Medutopia

Medutopia offers energetic, highly motivated, and skilled educators who know how to share their knowledge, motivate learners and provide educators with the necessary tools they need to help other educators reach their medical education utopia.

Medutopia is coming to India!

Mike Gisondi, Tarlan Hedayati, Andy Little, Danya Koujah, and Rob Rogers are bringing the special Medutopia blend of medical education, professional development, and wellness to the 2019 ACEM conference in Delhi, India. Get ready for two days of educational awesomeness!

This interactive, innovative, and the highly useful course is aimed at medical educators who want to “reach their utopia” in medical education and their full potential as effective choreographers of learning.

• Podcasting in medical education
• How to effectively give feedback
• Presentation design and delivery
• The taxonomy of significant learning
• Medical education in low resource settings
• Curriculum design that makes a difference
• The intersection of social media and medical education
• Innovations in medical education
• Personal branding/voice development

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  Rob Rogers

  Trained in Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine, Rob Rogers currently practices Emergency Medicine at the University of Kentucky's Chandler Hospital in the Department of Emergency Medicine. An innovative medical educator on the cutting edge of creativity, he shares his knowledge on the monthly medical education Medutopia Podcast. Rob co-founded The Teaching Institute and in 2014 created The Teaching Course at The University of Maryland. As a passionate medical education enthusiast, podcast evangelist, learning choreographer, and entrepreneur, Rob works tirelessly to change the world of medical education by reinventing it.

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  Michael Gisondi

  Michael A. Gisondi, MD, FACEP, FAAEM is Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Education in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors.
  
  Born and raised in upstate New York, Dr. Gisondi earned his Bachelor of Science from The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. He received his medical degree from Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, where he was inducted in Alpha Omega Alpha. He completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at Stanford University, spending an additional year as Chief Resident. While at Stanford, he also completed a fellowship in Faculty Development with the Division of Emergency Medicine. He joined the Faculty at Northwestern in 2003 and served as Associate Residency Program Director (2003-2010), Residency Program Director (2010-2017), and Medical Education Scholarship Fellowship Director (2014-2017). He was a 2006 Junior Fellow of the Searle Center for Teaching Excellence at Northwestern, a member of the Northwestern McGaw Graduate Medical Education Committee (2010-2017), and Director of the Feinberg Academy of Medical Educators (2014-2017). He also serves on the advisory board of ALiEM: Academic Life in Emergency Medicine (www.aliem.com), leading the ALiEM EM Match Advice series and serving as Chief Strategy Officer for the ALiEM Chief Resident and Fellowship Incubators (2015-2017). He was a co-investigator on an NCI-funded study to improve palliative and end-of-life services to cancer patients in the emergency department. He lectures as conference faculty with the national certification course, EPEC-EM: Education in Palliative and End-of-life Care in Emergency Medicine. His research interests include curriculum design, assessment, and instructional methods for graduate and post-graduate learners. He is as an associate editor for the textbook, Emergency Medicine (Elsevier). In 2014, he was awarded the National Faculty Teaching Award of the American College of Emergency Physicians and was named Alumnus of the Year for recognition of his early career achievements by Loyola University Chicago – Stritch School of Medicine.

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  Danya Khoujah

  Dr. Khoujah graduated from the University of Maryland Emergency Medicine Residency and is an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland, School of Medicine. She splits her clinical time between working on the main campus and one of the community hospitals in inner city Baltimore. She completed a Faculty Development Fellowship and is currently completing her Master of Education in Health Professions. She is interested in medical education, emergency neurology, and geriatric emergencies.

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  Asit Misra

  Originally from India, Dr. Asit Misra is currently in the United States working as the Simulation Fellow at the Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. He is the current chair of the simulation section of the society for emergency medicine in India. He is a graduate of the ACEP teaching fellowship and the ALiEM faculty incubator program. He is also an alumnus of international emergency medicine teaching course from the University of Maryland, Baltimore. His areas of interest are healthcare simulation, medical education, and EM faculty development.

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  Andy Little

  Dr. Andy Little, is a graduate of Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2012 and from the Doctors Hospital Emergency Medicine Residency in 2016. He currently serves as Core Faculty and the Research Director at the Doctors Hospital Emergency Medicine Residency. Outside of his roles in education he also serves as a Co-founder and Host for the EM Over Easy Podcast.

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  Tarlan Hedayati

  Tarlan Hedayati, MD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine and the Associate Program Director in the Emergency Medicine Residency Training Program at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, where she is responsible for creating and implementing the curriculum and educational activities for 68 residents. She has lectured and published on clinical emergency medicine and medical education topics. She conducts research at Cook County Hospital on curriculum design and interventions that improve resident medical education. Dr. Hedayati is an excellent educator and has won numerous awards for her lectures and bedside teaching. She is currently enrolled in a Master’s in Education for Health Professionals at Johns Hopkins University.
  
  Tarlan Hedayati, MD, FACEP
  Assistant Professor
  Associate Program Director
  Department of Emergency Medicine
  Cook County Health & Hospitals System
  1900 W. Polk Street
  Chicago, IL 60612
  

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To Register for Pre-conference workshop, conference registration is mandatory