Teaching

A teacher, not forgotten | The Bulletin

A teacher, not forgotten | The Bulletin: The legacy of Jeanine Chalabian, MD, a victim of intimate partner violence, and her effect on...

Students of Our Patients

I am very privileged to have spoken at the White Coat Ceremony for the SIU Medicine Class of 2022(!). Here is my speech: First of all, I...

Innovation in an Era of Patient Safety

This is a panel I put together on behalf of the SSAT Resident and Fellow Education Committee focusing on the implementation of new...

Alpha Omega Alpha

Truly an honor to be selected as faculty Alpha Omega Alpha at SIU! I'm the one in white! https://www.siumed.edu/pr/highlights/honor-medi...

Hope

Hope is a funny thing that changes strategically. We may not always hope to be an astronaut or a marine biologist, but we can hope with...

Teaching me to teach

📷 Today, Dr. Mark Talamonti came to SIU as visiting professor and gave a great talk on Pancreas Cancer. Here is my introduction to his...

Intraop Dilemmas in Resident Education

Today at Academic Surgical Congress, I moderated the following session: 📷 Dr. Rebecca Minter started with discussing entrustment, and...

Quasi-normative Error

This is a post in The Academic Surgeon that describes how details matter and don't matter in surgery. I cite the following book, Forgive...

Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award

It has now been 20 years since I prepared to be a medical student, not having any idea what I would do and what it would mean to be able...