Leanne M. Currie, RN, DNSc
Assistant Professor, School of Nursing
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Dr. Currie considers teaching a success when the students have acquired knowledge appropriate to their skill level, when they are confident in ability to perform a new skill and when they understand their attitudes towards the topic and reasoning behind their actions. She strives for a learning environment that is fair and ethical. Students in her Assessing Clinical Evidence course consistently rate her at the highest levels. Her most significant teaching accomplishment is in master’s and doctoral core courses in the evaluation of clinical research studies and their application to practice. |
Linda F. Cushman, PhD
Associate Clinical Professor of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health |
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Dr. Cushman’s aim in teaching is to give students an active role in their own learning. She has developed a course in Research Design and Data Collection which is required of all Population and Family Health students. Participation is fostered with hands-on exercises, small group work and presentations. The course receives high ratings and enthusiastic comments from students. She has received the Dean’s Award for Innovation in the Curriculum in 2004 and has had multiple nominations for the Award for Excellence in Teaching. Dr. Cushman has been a mentor to many students and is noted for going beyond what is normally expected of a professor both during their time at the Mailman School of Public Health and in their subsequent careers. |
Janis Cutler, MD
Professor of Clinical Psychiatry |
Dr. Cutler is Director of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry, Course Director of Psychiatric Medicine 1 and 2, and Psychiatry Clerkship Director. She serves as co-chair of the Clinical Faculty Committee. Dr. Cutler enjoys engaging her students with videotaped and case-based clinical material. Her excellent teaching skills have been recognized in her receipt of many teaching awards including the Charles Bohmfalk Award for Distinguished Contributions to Teaching in the Clinical Years. Her on-going scholarly work focuses on medical students’ perceptions of psychiatry. Dr. Cutler is currently working on a second edition of a textbook of psychiatry specifically for medical students. She is an officer in the national Association of Directors of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry and chair of the Committee on Medical Student Education of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Her appointment to the Garvey Academy is a particular honor as she had the privilege of serving with Dr. Garvey on the Clinical Faculty Committee for almost a decade.
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Marc L. Dickstein, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology, College of Physicians and Surgeons |
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Dr. Dickstein has received numerous awards for teaching including the Columbia University Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching, 2006 and the Charles W. Bohmfalk Memorial Prize for Contributions to Teaching in the Preclinical Sciences, 2002. He has been Director of the first year course, Science Basic to the Practice of Medicine/Dentistry since 2000. He has introduced many innovations including an audience response system during lectures and annotated lectures provided on the course web site. He has developed a program for fourth year students to interact with first year students which provides perspective for both groups. |
James B. Fine, DDS
Associate Professor of Clinical Dentistry, College of Dental Medicine |
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Dr. Fine has made major teaching contributions to the College of Dental Medicine for almost twenty years. His course in predoctoral orthodontics was very successful and his own teaching contributions highly rated. He currently direct the postdoctoral courses in periodontics. He is Chair of the Curriculum Committee and is leading significant curricular initiatives. He has received the Edward V. Zegarelli Teaching Award, Alumni Association, Columbia University School of Dental and Oral Surgery (1995) and the American Academy of Periodontology, Educator Award (2005). |
Martin V. Pusic, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, College of Physicians and Surgeons |
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Dr. Pusic is an experienced medical educator who has received awards for teaching excellence at academic centers in Canada and the United States. He has focused on the development and evaluation of educational learning interventions in ambulatory clinical settings. He has helped introduce evidence based medicine principles into the pediatric residency program. Dr. Pusic has developed computer based teaching tutorials for medical students and novice residents in the pediatric emergency room. He is currently a PhD candidate at Teachers College. The nature of the student-patient-preceptor-computer tutorial interaction is the subject of his thesis. |
Arlene Smaldone, DNSc, CPNP, CDE
Assistant Professor, School of Nursing |
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Dr. Smaldone believes that the process of teaching and learning is both dynamic and interactive and requires active engagement of both faculty and students. She has developed the content, syllabus and lectured in the Health and Social Policy course which has received high ratings from students with comments including opinions that it should be required in every advanced practiced school of nursing across the country. She is a thoughtful and deliberate teacher, able to function within the curricular guidelines and objectives but also creative in presenting material in a way that students can understand and assimilate. |
Roger D. Vaughan, Dr PH
Associate Professor of Clinical Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health |
| Dr. Vaughan strives to produce critical thinkers in the multiple courses that he teaches in the Mailman School of Public Health. He emphasizes an understanding of biostatistical concepts. He has the ability to apply his teaching acumen across the spectrum of formats from large lectures to seminars. He is a superb one-on-one mentor of doctoral students. He is uniformly rated as one of the top instructors and his students consistently take the time to provide a description of their wonderful experience in his class. He has received a Dean’s letters commending his efforts every semester since joining the Department of Biostatistics. |
Michael S. Yuan, DDS, PhD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Dentistry, College of Dental Medicine |
| Dr. Yuan teaches multiple courses in the College of Dental Medicine, particularly in the area of orthodontics. He teaches both dental and medical students in the first year anatomy course. He receives outstanding reviews from both groups for the quality and enthusiasm of his instruction. The P&S Class of 2007 selected him as their Teacher of the Year in 2004. Dr. Yuan led the revision of the second block of the College of Dental Medicine course in Human Anatomy. He proposed a mission statement, new objectives and planned the restructuring which was accepted and has been implemented with a positive assessment by the students. |
