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LAB LEADERSHIP
Michael A. Gisondi, MD
Michael A. Gisondi, MD is Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Education in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University. He is the Principal and Founder of The PEARL. His primary research interest includes the training of physicians to develop adaptive expertise.
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Holly Caretta-Weyer, MD, MHPE
Holly Caretta-Weyer, MD, MHPE(c) is Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Senior Scientist in The PEARL. She serves as both Assistant Residency Director and Assistant Clerkship Director in the Department of Emergency Medicine. Her research focuses on competency-based education and assessment, individualized learning and predictive analytics, summative entrustment decision-making processes, and recruitment in a competency-based system.
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Stefanie Sebok-Syer, PhD
Stefanie Sebok-Syer, PhD is Instructor of Emergency Medicine and Senior Scientist in The PEARL. She is an expert in program evaluation, measurement, and assessment. Dr. Sebok-Syer studies the concept of interdependence, the attribution of authentic assessment observations to individuals who work in healthcare teams.
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Amanda Morris is the PEARL Administrator, assisting the PEARL leadership, students, and fellows in managing everyday tasks and timelines. Amanda has a background in project management and qualitative research.
Stanford Emergency Medicine Fellows
Vytas Karalius, MD
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Leonardo Aliaga, MD
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Carl Preiksaitis, MD
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Former Stanford Emergency Medicine Fellows
Ash Rider, MD
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William Dixon, MD
William Dixon, MD studied the use of a mastery learning curriculum and 3D model to train emergency medicine and orthopedic surgery interns in the core steps of distal radius fracture reduction.
Kristen Ng, MD
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Cynthia Peng, MD
Cynthia Peng, MD designed an online simulation platform and diagnostic assessment of several of the AAMC Core Entrustable Professional Activities to provide key information to medical students entering residency and their program director to individualize intern orientation curricula.
Danielle Miller, MD
Danielle Miller, MD designed a curriculum to teach emergency medicine clerkship students how to approach EPA 10: Recognize a patient requiring urgent or emergent care and initiate evaluation and management.
2020 Med Scholar
One student from Stanford School of Medicine is completing a Med Scholars project with faculty mentors in The PEARL in 2020.
Andy Liu
Andy Liu designed a web-based survey for workplace-based assessments of emergency medicine residency training and helped collect qualitative data regarding its utilization.
2019 Med Scholars
Three students from Stanford School of Medicine completed Med Scholars projects with faculty mentors in The PEARL in 2019.
Mike Dacre studied a solution to the problem of medical students over-applying to residency programs.
Dacre M, Branzetti J, Hopson LR, Regan L, Gisondi MA. “The Summer Match: A Potential Solution to the Burden of Increasing Residency Applications.” Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Annual Meeting. 2020.
Adrian Delgado conducted a survey of medical students to understand the unique challenges faced by “first-generation” trainees.
Georgia Toal, MA designed a simulation-based mastery learning model to teach distal radius fracture reduction.
PEARL M.D. Candidate Trainees
Shana Zucker, ‘21
Shana Zucker was a MD/MPH/MS student at Tulane University School of Medicine and matched into internal medicine. She co-authored the online Teaching LGBTQ+ Health Course with Dr. Michael Gisondi and Timothy Keyes.
PEARL Undergraduate Trainees
Daniel Chambers, ‘23
Daniel Chambers is majoring in Human Biology and minoring in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. In his work at the lab, Daniel studied potential solutions to the current obstacles within the Residency Match Process.
Rachel Barber, ‘22
Rachel Barber majored in Human Biology and minored in East Asian Studies. She collaborated with Dr. Gisondi to investigate how social media platforms can be leveraged to mitigate the spread of disinformation, particularly in regards to COVID-19 vaccination efforts.
