ABE-PDC Oct. Webinar

Adina Kalet, MD, MPH, is a General Internist, Professor of Medicine (tenured) and from 2019-2024 the Director of the Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Institute for the Transformation of Medical Education at the Medical College of Wisconsin. She spent 32 years at New York University School of Medicine ending as a tenured Professor of Medicine and Surgery and Co­Director of the Program on Medical Education Innovation and Research (PrMEIR). PrMEIR’s mission is to advance medical education scholarship and to institute best practices for patient­centered, evidence-based medical education. She led the Research on Medical Education Outcomes (ROMEO) unit of PrMEIR, a group of dedicated cross-disciplinary researchers seeking to link education and health services research methodology to study how educational interventions lead to long-term outcomes in learners and patients. For 10 years Dr. Kalet directed the NYU Clinical Translational Science Institute Translational Research Education and Careers Mentor Development Program (NYU CTSI TREC MDP), which prepared 15-20 researchers annually for their role in mentoring translational research. She has held the Arnold P. Gold Professor of Humanism and Professionalism, practiced and taught primary care medicine in the urban inner city, has been the PI or program director on a number of cross-disciplinary and multi-institutional curriculum development and research grants. Dr. Kalet has written extensively on issues of clinical skills assessment and remediation, educational technology, faculty development and mentoring, professional identity formation assessment and psychosocial aspects of medicine. In 2023, along with Dr. Calvin L. Chou she published the second edition of Remediation in Medical Education: A Midcourse Correction (Springer). In this book she brought relevant theory and practice from multiple scholarly domains to bare on the challenges of ensuring health professional trainees are fully competent to practice medicine. In addition to working broadly to establish MCW as an exemplar medical school centered on character and caring, she launched the Medical Education Transformation Collaboratories funding multi­institutional, interdisciplinary innovation and scholarship and publishing the Transformation Times, a weekly newsletter, distributed broadly as a forum for health professions educators, staff, trainees, and students to engage in conversations defining the medical education transformation needed as highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic and publishing two compilations of these essays Character and Caring: A Pandemic Year in Medical Education (Vol. 1), and Character and Caring: Medical Education Emerges from the Pandemic (Vol.2). She co­directs, the US site of the University of Maastricht School of Health Professions Education master’s in health professions education (MHPE) with the aim of enhancing the capacity for medical educational scholarship in the US and facilitates an annual Peer Mentor Training Program for the Programs to Increase Diversity among Individuals Engaged in Health-Related Research (PRIDE, NIH funded institute). Dr. Kalet and her husband, Mark D. Schwartz, MD, a health policy expert and Vice Chair for education of the NYU SOM Department of Population Health, have two children, an 80-pound puppy and an 8-pound cat and she splits her time between her new home in Milwaukee and her longtime home in Brooklyn NY.