EDUCATION COUNCIL DISCLOSURES:

 Education Council Disclosures_2022.pdf

COI REVIEW WORKGROUP DISCLOSURES:

 COI Review Work Group Disclosures_2022.pdf

Course Director:

Nancy Spector, MD, known for her leadership abilities and facilitation skills, will moderate the discussion. Dr. Spector is a Professor of Pediatrics and serves at the Drexel University College of Medicine (DUCOM) as Executive Director of the Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine® (ELAM) program, a part-time year-long, national leadership fellowship program for women in academic medicine, dentistry, public health, and pharmacy and as Executive Director of the Executive Leadership in Health Care (ELH) program for women leaders in hospital and health care systems. In addition to these roles, she serves as Senior Vice Dean for Faculty, the Betty A. Cohen Chair in Women’s Health, and Executive Director of the Lynn Yeakel Institute for Women’s Health and Leadership (IWHL).

Her contributions to graduate medical education and academic medicine are in leadership skills development, professional development, gender equity, mentoring and sponsorship, and curriculum development and implementation.

Multi-disciplinary Panel:

Julie A. Freischlag, MD, FACS, FRCSEd(Hon), DFSVS, is the chief executive officer of Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, dean of Wake Forest University School of Medicine, and chief academic officer of Atrium Health. Consistently ranked among the nation’s top medical centers, Wake Forest Baptist includes a growing, multi-hospital health system and physician network, the state-of-the-art and highly competitive Wake Forest School of Medicine, and the school’s technology transfer and commercialization arm, Wake Forest Innovations. 

She mentors students, residents and young faculty and is a frequent speaker on topics ranging from her expertise in vascular diseases, teamwork and patient safety, leadership and work-life balance to women succeeding in health professions. Freischlag has dedicated her career to serving as a role model for her students, a respected colleague across health professions, a strong community leader and a national voice for improving health and health care.

Kimberly Templeton, MD, FAAOS, FAOA, FAMWA is Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Kansas Medical Center and has been the residency program director for almost 20 years. She received her undergraduate degree from Washington University in St. Louis and her MD from the University of Missouri in Columbia. She completed her residency at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s in Chicago and her oncology fellowship in the Harvard Combined Programs. Her clinical practice is focused on orthopaedic oncology, as well as women’s musculoskeletal health. Her research is in the area of sex and gender medicine and the inclusion of this into health professions’ education, as well as the issues faced by women physicians. Dr. Templeton is past-president of the Kansas Orthopaedic Society, the Mid-Central States Orthopaedic Society, the US Bone and Joint Initiative, and the American Medical Women’s Association.

Simone Thavaseelan, MD is an Associate Professor of Surgery/(Urology) at Brown Urology Inc (BUI) at Brown University.  She completed medical school at Georgetown University School of Medicine, and residency and fellowship in Minimally Invasive Urology and Endourology at Brown University.  She is Residency Program Director and Section Chief of Urology at the VA Medical Center in Providence RI.  She serves as member of the Graduate Medical Education Committee of Rhode Island Hospital, Advisory Committees of the Office of Faculty Professional Development and the Office of Women in Medicine and Science at the Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University, Board of Directors of the Society of Women in Urology, the Society of Academic Urology and BUI, and on the Diversity & Inclusion Task Force for the Department of Surgery, Brown Physicians Inc (BPI) as well as the AUA.