2009 Master Educators Reena Karani, MD, MHPE Departmentsof Medical Education, Geriatrics, and Medicine Associate Dean for Undergraduate Medical Education and Curricular Affairs Director, Institute for Medical Education Associate Professor Dr. Karani completed her residency and chief residency in Internal Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and her fellowship, chief fellowship and research fellowship in Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at Mount Sinai. She also received a Master of Health Professions Education from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research and career interests include performance based learner evaluation and psychometrics of various evaluation methods. Dr. Karani is deeply involved in educating learners at all levels. Currently she oversees the education program leading up to the MD degree at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She serves as faculty and is on the steering committee of Harvard University’s Macy Program for Educators in the Health Professions. In addition, she is a founding Co-Director of the Harvard Program for Postgraduate Trainees. She is Chair of the Education Committee for the Society of General Internal Medicine, a member of the Education Committee for the American Geriatrics Society (AGS), and Chairs the Medical Education Research Review Committee for AGS. She is the author of numerous peer-reviewed publications focused on medical education and has served as a mentor to innumerable students, residents, fellows, and faculty. Dr. Karani’s honors include the Sigma Xi Scientific Honor Society, Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society, the Presidential Award in Medical Education from AGS, the John A. Hartford Center of Excellence Scholar, the Excellence in Teaching Award from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Fellow of the American College of Physicians, National Award for Scholarship in Medical Education from SGIM, and Master Educator from the Institute of Medical Education, Icahn School of Medicine Mount Sinai.
Adam Levine, MD Department of Anesthesiology Professor of Anesthesiology, Otolaryngology, Structural and Chemical Biology Vice Chair of Education Program Director, Residency Training Program Program Director, ASSA Endorsed HELPS Simulation Program Dr. Levine is a 1989 graduate from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and after completing his internal medicine internship and anesthesiology residency at Mount Sinai in 1993; Dr. Levine stayed on staff in the Department of Anesthesiology. Dr. Levine was named program director for the Anesthesiology residency-training program in 1996. Dr. Levine’s clinical expertise is in Anesthesia for Otolaryngologic Surgery. He is the lead editor of the textbook “Anesthesiology and Otolaryngology” . Academically, Dr. Levine is recognized as an expert in Simulation-Based Education and Assessment and has given regional and national lectures on the subject. Dr. Levine has completed the textbook, “ The Comprehensive Textbook of Healthcare Simulation”, a definitive reference on health care simulation. Published by Springer, the text is a 50-chapter, multidisciplinary international authored work by a who’s who in health care simulation. Dr. Levine developed a program using simulation for competence assessment and retraining for independent institutions and state licensing boards. In 2005 Dr. Levine was a member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) workgroup on simulation and is currently an editor of the ASA Editorial Board on Simulation Education that oversees the ASA simulation endorsement program. Dr. Levine is also a site visitor for the Society in Simulation Healthcare accreditation program. Dr. Levine is the program director of the ASA endorsed HELPS (Human Emulation, Education, and Evaluation Lab for Patient Safety and Professional Study) Center Program, and has been conducting courses to satisfy MOCA ® Part IV requirements for ABA re-certification.