Steering Committee - NEGEA

2023-2024

Chair

Rebecca Blanchard, PhD
Director of Faculty Development, Online MedEd
Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School-Baystate
Rebecca.Blanchard@onlinemeded.org

Chair-Elect

Judith Brenner, MD
Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
NYU Long Island School of Medicine
judith.brenner@nyulangone.org

Past 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.edu 

UME Representative 

Sandra Oza, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Albert Einstein College of Medicine 
koza@montefiore.org

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.org

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.edu 

MESRE Representative

Sarah McCallum, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics
Director, Combined Degree Programs
Albany Medical College
Mccalls@amc.edu 

MESRE Chair-Elect

Valerie Lang, MD, MHPE
Professor of Medicine
Associate Chair for Medical Education Research and Scholarship, Department of Medicine
Senior Associate Division Chief, Hospital Medicine Division
University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry
Valerie_Lang@URMC.rochester.edu 

Members-at-Large (MAL)

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 Dean for Faculty Development 
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
kiran.pandit@einsteinmed.edu

Colleen Hayden, EdD 
Director of Quality, Compliance, and Accreditation
Assistant Professor, Medical Education 
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
colleen.hayden@mssm.edu