Interviews

Honoring Excellence: Q and A with 2020 ACGME Awardee Lisa Willett, MD, MACM

Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Awardee Lisa Willett, MD, MACM, is the internal medicine residency program director and vice chair for education in the Department of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

February 2020
Lisa Willett, MD, MACM

Honoring Excellence: Q and A with 2020 ACGME Awardee Andrew Vivas, MD

2020 David C. Leach Awardee Dr. Andrew Vivas is currently an assistant attending and adult and pediatric spinal deformity fellow at Columbia University, and was formerly a neurological surgery resident at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida.

February 2020
Andrew Vivas, MD

Honoring Excellence: Q and A with 2020 ACGME Awardee Jennifer M. Shipley

2020 Debra L. Dooley GME Program Coordinator Excellence Awardee Jennifer M. Shipley is a program coordinator in neurology at the University of Florida.

February 2020
Jennifer M. Shipley

Honoring Excellence: Q and A with 2020 ACGME Awardee Edwin L. Zalneraitis, MD

2020 Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Awardee Edwin L. Zalneraitis, MD is the pediatric residency program director at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and Connecticut Children’s Medical Center.

February 2020
Edwin L. Zalneraitis, MD

Honoring Excellence: Q and A with 2020 ACGME Awardee Karen Broquet, MD, MHPE

2020 Parker J. Palmer Courage to Lead Awardee Karen Broquet, MD, MHPE is the associate dean for graduate medical education and designated institutional official (DIO) at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine.

February 2020
Karen Broquet, MD, MHPE

ACGME Deepening its Commitment to Physician Well-Being, Leader Says

MDedge interviewed the ACGME's chief of staff and chief education and organizational development officer, Timothy P. Brigham, MDiv, PhD, about the organization's commitment to well-being during the American Academy of Pediatrics' annual meeting.

November 2019

An Interview with the Principal Investigators of the SECOND Trial on Well-being

With planning and enrollment underway for the SECOND trial, the ACGME decided to interview principal investigators Karl Bilimoria, MD, MS and Yue-Yung Hu, MD, MPH to get more background and information about the study and how to participate.

September 2019

Transitioning: An Interview with Donna Lamb, DHSc, MBA, BSN

Donna Lamb joined the ACGME in 2014 as Executive Director of the Review Committees for Plastic Surgery, Surgery, and Thoracic Surgery. At the end of this week she’ll say goodbye to her ACGME colleagues and pivot to her exciting new role as President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Residency Matching Program (NRMP).

September 2019
Donna Lamb, DHSc, MBA, BSN, will leave the ACGME to become the new President and CEO of the National Residency Match Program

Behind the Scenes of the JGME International Supplement: An Interview with Dr. Halah Ibrahim

In August, the Journal of Graduate Medical Education (JGME) published its first International Supplement. It highlights the successes and challenges of meeting today’s global health priorities and provides a forum for research and learning in post-graduate medical education (PGME) around the world, fostering further research and dialogue. We talked with Halah Ibrahim, MD, MEHP, who served as one of the guest editors for the supplement.

September 2019
Halah Ibrahim, MD, MEHP

Perspective: On the First Year of Residency

Welcome to the new academic year! As thousands of new residents begin their journey toward independent practice this month, we asked Jeff Dewey, MD, former resident member of the Review Committee for Neurology, to reflect on his experiences in residency and share lessons he learned.

July 2019
Jeff Dewey, MD of Yale School of Medicine