Consensus Conference

Holly A. Caretta-Weyer, MD, MHPE

Director of Evaluation and Assessment

Stanford University

Dr. Holly Caretta-Weyer is associate residency program director and director of evaluation and assessment for the Stanford University emergency medicine residency program as well as EPA/CBME implementation lead at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Caretta-Weyer attended medical school at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, where she graduated Alpha Omega Alpha with honors in research. She stayed at Wisconsin for her emergency medicine residency, where she was also chief resident. Dr. Caretta-Weyer then completed her medical education scholarship fellowship at Oregon Health & Science University and earned her master's in health professions education at the University of Illinois-Chicago. She is a PhD candidate at Maastricht University studying residency selection in a competency-based system.

Laura R. Hopson, MD, MEd

Associate Chair for Education, Department of Emergency Medicine

University of Michigan

Laura Hopson, MD, MEd, is professor and associate chair of education in the department of emergency medicine (EM) at the University of Michigan Medical School. She graduated from Yale University with a BS in molecular biophysics and biochemistry and obtained her MD from Duke University. She completed residency training at the University of Michigan, and a master's in education through Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Hopson has been extensively involved in medical education at the undergraduate and graduate level throughout her career, including nine years as residency program director. She co-directs the University of Michigan's GME innovations program, which is an institutional initiative to promote innovations in education and demonstrates their effectiveness through high-level learner and patient-centered outcomes. Dr. Hopson has a long-standing interest in the transition between UME and GME and her scholarly work focuses on the residency selection process and optimizing learning outcomes.

Jeremy Branzetti, MD, MHPE

Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine

Yale University

Jeremy Branzetti, MD, MHPE, is a board-certified emergency medicine (EM) physician who received his doctorate of medicine from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook and received his MD. He completed a four-year residency in EM at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois, and was chief resident in his final year. Subsequently, he obtained a Masters in Health Professions Education from Maastricht University’s School of Health Professions, and certification as a Leadership and Professional Coach through ACT/Brown University. He has over a decade of experience in GME leadership and medical education scholarship, with extensive expertise in evidence-based learning science, adaptive expertise, professional identity development, and coaching as a faculty development tool. He is the founder of Academic Educator Coaching, and strives to use his accrued experience in academic medicine to coach medical educators to chart meaningful careers on their own terms.

Linda Regan, MD, MEd

Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Education, Emergency Medicine

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Linda Regan, MD, MEd, is an associate professor in the department of emergency medicine (EM) at Johns Hopkins, where she serves as the Vice Chair for Education and the director of the medical education fellowship. She served for four years as a member of the Board of Directors of CORD and is a well-known national speaker. She is the current Chair of the ACGME's Residency Review Committee in EM. Dr. Regan is well known at Johns Hopkins for her work as an educational program builder and 13 years spent as the program director for the EM residency. She obtained her masters in education for the health professions from the Johns Hopkins School of Education, with a focus on educational research. Dr. Regan's educational research interests lay mainly in the applications of adult learning theories and conceptual models to postgraduate education, in particular as they pertain to the development of adaptive expertise for learners, as well as how to best teach and represent yourself as an educator.

 

Benjamin H. Schnapp, MD, MEd

University of Wisconsin

Dr. Benjamin Schnapp graduated from the Mount Sinai Hospital emergency medicine residency program in New York City, where he completed a specialty track in medical education and served as chief resident. He completed his medical education fellowship at Northwestern University and is pursuing a master's in education with a focus on health professions at the University of Cincinnati. His interests include clinical teaching skills, resident assessment, and decision-making. He serves on the SAEM Graduate Medical Education and Fellowship Approval committees.

Mary Tanski, MD, MBA

Associate Professor and Chair

Oregon Health & Science University

Dr. Mary E. Tanski is currently associate professor and chair in the department of emergency medicine at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). She completed her undergraduate degree in business management and health and humanities at Michigan State University and earned her MD from Wayne State University. She completed her residency and was chief resident at George Washington University and then completed an emergency medicine administration fellowship and an MBA at OHSU. Dr. Tanski has been faculty in the department of emergency medicine management at OHSU and teaches the health care operations and quality course. She served as medical director of operations before becoming chair. Dr. Tanski has extensive experience in emergency department (ED) operations and quality improvement, including improving ED flow, instituting a no-divert trial, and addressing departmental boarding.

Lalena Yarris, MD, MCR

Professor, Emergency Medicine

Oregon Health & Science University

Nicole Zamignani

Medical Education Coordinator

Stanford University School of Medicine