Our Committees

FAME Advisory Board for Education

Marcia Nahikian-Nelms, PhD, RDN, LD, CNSC, FAND
FAME Director of Education
Professor of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

Kay Halasek, PhD
Professor of English
Director, Michael Drake Institute for Teaching and Learning

Andrea Pfeifle, EdD, PT, FNAP
Associate Vice Chancellor for Interprofessional Practice and Education

Dan McFarlane, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics

Kim Tartaglia, MD
FAME Director of Mentorship
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine

Lindy Weaver, PhD, MOT, OTR/L
Assistant Professor, Clinical

Sarah Rusnak, MS, RD, LD
Clinical Faculty- Teaching and Curriculum Support

Amanda Start, PhD
Director of the Office of Curriculum and Scholarship

Catherine Quatman-Yates, PT, DPT,PhD
Assistant Professor- Physical Therapy

Ashley Cetnar, PhD,DABR
Medical Physicist, Assistant Professor- Radiation Oncology

Ex-officio Members

• Debbie Pond, Program Director, Center for FAME
• Emma Tippett, Project Manager, Center for FAME

Leadership Committee members

• Michael Guertin, MD, MBA, FAME Director for Leadership
• Syl Gray, Consultant for the Faculty Leadership Institute (FLI)
• Erica Bell, PhD, Associate Professor of Neurology
• Daniel Eiferman, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery
• Michael Essandoh, MD, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
• Rashmi Ganith, MD, Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine
• Cynthia Gerhardt, PhD, Professor of Pediatrics
• Allison Heacock, MD, Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine
• Jarrett Heard, MD, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
• Stephen Koesters, MD, Associate Professor of Internal Medicine
• Daniel Martin, MD, Professor of Emergency Medicine
• Jared Moore, MD, Associate Professor of Internal Medicine
• Shalina Nair, MD, Associate Professor of Family Medicine
• Enver Ozer, MD, Professor of Otolaryngology

Ex-officio Members

• Debbie Pond, Program Director, Center for FAME
• Emma Tippett, Project Manager, Center for FAME

FAME Mentorship Committee

• Kim Tartaglia, MD, FAME Director for Mentorship
• Don Benson, MD, PhD, Professor of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology
• John Bridges, PhD, Professor of Biomedical Informatics
• Xiaodong Chen, PhD, MS, Research Assistant Professor of Surgery
• Edwin Donnelly, MD, Professor Radiology
  
• David Eckmann, MD, Professor of Anesthesiology
• Jill Rafael Fortney, PhD, Professor of Physiology and Cell Biology
• David Kasick, MD, Associate Professor Psychiatry
• Abberly Lott-Limbach, MD, Assistant Professor Pathology
• Desmond Shipp, MD, Assistant Professor Dermatology
  
• Mitva Patel, MD, Assistant Professor of Radiology
• Bhuvaneswari Ramaswamy, MD, Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology

Ex-officio Members

• Debbie Pond, Program Director, Center for FAME
• Kathy Tober, Director, Faculty Affairs Operations
• Emma Tippett, Project Manager, Center for FAME