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About the editor-in-chief

Eric Warm MD, MACP, is Professor of Medicine, Vice Chair for Graduate Medical Education, and Internal Medicine Residency Program Director at the University of Cincinnati. He and his team apply educational theory within the context of residency training to improve education and care. Guiding questions: how do we know what the learner has learned, and what are the outcomes of this learning on patients, learners, systems, and society?

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About the CBME Column Editor:

Aleda M. H. Chen, PharmD, PhD, FAPhA, is Associate Dean and Professor at Cedarville University School of Pharmacy. With dual training in pharmacy practice and social and administrative sciences, she leads initiatives at the intersection of curriculum design, assessment, and implementation science. Her work focuses on advancing competency-based education (CBE) and behavioral change. Guiding questions: how can we use implementation science to advance CBE, and how do we evaluate the outcomes of CBE on learners, patients, and communities? 

Founding Editor:

Jonathan Sherbino, BSc MD MEd FRCPC FAcadMEd(UK) DRCPSC(CE)

Jonathan is the founding editor of the International Clinician Educators (ICE) Blog.

Dr. Sherbino is a Professor of Medicine and Assistant Dean, Health Professions Education Research, McMaster University. He holds the William J. Walsh Chair in Medical Education. Jonathan is the past chair of the National Specialty Committee for Emergency Medicine, Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada. He is the co-founder of a nationally certified medical education training program. Jonathan is the director of the McMaster Health Education, Research & Innovation (MERIT) Centre.

Jonathan is the co-editor of the CanMEDS 2015 Framework, which governs physician training in 50+ jurisdictions around the world. He has published more than 200 papers and given more than 200 plenary and keynote addresses. 

Dr. Sherbino is an award-winning teacher, including the recipient of a 2021 3M National Teaching Fellowship, the top Canadian recognition for university educators.

Personal website: jsherbino.com

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About the editors

Felix Ankel, MD, is an attending physician at Regions Hospital in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Minnesota.  He is a former residency director, Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) designated institutional official (DIO), and Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors (CORD) board member. He currently serves as a director for the American Board of Emergency Medicine. He is a contributor to icenet.blog on the future of health professions education.

View all of his ICE blog posts here

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View Felix’s LinkedIn profile:  https://www.linkedin.com/posts/felixankel_cbme-activity-7302522200589312000-cfmS/


Victoria Brazil is an emergency physician, educator, and simulation specialist. She is Professor of Emergency Medicine and Medical Director of the Simulation Service at Gold Coast Health, and leads the Bond University Translational Simulation Collaborative. Victoria’s main interests are in connecting education with patient care – through translational simulation in healthcare, and in developing high performing healthcare teams.

She has authored over 100 peer reviewed publications in health professions education, simulation and teamwork in healthcare. Victoria is Senior Editor at Advances in Simulation and co-producer of Simulcast, a podcast about healthcare simulation.

View all of her ICE blog posts here

Follow Victoria on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/victoria-brazil-0a2a6134/


Jamiu Busari [MD, PhD, MHPE, CCPE, FRCPC (hons)] is an associate professor of medical education at Maastricht University (Netherlands) and  adjunct professor and scientist at the Institute for Disability and Rehabilitation Research, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ontario Tech University (Canada). He is also a consultant pediatrician at the Horacio Oduber Hospital (Aruba), a Certified Canadian Physician Executive, a Harvard Macy Scholar, and a Harvard Business School executive education graduate in Managing Health Care Delivery.  He is a former executive member of the Netherlands Association for Medical Education (NVMO). Jamiu fervently advocates for DEI and social justice and is a member of the University of Maastricht’s Advisory Council on Diversity and Inclusion. He is also an associate editor for Clinical Medicine and Research, and Commissioning editor for BMJLeader. Jamiu’s activities as a clinician and educator have been recognized through various awards and including the Educational Leadership Award 2015 (World Education Congress), Clinician of the Year Award 2015 (Maastricht University), the International Residency Educator Award 2016 (Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada). In 2022, Jamiu received the Jan Heijlman Prize for Best Teaching Specialist (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam) and was awarded an honorary fellowship by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in 2023. He is the author of the “A day in the life of a CE” series.

View all of his ICE blog posts here

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Dr. Daniel Cabrera is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota and the inaugural Director for the Mayo Clinic Harper Family Foundation Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Program, Director of Advanced Digital Education as well as former Associate Dean for Continuous Professional Development**. In his current role, he oversees all creation, development and implementation of Artificial Intelligence education at Mayo Clinic.**

He has been at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, since 2005. A native of Chile, he obtained his medical degree from Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile where he was also part of an experimental training program in EM. He then completed an Emergency Medicine residency at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine. After his residency he enrolled in the ACEP/EMF Teaching Fellowship, and he has served as faculty in the same program. He was the editor-in-chief for the Mayo Clinic EM Blog and was the co-director of Mayo Hootsuite Healthcare in Social Media course. He serves in the advisory board of national and international educational societies. 

Dr. Cabrera is very active in the field of Artificial Intelligence development and productization, leading the creation and implementation of multiple AI and machine learning clinical tools and other advance technologies such as distributed networks and blockchain. His focus is on the adoption of fusion skills.

Dr. Cabrera has a developed technology innovations including automatic resource allocation systems, artificial intelligence algorithms for management optimization, network analysis of knowledge management and distributed testing. He is the current director of the Emergency Medicine Platform for Knowledge Solutions which is an idea incubator focused on innovation, entrepreneurship, digital health, and knowledge creation.

His academic interests include artificial intelligence, wicked problems, non-ergodic problems, knowledge management, clinical decision-making, health professions education and the interaction between humans and non-human agents.


Rob Cooney, MD, MSMedEd, FACEP, is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, PA, where he also serves as the Associate Dean of Faculty Development for the Geisinger College of Health Sciences. He has lectured nationally and internationally on social media in education, learning theories, the flipped classroom, competency based medical education, and health systems science. His scholarly work focuses on multiple areas of medical education, most recently on the definition, teaching, and assessment of Health Systems Science and the Systems Based Practice competency. 

View all of his ICE blog posts here 

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Nicole Damari, MD, MS is an Internal Medicine and Pediatrics hospitalist who is passionate about medical education with particular interests in the roles of game-based learning, physician-advocacy, and medical humanities. She will be introducing a new section on game-based learning and serious games in medical education, and is excited to bring insights about both theory and practice to the blog!


Michael A. Gisondi, MD is Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Education, Department of Emergency Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California. He is a medical education researcher who practices emergency medicine at Stanford University Hospital. His interests include faculty development, curriculum design, and social media in medical education. Mike serves on board of directors of CORD-EM, the Council of Residency Directors in Emergency Medicine. He received the 2014 National Faculty Teaching Award from the American College of Emergency Physicians and he was named the 2014 Alumnus of the Year for Early Career Achievement by Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine. His professional goal is to help ensure that every patient who presents to an emergency department receives safe, high-quality care from an expertly trained emergency provider.

View all of his ICE blog posts here

Personal website: https://www.michaelgisondi.com/ 

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Dr. Anthony Llewellyn, B Med Sci, MB BS, FRANZCP, MHA, GAICD was the Medical Director of the Health Education & Training Institute in NSW, Australia from September 2012 to 2016. His background is as a Consultant Psychiatrist and Medical Manager with 15 years’ experience as a medical practitioner in public health services in a range of roles. Anthony is now a PhD candidate in Medical Education and the Year 5 Psychiatry Program coordinator and Year 4/5 Chair at the University of Newcastle.  He has also formed his own medical education consultancy AdvanceMed.

Anthony is accomplished in web design and technology and supports a number of #FOAMed sites including this one as well as the popular Australian-baed onthewards.org

View all of his ICE blog posts here

Personal Blog: www.meded.help

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Dr. Eve Purdy is a PGY5 in Emergency Medicine at Queen’s University while simultaneously completing her Master’s in Applied Anthropology through the University of North Texas. Eve is actively involved in a variety of #FOAMed projects, including CanadiEM and the ALiEM MEdICs Series. She has a keen interest in medical education and is particularly fascinated with how it seems to be as much a process of enculturation as it is education. She brings the trainee’s voice to this blog in her exploration of #meded through a variety of anthropologic frameworks.

View all of her ICE blog posts here

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Elke Zschaebitz, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, FNAP (she/her) is a certified family nurse practitioner and Associate Professor at Georgetown University School of Nursing. Her roles have included civilian service in U.S. military clinics in the US and overseas in Germany with recognitions from the 94th Engineer Combat Battalion, the American Red Cross, and a Military Child Education Coalition award for organizing one of the best national Student2Student mentorship and orientation programs. Her previous scholarship also included research, genotyping cervical HPV in Tanzania among the Maasai women, and examining birth control practices. She is a distinguished fellow of the National Academies of Practice and a member of the Virtual Interprofessional Education (VIPE) consortium: a multi-national interdisciplinary multi-institutional consortium dedicated to IPE within the online spaces.  She has been awarded the Virginia Council of Nurse Practitioner Education Award (2020), Georgetown University’s Provost Innovation in Teaching Award (2023) as well as the Marilyn Edmunds Writing Award (2023) by the Journal for Nurse Practitioners. Her educational and research praxis incorporates diversity, equity, using digital storytelling of marginalized people to center the challenges around health systems. framed in Paulo Freire’s inclusion of person-centered narratives.


Past editors/contributors:

Bethany Robertson, DNP, CNM, FNAP
Clinical Executive, Wolters Kluwer Health, Learning, Research and Practice
Clinical Professor, Emory University, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing
United States


Olle (Th.J.) ten Cate, PhD
Emeritus Professor of Medical Education
University Medical Center Utrecht
The Netherlands


Leila Niemi-Murola, MD, PhD, MME
title of Docent, senior clinical lecturer
University of Helsinki Teacher’s Academy Fellow
National CBME facilitator, postgraduate education
University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital
Finland


Teresa M. Chan
Founding Dean (School of Medicine)
Vice-President, Medical Affairs
School of Medicine, Toronto Metropolitan University
Canada


Glenn Regehr, PhD
Associate Director, Research Senior Scientist
Center for Health Education Scholarship, Faculty of Medicine
University of British Columbia
Canada


Hiroshi Nishigori, MD, MMEd, PhD
Associate Professor, Medical Education Center
Kyoto University
Japan


Dr Damian Roland
Honorary Associate Professor in Paediatric Emergency Medicine
Department of Cardiovascular Services
University of Leicester
England


Lynfa Stroud, MD, MEd, FRCPC
Associate professor, Department of Medicine
University of Toronto
Staff Physician, Division of General Internal Medicine
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Canada


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