Clinician Scholar Educator Award Recipients
The purpose of the Clinician Scholar Educator (CSE) Award is to enhance education in musculoskeletal diseases for future doctors and rheumatology health professionals. Recipients of the award have demonstrated that they want to develop a career in education and are devoted to providing effective and efficient training. Learn about the history of the CSE award.
Active CSE RECIPIENTS
FY2025 RECIPIENTS
Jenifer Mandal, MD
University of California, San Francisco
Improving Spondyloarthritis Care on Navajo Nation Through Primary Care Provider Education: The Rheumatology Access Expansion (RAE) Initiative
The United States faces a critical shortage of rheumatology providers. The latest Workforce Study from the American College of Rheumatology estimates that by the year 2030, the demand for rheumatologists will be more than double the supply. The rheumatology workforce crisis is particularly dire in rural areas, where primary care providers (PCPs) often have no choice but to attempt to treat their patients’ rheumatologic conditions with little or no specialist guidance. Navajo Nation, the largest American Indian reservation, is particularly hard-hit, faced with an extreme shortage of rheumatology providers and a high prevalence of rheumatologic diseases, including spondyloarthritis (SpA). In order to reduce health disparities and improve patient care and safety, rheumatology educators must seek innovative strategies to train front-line PCPs in underserved areas, such as Navajo Nation, in the care of common rheumatologic diseases.
In a recent needs assessment study, Navajo Nation PCPs identified SpA as the #1 rheumatology topic they want to learn about. The objective of this Clinician Scholar Educator Award proposal is to develop, implement, and evaluate an innovative training program for Navajo Nation PCPs on SpA. The Navajo Nation SpA Curriculum will combine both synchronous and asynchronous components, including 12 weeks of live webinars taught by a multidisciplinary team (rheumatologists, pharmacists, and Navajo cultural interpreters) as well as interactive online learning modules created using the Rise 360 development platform. Close collaboration with Navajo patients and community health organizations will ensure that the curriculum is grounded in respect for cultural, linguistic, and logistical factors that impact the way SpA care is delivered and perceived on Navajo Nation. Successful establishment of this curriculum will serve as a blueprint for creating rheumatology training programs for PCPs in other communities with limited access to rheumatologists.
Past CSE RECIPIENTs
2024 Clinician Scholar Educator Award Recipients
Anisha Dua, MD, MPH
Northwestern University
Project Title: Rheum2Teach: A Medical Educators Program for Rheumatology Fellows
Sonam Kiwalkar, MBBS
Good Samaritan Foundation
Project Title: Impact of Redesigning Rheum2Learn: A comparison of knowledge, confidence, and clinical reasoning in residents using virtual patients vs. text-based modules in a randomized controlled trial
2022 Clinician Scholar Educator Award Recipients
Jason R. Kolfenbach, MD
University of Colorado
Project Title: A Tele-Health & Outreach Curriculum to Improve Access to Rheumatology Providers
Lisa Zickuhr, MD
Washington University in St. Louis
Project Title: Designing and evaluating a telerheumatology curriculum: A scholarly approach
2021 Clinician Scholar Educator Award Recipients
Marcy B. Bolster, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Project Title: Extending Our Reach: Training Rheumatology Fellows in Telehealth to Provide Care to a United States (US) Underserved Patient Population
David L. Leverenz, MD
Duke University
Project Title: RheumMadness: An Online Community of Inquiry for Rheumatology Trainees
Angela B. Robinson, MD, MPH
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Project Title: Using Online Simulation to Teach High-Value Care of Pediatric Musculoskeletal Complaints: Assessing Cost of Care and Diagnostic Decision-Making
2020 Clinician Scholar Educator Award Recipients
Jonathan S. Hausmann, MD
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Project Title: Accelerating learning and enhancing knowledge: Preparing rheumatology fellows to succeed in a rapidly changing world
Philip Seo, MD, MHS
Johns Hopkins University
Project Title: Rheum4Vasculitis: A Flipped-Classroom Approach to Vasculitis Education for Rheumatology Trainees
2019 Clinician Scholar Educator Award Recipients
Jane S. Kang
Columbia University
Project Title: An Interactive, Case Based, Online Ethics Curriculum for Rheumatology Fellows: Issues in Industry Interactions and Industry Funded Trials
Jay Mehta, MD
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Project Title: Constructing a Career in Pediatric Rheumatology: Research Informing Practice
Rebecca Sadun, MD, PhD
Duke University
Project Title: Mind the Gap: Training Rheumatology Fellows in Transition and Transfer Skills to Enhance the Care of Adolescent and Young Adult Patients
2018 Clinician Scholar Educator Award Recipients
Irene Blanco, MD, MS
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Project Title: A Rheumatology Fellowship Curriculum Addressing Health Disparities
Bethany A. Marston, MD
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Project Title: Rheum4Science Web-based Curriculum
2017 Clinician Scholar Educator Award Recipient
Arundathi Jayatilleke, MD
Drexel University College of Medicine
Project Title: Game-based Learning in Rheumatology
2016 Clinician Scholar Educator Award Recipients
Uzma J. Haque, MD
Johns Hopkins University
Project Title: Web-based Rheumatology Curriculum for Medicine Residents
Beth L. Jonas, MD
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Project Title: An Innovative Pre-Clinical Curriculum for Rheumatology
2015 Clinician Scholar Educator Award Recipients
Maria Dall'Era, MD
University of California, San Francisco
Project Title: Virtual Patient Simulation for Rheumatology Education
Eli M. Miloslavsky, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Project Title: Improving the Resident-Fellow Teaching Interaction through the Fellow As Clinical Teacher (FACT) Curriculum
2014 Clinician Scholar Educator Award Recipients
Karen L. Law, MD
Emory University School of Medicine
Project Title: Decision-Based Learning to Highlight Rheumatic Disease
Bernadette C. Siaton, MD
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Project Title: Development of a Web-based Rheumatology Curriculum
2013 Clinician Scholar Educator Award Recipients
Megan L. Curran, MD
Children's Memorial Hospital
Project Title: E-Support for Pediatric Residency Rheumatology Teaching
Susan F. Kroop, MD
Vanderbilt University
Project Title: “Rheumatology 101: Ambulatory Based Curriculum Development”
2012 Clinician Scholar Educator Award Recipients
Juliet Aizer, MD, MPH
Hospital for Special Surgery
Project Title: Development of Curricula in Metabolic Bone Disease
Michal J. Cidon, MD
Stanford University
Project Title: Web-Based Learning Portfolios in Pediatric Rheumatology
Lisa G. Criscione-Schreiber, MD
Duke University
Project Title: Development of ROSCE stations with Follow-up Modules
Rodney Tehrani, MD
Loyola University Medical Center
Project Title: A Dynamic Competency-Based Learning Modules
2011 Clinician Scholar Educator Award Recipients
Eugene Kissin, MD
Boston University
Project Title: A Competency Based Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Curriculum
Seetha Monrad, MD
University of Michigan Medical Center
Project Title: Methodology for Teaching Medical Students Rheumatology
David Sherry, MD
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Project Title: Developing OSCEs for Pediatric Rheumatology
2010 Clinician Scholar Educator Award Recipients
Jessica Berman, MD
Hospital for Special Surgery
Project Title: Focusing on Basics: Regional Musculoskeletal Modules
Christopher E. Collins, MD, FACR
Georgetown University Hospital Washington Hospital Center
Project Title: Web-based Interactive Rheumatology Experience (WIRE)
Deana M. Lazaro, MD
SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn Program
Project Title: Development of a Multimodal Rheumatology Elective: A Controlled Study
2009 Clinician Scholar Educator Award Recipients
James D. Katz, MD, FACP
George Washington University Medical Center
Project Title: Introducing the Testimonial-commentator Format to the Musculoskeletal Curriculum of Medical Students
James M. Ross, MD
Lehigh Valley Hospital
Project Title: Development of a Curriculum to Utilize Medical Resident Clinic for Rheumatology Education
Karina Marianne D. Torralba, MD
University of Southern California
Project Title: Team-learning Strategies in Rheumatology: Fostering Accountability, Reflective Learning and Critical Thinking
Amy Woodward, MD, MPH
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Project Title: A Comprehensive, Interactive Pediatric Rheumatology Curriculum
2008 Clinician Scholar Educator Award Recipients
Abby G. Abelson, MD
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Project Title: Web-based Problem-based Rheumatology Curriculum
Yukiko Kimura, MD
Hackensack Univ. Med. Center
Project Title: A Web-based Educational Tool to Teach a Standardized Musculoskeletal Examination in Children
Sharon Kolasinski, MD
UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (Camden)
Project Title: Rheumatology Education: Focusing the Options for Medical Students
2007 Clinician Scholar Educator Award Recipients
W. Winn Chatham, MD
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Project Title: Integrated Patient-based Rheumatic Disease Module
Helen M. Emery, MD
Children's Hospital & Regional Medical Center
Project Title: Enhancing Musculoskeletal Exam Skills and Pediatric Rheumatology Knowledge
Paulette C. Hahn, MD
University of Florida College of Medicine
Project Title: The Art of Clinical Reasoning in Rheumatology: Curriculum Development for Internal Medicine Residents
Carol M. Ziminski, MD John Hopkins University
Project Title: A Rheumatology Education Program that Couples Preceptor/Apprenticeship with
Electronic/Web-Based Teaching
2006 Clinician Scholar Educator Award Recipients
Seth M. Berney, MD
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
Project Title: Innovative Rheumatology Teaching Methods
Jamal A. Mikdashi, MD, MPH
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Project Title: The Impact of Teaching Geriatric Rheumatology to Internal Medicine Residents on the Quality of Care of Musculoskeletal Conditions
W. Neal Roberts, Jr., MD
Virginia Commonwealth University
Project Title: A Quantitative, Generational Cohort-Based Approach to Rheumatology Recruitment
2005 Clinician Scholar Educator Award Recipients
Robert A. Kalish, MD
Tufts University
Project Title: Quest for Rheumatologic Diagnosis
Don R. Martin, MD
Johns Hopkins University
Project Title: Enhanced Rheumatology Curriculum for Medical Residents at the Johns Hopkins Hospital
Charles H. Spencer, MD
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Project Title: A Web-Based Educational Program for Medical Students and Pediatric Residents on Pediatric Rheumatology
Patience White, MD
Arthritis Foundation
Project Title: Facilitating Rheumatology Fellows Ability
2004 Clinician Scholar Educator Award Recipients
Michael Battistone, MD
University of Utah
Project Title: Developing Medical Students as Clinician Scholar Educators: A Patient-centered, Student-focused Mentoring Program
Allan Gelber, MD, PhD
Johns Hopkins University
Project Title: Tutorial-enhanced Educational Program in Clinical Rheumatology
Anne Minenko, MD
University of Minnesota
Project Title: Is Educational Culture Linked to Resident Sub-specialty Choice?
Nancy Olsen, MD
Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Project Title: Rheumatology at Meharry Medical College and UT Southwestern
2003 Clinician Scholar Educator Award Recipients
Barbara Adams, MD
University of Michigan Health Center
Project Title: Developing a Curriculum in Sociocultural Medicine to Teach Pediatric Rheumatology
Robert Ike, MD
University of Michigan Health System
Project Title: Rheumatology as a Contact Sport
James Jarvis, MD
Columbia University Medical Center
Project Title: Mentoring Native-American Students in Rheumatology and Rheumatology Research
Michael Pillinger, MD
NYU School of Medicine, Hospital for Joint Diseases
Project Title: A Program for Teaching
Marianne L. Shaw, MD
Affiliated with Altoona Regional Health System - Altoona Hospital
Project Title: Internal Medicine Residents in Immunology and Rheumatology
Joan Von Feldt, MD, MSEd
University of Pennsylvania
Project Title: Rheumatology Development of a Comprehensive Curriculum for Medical Students and Internal Medicine Residents in Immunology and Rheumatology
2002 Clinician Scholar Educator Award Recipients
Janine Evans, MD
Yale University
Project Title: Multidisciplinary Musculoskeletal Disorders Clinical Elective
Raymond Flores, MD
University of Maryland
Melanie Harrison, MD
Hospital for Special Surgery, Cornell University
Arthur Kavanaugh, MD
University of California, San Diego
Kenneth S. O’Rourke, MD
Wake Forest University
Project Title: Active Learning Strategies for Delivery of Rheumatology Content: Development and integration within a web-based medical student curriculum
Sterling G. West, MD
University of Colorado-Denver Medical School
Project Title: Rheumatology: Small Feedings for the Mind
2001 Clinician Scholar Educator Award Recipients
John Flynn, MD
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Project Title: Rheumatology Curriculum for Medical Students
Leslie E. Kahl, MD
Oregon Health & Science University
Project Title: Multidisciplinary Arthritis Teaching Clinic
Kristine M. Lohr, MD
GF Strong Rehab Centre
Project Title: Multidisciplinary Arthritis Teaching Clinic
Chester V. Oddis, MD
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Project Title: Teaching, Mentoring, Role-Modeling... The Pittsburgh Experience
2000 Clinician Scholar Educator Award Recipients
Louis W. Heck, MD
University of Alabama School of Medicine
Project Title: A Proposal to Enhance the Rheumatology Educational Experience for Students at the UAB School of Medicine
Leonard D. Stein, MD
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Project Title: Enhancing Medical Education with Internet-Based Rheumatology Education Units: Training Pediatric Residents, Medicine/Pediatric Residents and Medical Students for the 21st Century
Therese M. Wolpaw, MD
Case Western Reserve School of Medicine
Project Title: Exemplary Models of Learning in the Rheumatology Outpatient Setting
Murray H. Passo, MD
Medical University of South Carolina
Robert Sundel, MD
Children’s Hospital Boston
Project Title: Curriculum for the Teaching of Musculoskeletal Physical Diagnosis (MSPD)