HMS Academy Fellows Announced

Nine faculty members selected into medical education fellowships

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Nine faculty members have been awarded the Harvard Medical School Academy Medical Education Fellowship for academic year 2016-17. This endowed competitive program seeks to develop and enhance the fellows’ analytical skills as medical education researchers and teaching skills as medical educators. It is designed to contribute to the quality of medical student education at HMS and to drive leadership.

Fellowship seminars meet at least twice per month with the director of the Fellowship, David Hirsh, HMS associate professor of medicine at Cambridge Health Alliance, to discuss important and relevant topics related to medical education. In addition, each Academy Fellow completes a project over the course of the academic year. Projects focus on curriculum development, faculty development, assessment of learners and outcomes research.

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“The Academy Fellowship in Medical Education represents one of the great programmatic contributions to faculty development and curriculum innovation at HMS. We are so fortunate to have Dave Hirsh taking this fellowship program to yet another new level this year,” said Edward Hundert, HMS dean for medical education.

Upon completion of the program, fellows present their work at HMS Medical Education Day with the goal of further application, dissemination, and publication. Graduates have led significant curricular and programmatic changes and served as education leaders in the HMS community and around the world.

These fellowships are made possible through generous contributions to the following supporting funds: the Morgan-Zinsser Fellowship Fund and the Curtis Prout, Eisenberg Family, and Jackson Academy Fellowship Funds. The Harvard School of Dental Medicine is also sponsoring two Academy Fellows.

These are the 2016-17 Academy Fellows in Medical Education:

From left: Katie Greenzang, Alexandra Hovaguimian, Jennifer Kasper

Katie Greenzang – Academy Fellow in Medical Education

Clinical fellow in pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital

Alexandra Hovaguimian – Morgan-Zinsser Fellowship

Instructor in neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Jennifer Kasper- Curtis Prout Academy Fellowship

Assistant professor of pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital

From left: Chia-Cheng Li, Scott Lovitch, David Meguerdichian

Chia-Cheng Li – Academy Fellow in Medical Education

Instructor in oral medicine, infection, and immunity, Harvard School of Dental Medicine

Scott Lovitch – Morgan-Zinsser Fellowship

Instructor in pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

David Meguerdichian – Jackson Academy Fellowship

Instructor in emergency medicine, Brigham and Women’s

From left: Celeste Royce, Tara Singh, Brittany Seymour

Celeste Royce – Curtis Prout Academy Fellowship

Instructor in obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive biology, Beth Israel Deaconess

Brittany Seymour – Academy Fellow in Medical Education

Assistant professor of oral health policy and epidemiology, Harvard School of Dental Medicine

Tara Singh – Curtis Prout Academy Fellowship

Instructor in obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive biology, Cambridge Health Alliance