OUR TEAM

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.

    Please click here to view Dr. Gisondi’s publications.

  • 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.

    Please click here to view Dr. Caretta-Weyer’s publications.

Stanford Emergency Medicine Fellow

  • Marc Berenson, MD

Former Stanford Emergency Medicine Fellows

  • Vytas Karalius, MD

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  • Leonard Aliaga, MD

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  • Carl Preiksaitis, MD

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  • Ash Rider, MD

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  • Kristen Ng, MD

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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

MedEd Scholars

  • 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.

  • Mike Dacre

    Mike Dacre studied a solution to the problem of medical students over-applying to residency programs.

    Research:

    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

    Adrian Delgado conducted a survey of medical students to understand the unique challenges faced by “first-generation” trainees.

  • Georgia Toal

    Georgia Toal, MA designed a simulation-based mastery learning model to teach distal radius fracture reduction.