The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine

Adam Cifu, MD

Pritzker faculty members had an outstanding presence at the Academic Internal Medicine Week held in Florida, which included Clerkship Directors, Program Directors, and Chairs of Medicine. Drs. Krista Johnson and Barrett Fromme presented an oral abstract in the plenary session for programmatic innovation. Their work, entitled “Creation of an Inter-Departmental, Longitudinal, Experiential Resident-as-Teacher Curriculum,” was awarded “Best Programmatic Innovation Finalist.” They also presented in a joint multi-institutional workshop “Developing Faculty on the Fly: Enhancing Teaching at Your Institution.”

Will Harper, MD

Dr. Adam Cifu presented at the Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine (CDIM) Precourse for New Clerkship Directors and moderated the plenary session, “Simulation: Friend or Foe.” Dr. Will Harper served on the planning committee for the CDIM Meeting, while Dr. Shalini Reddy served as Chair of the CDIM Planning Committee.

Krista Johnson, MD

Barrett Fromme, MD

Jeanne Farnan, MD

Vineet Arora, MD

Dr. Krista Johnson from the Department of Medicine presented “Creation of an Inter-Departmental, Longitudinal, Experiential Residents-As-Teachers Curriculum” at the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine National Meeting in October. Drs. Barrett Fromme, Jeanne Farnan, Vineet Arora, and Shalini Reddy also contributed to the research.

Vinay Kumar, MD

Dr. Vinay Kumar, Chairman of the Department of Pathology and Executive Vice Dean of the Biological Sciences Division and the Pritzker School of Medicine, was named the inaugural winner of the American Society for Investigative Pathology (ASIP) Robbins Distinguished Educator Award. Dr. Kumar will receive the award in New Orleans this coming April.

Michael Mendoza, MD

Michael Mendoza, AB’96, MD’01, was recently named the 2008 Family Medicine Teacher of the Year—Part Time Faculty by the Illinois Academy of Family Physicians and its Family Medicine Educators Interest Group. The Family Medicine Teacher of the Year award recognizes a family physician for outstanding service to students and colleagues as a teacher who best personifies excellence in teaching the specialty of Family Medicine. Dr. Mendoza received his award at the IAFP Annual Meeting Awards Banquet on December 6.

Shalini Reddy, MD

Dr. Shalini Reddy, Associate Professor of Medicine and Assistant Dean for Student Programs, was an author on “Factors Associated with Medical Students’ Career Choices Regarding Internal Medicine.” The piece, which appeared in the September 10 issue of Journal of the American Medical Association, aims to describe medical students’ career decision making process regarding Internal Medicine and to identify modifiable factors related to this decision making.