2017 Fall: Evolution and Revolution in Medical Education - Global Challenges and Solutions in Health Professions Education

Dr. Jason R. Frank is a clinician-educator focussing on all aspects of health professions training.

He is the Director, Specialty Education, Strategy and Standards in the Office of Specialty Education at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, as well as Vice-Chair, Education and the Director of Educational Research & Development in the Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Ottawa. An associate professor at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Medicine, he has been cross-appointed to the Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa and the Department of Graduate Studies, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.

Born in rural northern Canada, Jason Frank obtained his MD from the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Medicine and an FRCPC in Emergency Medicine at the University of Toronto. His Masters of Education is from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.

He is known for his work on all aspects of medical education, particularly the CanMEDS Project since 1994, and competency-based medical education (CBME). He is the founder and chair of the International CBME Collaborators consortium and co-chair of the Royal College’s flagship Competency By Design project.

A finalist for Canada’s Top 40 Under 40, he has been recognized for his contributions to medicine and teaching. He is the recipient of the 2013 Council Award Honouring Outstanding Physicians, from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, and was made an honorary Fellow of the Australian Orthopedic Association in 2015 for his contributions to surgical education.

William J. Burke, DO, FACOFP serves as Dean of the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine (OUHCOM) Dublin Campus. His previous positions included Vice President of Medical Education and Program Director of the Family Medicine Residency Program at OhioHealth Doctors Hospital. He is also an associate professor of family medicine with tenure at OUHCOM. Dr. Burke has been actively involved in graduate and undergraduate medical education for over 20 years. He received his BA in history from Capital University and his doctorate in Osteopathic Medicine in 1988 from Ohio University. Dr. Burke is board-certified in Osteopathic Family Medicine and Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the American Osteopathic Association, a member of the Board of Directors of the Osteopathic International Alliance and a founding director of the International Primary Care Educational Alliance.

Professor Jennifer Cleland is John Simpson Chair of Medical Education Research, and Director of the Centre for Healthcare Education Research and Innovation (CHERI), University of Aberdeen, Scotland; Chair of the Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASME); Director of the Scottish Medical Education Research Consortium (SMERC); Lead for the Association for Medical Education Europe (AMEE) Research Committee; Chair of the Board of Management for Medical Education; Associate Editor for Perspectives in Medical Education; an Invited Member of the Wilson Centre, Toronto; Associated Professor at the Uniformed Services University of the USA.
She is a clinical and occupational psychologist by training and worked as a Clinical Psychologist in the UK health service for many years.

With over 150 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, she has published widely in a broad range of journals including the BMJ, Medical Education, Medical Teacher, and Quality and Safety in Healthcare. She is the lead editor on “Researching Medical Education” (Wiley, 2015). She is regularly invited to keynote at national and international meetings.

Jen’s particular research interests are selection, assessment and performance, and medical careers decision making. Her research spans the continuum of undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing medical education and training.

Dr. Méabh Ni Bhuinneáin: MD FRCOG MRCPI MICGP MSc Public Health is a Consultant Obstetrician/Gynaecologist at Mayo University Hospital since 2001. She qualified in Medicine at University College Dublin (1990) and completed specialist training in both General Practice & Obstetrics/Gynaecology in Ireland and Australia. She is Dean of Medical Education, Mayo Medical Academy, NUI Galway and National Speciality Director for Basic Specialty Training, RCPI.

She has served multiple roles for the Institute of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists in Ireland including the Executive Council, Speciality Training and Clinical Advisory Guidance committees and nationally in the Review of Maternity Services, the Maternity Strategy and the Health Information and Quality Authority.

Internationally she directs interprofessional courses in Life Saving Skills in Obstetrics, Newborn Care and Surgical Care in Rural Kenya. She chairs an Ireland-Kenya hospital link programme under the auspices of the European ESTHER Alliance, Brighter Communities Worldwide NGO and Irish Aid.

She delivers Global Maternal, Newborn and Reproductive Health education in the NUI Galway undergraduate medical program. She continues to study and network on health professional education at the Harvard Macy Institute, Boston.

Outside work Méabh consistently finishes in the lowest quintile in “Gaelforce” adventure racing/rambling along the Atlantic seaboard of Ireland West.

Quentin Eichbaum was born and raised in Namibia and South Africa. He initially studied law at the University of Cape Town and then completed his MD, MPH, PhD and postdoctoral studies at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston followed by residency and fellowship training at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is currently associate professor of Pathology, Microbiology and immunology and associate professor of Medical Education and Administration at Vanderbilt University where he also directs the a fellowship in pathology as well as the Vanderbilt Pathology Program in Global Health and the Vanderbilt Pathology Education Research Group. He serves on numerous national and international global health education and pathology committees, including at ASCP, ASFA, AABB, and chairs the newly established Global Transfusion Forum (GTF) of the AABB. He chairs the Education Committee of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) (the largest academic global health organization in the world with 30 00 members and 157 academic institutions) and serves on the CUGH Board of Directors. He co-founded the Consortium of New Sub-Sahara African Medical Schools (CONSAMS) and is extensively involved in health professional education and clinical medicine in several African countries.

Dr. Grunauer is the Dean, the Director of Critical Care Areas, and a full-time professor at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito Medical School in Quito, Ecuador; the founder, Academic Director, and an attending of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit of the Hospital de los Valles/Universidad San Francisco de Quito; and a Visiting Faculty Member at Johns Hopkins University. She is also the director of Ecuador’s Advanced Pediatric Life Support education program. Dr. Grunauer has dedicated thousands of hours to improving the quality of pediatric intensive and palliative care in Ecuador and other low resource settings through the development of continuing medical education, new models of care and PICU protocols, and innovative research studies to determine best-practices in these areas. She is a member of the highly prestigious Ecuadorian Academy of Medicine, a recipient of various local and international research grants, and the recipient of the 2016 Martha Bushore-Fallis APLS award for distinguished and innovative instructors of Advanced Pediatric Life Support. She is currently completing international research on pediatric palliative care practices, disaster relief, and palliative care education technology.