From left: Saadia Akhtar, MD, Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education, Mount Sinai Beth Israel; Vicki Lynn Shanker, MD; Adam I. Levine, MD; and Thomas J. Nasca, MD, MACP, Chief Executive Officer, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.
Two physicians at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have received the 2017 Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Award for fostering innovation in their residency programs.
Vicki Lynn Shanker, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurology, and Director of the Mount Sinai Beth Israel Neurology residency program, cultivated a program committed to supporting residents in research and subspecialty care. Adam I. Levine, MD, Professor of Anesthesiology (Perioperative and Pain Medicine), and Director of The Mount Sinai Hospital Anesthesiology residency program, developed a program that allows residents to refine their clinical and teaching skills with simulation. Dr. Shanker and Dr. Levine were among 10 clinical educators receiving the award on Friday, March 10, at the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) annual conference in Chicago.
“We are very proud,” says I. Michael Leitman, MD, FACS, Senior Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education, Icahn School of Medicine. “Their programs have become pioneers in the field.”