2009 Fellows
Roberto Posada, MD Departments of Pediatrics and Medical Education Associate Professor Co-Director, Medical Microbiology Course Director, Pediatric Infectious Disease Fellowship Faculty Advisor, Office of Student Affairs Director, Pediatric/Young Adult HIV Program Dr. Roberto Posada came to Mount Sinai in 2001 as the Director of the Pediatric HIV Program, a position that he still holds, soon after completing training in Pediatrics and Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx. Dr. Posada sees inpatient pediatric infectious disease consults. In addition to HIV, his clinical interests include infections in immunocompromised children. He has been invited to give presentations and has authored or co-authored original research and review articles on these topics. Soon after his recruitment he assumed leadership of the fellowship training program in pediatric infectious diseases. Graduates of the program currently hold academic and clinical positions, as well as leadership positions in the pharmaceutical industry. Since his recruitment he also became progressively more involved in the medical microbiology course (then Pathogenesis and Mechanisms of Host Defense). In 2007 he became co-director of the course and has co-led a significant revision to the course learning objectives and curriculum, including a greater emphasis on case-based learning and clinical manifestations of disease, and a successful integration with antimicrobial therapy which was formerly taught in the pharmacology course.
Christopher Strother, MD, FAAP Department of Emergency Medicine Assistant Professor Director, Undergraduate Simulation Program Director, Emergency Department Simulation Education
Dr. Strother is an Assistant Professor and pediatric emergency physician in The Mount Sinai Hospital’s Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine. He is the Director of Undergraduate Simulation for the School of Medicine and Director of Simulation Education for the Department of Emergency Medicine. As a dedicated and enthusiastic teacher, Dr. Strother was awarded an Innovations in Teaching Award from the Institute for Medical Education in 2009 and received status as a fellow of that Institute the same year. Dr. Strother is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and has held leadership positions in the Society for Simulation in Healthcare as the past Chair of the Special Interest Group for Emergency Medicine and in the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine as an executive committee member of the Simulation Academy. Dr. Strother completed his fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and residency in pediatrics at the Long Island Jewish Schneider Children’s Hospital. Dr. Strother’s academic interests include adult learning and teaching, curriculum development, and patient safety.
In 2010 Dr. Posada became a faculty advisor with the office of Student Affairs and as such has guided dozens of students from the time they start first year through their residency application process, providing academic, career, and personal advising.
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