Meet Our Collaborating Consultants

Dr. Khamis, founder and CEO of Smart MedEd Solutions (SMES) LLC, based in Cleveland, Ohio, brings over 25 years of expertise in medical and surgical education, notably pioneering the integration of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) into the field. Her leadership has advanced GenAI in curriculum development and research at prestigious institutions like Johns Hopkins University and Hofstra University, and she's consulted for Case Western Reserve School of Medicine on GenAI applications. As a respected figure in medical education, Dr. Khamis has served as Consultant and Immediate Past Co-Chair for the American College of Surgeons (ACS) AEIs Faculty Development Committee, contributing to significant projects and publications. Her teaching roles span across Johns Hopkins and Hofstra Universities, where she's recognized for her innovative approaches to curriculum development, learner assessment, and program evaluation. Dr. Khamis has also played a pivotal role in curriculum development on national and international levels, including the integration of Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) into graduate training programs. Her contributions to medical education have earned her international recognition, including serving as the Senior Medical Education Consultant for the Secretary General of the SCFHS (Saudi equivalent to ACGME), selection by the Academy of Master Surgeon Educators and involvement in ACS accreditation processes. Dr. Khamis's research interests are diverse, focusing on curriculum development, faculty development, the use of GenAI and technology in health professions education (HPE), and enhancing residents' well-being. Her work on systems-based well-being interventions and the JHU DELTA Award-winning project on intelligent faculty development underscores her commitment to improving HPE through innovation and technology. Additionally, Dr. Khamis contributes to the academic community as a reviewer for influential journals such as Surgery, Medical Teacher, Medical Science Educator, and PLOS ONE, highlighting her ongoing commitment to advancing medical science education through critical scholarship.

Dr. Kern is an Emeritus Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, former Co-Director and Director of the Division of General Internal Medicine at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center (JHBMC), and former Director of Curriculum Development Programs in the Johns Hopkins Faculty Development Program. He is a 1971 Harvard Medical School graduate, but has spent almost all of his career at Johns Hopkins. He was instrumental in establishing the General Internal Medicine Residency at JHBMC, now in its 44th year and the JH Faculty Development Program for Clinician-Educators, now in its 37th year. His scholarship has focused on medical education, curriculum development, and doctor-patient communication. He has been an editor and author through 4 editions of Curriculum Development for Medical Education: a Six-Step Approach, which has become an international standard for CD in the health professions, and been translated into Chinese, Japanese, and Spanish. He has served as a mentor to countless residents, fellows and faculty members. Currently he co-chairs the Committee on Mentoring/Advising/Coaching for the academy of retired health professional faculty at Johns Hopkins.

Dr. Fornari obtained her EdD, Higher Education, College Teaching and Academic Leadership at Columbia University, Teachers College in 2001. Dr. Fornari is a Professor in Science Education, Occupational Health and Family Medicine. She is an Associate Dean of Educational Skills Development, Zucker SOM (ZSOM) and Vice President of Faculty Development across the 23 hospitals of Northwell Health. Her faculty development role at both institutions is designed to align the UME, GME and CPD continuum. In June 2021 she received from IAMSE the Distinguished Career Award for Excellence in Teaching and Educational Scholarship. In May 2022, she was awarded the AAMC/NEGEA, NEGEA Distinguished Educator Award. In 2023 AAMC/NEGEA Innovation in Medical Education was awarded for her Just in Time Teaching App, JiTT Infographics, developed in 2020 as a FOAM MedEd mobile-accessible App on both iOS and Android devices. In 2009-2011 she developed and implemented, with the inaugural medical school class, a longitudinal 4-year communication skills-based integrated curriculum thread. Currently she is involved in the planning and teaching in the curriculum thread in Humanism, Ethics Law, and Professionalism (HELP). In 2021, she is certificated as a Healthcare Ethics Consultant (HEC-C). In her health system role, since 2009, she oversees workshops, which are longitudinal professional development programs focused on teaching competencies, as well as leadership and mentoring competencies. Since 2014 she has implemented an interactive online system-wide monthly medical education journal club. An interest in health humanities and reflective practice has supported successful implementation of health humanities curriculum and scheduled reflection sessions at the ZSOM. The elective in Health Humanities has been expanded into a four-year scholarly concentration. This focus also supports an AAMC/NEGEA SIG on Health Humanities as a Teaching and Learning Strategy, which engages a community of practice specific to health humanities. An additional elective she developed and implemented is Medical Student as Teacher (MST), which also began as a MS4 elective rotation to prepare students to be teachers in residency. This has been expanded to a scholarly concentration over 4 years with a scholarly project. In 2015 she co-edited her first IAMSE Manual entitled How-To Guide for Active Learning. Since 2014 she developed and currently leads a longitudinal interprofessional development program, Mentoring and Professionalism in Training (MAP-IT), which focuses on developing mentoring skills in clinicians to achieve humanistic relationships with students, trainees, colleagues and patients across the continuum. This program has also served as a model for newer professional development programs, MAP-IT 2.0: Antiracism and Allyship and MAP-IT 1.5 on Flourishing: Through Character Development. In 2021, she published her second IAMSE Manual, Mentoring in Health Professions Education: Evidence Informed Strategies. Her mentoring efforts have resulted in two local awards Diversity, Equity, Access, Leadership and Success (IDEALS) and Women in Healthcare BERG, 2023 Northwell Health Mentor of the Year. Most recently she prepared for an ICF coaching program with certification in 2024.

Dr. McDonald is a Clinical Professor at Temple/St. Luke’s School of Medicine. She is one of the Directors of the General Surgery Board, American Board of Surgery. She also serves as the clerkship site director for Surgery and Chief of General Surgery at St. Luke’s University Health Network (SLUHN) Allentown campus, and Medical Director of SLUHN’s Surgical Simulation lab. Dr. McDonald is also an adjunct faculty member for the MEHP program at Johns Hopkins University. Born in Berlin, Germany, on a U.S. military base, Dr. McDonald completed medical school at The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine in Hershey, Pennsylvania. She completed her residency training at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, followed by a fellowship in Gastrointestinal Surgery at The Lahey Clinic in Burlington, Massachusetts. Her current practice scope focuses on a full scope of community general surgery including Breast Surgery, Hernia, GI, MIS and robotics, and Endoscopy. Her interests include surgical simulation, video-based assessment, and surgical coaching. She is a member of the Academy of Master Surgical Educators. Dr. McDonald is a volunteer Associate Examiner for the ABS and vice-Chair of the ABSITE committee. She has co-authored or authored papers and/or presentations on such diverse topics as Bile Duct Injury Consensus Conference, The Covid Impact on Surgical Education, DEI and the Delivery of care in Gallbladder Disease, HR Shortages in the OR, and Ethics of Adapting Surgical Techniques and Materials-and Personnel- in Low Resource Settings. Dr. McDonald also serves on several committees for SAGES: Ethics, Safe Chole Task Force, Go Global and Humanitarian Committee, and Education/Assessments Committee as well as the Global Committee and the Clerkship Directors Committee for the Association of Surgical Education. She has completed global education and surgical work in Peru, Ghana, and Haiti, and assisted in the GO-Global gLap teaching manual. Locally, she works with and serves on the Board of Directors for the Bethlehem Emergency (homeless) Shelter.

Dr. Narayan is Professor of Surgery, Chief of the Division of Acute Care Surgery, and Trauma Medical Director at Rutgers – Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. He is also Director of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit and the Program Director of the Surgical Critical Care Fellowship and the Acute Care Surgery Fellowship. Before joining Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson, Dr. Narayan served as Associate Professor of Surgery, Program Director of the Surgical Critical Care Fellowship and Director of the Skills Acquisition and Innovation Laboratory for the Department of Surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine/New York Presbyterian. Prior to his tenure at Weill Cornell, Dr. Narayan was an Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery at UT Southwestern Medical Center where he served as Chief of Acute Care Surgery, the Chief of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit and Associate Program Director for the General Surgery Residency Program. He started his academic career as Assistant Professor of Surgery at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland where he founded and served as Medical Director for the Center of Injury Prevention & Policy. He was also the Associate Director of the Division of Medical Education and Founding Course Director for two courses, the Humanism Symposium, and the Surgical Boot Camp. Dr. Narayan received a B.S. (Biology) from Old Dominion University and his MD from the Eastern Virginia Medical School as a member of the highly competitive joint BS/MD program. He stayed on to complete his internship and general surgery residency at EVMS. Dr. Narayan went onto to the University of Maryland R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center for his fellowship in Surgical Critical Care. He completed a second fellowship year in Traumatology while simultaneously completing a Master of Public Health from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and a Master of Business Administration from the Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School. He then completed a Master of Science in Health Professions Education from Harvard University and the MGH Institute of Health Professions. Dr. Narayan is a recognized expert in trauma care and surgical education. He has been an invited international lecturer in trauma, surgical education, and injury prevention. Additionally, he serves as Visiting International Faculty for Trauma at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, the King George Medical College and Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute in Lucknow, India, as well as the Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore. He is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha and the Gold Humanism Honor Society. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the 2011 Leonard Tow Humanism Award awarded by the Gold Humanism Honor Society and Arnold P. Gold Foundation. In 2012, the Arnold P. Gold Foundation awarded him the prestigious Gold Doctor, a national award given to those "working to keep the care in healthcare”. In addition, Dr. Narayan has been awarded the highly coveted Golden Apple Teaching Award for Best Clinical Faculty by the American Medical Student Association in both 2012 and 2013. In 2013 and 2014, Dr. Narayan's led Center for Injury Prevention & Policy was awarded a Senatorial Award from US Senator Barbara Mikulski, D- MD for positively impacting the lives of troubled youth in Maryland. In 2014, Dr. Narayan was Visiting Professor for the White House Medical Unit. In 2018, he was nominated for the National Compassionate Care the Year Award from the Schwartz Center. At Weill Cornell Medicine, Dr. Narayan was awarded the Senior List Award for outstanding education of medical students in 2020 as well as the General Surgery Teaching All-Star Award in 2021. In 2018, he was inducted as an Associate Member into the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Academy of Master Surgeon Educators, as part of the inaugural class of 91 surgeons globally. In 2023, Dr. Narayan was inducted into the Academy of Master Surgeon Educators as a full member, conferring him the title of MAMSE (Member of the Academy of Master Surgeon Educators). Academically, Dr. Narayan has 55 peer-reviewed publications, 15 textbook chapters, and 294 international, national, and local/institutional presentations. He has been a funded investigator having received several extra-mural grants as PI including one from the U.S. Air Force. Air Force Materiel Command (USAF/AFMC) for approximately $200K for his work on Hydrophobically-Modified Chitosan Gauze for Control of Massive Hemorrhage and most recently from Pfizer Global Grants for $100K to study Antibiotic Stewardship in 5 Hospitals in India. In addition to his clinical area of focus of hemorrhage control and surgical infections, Dr. Narayan has made a strong commitment to advancing surgical education and global health. He serves as a journal reviewer for the Journal of Intensive Care Medicine, MedEd Portal, the American Journal of Surgery, the Journal of Surgical Research, and the Journal of Surgical Education. He serves on the Editorial Board for SCORE Surgical Critical Care, the textbook of Intensive Care for the Acute Care Surgeon, the textbook of First Responder’s Manual of Prehospital Trauma Care, and the textbook of Comprehensive Textbook of Surgery, 2nd Edition. He is also the current editor of the 4th edition of the Trauma Evaluation and Management (TEAM) Course of the ACS Committee on Trauma. Dr. Narayan is active in national and international societies. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS), the American College of Critical Care Medicine (FCCM), the International College of Surgeons (FICS) and the Asian Collaborative on Trauma (FACT) and Fellow of the American College of Academic International Medicine (FAIM). He is a member of the American College of Academic International Medicine (ACAIM), the Association of Academic Surgery (AAS), the Association for Surgical Education (ASE), the Association of Program Directors in Surgery (APDS), the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST), the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST), the International College of Surgeons (ICS), the Surgical Infection Society (SIS), the Society of Black Academic Surgeons (SBAS), the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SSCM), the L.D. Britt Surgical Society, the Indian American Surgical Association, and several other organizations. Dr. Narayan holds several regional and national leadership positions. He is immediate past-president of ACAIM. He is currently Chair of the Education Committee of the Surgical Critical Care Program Directors Society; immediate past Chair of the Strategic Planning Committee of the Surgical Infection Society; immediate past Chair of the Awards Committee and Past Chair of the Committee on Social Responsibility for the Association of Surgical Education. He is a Past-President of the LD Britt Surgical Society. He serves as Chair of the American College of Surgeons Simulation Return on Investment Work Group; one of five members of the National Steering Committee of the ACS/ASE Medical Student Simulation-Based Surgical Skills Curriculum; Editor for the SCORE curriculum for Surgical Critical Care; and Vice-President of the International College of Surgeons. Dr. Narayan has been elected to serve on the Senior Educatory Advisory Board (SEAB) for the ACS Committee on Trauma and serves as a National Educator for Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS). He was appointed to the ACS National Committee on Trauma in 2021. In addition, Dr. Narayan serves as an Oral Board Examiner for the American Board of Surgery (ABS) as well as an exam question writer for the ABS Surgical Critical Care Exam. He is also a core member of the American Board of Surgery Entrustable Professional Activities (EPA) Writing Group to revise the five initial EPAs. Dr. Narayan has most recently been asked to serve on the ACS Senior Resident Readiness Assessment (SRRA) Committee to help develop a program that will assess the decision-making skills of senior level surgical trainees.

Antoinette Sapet (Toni) Ungaretti, PhD, founded, directs and teachers in the collaborative Johns Hopkins Master of Education in the Health Professions (Schools of Education, Medicine, Nursing, Public Health, and Business). She built the program with an interdisciplinary faculty and an interdisciplinary content base and approach. The program has produced several health professions education and healthcare leaders for initiatives in the U.S. and across the globe. Dr. Ungaretti serves on the JHU School of Medicine Institute for Excellence in Education Managing Board where she served on the Education Competencies and Metrics subcommittee and has served on the JHU Bloomberg School of Public Health Alliance for a Healthier World Steering Committee. She has also served as a mentor to a Macy Scholar and an AOA scholar. She has served in several national and international board positions and twice as a program conference chair. Her record includes the establishment of innovative quality, sustainable programs across education, business, and health. It also included founder and lead of the AERA Division I Health Professions Education Advanced Degree Research Group and the AOM annual conference on Teaching and Learning. Dr. Ungaretti has served in the role of associate and assistant dean and received grant awards for educational partnerships in education, business, leadership and health professions education. Her teaching and research interests include health professions education programs, leadership and change, interprofessional education/collaboration, problem-based learning, design thinking, action learning, authentic assessment, human development, and cross-disciplinary partnerships. She received her degrees from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Maryland College Park.

Prior academic positions include Professor of Surgery at Yale University and a military appointment as Professor of Surgery (USUHS) in the Army Medical Corps assigned to General Surgery at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and former Astronaut candidate. Government positions included Program Manager of Advanced Biomedical Technology at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for 12 years and Senior Science Advisor at the US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command in Ft. Detrick, Maryland, and Director of the NASA Commercial Space Center for Medical Informatics Telemedicine, and Advanced Technology (NASA-CSC-MITAT) at Yale University. Upon completion of military career and government service he had continued clinical medicine at Yale University and University of Washington. He also holds a PhD(hon) at Semmelweis University in Budapest, Hungary and PhD(hon) at Titu Maiorescu University in Bucharest Romania He has served in government on the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Committee on Health, Food and Safety and was also awarded the prestigious Department of Defense Legion of Merit and Department of Defense Exceptional Service medals as well as awarded the Smithsonian Laureate in Healthcare. He has been a member of numerous committees of the American College of Surgeons (ACS), currently serving on the ACS-Accredited Education Institutes (ACS-AEI). He is a Past President of the Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES), the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons (SLS), the Society of Medical Innovation and Therapy (SMIT), and a former member of the Aerospace Medical Association. He was a member of the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) and is currently on the Board of many surgical societies and on the editorial board of numerous surgical and scientific journals, and active in a number of surgical and engineering societies. In pioneering research in telepresence surgery, he was the surgeon on the project that developed the first surgical robot, which later became the DaVinci Surgical Robot. He also was the founder of the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality (MMVR) conference and built (with Jaron Lanier), the first VR simulator for surgery (in 1989). Shortly thereafter, while at DARPA, he funded all robotic surgery research and all VR medical simulation for their first 10 years of their development. For 5 years he was a member of the Advisory Board of the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) advising NASA in the use of advanced biometric sensing, haptics and other life science research for astronauts. Now Dr. Satava has added being continuously active in surgical education and surgical research, with more than 250 publications and book chapters in diverse areas of advanced surgical technology, including Surgery in the Space Environment, Video and 3-D imaging, Plasma Medicine, Directed Energy Surgery, Telepresence Surgery, Robotic Surgery, Applications of AI for Surgery, Virtual Reality Surgical Simulation, Objective Assessment of Surgical Competence and Training, and the Moral and Ethical Impact of Advanced Technologies. Current research is focused on advanced technologies to formulate the architecture for the next generation of clinical Medicine and Surgery, education and training

Belinda Chen has been the Director of the Faculty Development Programs in Curriculum Development at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center since 2013. She is one of the editors and authors for both the third and fourth editions of the standard reference book for medical curriculum developers: Curriculum Development for Medical Education: a Six-Step Approach (JHU Press). Dr. Chen received her B.A. from Cornell University in 1987, where she was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. She received her M.D. from Johns Hopkins in 1991, where she was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society. After completing her internal medicine internship and residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in the Primary Care Track, she returned to Baltimore to practice as an internist and completed the Hopkins Faculty Development Program's longitudinal courses in Teaching Skills and Curriculum Development. While serving as an internist in three different Hopkins’ practices and two hospitals, she also gained experience as an RWJ REACH project site director and medical director for a volunteer clinic in an underserved urban area in Baltimore. She gradually reduced her time at Hopkins to devote more effort towards volunteer and family responsibilities, honing her communication, negotiation, leadership skills and creativity as a mother, volunteer, Girl Scout leader, and church member while continuing to teach Community-Oriented Primary Care and precept in the resident continuity clinic. In 2009 she was invited to join the Hopkins Faculty Development Program as a facilitator-in-training. She subsequently gained extensive experience as a facilitator in the longitudinal curriculum development programs and smaller workshops at Hopkins and abroad to faculty from Asia, South America, and the Middle East. In 2017 she won the Hopkins Institute for Excellence in Education (IEE) Award for Teaching Excellence for part-time faculty and was also a co-winner of the IEE Educational Innovations Award. In 2020 she received the Johns Hopkins Professor's Award for Excellence in Teaching for Part-time Faculty. Still seeking to integrate her experiences in caregiving and medicine and teaching, 2023 she became part of a team awarded a Digital Education and Learning Technology Acceleration grant to explore how to incorporate GenAI into faculty development. Dr. Chen thrives in diverse mentorship roles, deriving much satisfaction from being able to apply her skills in medicine and teaching to helping students, residents, and faculty rise towards the ideals that inspired each to want to become a healer.

Dr. Nehad El-Sawi serves as the Assistant Vice President for Academic Innovation and Enhancement at Des Moines University (DMU) Medicine and Health Sciences in Des Moines, Iowa, USA, where she spearheads initiatives in curriculum design, faculty development, and institutional planning. With a distinguished academic background, including a doctorate degree in Microbiology from Trinity College, Dublin, and postgraduate programs at Harvard Macy and the University of Maastricht, Dr. El-Sawi brings over two decades of dedicated service in medical education. Her career highlights include leadership roles at KCUMB and A.T. Still University, where she led the development of integrated curricula and an MBA program tailored for medical students. Her work has not only led to the establishment of the Best Evidence Medical Education (BEME) Center at Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine but also earned her several prestigious awards, including the Missouri Governors’ Award for Excellence in Teaching and the IAMSE Edward Patrick Finnerty Lifetime Achievement Award. An active member of numerous professional organizations, Dr. El-Sawi's contributions extend to international workshops, symposia, and conferences, underscoring her commitment to advancing medical education. At DMU, she continues to enhance educational practices through telehealth curricular design, interprofessional education, and the development of simulation and faculty development centers, affirming her role as a transformative leader in the field.

Sara Kim, PhD is a conflict management specialist and holds the George Bilsten Professorship in the Art of Communication with Peers and Patients at University of Washington (UW) in Seattle. She is Research Professor in Surgery and serves as Associate Dean for Educational Quality Improvement in the School of Medicine. She also volunteers as a certified mediator at the King County Dispute Resolution Center. Since 2013, Sara and her UW team have developed training programs and taught conflict management skills to over 10,000 healthcare professionals locally, nationally, and internationally. In particular, she developed a novel curriculum for healthcare professionals’ skills for speaking up patient safety concerns, which was delivered to 1,200 nurses at the University of Washington Medical Center. Her collaborative work reporting conflict management training and research has been published in peer-reviewed medical specialty and health professions journals. As a certified coach, she is coaching leaders participating in the Opportunities in Leadership Program in partnership with the UW Ombuds office.

Dr. Tackett is an editor on Curriculum Development for Medical Education: A Six-Step Approach, a standard textbook used worldwide and teaches in the Curriculum Development for Medical Education faculty development program at Johns Hopkins Bayview which is incorporating GenAI to improve faculty efficiency and prepare them for learners soon to be GenAI natives. He has advised on curriculum development on a variety of subjects, in a variety of settings, including NIH-funded training programs in Malaysia and Vietnam, and he has provided educational consultation for World Health Organization projects. His educational scholarship focuses on educational technologies and the regulation of medical education. Clinically, he practices hospital medicine and attends on medical teaching services.

Deborah Rooney, PhD: Dr. Rooney has nearly 30 years’ experience in medical education, with the last twenty focused on simulation-based education and assessment. Dr. Rooney is Associate Professor of Learning Health Sciences and the Director of Education and Research for the Clinical Simulation Center and the 3D & Innovations Lab for University of Michigan Medical School. With an interest on global health, Dr. Rooney continues to work to leverage existing and new technologies to improve access to medical and surgical training programs to ultimately decrease healthcare disparities globally.

Cate Nicholas, MS, PA, EdD, FSSH is a founding member of the Clinical Simulation Laboratory (CSL) at the University of Vermont. She has been the Director of the SP program since 1995 and the Director of Operations and Education of the CSL since 2010. The CSL has been dually accredited by the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH) and the American College of Surgeons (ACS/AEI) since 2015. She oversees the CSL Simulation Education Fellowship program that is accredited by SSH, ACS/AEI and the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM). Dr Nicholas is an Associate Professor in Ob Gyn and a retired physician assistant who specialized in women’s ambulatory care, family planning and abortion services. She was named Association of Standardized Patient Educators (ASPE) SP Educator of the Year in 2011 being recognized for her capacity to convince and stimulate others to work together to further the goals of ASPE, and for her sense of humor and sense of purpose. She was inducted into the Larner College of Medicine Teaching Academy as a Distinguished Educator in 2015. In 2020, Dr Nicholas coedited Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Implementing Best Practices in SP Methodology. In 2021, she was named to the SSH Fellows Academy recognizing her as a leader in healthcare simulation. Dr Nicholas is the Associate Editor for SP methodology for AAMC MedEd Portal and is an editorial board member for The International Journal of Healthcare Simulation. In 2022, she was recognized as AAMC MedEd Portal Associate Editor of the Year. Dr Grace Huang Editor in Chief of MedEd Portal said- “Cate brings tremendous expertise on standardized patient scholarship to her work as an associate editor for MedEdPORTAL. The work is detailed, rigorous, evidence-based, and it strikes the right balance between upholding standards while providing constructive and thoughtful feedback back to authors. Anyone receiving her peer review gets the privilege of learning from a true expert.”

Tina Gunaldo is the founder and lead consultant for Collaborate for Health, a learning and consulting business supporting the development of high-performing interprofessional collaborative practice teams. Since 2015, she has served as the inaugural Director for the Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice Office at an academic health sciences center in the United States. With a over a decade of experience in interprofessional education, Dr. Gunaldo has over 40 publications and has presented at regional, national and international conferences. Currently, she leads the Louisiana Interprofessional Consortium, co-leads the American Interprofessional Health Collaborative, is the co-editor in chief for the Health, Interprofessional Practice and Education journal and is a co-editor for the textbook Interprofessional Education and Collaboration: An Evidence-Based Approach to Optimizing Health Care.