Sandro Pinheiro, PhD, professor in the division of Geriatrics and the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, has been named chair of the Education Scholar Branch Faculty Development Academy (FDA).
Pinheiro brings expertise in adult learning, instructional strategies, active learning, curriculum design and evaluation, and educational research to his new role. His research activities focus on medical and interprofessional education and the assessment of change in the teaching practice of clinician educators.
Pinheiro assumes the role from Lisa Criscione-Schreiber, MD, professor in the division of Rheumatology, who became the Department’s Vice Chair for Education.
“It has been a pleasure to serve as a coach in the FDA for the last 6 years, under the leadership of Drs. Mitch Heflin and Lisa Criscione-Schreiber, and in collaboration with Dr. Poonam Sharma,” Pinheiro says. “As a team we have created a strong curriculum to equip clinician educators to become effective teachers, curriculum developers, and education scholars.”
His hope, he adds, is to continue striving to further improve the curriculum to address current and trending needs of medical educators, and to provide effective mentoring that will support their development as future leaders and scholars in medical education.
Schreiber will remain an education scholars’ coach in the FDA.
“At the beginning of the FDA in 2011, Mitch Heflin, professor in the Division of Geriatrics, conceived of an Education Scholar branch, a source of mentoring and career guidance for our junior faculty doing scholarly work in medical education and training,” says Laura Svetkey, MD, vice chair for faculty development and diversity. “As branch chair, he provided FDA members a totally unique opportunity for this mission. Drs. Heflin and Criscione-Schreiber, the subsequent chair, engaged Dr. Pinheiro as a coach, and he brought his unique training and skill as an education scholar to this role. I’m thrilled that Sandro will now lead the Education Scholar Branch of the Faculty Development Academy.”