completed the prestigious American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) Leadership Education and Development (LEAD) program. Recent awards at the Boonshoft School of Medicine include the Faculty Development Award in 2015. Dr. Trout was voted “Rookie of the Year” by the second-year medical students in 2014. She is board certified in Pharmacotherapy and Geriatrics and has several publications in the area of medical education.
Mary Jo Trout
Full Name
Irina Overman
Institution
Wright State University
Bio
Irina Overman MD, is the Director of the Foundations of Clinical Practice Curriculum, and Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine and Geriatrics at Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine since 2017. Prior to this role, she was the Clerkship Director for Internal Medicine since 2015 and has continued in this role to present date. She has worked in a teaching role with Departments of Internal Medicine or Geriatrics since 2012.
Dr. Overman received her medical degree from Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine in 2008 and completed her Internal Medicine Residency at Wright State in 2011. She completed a Chief Residency year in 2012. Her interests have been in residency and medical school education, as well as Geriatrics. After completion of her chief year, she pursued a fellowship in Geriatrics while continuing to teach in the Internal Medicine Residency program at Wright State.
Dr. Overman has been extensively involved with the innovations to our medical school curriculum as well as the residency curriculum. She introduced “flipped classroom” teaching into the noon conference and didactic schedule into the residency curriculum. She has been a member of the Wright Curriculum Steering Committee which has led the transformation to a new curriculum built upon the principles of effective learning and moving to a lecture-free curriculum. In her role as Director of Foundations she has been at the forefront of the implementation of the curriculum during the first two years of medical school, and due to her Clerkship Director responsibilities, she has been able to help implement similar changes into the Clerkship.
Dr. Overman serves on numerous school committees. Her recent awards include the Robert A. Davies Teaching Excellence Award in 2013 and again in 2017 from the Internal Medicine Residency. She is Board Certified in Internal Medicine since 2012 and in Geriatrics since 2016.
Irina Overman
Full Name
Kimberly Dahlman
Position
Associate Professor of Medicine
Institution
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Bio
Dr. Dahlman is an educator and cancer biologist who has demonstrated leadership in curriculum and faculty development, foundational science integration, student assessment, and program evaluation. She earned her PhD in Cancer Biology from Vanderbilt University and completed her postdoctoral training at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Currently, Dr. Dahlman is Co-Director of the Immersion Phase of Curriculum 2.0 at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. She has been recognized for her outstanding educational contributions by election to the Vanderbilt Academy for Excellence in Education and as President-Elect to the Association of Biochemistry Educators. Recently she was awarded the Denis M. O’Day award for Team Implemented Curriculum from Vanderbilt and the Early Career Award for Excellence in Teaching and Innovation from the International Association of Medical Science Educators.
Kimberly Dahlman
Full Name
Kathryn Andolsek
Institution
Duke University
Bio
Kathy is a professor of Community and Family Medicine and assistant dean of premedical education at Duke University School of Medicine. She holds BS, MD and MPH Degrees from Northwestern University and Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine and completed her family medicine residency at Duke. She has served most of her professional life in community health, and medical education, primarily graduate medical education. She a past member of the steering committee, and former chair of the Association of American Medical Colleges Group on Residency Affairs. She is an associate editor of the Journal of Graduate Medical Education, a member of the Board of Directors of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, and vice chair of the North Carolina Physicians Health Program’s Board of Directors. She continues to learn best from her children: a national board-certified teacher [public grade school music], an actor, an innovations consultant, and an Orthopaedic resident. All of her opinions are her own and do not reflect any of the organizations or institutions with which she is affiliated.
Kathryn Andolsek
Full Name
David Chen
Position
MSIII
Institution
University of Washington
Bio
David Roy Chen, BA, is a third-year medical student at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, Washington. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Washington with a degree in Comparative History of Ideas in 2014. For his senior thesis on migrant farming, ethics, and religion he received the Harry Bridges Labor Studies Best Undergraduate Paper Award and the Mary Gates Scholarship. His extra-curricular activities in medical school have centered on anti-racism, and he is the first author of a paper published in Academic Medicine titled, “Student Perspectives on the ’Step 1 Climate’ in Preclinical Medical Education.” He plans to pursue a career in Family Medicine and produce scholarship on evidence-based medical education.
David Chen
Full Name
Michelle Daniel
Position
Assistant Dean for Curriculum and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Learning Health Sciences
Institution
University of California San Diego
Bio
Dr. Michelle Daniel is Vice Dean for Medical Education and Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. She obtained her medical degree from Johns Hopkins Medical School in 2002 and her Masters in Health Professions Education from Maastricht University in the Netherlands in 2016. Dr. Daniel is an Associate Editor for Medical Teacher and serves on the board of the Best Evidence in Medical Education (BEME) Collaboration, Co-chairs the BEME Editorial Review Committee and directs the University of California, San Diego BEME International Collaborating Center. She is Past-President of the Directors of Clinical Skills Courses (DOCS). Her current scholarly interests include clinical reasoning and theories of cognition, the optimal timing of USMLE Step 1, clinical skills and well-being.
Michelle Daniel