2021 Debra L. Dooley GME Program Coordinator Excellence Awardee Sharon M. Ashley is the senior residency program coordinator for emergency medicine at Emory University.

A Q and A with 2024 ACGME Debra L. Dooley GME Program Coordinator Excellence Award winner Graceann Endicott.

2020 ACGME Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Awardee Robyn Blair, MD is the program director for pediatrics at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook Children's Hospital.

Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC is one of four honorees receiving the ACGME’s Barbara Ross-Lee, DO Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award in 2022. Dr. Aisha Barber, who serves as program director of the pediatric residency program and a member of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Steering Committee there answered the ACGME’s questions about the outstanding measures this program has taken to foster DEI.

Health provider shortage areas, comprised of urban and rural regions with high populations of people struggling with multi-morbidity and poverty, often have a challenge with physician recruitment. Dr. Meaghan Ruddy, vice president for Academic Affairs and director of Medical Education for The Wright Center for GME in Scranton, Pennsylvania, describes how a teaching health center family medicine program operationalized as a graduate medical education safety-net consortium.

The next post in the Partnerships to Establish and Sustain Rural GME series is an interview with Dr. Dustin Beck of the OMECO/Cherokee Nation Family Medicine Residency Program.