Speaker Introduction

Regina Kreisle, M.D., Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Pathobiology and Assistant Director for Curriculum Development at the Lafayette Center for Medical Education, a regional campus of Indiana University School of Medicine located on the campus of Purdue University.  In addition to serving as the Coordinator for Competency Evaluation and Assessment at the Lafayette Center, she serves as Director for Component II and a member of the Curriculum Council Steering Committee for Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis where she oversees integration of general medical competencies into the second year curriculum for the Statewide System of Medical Education.  

Dr. Kreisle is a graduate of Kalamazoo College and completed her MD-PhD training at Washington University, St. Louis.  Following an internship in Internal Medicine and a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in tumor biology at the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Kreisle became a faculty member at Purdue University where she has received numerous teaching awards as Course Director for Human Pathology for medical students at the Lafayette Center for Medical Education.  Her interests in the field of basic science education include development of teaching resource databases, ethical issues in the use of students as subjects of educational research, and integration of competency-based evaluations in the basic science curriculum.  She currently serves as President of the Group for Research in Pathology Education (GRIPE).