A Q and A with 2025 ACGME Debra L. Dooley GME Program Coordinator Excellence Awardee Alyssa Schappe.

A Q and A with 2025 ACGME GME Institutional Coordinator Excellence Award recipient Marcie Becker, MEd.

This week's e-Communication includes Review and Recognition Committee News, a call for nominations for the 2022 ACGME Awards, information on how to access 2021 Annual Educational Conference materials through June 1, and more. 

This edition of the e-Communication includes information on the toolkit to help aid programs and incoming learners transition from medical school to residency; renaming the Diversity and Inclusion Award to honor Barbara Ross-Lee, DO; and  nominations to Review Committees.

ACGME Educational Project Manager Victoria Kreps, PMP’s name is likely familiar to anyone who has attended or participated in any recent ACGME educational course or the Annual Educational Conference.

At the 2021 ACGME Annual Educational Conference, Athena Gonzalez and her team presented their poster, Strategies for Optimizing Fit Testing for Residents and the Evolving Role of the Program Coordinator, about their work in response to the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure residents were wearing properly sized and fitted masks and respirators, even as supplies changed.

Bree Bower and her team in the anesthesiology and pain medicine department at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio studied the affects of COVID-19 on fellow recruitment and presented that work at the 2021 ACGME Annual Educational Conference in the Poster Hall.

Q and A with 2026 ACGME Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Awardee Suzanne Karan, MD, FASA.

Q and A with 2026 ACGME Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Awardee Lisa R. Merlin, MD.

Q and A with 2026 Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Awardee Salahuddin Kazi, MD.