2023 GME Institutional Coordinator Excellence Awardee Bret Stevens, MBA, C-TAGME is the institutional coordinator for McLaren Health Care and the associate designated institutional official (DIO) for McLaren Oakland and McLaren St. Luke’s hospitals.

The ACGME is pleased to announce the 2023 Annual Educational Conference Closing Plenary, a conversation on the future of graduate medical education with Drs. Thomas J. Nasca and Debra Weinstein.

2023 Parker J. Palmer Courage to Lead Awardee Dr. Kim Baker-Genaw is the designated institutional official (DIO) at Henry Ford Health in Detroit, Michigan.

2023 Debra L. Dooley GME Program Coordinator Excellence Awardee Sharon Ezzo is an education administrator for epilepsy and clinical neurophysiology programs at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio.

Christina Baxter Vernace, DO, Angelina Bernier, MD, Mary Catherine Hart, Lindsay Thompson, MD, and Keiaria Williams of University of Florida Health Shands Children’s Hospital are recognized with the 2023 David C. Leach Award.

A Q and A with 2024 ACGME Debra L. Dooley Program Coordinator Excellence Awardee Vicky Lee Norton, C-TAGME.

A Q and A with 2024 ACGME Courage to Teach Award winner Eric Hsieh, MD, FACP.

2023 Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Awardee Dr. Karen Brasel is the program director for surgery, vice chair for education, and assistant dean for graduate medical education at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU).

This edition of the ACGME e-Communication includes information on the Sponsoring Institution Emergency Categorization for institutions managing an increase in COVID-19 cases; on the 2021 Annual Educational Conference going virtual, and more.

Two areas where the GME community is seeking additional guidance and clarification from the ACGME are telemedicine and the ACGME Resident/Fellow and Faculty Surveys. Here we provide further explanation on these two topics.