Faculty and Staff

 

Dustin Smith MD, FACEP

Medical Director, Clinical Skills Education Center 

Medical Director, Medical Simulation Center 

Vice Chair, Academic Affairs I Department of Emergency Medicine

Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine

Tamara Shankel MD

Associate Professor, Pediatrics/Medicine/Medical Education

Course director Cardiovascular/Pulmonary and Renal Blocks

Course director Clinical Skills Development I and Clinical Skills Development II

Thread director for the Pharmacology 

Casey Graves, MD, FACEP

Course Director: Clinical Skills Development (MS1/MS2), School of Medicine

Associate Clerkship Director, Department of Emergency Medicine

Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine

Rebekah Bartos Specht MSN, RN, FNP-BC 

Assistant Professor, Medicine/Medical Education

Kathy Herzberger MS, RN, BSN

Instructor, Medicine/Medical Education

Maureen Barley

Standardized Patient Manager

Marisa Dalida

Administrative Assistant

Stephanie Valdez

Administrative Secretary

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Clinical Skills Education Specialists

Faculty physicians have dedicated paid teaching time in the CSEC. The faculty physicians are responsible for teaching small-group clinical skills labs, evaluating and remediating clinical skills, developing and implementing OSCEs, training and monitoring standardized patients, and developing and facilitating simulation-based labs.

 

Vi Dinh MD

Professor, Emergency Medicine, Medicine

Matt Fong MD

Assistant Professor, Pediatrics

Leanna Lee MD

Assistant Professor, Pediatrics

Maria Belen Lohr MD

Assistant Professor, Family Medicine

Axa Martell MD

Assistant Professor, Medicine

Scarlet I. Martinez, MD, MS

Instructor, Medical Education

Derek McCalla, MD

Assistant Professor, Pediatrics

Khiet Ngo DO

Assistant Professor, Pediatrics

Joshua Wendt, MD

Assistant Professor, Family Medicine