2022-2023
Chair
Steven Rougas, MD, MS, FACEP
Director, Doctoring Program
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Medical Science
Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Steven_rougas@brown.eduÂ
Chair-Elect
Rebecca Blanchard, PhD
Director of Faculty Development, Online MedEd
Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School-Baystate
Rebecca.Blanchard@onlinemeded.org
Past Chair
Janine R. Shapiro, MD
Associate Dean for Faculty Development
Medical Director for Continuing Medical Education
Professor of Anesthesiology
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
janine_shapiro@urmc.rochester.eduÂ
UME RepresentativeÂ
Robin K. Ovitsh, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Associate Dean of Clinical Competencies
SUNY Downstate School of Medicine
Robin.Ovitsh@downstate.edu
GME Representative
Raquel Belforti, DO, MS
Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program
Assistant Professor of Medicine
University of Massachusetts Medical School-Baystate
RaquelDO.Belforti@baystatehealth.orgÂ
CPD Representative
Miya Bernson-Leung, MD, EdM
Associate Medical Director of CME
Director, Child Neurology Residency Training Program
Boston Children’s Hospital – Harvard Medical School
Miya.Bernson-Leung@childrens.harvard.eduÂ
MESRE Representative
Christopher Mooney, PhD, MPH, MA
Director of Assessment
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
christopher_mooney@urmc.rochester.eduÂ
MESRE Chair-Elect
Sarah McCallum, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics
Director, Combined Degree Programs
Albany Medical College
Mccalls@amc.eduÂ
Members-at-Large (MAL)
Taranjeet K. Ahuja, DO MSEd
Assistant Professor of Science Education
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Faculty, Communication Skills & Pediatrics
Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
Taranjeet.ahuja@hofstra.eduÂ
Dowin Boatright, MD
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Yale School of Medicine
dowin.boatright@yale.eduÂ
Jessica Kilham, MLIS AHIP
Associate Director – Network of the National Library of Medicine, Region 7
Lamar Soutter Library – UMass Chan Medical School
Jessica.kilham@umassmed.edu
Hyacinth R.C. Mason, PhD MPH CHES
Assistant Dean of Students
Tufts University School of Medicine
hyaicnth.mason@tufts.edu
Kiran Pandit, MD MPH
Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine
Columbia University/New York Presbyterian Hospital
Kdp9@cumc.columbia.eduÂ