Featured Educators

 

Mia Williams, MD
Dr. Mia Williams is a primary care physician and Assistant Professor in the UCSF Division of General Internal Medicine. She hails from the border town of Nogales, Arizona, and grew up in a multi-lingual, multicultural household where her mother fostered her love of science while role-modeling activism in the community which has greatly shaped Dr. Williams’ career. Dr. Williams received her MD and Masters in Clinical Research from the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University and completed her residency in Internal Medicine at UCSF as part of the UC-Primary Care GIM Program. Dr. Williams is deeply passionate about DEIA in healthcare and medical education and brings this lens to her work in undergraduate and graduate medical education as well as faculty development. Her key work relates to improving equity of care for patients with limited English proficiency, anti-racism and anti-oppression in medical education, mentorship, and equity in career sponsorship. When not working on these efforts and seeing patients, Mia enjoys hiking, cooking, gardening, and marathon board game sessions
 

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Ashley McMullen

 

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Dr. Ashley McMullen is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and a primary care internist based at the San Francisco VA Hospital. She is also a Houston, TX native and lifelong book nerd, who grew up nurtured by her mother, a pediatric nurse, and grandmother, an ordained minister. Dr. McMullen’s work focuses on the role of narrative and storytelling in medical education, as well as a mechanism for healing, advocacy, and improving care across differences. She served as the host and producer of The Nocturnists: Black Voices in Healthcare Series, a 2021 Webby Award Honoree, and recently launched a new story-telling podcast with Dr. Kimberly Manning called, The Human Doctor. In her free time, you’ll find her buying more books than she can read and seeking out all the sunny parts of the Bay Area.

 

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Bridget O'Brien, MD, PhD

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Bridget O’Brien, PhD is an internationally renowned education scientist with expertise in qualitative research, education theory, and capacity building in health professions research. Dr. O’Brien has written and collaborated on over 120 peer-reviewed articles. Some of Bridget’s ground-breaking work include the 2010 Carnegie Foundation textbook Educating Physicians: A Call for Reform, her 2014 Standards for Reporting Qualitative Research, and her 2018 textbook Understanding Medical Education. Bridget is a Deputy Editor for the journal Academic Medicine. She directs the Advanced Fellowship in Health Professions Education Evaluation and Research and co-directs the Teaching Scholars Program and the UCSF-UMC-Utrecht HPE doctoral program. In 2021, Dr. O’Brien was selected for the Karolinska Institute Prize in Medical Education Fellows Program. Bridget enjoys hiking with her small and mighty pup Maddie and listening to audiobooks.
 

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Binh An Phan, MD

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Dr. Binh An Phan is a Professor of Medicine and a clinician-educator in the Division of Cardiology at ZSFG. He tells us his career path was somewhat circuitous. In his early training, he had plans to develop a career as an academic cardiologist focused on clinical research. At that time, he didn't imagine himself as an educator. After completing fellowship, his interests in becoming a primary researcher faded. His first attending positions were focused on direct patient care. While he enjoyed forming close relationships with patients and managing complex clinical cases, he found himself consistently gravitating towards opportunities that allowed him to teach and mentor trainees and medical students. Dr. Phan was grateful to those who encouraged his passion for medical education, and eagerly dove into as many teaching and mentoring roles as possible. 

 

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Curbsiders Teach

Curbsiders

Molly Heublein, MD and Era Kryzhanovskaya, MD are your new hosts for Curbsiders Teach. Curbsiders Teach is THE internal medicine podcast for all things medical education. We use expert interviews to inspire the next generation of medical educators by providing listeners with teaching pearls, practice-changing knowledge and a learning objective-based dosing of Edutainment (medical education, made entertaining).

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