The Office of Education, together with the Department of Surgery, is pleased to announce a new leadership team for the medical student surgery clerkship.
Felix Lui, MD, FACS, associate professor of surgery (trauma), has been appointed director of the surgery clerkship. He will be assisted in this role by newly appointed associate directors, Kevin Pei, MD, assistant professor of surgery (trauma), and David Stitelman, MD, assistant professor of surgery (pediatrics).
Lui, a fellow of the American College of Surgeons (ACS), is certified in and an instructor of ACS’s Advanced Trauma Life Support and Advanced Trauma Operative Management courses. He is also certified in Advanced Cardiac Life Support and Pediatric Advanced Life Support. His research interests include necrotizing soft tissue infections, trauma systems and injury prevention, and issues in biomedical ethics.
Pei is associate director of resident education for surgery at the Yale Center for Medical Simulation. A fellow of the American College of Surgeons, his research interests include surgical outcomes, laparoscopy for acute care surgery, medical simulation and education.
Stitelman is surgical director of the Yale Fetal Care Center. While at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, he was awarded the Leonard Miller medical student teaching award and the William Inouye medical student teaching award by the Department of Surgery and the Penn Pearls medical student teaching award by the medical school.
“We congratulate these faculty members on their appointment to these important leadership positions and look forward to working with them,” said Michael Schwartz, PhD, associate dean for curriculum.
The Office of Education has also named Geoffrey Connors, MD, as director of clinical reasoning for undergraduate medical education. In this new role, he will be a member of the clinical skills team to plan and implement curricular activities focused on clinical reasoning. Connors is assistant professor of medicine (pulmonary) and associate medical director of the medical intensive care unit at Yale New Haven Hospital.
Among his many contributions to medical education, he was part of the YSM Curriculum Redesign Committee, is associate program director for the Yale Internal Medicine Residency Program, and associate director for education in the medical ICU. He received the 2006 Arthur P. Gold Humanism in Medicine and Excellence in Teaching award, the 2016 Fred S. Kantor Teacher of the Year award for the Internal Medicine Residency Program and the 2015 Francis Gilman Blake Award for Outstanding Teaching in the Medical Sciences at YSM.
“We welcome Geoff to this new leadership role,” said Schwartz. “We are fortunate to have such a creative, resourceful and enthusiastic individual join the educational leadership team.”