The University of Michigan's Dr. Gurjit Sandhu presents at Surgery Grand Rounds on Tuesday, May 14, as this year's Department of Surgery Education Retreat featured speaker. (Photo courtesy of @DChu80 on Twitter)
Fifteen UAB faculty, including 14 from the Department of Surgery and one from the Department of Urology, were presented with Medical Student Teaching Awards on Monday night at the Wallace Tumor Institute, as part of this year’s Department of Surgery Education Retreat:
- Daniel Chu, M.D.
- Sherry Collawn, M.D., Ph.D.
- Carlo Contreras, M.D.
- Robert Dabal, M.D.
- Devin Eckhoff, M.D.
- Kimberly Hendershot, M.D.
- Martin Heslin, M.D.
- Gregory Kennedy, M.D., Ph.D.
- Brenessa Lindeman, M.D., MEHP
- Colin Martin, M.D.
- Melanie Morris, M.D.
- John Porterfield, M.D.
- Soroush Rais-Bahrami, M.D.
- Donald Reiff, M.D.
- Richard Stahl, M.D.
University of Michigan Assistant Professor of Surgery and Learning Health Sciences Gurjit Sandhu, Ph.D., a recognized leader in surgical education, joined the department’s faculty, fellows and residents as the annual retreat’s featured speaker. The events included a reception on Monday evening and a working educational session the following morning at Surgery Grand Rounds, where Sandhu spoke to attendees on optimizing surgical education through OpTrust and intraoperative entrustment.
@UABSurgery First Annual Education Retreat - great engagement from the audience of visiting professor @GSandhuSurgEd and a chance to celebrate with education awards from medical students @britneycoreymd pic.twitter.com/pNS4RPLooe
— Brenessa Lindeman (@BrenessaL) May 14, 2019