ASE Speakers Bureau
Contact Information:Peter Angelos, MD, PhD, FACS
Professor of Surgery and Chief of Endocrine Surgery
Assoc. Director of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics
University of Chicago Medical Center
5841 South Maryland Ave. MC 4052
Chicago, IL 60637
Phone: 773-702-4429
Fax: 773-834-5295
/ Topics:
1. How to teach ethics to surgeons and surgical residents
2. How to setup a surgical ethics program
3. How to integrate surgical ethics teaching into a residency curriculum
Contact Information:
John Aucar, MD, FACS
Associate Professor of Surgery
Carle Foundation Hospital
611 West Park St.
Urbana, IL 61801
Phone: 217-383-5418
/ Topics:
Evidence Based Surgery and Medicine
(Philosophy of Science)
Research Processes, Intellectual Property,
And Knowledge Management
Healthcare Ethics
Health Informatics, including:
-System Analysis and work flow
processes
-Data structures,controlled terminologies
And meta data
-Electronic medical records – Design
And function
-Information Security
-Computerized Clinical Decision Support
Systems
Contact Information:
Yolanda Becker, MD, FACS
University of Wisconsin
Department of Surgery
Associate Professor
Year 3/4 Curriculum Director
Phone: (608) 265-6471
Fax: (608) 262-6280
/ Topics:
1. The Teaching and Assessment of Professionalism
Contact Information:
Jeannette Capella, MD, MEd, FACS
Associate Professor of Surgery
Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
Department of Surgery
Medical Education Building
Belleview and Jefferson
Roanoke, VA, 24014
(540) 798-3884
/ Topics:
1. Surgical Team Training
2. Simulation and Performance
Contact Information:
Jeffrey Chipman, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
University of Minnesota
MMC 11; 420 Delaware St. SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
(612)625-7911
/ Topics:
1.Evaluation of Professionalim and Communication Skills
2. OSCE’s
3. Developing Simulation Curricula
Contact Information:
Ethan Grober, MD, Med, FRCSC
Assistant Professor-Department of Surgery
University of Toronto
Mount Sinai Hospital
60 Murray St., 6th Floor, Box 19
Toronto, ON Canada M5T 3L9
(415)586-4800 ext. 3985
/ Topics:
1. Objective Assessment of Technical Skill
2. Intra-operative Assessment of Surgical Skill
Contact Information:
Joseph Iocono, MD
Assoc. Professor of Pediatrics
Kentucky Children’s Hospital
University of Kentucky
MN102 – Chandler Medical Center
Lexington, KY 40536-0298
Phone: 859-323-5625
Fax: 859-323-5289
UKMDs 800-888-5533
/ Topics:
1. Teaching Surgery Residents how to
Teach Surgery
2. How Does one become a Surgeon?
3. Low, Middle and High Fidelity - What
Models have to do with learning surgical
technique
Contact Information:
Daniel B. Jones, MD, MS
Associate Professor
Harvard Medical School
Chief, Section of Minimally Invasive Surgery
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, MA 02215
(617) 667 5101
/ Topics:
1. Safer Surgery through Simulation
Contact Information:
James R. Korndorffer Jr. MD FACS
Associate Professor of Surgery
Program Director, General Surgery Residency
Medical Director, Tulane Center for Advanced Medical Simulation and Team Training
Tulane University Health Sciences Center
1430 Tulane Ave.
New Orleans, LA 70112
Phone: 504-988-2307
Contact Information:
Vijay Maker, MD
Metropolitan Group Hospitals
Residency in General Surgery
836 West Wellington Ave.
Chicago, IL 60657
(773) 296-7093
/ Topics:
1. Simulation in Surgical Education
2. Assessment of Technical Skills: Can we do it, and if so how?
Topics:
Lifelong learning and portfolios
Contact Information:
Mark A. Mattos, MD
Clinical Professor of Surgery
Educational Planner
Department of Surgery
Wayne State University School of Medicine
Detroit, Michigan
Phone: (313) 745-0462
Fax: (313) 745-1873
/ Topics:
1. Vascular Surgery Specific Surgical Skills Laboratory Training Program.
Contact Information:
Rebecca M. Minter, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Assistant Professor of Medical Education
University of Michigan Health System
Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery
1500 E. Medical Center Dr.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Phone: (734) 615-0736
Fax: (734) 232-6188 / Topics:
1. Competency-based Surgical Education – Development, Implementation and Validation of Proficiency-based Curricula
2. Development of an M4 Preparatory National Surgical Curriculum
Contact Information:
John Paige, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery
1542 Tulane Avenue, Room 734
New Orleans, LA 70112
Phone: 504 568 4750
/ Topics:
1. OR team training
2. Human Factors
3. High Fidelity Simulation
4. In situ Simulation
5. Inter-professional Training
6. Skills Acquisition
Contact Information:
H David Reines MD FACS
Vice Chair and Program Director Department of Surgery
InovaFairfax Hospital
3300 Gallows Road
Falls Church, VA 22042-3300
Phone: 703 776 3564
Fax: 703 776 2338
/ Topics:
1. How to Learn from a Bad Teacher
2. Evidence-based Approach to Appendicitis – How To
3. How Do Residents Learn Thyroidectomy – A Qualitative Study”
Contact Information:
Dimitrios Stefanidis, MD, PhD
Carolinas Medical Center
Department of Surgery, Division of GI and Minimally Invasive Surgery
1000 Blythe Blvd.
MEB 601
Charlotte, NC 28203
Phone: 704-355-5209
/ Topics:
1. Surgical Simulation in General
2. Performance Assessment on Simulators
3. Simulator Curriculum Design and Implementation
Contact Information:
John Tarpley, MD
Vanderbilt University
1161 21st Avenue South
D4314 MCN
Dept. of Surgery
Nashville, TN 37232-2730
Phone: 615-343-6642
/ Topics:
1. Teaching in the OR: $1000/hr vs...... Priceless?
2. Surgical Education in this Era of RWHs--Reflections of a PD Unfettered by Hard Data.
3. PowerPoint and Public Speaking.
Contact Information:
Roger P. Tatum, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Director of Medical Student Surgical Education
University of Washington SOM
1660 S. Columbian Way, s-112-gs/Box 358280
Seattle, WA 98108
Phone: 206 764-2141 (office)
Fax: 206 764-2529
/ Topics:
1. Medical Student Surgical Education, with Specific Interests in Surgical Clerkships at Community Hospital Sites
2. Medical Student Career Counseling.
I can speak on surgical team training,
simulation and performance.
Contact Information:
Paula M. Termuhlen, MD, FACS
General Surgery Residency Program Director
Chief, Division of Surgical Oncology
Associate Professor of Surgery
Wright State University
Academic Office: 937-208-4953
Residency Office: 937-208-2485
Clinical Office: 937-424-2469
/ Topics:
1. Professionalism,
2. Communication Skills Workshops
3. Managing Time off in Residency
4. The Institute of Medicine Report Implications
Contact Information:
Warren WIdmann, MD
Program Director, Clerkship Director
Department of Surgery
Staten Island University Hospital
Visiting Clinical Assoc. Professor Of Surgery
SUNY Downstate Medical School, Brooklyn
(718)226-1683
(973)224-2511 (mobile)
/ Topics:
1. Increasing Medical Student Recruitment into careers in General Surgery
2. Is there a role for a fourth year “surgical boot camp” elective for medical students planning to enter any of the surgical fields?
Contact Information:
Stephen C. Yang, MD
The Arthur B. and Patricia B. Modell Professor of Thoracic Surgery
Chief of Thoracic Surgery
Professor of Surgery and Oncology
Surgery Clerkship and Curriculum Director
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
600 N. Wolfe St., Blalock 240
Baltimore, MD 21287
Phone: 410-614-3891
Fax: 410-614-9428
/ Topics:
1. Developing an Educator’s Portfolio
2. Enhancing One’s Educational Duties for Promotion
3. Developing a Faculty Development Program