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
FY2022 RECIPIENTS
Jason R. Kolfenbach, MD
University of Colorado
This project will help develop a formal educational program encompassing the areas of virtual/video clinical visits, e-consults, and tele-education. The educational program is intended to improve trainee knowledge and skills in these areas (including proper utilization of these modalities to maintain high-quality care), instruct educators in the assessment of these skills, and better prepare our specialty for healthcare delivery in the coming decade.
Lisa Zickuhr, MD
Washington University in St. Louis
Telehealth and its subspecialty telerheumatology require unique communication and physical exam skills compared to face-to-face encounters; however, the virtual medicine community has not yet delineated the specific techniques needed to practice telerheumatology successfully. As a result, an evidence-based curriculum that teaches providers the best practices for telerheumatology with rigorous assessment methods does not exist. This project will use qualitative methods to identify the content and methods most important for the practice of telerheumatology and will design, implement, and evaluate a curriculum that teaches providers how to practice it.
FY2021 RECIPIENTS
Marcy B. Bolster, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Formal telehealth education is largely absent from the training environment and is specifically not yet included in the updated Rheumatology Core Curriculum Outline. As we train rheumatology fellows to develop the skills, knowledge, and attitudes to capably and competently provide care across the spectrum of the rheumatic diseases, we must also prepare them to be effective and competent practitioners in rheumatology telemedicine. This project proposes the integration of specific and comprehensive telehealth training into rheumatology fellowship training.
David L. Leverenz, MD
Duke University
The goal of this project is to utilize social constructivist learning theory and the Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework to develop a community of rheumatology trainees from multiple institutions engaged in collaborative discussion, reflection, and application of core rheumatology concepts. This will be accomplished through the creation of RheumMadness, an online tournament of rheumatology topics modeled after NephMadness, an existing collaborative activity in the nephrology community that has engaged approximately 1,000 nephrology practitioners from over 30 countries.
Angela B. Robinson, MD, MPH
Clebeland Clinic Foundation
We hypothesize that an online musculoskeletal complaint simulation game can be used to teach high value care and proper musculoskeletal evaluation to medical students and pediatric residents and hopefully increase correct diagnosis of pediatric musculoskeletal and potentially rheumatic complaints. This project aligns with IOM recommendations in the development of tools to teach high value care to reduce per capita cost of care.
FY2020 RECIPIENTS
Jonathan S. Hausmann, MD
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
This project aims to improve the ability of rheumatology fellows to learn rapidly and efficiently and to develop mastery of basic science and immunology topics essential to the practice of rheumatology. These skills will become increasingly important to physicians in a rapidly-changing environment and will enhance their ability to generate new knowledge and improve the care they deliver to future patients.
Philip Seo, MD, MHS
John Hopkins University
This project will increase patient access to care by improving rheumatology trainees’ understanding of the diagnosis and management of the systemic vasculitides, thereby making it easier for them to receive expert care. By teaching rheumatology trainees about the nuances and the limits of the current standard of care for the systemic vasculitides, trainees will be in a better position to develop future treatments and cures.
Past CSE RECIPIENTs
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
2018 Clinician Scholar Educator Award Recipients
Irene Blanco, MD, MS
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Project Title: Rheum4Science Web-based Curriculum
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)