Saadia Akhtar, MD, and Thomas J. Nasca, MD, President and Chief Executive Officer, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.
Saadia Akhtar, MD, Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and Program Director for the Emergency Medicine Residency training program at Mount Sinai Beth Israel, has received two national awards for educators who foster innovation in graduate medical and emergency medicine education and who demonstrate a deep love of teaching. Dr. Akhtar received the Michael P. Wainscott Program Director Award from the Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors.
She also received the 2018 Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Award, which was given by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education to only nine Program Directors nationwide.
“Dr. Akhtar continues to exemplify excellence in our teaching mission at Mount Sinai,” says I. Michael Leitman, MD, Dean for Graduate Medical Education, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.