Anjala Tess, MD, SFHM

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Anjala Tess, MD, SFHM, has been involved in teaching and mentoring patient safety for more than 10 years. Dr. Tess and her team created an acclaimed quality improvement rotation for Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) residents that was recently awarded second place for the Duncan Neushauer Curricular Innovation Award from the Academy of Healthcare Improvement. Under her direction, this elective has become a mandatory part of training for residents. Dr. Tess’ research on this program has shown that the curriculum has affected the culture of safety in the department. In addition she founded, recruited and trained patient safety core faculty to mentor the residents and has delivered many faculty development workshops in patient safety at the local, regional and national levels. In her role as Associate Program Director for Curriculum and Patient Safety in the Department of Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, she has a unique responsibility to help encourage a culture of safety within the residency and link quality to educational initiatives.

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Ruth Franks Snedecor, MD

Associate Program Director
Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center

Ruth Franks Snedecor, MD, is an Academic Hospitalist and Associate Program Director of the combined Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center (BGSMC) and Phoenix VA Health Care System Internal Medicine Residency Program with an emphasis in resident education in quality and patient safety. She is board certified in internal medicine. She received her undergraduate and doctorate degrees from the University of Arizona in Tucson and is now a Clinical Assistant Professor for the University of Arizona College of Medicine. She moved to Phoenix to complete her internal medicine residency at BGSMC/Phoenix VAHS in 2007. Her love of teaching residents and students was obvious when she accepted a position to become one of the Junior Faculty/Chief Resident of the same program from 2007–2008. In July 2008 she accepted a position as faculty at the VA and became an APD for the VA
in 2009.

Julie Oyler, MD

Associate Professor
Associate Program Director
University of Chicago Medicine

Julie Oyler, MD, is an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine. She has been an Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency program since 2006. She and her colleagues developed the Quality Assessment and Improvement Curriculum (QAIC), a two-year curriculum based on the American Board of Internal Medicine’s Practice Improvement Modules, which has been used to teach residents two core competencies — Practice-Based Learning and Improvement (PBLI) and Systems-Based Practice (SBP) — for the past 10 years.

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Sumant Ranji, MD

Chief, Division of Hospital Medicine
Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital
Professor of Clinical Medicine, UCSF

Sumant Ranji, MD, completed his Internal Medicine residency training at the University of Chicago, and subsequently served as Chief Medical Resident at Cook County Hospital in Chicago. He joined the UCSF Division of Hospital Medicine in 2004 after completing a two-year fellowship in Hospital Medicine and Clinical Research at UCSF.

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Brijen Shah, MD

Assistant Professor
Mount Sinai Hospital

Brijen Shah, MD, is a board-certified internist, gastroenterologist and geriatrician who is an assistant professor at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center and the director of GME for faculty development, quality and patient safety. Dr. Shah is a graduate of the Warren Alpert School of Medicine and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Internal Medicine Residency. He is focused on designing curriculum and programs focused on quality improvement and patient safety for residents, faculty and front-line healthcare providers. He has been involved in the development of milestones and teaching products to meet the changes in graduate medical education and faculty development associated with this. Dr. Shah’s scholarship is focused on clinical competency assessment and program evaluation for faculty and chief resident training.

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Erin R. Stucky Fisher, MD, FAAP, MHM

Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Vice-Chair for Clinical Affairs
Pediatric Hospital Medicine Fellowship Director
University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine
Medical Director for Quality
Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego

Erin Stucky Fisher, MD, FAAP, MHM, is a pediatric hospitalist and Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) Department of Pediatrics at Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego (RCHSD). She is the UCSD Pediatric Hospital Medicine Fellowship Director, Chief of the Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine and Medical Director for Quality at RCHSD.

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Darlene Tad-y, MD

Assistant Professor
University of Colorado

Darlene B. Tad-y, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado. As the Director for GME Quality and Safety Programs, Dr. Tad-y has created GME-wide educational programs that integrate quality and safety initiatives into resident and fellow training across all specialties. Her work has included a Systems-Based M&M, a GME quality and safety bonus program for residents and fellows, and a small grants program for resident and fellow QI projects. She is also an Associate Program Director in the Internal Medicine Residency Program (IMRP) and is the Program Director for the Hospitalist Training Program.

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Eric Warm, MD

Chair of Medical Education
University of Cincinnati

Dr. Warm, a board certified internist, holds the endowed Richard W. Vilter Chair of Medical Education at the University of Cincinnati. He completed both his undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Cincinnati earning summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Omega Alpha honors. He completed his residency and chief residency there as well, joining the faculty in 1997. He is currently the Internal Medicine residency program director, the vice-chair for graduate medical education, and the medical director of the resident ambulatory practice. He served as the first chair of the ACGME Educational Innovations Project Council, and was the principle architect of the University of Cincinnati’s comprehensive redesign of internal medicine resident education.

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