Interviews

This interview in the Partnerships to Establish and Sustain Rural GME series features Dr. Heather Kovich of the UNM Shiprock family medicine program.

A Q and A with Mark Swofford, PhD, FACHE, who serves as a public member of the ACGME Review Committee for Thoracic Surgery, and on the Council of Public Members.

Dr. Victor Sebastian Arruarana shares his experience pursuing GME in medically underserved areas as part of our Pathways to Practice series.

Q and A with 2026 ACGME Debra L. Dooley GME Program Coordinator Excellence Awardee Chantal Littrean, MPH, C-TAGME.

Q and A with Dr. Ellen M. Friedman from the Baylor College of Medicine Center for Professionalism, which is the inaugural recipient of the ACGME's Thomas J. Nasca Professionalism Award.

Q and A with 2026 ACGME David C. Leach Awardees Drs. Jamie Pfaff and Katie Sunthankar from the Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Q and A with Dr. Anne Messman of Wayne State University School of Medicine, whose dermatology residency program is the 2026 ACGME Barbara Ross-Lee, DO Award recipient.

Q and A with 2026 ACGME Parker J. Palmer Courage to Lead Awardee James P. Orlando, EdD, PCC.

Q and A with 2026 ACGME Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Awardee Amber Whited-Watson, DO, the program director for family medicine at The MetroHealth System in Cleveland, Ohio.

Q and A with 2026 ACGME David C. Leach Awardee Brannan O'Neill, MD.