2025
2025 MELA Annual Spring Education Day
April 30, 2025
Keynote Speaker:
Alyson J. McGregor, MD, MA, FACEP
Associate Dean, Faculty Affairs and Development
Professor, Emergency Medicine
University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville
Keynote Address:
Enhancing Medical Education: The Importance of Integrating Gender and Sex Considerations
2024
2024 MELA Annual Spring Education Day
April 29, 2024
Keynote Speaker:
Bradley A. Maron, MD
Director, Pulmonary Hypertension Program
Co-Director, University of Maryland-Institute for Health Computing (UM-IHC) and Director, Scientific Operations
Senior Associate Dean for Precision Medicine
Keynote Address:
Precision Medicine in Medical Education
2023
2023 MELA Annual Spring Education Day
April 20, 2023
Keynote Speaker:
Robin Klein, MD, MS
Associate Professor of Medicine,
Health Professions Education (HPE)
University of Maryland Graduate School
Keynote Address:
Bias in Learner Assessment: A Case Study in Medical Education Research
2022
MELA Education Day: UME-GME Education
April 8, 2022
Keynote: Teaching Clinical Reasoning Across UME/GME Continuum
Speaker: Gretchen Diemer, MD
Vice Chair of Education, Department of Medicine
Senior Associate Dean of GME and Affiliations
Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University
Session 1
Health Equity Rounds: A Teachable Framework for Discussing Equity Issues on Clinical Services. Anique Forrester, MD and Madeline Marks, PhD, Psychiatry – HSF1 (Room 316)
Avoiding MedHub Whack a Mole: Writing Effective Narrative Evaluations. Melissa Motta, MD, Neurology – HSF1 (Room 518)
Structuring a Successful Mentoring Program and Writing Effective Letters of Recommendation. Susan Wolfsthal, MD, Danielle Baek, MD, Christina Koch, MD, Dara Farber, MD. Internal Medicine and Pediatrics – HSF1 (Room 318)
Professional Ethics. Seema Deshpande, MD and Susan Sankova, MD Anesthesiology – HSF1 (Room 516)
Session 2
Beyond Feedback Friday: Effective Feedback for Clinical Learning Environments. Peter Jin, MD, Neurology – HSF1 (Room 518)
Holistic Review: How Can We Select Applicants Better? Steven Kavic, MD, Surgery – HSF1 (Room 318)
Incorporating Virtual Medical Education and Flipped Classroom Teaching into your Teaching Practice. M. Roni Levin, MD and Ramya Swamy, MD, Ophthalmology – HSF1 (Room 316)
2021
Inaugural MELA Education Day
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
12 - 5:30 p.m.
Virtual Event
Keynote
Anti-Racism in Medical Education
Monica Lypson, MD, MHPE
Vice Dean for Education
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Columbia University