Elections - ASP

I am honored and humbled to be a candidate for a Councilor of APDIM.  After completing my residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in 2004, I began my career as a clinician-educator in the WellSpan York Hospital Internal Medicine Residency Program.  I served as our clerkship site director for several years, spent a few years as an associate program director and ultimately was appointed as residency program director in 2014.  My clinical work is primarily in primary care, both seeing continuity patients on my own and precepting residents in their continuity clinic, with a smaller of amount of time spent with the residents on the inpatient general medicine service.

I have had the good fortune of spending my entire post-residency career working in an amazing but relatively small, relatively unknown community hospital residency program that until recently was without subspecialty fellowships.  As a result, I have a visceral understanding of the challenges that many of us face with respect to recruitment of both residents and faculty, development and retention of faculty, and placement of residents into competitive fellowships, not to mention the actual clinical training for our residents.  Additionally, I have learned the importance of cultivating relationships with the leadership of our health system to ensure that our program’s educational mission is clearly understood and adequately supported.  Finally, I have had the opportunity to serve on our medical group’s Board of Directors for the past several years so understand the power that the voices of those of us working on the front lines can have in governance.  I am excited to have the opportunity as a Councilor to similarly advocate within APDIM to ensure that our voices continue to be heard within the academic internal medicine community.

In my tenure as program director, I have benefitted tremendously from membership in APDIM, ranging from attending and presenting at meetings, engaging in discussions both in person and on the discussion board, and developing relationships with a variety of colleagues within the organization.  I am eager to contribute to APDIM in a more formal way and help to ensure that it continues to be the source of support and professional home that we all need.  Thank you for your consideration.