This week's e-Communication includes information on the ACGME Annual Educational Conference speakers, the Clinical Learning Environment Review (CLER) Program's webcasts about upcoming COVID-19 site visits, a Call for Papers from the Journal of Graduate Medical Education, and more.

2022 David C. Leach Awardee Anai Kothari, MD is an assistant professor in surgical oncology at the Medical College of Wisconsin. At the time of the award nominations, Dr. Kothari was a clinical fellow in complex general surgical oncology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

2022 Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Awardee Dr. Sachin Kedar is a professor of ophthalmology and neurology and the vice chair for education at the Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Kedar specializes in neuro-ophthalmology.

2022 David C. Leach Awardee Nupur Sharma, MD, is a PGY-4 resident in pathology at Vidant Medical Center/East Carolina University. 

2022 Debra L. Dooley GME Program Coordinator Excellence Awardee LaToya Wright currently serves as the institutional administrator at UT Southwestern Medical Center; she was program coordinator for diagnostic radiology, for which she is receiving this award. 

2022 Debra L. Dooley GME Program Coordinator Excellence Awardee Hemali Shah, C-TAGME, PACE works as the administrative director of graduate medical education for the department of surgery at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

A Q and A with 2024 ACGME Courage to Lead Award winner John B. Waits, MD, CPE, FAAFP.

ACGME Chief of Staff and Chief Education Officer Timothy P. Brigham, MDiv, MS, PhD brought together two national leaders in medicine, Victor Dzau, MD, president of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), and Vivek H. Murthy, MD, MBA, US Surgeon General, to discuss the work to develop the NAM National Plan for Health Workforce Well-Being.

Dr. Eli Khazoum is the rising Chief Resident for the internal medicine residency program at Franciscan Health Olympia Fields in Olympia Fields, Illinois. He attended the 2023 ACGME Annual Educational Conference in part to support his transition into the Chief Resident role. As a resident and first-time Annual Educational Conference attendee, we asked him to share his impressions.

In the poster “Bolstering the Rural Physician Workforce in Underserved Communities: Are Rural Residency Planning and Development Programs Finding the Sweet Spot?” Emily M. Hawes, PharmD and her team used data about existing rural residency programs to identify potential sites for future programs. Dr. Hawes answered our questions on behalf of her team.