Temple A. Ratcliffe, MD, Associate Professor/Clinical of Medicine at UT Health San Antonio is pursuing educational research interests in best practices in internal medicine clerkships, clinical reasoning, and interprofessional education. He is a 2016 Josiah Macy Jr. Faculty Scholar and his work addressed the implications and challenges facing learners in authentic inter professional collaborative practice environments. Find him on Twitter @templeratcliffe.

 

 

 

David Schmit, MD, Associate Professor/Clinical of Medicine at UT Health San Antonio, is involved in research focused on the development and implementation of a hospital medicine triage curriculum. He is the Director of the Hospital Medicine elective, which exposes internal medicine residents to the essential skills in triaging. His work has been supported by multiple grants and showcased at numerous local, regional, and national meetings and workshops.

 

 

 

Sadie Trammell Velasquez, MD., Associate Professor at UT Health San Antonio, has conducted research in the role of the hospitalist as a triagist resulting in two grants, national workshops, posters and two publications with her colleagues. Her local research resulted in her leading a collaborative research project out of ten academic sites across the United States. This research aimed to further the understanding of the role of the hospitalist as a triagist and improve the understanding of the specific skill set needed for this role to improve medical education. She has also done research in her former role as Co-Director of the Clinical Skills Module on Inter professional Education (IPE) within the Clinical Skills Module. As PI for two grants, her work has resulted in IPE being incorporated into the curriculum at the Long School of Medicine.

 

Ankur Segon, MD, MPH, MEd, SFHM, FACP, Professor/Clinical at UT Health San Antonio, is interested in quality improvement, faculty development and medical education research. He has received grants from the Alliance of Academic Internal Medicine and the Clinical and Translational Science Institute. Within medical education, Dr. Segon is particularly interested in curriculum development and curricular innovations. Other areas of interest include performance improvement with feedback and coaching, factors that predict variability in healthcare systems, and qualitative research.

 

 

Emily Wang, MD, Associate Professor/Clinical at UT Health San Antonio, is a board-certified internal medicine physician with educational and hospital based research interests. Her current work includes curriculum development in graduate medical education: (1) medicine consultation/co-management and (2) transitions of care with internal medicine as a triage physician for determining admissions and disposition decision-making. She is the principal investigator and co-investigator with other departments and academic institutions on state and national medical education grants.

 

 

 


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Areas of Expertise

  • Collaborative Care
  • Hospital Flow
  • Care Transitions
  • Access to Care
  • Patient Engagement
  • Pain Control
  • Cost-effectiveness Analyses
  • Caregiver Support
  • Medical Education
  • Provider Reasoning
  • Implementation of Evidence-based Care