
GHSU’s fourth Annual “Education Day” program was held on Friday, March 9, 2012. The day began with a Grand Rounds presentation by our keynote speaker, Dr. D. Craig Brater, Dean, Indiana University School of Medicine. Following grand rounds there was a variety of activities including educational workshops, research presentations by EDI Center of Research Excellence (CORE) fellows, and health sciences education poster presentations by faculty across all GHSU colleges. The day culminated with an Awards Ceremony honoring EDI Research Fellows, MCG Exemplary Teachers, and the induction of new members to the GHSU Academy of Educators.
Schedule of Events
8:00 – 9:00 A.M. - Department of Pediatrics Grand Rounds
“Creating a Positive Culture Really Works: Transforming Learning and Patient Care
in a Medical School”
Craig Brater, MD, Dean & Walter J. Daly Professor
Indiana University School of Medicine
Lee Auditorium (BC 1040)
9:15 – 10:45 A.M. - Educational Workshops
“What’s Your Objective? How to Write High Quality Measurable Objectives for Your Class”
Linda Boyd, DO, Carol Nichols, PhD and Diane Turnbull, EdD
Health Sciences Building (EC 2230)
“Concept Mapping: A Swiss Army Knife for Teaching (A.K.A. Meaningful Learning Intervention,
Remediation Activity, and Assessment Tool)”
Gregory Passmore, PhD
(EC 2234)
“Understanding True Professionalism and Dealing with Unprofessionalism”
Renuka Mehta, MBBS, DcH, MRCP, FAAP and Lori Schumacher Anderson, RN, PhD
(EC 1204)
11:00 – 11:50 A.M. - Oral Research Presentations by the 2011 EII Educational Research
Fellows
Health Sciences Building (EC 2230)
12:00 – 1:00 P.M. - Poster Session and Lunch for the 1st 50 attendees.
(2nd Floor of the Health Sciences Building)
1:00 – 2:30 P.M. - Awards Ceremony & Keynote Speaker
Health Sciences Building (EC 1222)

D. Craig Brater, M.D.
Dean & Walter J. Daly Professor
Indiana University School of Medicine
D. Craig Brater, M.D. became dean of the Indiana University School of Medicine July
1, 2000.
As dean, Dr. Brater administers the School of Medicine, which has nine campuses across
the State of Indiana. The school includes about 1,500 full time faculty and more than
2,200 physicians who serve as volunteer faculty. The School admits about 325 students
per year and is one of the largest medical schools in the US.
Dr. Brater was appointed vice president for university clinical affairs in 2010.
Dr. Brater is a native of Oak Ridge, Tenn. He attended undergraduate and medical school
at Duke University, completed his internship at Duke, and his residency at the University
of California at San Francisco (UCSF), followed by a fellowship in clinical pharmacology.
There he developed a research and clinical interest in diuretics that continues today.
After a year as a junior faculty member at UCSF, Dr. Brater spent nine years on the
faculty at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
Dr. Brater joined the faculty at the Indiana University School of Medicine in 1986,
where he began the Division of Clinical Pharmacology in the Department of Medicine.
Four years later he was selected to chair the Department of Medicine, the largest
department in the School. In 2000, Dr. Brater was selected to be the ninth dean of
the IU School of Medicine.
Dr. Brater has published more than 100 research articles and 50 books or book chapters.
These publications, for the most part, concern diuretics or the effects of non-steroidal
inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) on renal function.
He has been awarded memberships in the American Society for Clinical Investigation
and the Association of American Physicians. He has been or is currently president
of the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, the Association
of Professors of Medicine, the Central Society for Clinical Research, and the United
States Pharmacopoeia. He chairs the board and the executive committee of BioCrossroads, an Indiana consortium of business, industry, and academic organizations dedicated
to economic development through advancements in the life sciences. He also serves
on the boards of directors of Indiana University Health and the Riley Children's Foundation. In 2000, his alma mater awarded him the Duke Medical Alumni Award in recognition
of his contributions to academic medicine.
Dr. Brater and his wife Stephanie have one daughter Aimee, who lives in Florida. The
Braters are actively involved in the IU School of Medicine program in Kenya. Through this program, they met their "Kenyan son" Michael, who is now a graduate
of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and of the IU School of Medicine
Master’s in Public Health. He is currently working in a public health program in Malawi.on renal function.
For further information, please feel free to contact Janelle Davis, 706.721.0100 or rdavis@georgiahealth.edu.
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