The Educator's Lexicon: What Does It All Actually Mean?

Authors

  • Linda Regan, MD

    Associate Professor

    Johns Hopkins University

    Dr. Linda Regan is associate professor and vice chair for education in the department of emergency medicine at Johns Hopkins University. She serves as program director for the emergency medicine residency program, the combined EM-anesthesia residency program, and the medical education fellowship. Dr. Regan is known for her work as an educational program builder and for the Focused Advanced Specialty Track (FAST) program, which allows residents to develop a focused niche during their final year.

    Dr. Regan’s interests include curriculum development and evaluation, resident evaluation and feedback, and applications of adult learning theory to postgraduate education. She has extensive experience in resident remediation, particularly for professionalism and communication skills, and frequently lectures on this topic. She oversees faculty development and runs a robust longitudinal program in her department. Her clinical interests involve special population topics. Dr. Regan has received multiple teaching awards, including the 2012 ACEP Faculty Teaching Award and the 2016 EMRA Residency Director of the Year award.

    Dr. Regan served on the program committee for the Council of Residency Directors in Emergency Medicine (CORD) for many years, including three years as a track chair for the Best Practices track. She served for four years on the CORD Board of Directors and is a current member of the RRC in emergency medicine.

  • Laura Hopson, MD

  • Michael Gisondi, MD

    Associate Professor, Vice Chair of Education, Mentor

    Stanford School of Medicine - Department of Emergency Medicine

    Dr. Michael Gisondi is the inaugural Vice Chair of Education in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University. He is the Principal and Founder of the Precision Education and Assessment Research Lab (The PEARL), Co-Director of the Scholarly Concentration in Medical Education, and the faculty advisor for LGBTQ+ Meds at Stanford School of Medicine. He is a Distinguished Member of the Stanford Medicine Teaching and Mentoring Academy. Dr. Gisondi is a medical education researcher and an expert in the application of social media in medical education. He is a member of the editorial boards of Academic Life in Emergency Medicine, International Clinician Educators Blog, and the Journal of Education and Teaching in Emergency Medicine. He is an associate editor for the textbook, Emergency Medicine, and conference faculty with the national certification course, EPEC-EM: Education in Palliative and End-of-life Care in Emergency Medicine. Dr Gisondi previously served on the Board of Directors for the Council of Residency Directors in Emergency Medicine. Earlier in his career, he served as Residency Program Director, Medical Education Scholarship Fellowship Director (SAEM-approved), and Director of the Feinberg Academy of Medical Educators at Northwestern University. In 2014, Dr. Gisondi was awarded the National Faculty Teaching Award of the American College of Emergency Physicians and was named Alumnus of the Year by Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine. He completed the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Chair Development Program and the Stanford Medicine Leadership Academy.

  • Jeremy Branzetti, MD, MHPE

    Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine

    Yale University

    Dr. Jeremy Branzetti is a board-certified emergency medicine physician who specializes in providing acute care for critically ill and injured patients. He earned dual bachelor's degrees and his MD at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Dr. Branzetti completed a four-year residency in emergency medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago, where he was chief resident. He obtained a master's in health professions education from Maastricht University's School of Health Professions. With over a decade of experience in GME leadership and medical education scholarship, Dr. Branzetti has expertise in evidence-based learning science, adaptive expertise, programmatic identity formation, translating “branding” concepts from business to medicine, and wellness. Dr. Branzetti founded Academic Educator Coaching to coach early-career medical educators in achieving professional success and personal joy. 

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