Education and Training:

• Other, Excellence in Quality Improvement Certificate Program (EQUIP) 2018-2019. 12-month program to develop leadership capacity to perform and teach quality improvement in an academic setting, including a cliniclcal quality improvement proje (2019)
• Other, American Association of Medical Colleges Graduate Medical Education Leadership Development Program. 12-Month program for Graduate Medical Education Leaders, including an educational quality improvement project. (2018)
• American Association of Medical Colleges Leadership Education and Development (LEAD) Program. Year long program on leadership development, including educational leadership project., Wayne State University (2017)
• Other, International Conference on Resident Education Quality Improvement, Royal College of Physicians (2016)
• Other, ACGME "New Program Directors Workshop" One-day long workshop for Program Directors from all specialties. (2015)
• Other, 2-day workshop to develop quality improvement program skills.Quality Improvement/Patient Safety Development Program, University of Toronto/University at Buffalo (2015)
• Other, 2-day conference on leadership and advocacy skills (2015)
• Other, "New Program Directors Workshop" One -day long workshop for Surgery Program Directors., Association of Program Directors (2013)
• Other, "Program for Educators in Health Professions: 11-day and 5 day interprofessional sessions for health-care educators and administrators., Harvard-Macy Institute. (2012)
• Other, Essentials of Simulation, Behling Simulation Center. 3-day course on developing and running an effective simulation program., University at Buffalo (2011)
• Other, American College of Surgeons Leadership and Advocacy Conference. 3-day Conference on leadership and advocacy skills. (2011)
• Other, Two, 2-1/2 day sessions devoted to medical education techniques, as well as completion of 2 medical education projects. University at Buffalo/Royal College of Physicians Educators Program, University at Buffalo (2009)
• Other, Surgeons as Educators Course-Week-long course devoted to surgical education. American College of Surgeons, University of North Carolina (2007)
• Other, Clinical Trials Methods Course. 5 day course devoted to clinical research. American College of Surgeons (2003)
• PhD, Wake Forest University School of Medicine. NIH training grant T32HL07868, pathobiology of Vascular Disease Program (2001)
• , Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center (2001)
• MD, Medicine, New England Medical Center, Boston (1996)
• MD, Tufts University School of Medicine, (1992)
• BA, Interdisciplinary Studies (Echols Scholar Program), University of Virginia, Charlottesville (1992)
• , Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem

Awards and Honors:

• Dean’s Award for extraordinary service to the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (2023)
• Western New York Top Doctors (2023)
• Gold Foundation Faculty Mentor (2022)
• Western New York Top Doctors (2022)
• Gold Foundation Faculty Mentor (2021)
• Western New York Top Doctors (2021)
• Western New York Top Doctors (2020)
• Western New York Top Doctors (2019)
• Gold Foundation Faculty Mentor (2019)
• Elected into The University at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Science Epsilon Chapter of the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Honor Medical Society (2019)
• Western NY Top Doctors (2018)
• Graduate Medical Education Leadership Fellowship, AAMC Group on Resident Affairs (2018)
• Leadership Education and Development Fellowship, American Association of Medical Colleges (2017)
• Gold Humanism Professor Competition, Arnold P. Gold Foundation (2011)
• American College of Surgeons Australia/New Zealand Traveling Fellowship Award (2011)
• University at Buffalo Primary Medicine Master Educator Program (2011)
• American College of Surgeons Australia/New Zealand Traveling Fellowship Award (2010)
• University at Buffalo Graduate Medical Education Quality Improvement Award (2010)
• Surgical Education Research Fellowship, (2009)
• Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award (2008)
• Royal College of Physicians Educators Program (2008)
• University at Buffalo Medical Leadership Academy (2007)
• Eastern Vascular Society Annual Meeting (2006)
• American College of Surgeons Health Policy Scholarship (2005)
• University at Buffalo Geriatrics Center of Excellence Award for Evidence Based Medicine (2004)
• First prize, Residents and Fellows Research Day, Division of Surgical Sciences. (2000)
• Theta Chi Foundation Scholar, Tufts University School of Medicine (1992)
• Alpha Epsilon Delta Premedical Honor Society, University of Virginia (1987)
• Eastman Kodak National Merit Scholar (1987)
• Echols Scholar, University of Virginia (1987)
• Intermediate Honors, University of Virginia (1985)