2025 Western GEA/GSA/OSR Conference: Full Schedule

1:00pm PDT

OSR Programming

Friday May 2, 2025 1:00pm - 4:00pm PDT

Mt. Hood

Friday May 2, 2025 1:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Mt. Hood

Pre-Conference

9:30am PDT

Voices of Change: Leveraging Narratives to Advance Black Perinatal Equity in Medical Education

Saturday May 3, 2025 9:30am - 10:30am PDT

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This session uses medical humanities and patient narratives to address the Black perinatal crisis in Orange County. Through documentary screening, discussions, and brainstorming, participants will explore challenges faced by Black birthing patients and develop strategies for advancing culturally competent, patient-centered perinatal care.

Speakers

Femitan Ajayi

Medical Student, UC Irvine School of Medicine

Avery Robinson-Phelps

Medical Student, UC Irvine School of Medicine

Saturday May 3, 2025 9:30am - 10:30am PDT
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Small Group Discussion, Expanding Knowledge, Practices, and Language in the Learning Environment

10:45am PDT

Promoting Disability Inclusion, Anti-Ableism and Sense of Belonging in Medical Education and Academic Medicine

Saturday May 3, 2025 10:45am - 11:45am PDT

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People with disabilities, apparent or invisible, are severely underrepresented in medicine - presumably due to pervasive barriers such as ableism (belief that people with disabilities are less valuable), bias, and lack of accessible accommodations. We will describe strategies we have employed at KPSOM to begin tackling some of these issues.

Speakers

Delores Amorelli, EdD

Director of Faculty Educator Development, Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine

Katerina Venderova

Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine

Kirsten Ludwig

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine

Nicole Lawson

Faculty Director of Inclusive Curriculum, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine

EID; environmentalism; anthropology; curriculum management; instructional design

Saturday May 3, 2025 10:45am - 11:45am PDT
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Small Group Discussion, Expanding Knowledge, Practices, and Language in the Learning Environment

1:15pm PDT

Community-Academic Partnerships to Advance Systems Change: Community-Engaged Learning in Medical Education

Saturday May 3, 2025 1:15pm - 2:15pm PDT

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This panel explores anti-racist/anti-oppressive approaches to community-engaged learning. Using examples from various community-academic partnerships, we demonstrate how to prioritize community voice in research and advocacy. Such collaborative efforts are essential for effectively addressing health inequities and driving meaningful systems change.

Speakers

Aisha Mays

CEO & Founder, Dream Youth Clinic

Leanna Lewis

Assistant Clinical Professor, Health Sciences, UC Berkeley - UCSF Joint Medical Program

Jessa Culver, MS

Medical Student, University of California, San Francisco

Michelle Burroughs, MPH, DHA candidate

Director, Community Engagement & Outreach for the Center for Healthy Communities (CHC), University of California, Riverside School of Medicine

Saturday May 3, 2025 1:15pm - 2:15pm PDT
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Panel, Curriculum: Teaching and Learning Pedagogies and Curricular Innovation

2:30pm PDT

Designing Dashboards in Assessment and Evaluation as a Continuous Quality Improvement Strategy in Medical Education

Saturday May 3, 2025 2:30pm - 3:30pm PDT

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The Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine will share its experiences in developing assessment and evaluation dashboards emphasizing the importance of cross-functional teams and iterative feedback for better user engagement. Participants will also have opportunities to share their own experiences with data systems and analytics at their institutions.

Speakers

Rocele S. Estanislao, MA

Program Manager/Supervisor, Curricular Evaluation, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine

Saturday May 3, 2025 2:30pm - 3:30pm PDT
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Small Group Discussion, Assessment and Evaluation

9:30am PDT

Collaborating on the Development of Health Systems Science Assessments in Clinical Environments: Insights from Three Schools on the AMA HSS Innovation Groundwork Team

Sunday May 4, 2025 9:30am - 10:30am PDT

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This panel will examine workplace-based Health Systems Science (HSS) assessments aligned with the Entrustable Professional Activities (EPA) framework. Representatives from three medical schools will discuss insights and challenges from piloting HSS assessments in clinical settings. Group activities will explore strategies for implementing these assessments at other institutions.

Speakers

Wendy Madigosky, MD, MSPH

Associate Professor of Health Systems Science, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine

Laurie Leclair

Professor of Medicine, Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine at the University of Utah

Ronan Hallowell EdD, MA

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medical Education, Keck School of Medicine of USC

Grant Christman, MD, MACM

Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Keck School of Medicine of USC/Childredn's Hospital Los Angeles

Sunday May 4, 2025 9:30am - 10:30am PDT
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Panel, Assessment and Evaluation

10:45am PDT

A Postbaccalaureate Premedical Program that Prepares Students for Success in Medical School: Perspectives from Medical Students and Residents from Different Medical Schools

Sunday May 4, 2025 10:45am - 11:45am PDT

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Postbaccalaureate premedical (PBPM) programs should help prepare students for medical school. UC San Diego's PBPM program has demonstrated a positive impact students’ academic performance and overall experience in medical school. This panel will share perspectives of medical students and residents from different medical schools and from the admissions lens.

Speakers

Steve Schneid

Director of Educational Development & Scholarship, University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine

Russyan Mark MabezaMD, MPH

Resident, University of California, San Fransisco

Patrick LoehrMD, MHPE

Resident, University of California, San Diego

Kama Guluma

Associate Dean of Admissions and Student Affiars, University of California, San Diego

Sunday May 4, 2025 10:45am - 11:45am PDT
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Panel, Transitions in Student Affairs and Medical Education

10:45am PDT

Envisioning Anti-Oppressive Curriculum Development

Sunday May 4, 2025 10:45am - 11:45am PDT

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This session will explore a vision for new curriculum development frameworks that center justice and anti-oppression.

Speakers

Katherine Lupton

Professor of Medicine, University of California San Francisco

John Davis

Associate Dean for Curriculum, Professor of Medicine, University of California San Francisco

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Renee Betancourt, MD

Associate Professor of Clinical Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Pennsylvania

Monica Hahn, MD, MPH, MS

Clinical Professor of Family and Community Medicine, University of California San Francisco

Sunday May 4, 2025 10:45am - 11:45am PDT
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Small Group Discussion, Expanding Knowledge, Practices, and Language in the Learning Environment

1:15pm PDT

Auditing medical school planetary health curricula--where do we start and where can we go?

Sunday May 4, 2025 1:15pm - 2:15pm PDT

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This small group discussion will teach participants about planetary health curriculum and engage them in developing learning objectives and teaching modalities they can implement at their home institutions.

Speakers

Jacob Robson

Associate Professor of Medicine, The Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine at the University of Utah

Forest Streeter

Medical Student, University of Utah

Sunday May 4, 2025 1:15pm - 2:15pm PDT
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Small Group Discussion, Curriculum: Teaching and Learning Pedagogies and Curricular Innovation

2:30pm PDT

Preclinical Academic Struggles: Assessing Before Intervening

Sunday May 4, 2025 2:30pm - 3:30pm PDT

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A semi-structured interview called the academic review of systems was developed to assess the needs of students who struggle in the preclinical phase. This tool will be shared briefly to spark a discussion among participants regarding assessment and intervention processes used across institutions to assist struggling students.

Speakers

Deb Seymour

Assistant Dean for Student Success, Univeristy of Colorado, SOM

Sunday May 4, 2025 2:30pm - 3:30pm PDT
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Small Group Discussion, Professionalism and Academic Performance/Progression

9:00am PDT

Leave of Absences Policies and Processes: Opportunities for Cross Department Collaboration

Monday May 5, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am PDT

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Leave of absence (LOA) policies from multiple institutions will be examined, as well as describing how students move through the process. Panelists will discuss challenges for students, administrators, registrars, and financial aid staff. Small group time will focus on workshopping LOA policies and also identifying who are key collaborators.

Speakers

Debbie Blackstone, PhD

Registrar, University of Washington School of Medicine

Monday May 5, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am PDT
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Panel, Professionalism and Academic Performance/Progression