The CIS Team
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key staff, click on their name.
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Additional
members of the CIS Web Site Advisory Board
In addition to the five key CIS staff, the following people are serving as primary advisors on content for this site.
Mary
Andresen, MS, PA
Carole
J. Bland, Ph.D.
Carole teaches and conducts research in faculty, administrator and organizational development. She is particularly interested in organizational features and efforts that promote the continual development and productivity of faculty members across life long careers.
Robin
A. Harvan, Ed.D.
Frank
T. Stritter, Ph D.
Denise
("Denny") Webster, RN, PhD, CS
Associate Dean for Medical Education
Director, Center for Educational Development and Research
UCLA School of Medicine
Los Angeles, California
LuAnn is involved in the development and evaluation of medical student
curriculum, including the politics of curricular change. She teaches, studies,
and writes about problem- based learning, ambulatory teaching, and faculty
development.
Hilliard
("Hill") Jason, MD, EdD - Co-Director, CIS Hill is the first person known to have pursued both medical and education
doctorates. After completing his residency and Certificate in Psychiatry
at Strong Memorial Hospital, University of Rochester and the Alan Memorial
Institute, McGill University, he has devoted his career to finding ways
to help enhance and humanize the teaching and communication processes in
the health professions. He is currently Clinical Professor of Family Medicine
and Faculty Associate in the Ethics and Humanities Program at the University
of Colorado School of Medicine. He is also Editor of the journal, EDUCATION for HEALTH, and Co-Director of the Center for
Instructional Support in Boulder, Colorado.
Hill has been on the faculties of the University of Rochester School of
Medicine (1963-66), Michigan State University's College of Human Medicine
(where he was Professor and founding Director of the Office of Medical Education
Research and Development, 1966-72), the George Washington University School
of Medicine (Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, 1972-78), and the University
of Miami School of Medicine (1978-90), where he was Professor of Psychiatry
and Director of the National Center for Faculty Development. Hill was also
Scholar in Residence at the National Library of Medicine (1972-74), and
founding Director of the Division of Faculty Development at the Association
of American Medical Colleges (1974-78).
Hill has consulted with and done workshops for most of the medical schools
in the U.S. and Canada, and with health professions organizations in 27
other countries. He had been host of more than 60 nationally distributed
educational television programs and anchored five multi-day, multi-national
live educational teleconference. He and his wife, Jane Westberg, Ph.D.,
have co-authored 6 academic books, more than 40 nationally distributed educational
television programs and many articles and editorials. Together, they have
offered hundreds of faculty development workshops for thousands of teachers
in the health professions. Hill initiated and devised the major study of
clinical reasoning that was reported in the book, Medical Problem Solving
(Elstein AS, Shulman LS, & Spraftka SA. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press, 1978). He also devised and ran the largest study known to have been
conducted of medical teachers, reported in the book, Teachers and Teaching
in U.S. Medical Schools (Jason H & Westberg J, Norwalk, CT: Appleton-Century-Crofts,1982).
He is co-author (with Jane) of: Making Presentations (1991); Providing
Constructive Feedback (1991); Collaborative Clinical Education: the
Foundation of Effective Health Care (1993); Teaching Creatively with
Video: Fostering Reflection, Communication and Other Clinical Skills
(1994); and Fostering Learning in Small Groups: A Practical Guide
(1996). The last 3 of these books are part of the Springer Publishing Company's
Series on Medical Education, and the last two are also part of their Series
on Nursing Education.
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Jane
Westberg, PhD - Co-Director, CIS Currently, Jane is Clinical Professor in the Department of Family Medicine
and Faculty Associate in the Ethics and Humanities Program at the University of Colorado Denver. She is also Associate Editor of EDUCATION for HEALTH and Co-Director of the Center
for Instructional Support in Boulder, Colorado. Previously, she served on
the faculties of the University of Miami School of Medicine (where she was
Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Associate Director of the National
Center for Faculty Development) and George Washington University School
of Medicine.
Jane studied at the University of Chicago; Augustana College in Rock Island,
Illinois; the University of Edinburgh; the University of Miami, and the
Union Graduate School.
Jane has consulted with, and designed and facilitated workshops for, thousands
of health professions educators in a wide range of areas, particularly teaching,
learning and communication in education and health care. She has written
numerous articles, chapters, and instructional materials for health professionals
and is senior author (and Hill is co-author) of the CIS GuideBooks: Providing
Constructive Feedback (1991) and Making Presentations (1991),
and of the Springer Publishing Company books: Collaborative Clinical
Education: The Foundation of Effective Health Care (1993), Teaching
Creatively with Video: Fostering Reflection, Communication and Other Clinical
Skills (1994), and Fostering Learning in Small Groups: A Practical
Guide (1996). She is co-author of Teachers and Teaching in
U.S. Medical Schools and lead writer and producer-director of more
than 40 educational video programs and an audiotape program and set of manuals
entitled, Spanish in Health Care, which is designed to help
students and professionals learn the Spanish needed for interacting with
Spanish-speaking patients.
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A pediatrician, family physician, and psychiatrist, Dr. Baldwin was educated
at Swarthmore College, the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale, Yale Divinity
School, Yale Medical School, and at the University of Minnesota and Yale
Graduate Schools. He is a diplomate of the National Board of Medical Examiners,
the American Board of Pediatrics and the American Board of Family Practice,
and is certified by the American Association of Psychiatric Clinics for
Children. He has held professorships of pediatrics, psychiatry, family medicine,
community medicine, behavioral sciences, medical education, social dentistry,
and human behavior and child development, in eight medical schools, three
dental schools, and two schools of social work. He was a member of the founding
faculties of the University of Connecticut and the University of Nevada
Medical Schools. Before going to the American Medical Association as Director
of the Division of Medical Education and Research Information (1985-91),
he served as President of Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. Currently,
he is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences, University
of Nevada School of Medicine; Scholar-In-Residence, American Medical Association;
and Adjunct Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Northwestern University Medical
School.
During his academic career, Bud has lectured widely and provided leadership
in the fields of health professions education, medical ethics, interdisciplinary
education, humanistic medicine, higher education, child development, psychology,
dentistry, behavioral sciences, and rural health. He has published over
130 scientific articles and three books. Alone, with Michele, and with others,
Bud has conducted educational and personal development workshops throughout
the U.S., and in many other countries.
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Michele
A. Baldwin, MSW, PhD - CIS Associate Born in Paris, France, Michele first came to the United States as a Fulbright
Scholar in 1956. She received her B.A. in Anthropology from the University
of Washington (1957), her Diplome from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques
in Paris (1957), her MSW from the Simmons College School of Social Work
(1966), and her Ph.D. from the Union Graduate School (1976). A skilled psychotherapist,
she met Virginia Satir in 1969 and later studied and worked with her for
part of each year until Virginia's death in 1988. She co-authored two books
with Dr. Satir: Satir Step by Step in 1984 and The Use of Self in Therapy,
in 1987. From 1971-83 she was a full-time member of the faculty of the School
of Medical Sciences at the University of Nevada where she helped design,
implement and teach in a prototypical interdisciplinary program for health
sciences students, as well as teaching communication skills and family dynamics
to medical students and resident physicians. She is a former Fellow of the
Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College, has been certified by the Academy
of Certified Social Workers and by the American Association of Marriage
and Family Therapists (AAMFT), and is licensed in Illinois as a clinical
social worker. She is an AAMFT approved supervisor and has written a number
of articles for professional and lay journals. Since 1986, she has been
a member of the faculty at the Family Institute and Assistant Professor
of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University Medical
School. She also conducts a limited practice of marriage and family therapy.
Alone, and jointly with Bud, she has conducted educational and personal
development workshops throughout this country and in many other countries.
She has been a master teacher of the PAIRS Foundation since 1994.
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Patricia
Williams, MD - CIS Associate Patricia Williams has consulted with over 100 health and human services
organizations seeking to improve quality, productivity and organizational
effectiveness through human and organization development. Her areas of expertise
include team building and diversity management, leadership and professional
development, strategic planning, and facilitating change. Services include
organizational diagnosis and problem-solving, retreat planning and facilitation,
conflict resolution, and training in a wide range of interpersonal and organizational
effectiveness skills.
Prior to opening her consulting business Patricia practiced and taught Family
Medicine in a variety of settings. As Medical Director of a federally funded
Rural Health Center, she was involved in management and supervision of staff,
a major fund-raising and expansion effort, and ongoing organizational planning.
While on the faculty of the Maine-Dartmouth Family Practice Residency Program,
she consistently received high praise for her teaching and supervision and
also contributed to key decisions on policy and direction.
Patricia received her B.A. cum laude with Distinction in English from Yale
University and her M.D. from Harvard University. She trained intensively
at and is now a member of the NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science,
one of the oldest and finest organizations providing training in organization
development and human interaction. She holds a faculty appointment at Jefferson
Medical College and is qualified in the administration and application of
the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, a personality tool widely used in business
and educational settings. Her publications include an article on training
Chief Residents in leadership skills and a chapter on "Managing Professionals"
in the recently published book, Managing in the Age of Change.
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