The Glenda Garvey Teaching Academy at Columbia University Medical Center

New Announcement

Dear Colleagues,
The Glenda Garvey Teaching Academy has named its third class of Fellows and recipients of the academy's second round of educational grants.

The 12 founding members of the academy appointed in 2005 were joined by eight other faculty last year, and the new class has nine members - all premier educators from our medical, nursing, public health, and dental schools. Through the Garvey Academy, we reward and improve teaching by identifying faculty who will maintain the highest standards in teaching skills, dedication, and commitment and study and identify ways to improve our educational mission.

Our faculty carry out teaching responsibilities with little recognition, but the Garvey Academy allows us to honor the best among the ranks and give them incentives to make all of us better educators. Appointment as a Garvey Fellow is one of our most prestigious honors. It recognizes not only quality teaching but also full engagement in our medical center's mission.
The newest members were chosen by current Fellows through a peer-review process that included evaluation of each applicant's educational portfolio. The class:

• Rita Charon, M.D., Ph.D., College of Physicians & Surgeons
• Wendy Chung, M.D., Ph.D., College of Physicians & Surgeons
• Janis Cutler, M.D., College of Physicians & Surgeons
• Michael Devlin, M.D., College of Physicians & Surgeons
• Rita Marie John, DNP, School of Nursing
• Pablo Joo, M.D., College of Physicians & Surgeons
• Letty Moss-Salentijn, D.D.S., Ph.D., College of Dental Medicine
• Robert Ogden, Ph.D., Mailman School of Public Health
• Rini Ratan, M.D., College of Physicians & Surgeons

A multischool committee of Garvey Academy Fellows and a representative of the Center for Education Research and Evaluation reviewed grant applications and ranked them on the basis of originality, feasibility, and applicability across the medical center.
The principal investigators and projects that will receive 2008 Garvey Academy grants:

• Herbert Chase, M.D., P&S, "Clinical Reasoning Curriculum for Medical Students"
• Rita Marie John, DNP, Nursing, "Improving the Understanding and Use of Laboratory Values by Graduate Students in the Health Care Sciences"
• Dean R. Jones, M.D., and Brian Egan, M.D., P&S, "Development of a Novel Patient Safety Curriculum"

Please join me in congratulating the newest members of the academy and the grant recipients, who will be recognized at April 1's Thomas Q. Morris Educational Symposium. We hope you will join us at that event. You can visit www.education.cumc.columbia.edu/glenda_garvey to learn more about the academy and Glenda Garvey.

Thomas J. Garrett, M.D., Director Glenda Garvey Teaching Academy
Lee Goldman, M.D. Executive Vice President for Health and Biomedical Sciences and Dean of the Faculties of Health Sciences and Medicine