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Ritchie Teaching Fellowships

The Ritchie Teaching Fellowship award is an endowment from Robert and Helen Ritchie in honor of their longtime physician and friend, Dr. Joseph Flatley. Recipients receive funding for approximately 10% of their FTE to pursue mentored career development as a clinician-educator.

Current Fellows

2023-2025

Sara MacLeod, DO, MPH

Sara MacLeod, DO, MPH
Endocrinology

Dr. MacLeod plans to develop a novel curriculum to enhance the Endocrinology elective experience for medical residents.

David Staudt, MD

David Staudt, MD
Hospital Medicine - Strong Memorial Hospital

Dr. Staudt plans to conduct a formal evaluation of the longitudinal point of care ultrasound (POCUS) curriculum for medical students.

Previous Fellows

2021-2023

Erica Miller, MD

Erica Miller, MD
Cardiology

Dr. Miller implemented a health equity curriculum for cardiology fellows. She also launched a program to support fellows in conducting health equity quality improvement projects for their patients.

Emily Salib, MD

Emily Salib, MD
Hospital Medicine - Highland Hospital

Dr. Salib designed a faculty development curriculum to identify and mitigate implicit bias among hospitalist faculty who are supervising residents and medical students. She is conducting a mixed-methods research study to evaluate the curriculum.

2019-2021

Catherine Moore, MD

Catherine Moore, MD
Nephrology

Dr. Moore developed a POCUS curriculum for nephrologists following a national needs assessment of POCUS in nephrology training programs.  She then expanded her web based training modules to the internal medicine residency program.

Jennifer Readlynn, MD

Jennifer Readlynn, MD
Hospital Medicine

​Dr. Readlynn developed a curriculum to teach 4th-year medical students on their medicine sub-I dual skills in quality improvement and time management. Students completed a PDSA cycle reflecting on a new strategy to improve their time management as they prepared for intern year.

2017-2019

Marilyn Augustine, MD

Marilyn Augustine, MD
Endocrinology

Dr. Augustine trained endocrinology fellows to use motivational interviewing techniques and self-determination theory in their interactions with patients

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Mohamed Tejani, MD
Hematology Oncology

Dr. Tejani developed a clinical research curriculum for hematology-oncology fellows with eventual expansion to include internal medicine residents and fellows in other disciplines