Full Name
Jenny Baenziger
Position
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine and Pediatrics at IU School of Medicine
Institution
Indiana University
Bio
Dr. Baenziger is a Med-Peds physician at Indiana University. In her role as the Associate Director of Education at the IU Center for Global Health Equity, she oversees the IU Interdepartmental Global Health Residency Pathway and the international medical student electives. This includes the bilateral exchange of trainees between Moi University in Kenya and IU through the AMPATH partnership. Outside of work you'll find her with her husband and 4 children, gardening, camping, or enjoying good conversation over dinner.
Jenny Baenziger
Anna CIanciolo
Full Name
Anna CIanciolo
Position
Professor, Medical Education
Institution
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
Bio
I seek to advance medical education by doing work that encourages and empowers educators to practice reflectively and, in so doing, improve their world for themselves, their learners, and their patients. I am professor at a medical school internationally recognized for innovation, where the curriculum offers a “living laboratory” to collaboratively investigate the social and technological aspects of academic medicine. As editor-in-chief, I have special involvement in cultivating scholarly expertise, particularly individual voice and community insight. My productivity in these roles reflects a lifelong passion for understanding and facilitating occupational expertise. It appears as numerous journal articles and book chapters, and has been most recently funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Kern Institute for Transforming Medical Education. I have been honored as a CGEA Laureate (2021), an SIU-SOM Outstanding Scholar (2016) and Outstanding Educator (2018), and an AMEE Miriam Friedman Ben-David New Educator (2014).
Full Name
Peter de Jong
Position
Senior Adviser/Senior Researcher
Institution
Leiden University Medial Center
Bio
Dr. Peter de Jong is a strategic advisor and senior researcher in the field of Technology Enhanced Learning at Leiden University Medical Center in The Netherlands, where he leads a team for the development, implementation and support of learning materials and where he provides strategic advice in the field of technology enhanced learning. His research interest is in the field of Online and Blended Learning in medical education. He authored several articles on the topic of the use of computers in education and online learning, and presented numeral oral, poster and workshop presentations. Peter is also interested in the topic of scientific education and the development of scientific engagement in medical students, on which he co-authored some articles and a book chapter together with Drs Ommering and Haramati (An Introduction to Medical Teaching, Third Edition, in press).
Peter de Jong
Thirusha Naidu
Full Name
Thirusha Naidu
Position
Associate Professor
Institution
University of KwaZulu-Natal
Bio
Dr. Naidu is an Associate Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and a clinical psychologist practicing in the public health context in South Africa. Her research focus is equity in global medical education and global health, inspired by her experiences as Global South researcher in global health, mental health and infectious diseases (HIV and MDR-TB, FGS etc). Dr. Naidu has worked consistently with marginalized and racialised women in the Global South. Her research focuses on global medical education from critical and theoretical perspectives including decolonial and feminist theories. Dr. Naidu is interested in how research, authorship and scholarship practices shape dominant and marginalized narratives in medical education research, teaching and clinical practice which may contribute to fragmented care narratives and practices. She uses research poetry as a method for deep reflexivity to document, present and illustrate research findings. Her published work has appeared in The Lancet, Academic Medicine, The British Medical Journal and The Lancet Global Health.
Full Name
Subha Ramani
Position
AMEE President; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Institution
AMEE;Harvard Medical School
Bio
Subha Ramani, MBBS, MPH, MMEd (Dundee), PhD (Maastricht), FAMEE is the current President of AMEE, the International Association for Health Professions
Education. She is a general internist and educationalist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Associate Professor
of Medicine at Harvard Medical School; Adjunct Professor, Massachusetts General Hospital Institute for
Health Professions Education, in Boston, MA, USA; Honorary Professor of Medical Education, University of
Manchester, UK; External Faculty, SHE, Maastricht University, the Netherlands. She is a senior core faculty in the Harvard Macy program for educators. She has authored peer-reviewed papers and book chapters. Areas of scholarly interest include application of theory to educational practice, pedagogy and practice of clinical teaching, sociocultural factors that influence teaching, learning and feedback, mentoring relationships and increasingly, the intersection of culture and education from a global perspective. Her professional goals are driven by cultural humility and the desire to give back to the profession.
Subha Ramani
Ahmed Rashid
Full Name
Ahmed Rashid
Position
Professor of Medical Education, UCL Medical School & Vice Dean (International), UCL Faculty of Medical Sciences
Institution
University College London
Bio
Ahmed Rashid is a physician and education scientist with expertise in international medical education. His current appointments are as Professor of Medical Education at University College London (UCL), where he is Vice Dean (International) at the UCL Faculty of Medical Sciences, and Director of the UCL Centre for International Medical Education Collaborations (CIMEC), where he leads a portfolio of international partnerships with medical schools in several different countries. He has additionally held national leadership roles in medical education in the UK, including formerly as Medical Director for International Education at the Royal College of General Practitioners and currently as Chief Examiner for the General Medical Council PLAB exam, that internationally qualified doctors must pass to work clinically in the UK. He has an extensive track record in medical school accreditation both in the UK and overseas. He has worked for the Ministries of Higher Education in the UAE and Bahrain as an accreditation review panel member and chair and advised on national accreditation systems in various other countries.
Full Name
Eugene Richardson
Institution
Harvard Medical School
Bio
Dr. Richardson received his MD from Cornell University Medical College and his PhD in Anthropology from Stanford University. He completed residency in Internal Medicine and a fellowship in Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine at Stanford University Medical Center. His overall focus is on ecological approaches to epidemic disease prevention, containment, and treatment as well as the health effects of climate change. As part of these efforts, he is co-chair of the Walter and Patricia Rodney Commission on Reparations and co-chair of the Global Environmental Change Commission on Climate Justice.
Eugene Richardson