Scholarship Committee
The charge to the SACME Scholarship Committee is to provide guidance to the SACME Board in growing and maintaining SACME’s role as the international academic leader in CME/CPD scholarship. Members work in subcommittees to:
- Assess and report on the status of the discipline
- Build capacity to conduct and enhance research by scholars and CME/CPD consumers and to establish an institutional scholarly environment
- Develop and support/facilitate research.
- Assess and report on the status of the discipline
- Build capacity to conduct and enhance research by scholars and CME/CPD consumers and to establish an institutional scholarly environment
- Develop and support/facilitate research.
Committee Chair
Oregon Health & Science University
Committee Vice Chair
Queen’s University
Steering Committee
Members:
Joyce Fried
Janine Shapiro
Nikhita Singhal
Eleftherios Soleas (Vice Chair)
Martin Tremblay
Jessica Walter (Chair)
David Wiljer
Nathaniel Williams
Work of the Scholarship Committee is organized under these active subcommittees:
Status of the Discipline
Advance research in the discipline of CPD by assessing, defining, and reporting on the status of the discipline.
Members:
Deema Al-Sheikhly
Craig Campbell
Ronald Cervero
Robert D'Antuono
Tanya Horsley
Ginny Jacobs
Gabrielle Kane
Mila Kostic
Don Moore
Carol Pizzuti
Suzan Schneeweiss
Nikhita Singhal
Sanjeev Sockalingam
Sophie Soklaridis
Eleftherios Soleas (Co-Chair)
Martin Tremblay (Co-Chair)
Mary Turco
Jessica Walter
Betsy Williams
Capacity Building
Build the competency of members to perform scholarly activities including CPD research.
Members:
Anahit Abrahamyan (Vice Chair)
Haifa Akremi
Sharisse Arnold Rehring
Miya Bernson-Leung
Linda Caples
Nels Carlson
Lisa Fore-Arcand
Joyce Fried
Mila Kostic
Melinda Fan Lerwill
Edeline Mitton
Kate Runacres
Janine Shapiro (Chair)
Nikhita Singhal
Martin Tremblay
Jessica Walter
Betsy Williams
Awards and Grants
Review abstracts and enable members’ research and best practice presentations, identify and recognize outstanding presentations, and grant awards including the Manning and Mazmanian Awards.
Members:
Brittany Dashevsky
Amish Dave
Joyce Fried
Joanne Goldman
Caitlin Hurley
Ginny Jacobs
Asha Maharaj
Mark Vinciguerra
Janine Shapiro
Nikhita Singhal (Co-Chair)
Martin Tremblay
Jessica Walter
Dillon Welindt
Betsy Williams
Nathaniel Williams (Co-Chair)
Bita Zakeri
Getting Involved
You can explore opportunities by attending a committee meeting. Email committee chair, Jessica Walter (walter@ohsu.edu) to express your interest.
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