Sally Santen, MD, PhD

Sally Santen, MD, PhD is Professor of Emergency Medicine and Medical Education at University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and Vice-Chair of Education Research in the Department of Medical Education. She is the Senior Associate Dean, Assessment, Evaluation, and Scholarship and Professor of Emergency Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth School of Medicine. Previously she was an assistant dean at the University of Michigan Medical School and Emory School of Medicine. As a junior faculty at Vanderbilt, she earned PhD in Education. She received her MD degree and trained in Emergency Medicine at George Washington University. She received the SAEM Hal Jayne Excellence in Education Award and is an alumna of the Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) Program. Her expertise is medical education research including assessment and program evaluation across the continuum from medical students to practicing physicians. She has published more than 250 papers, including over 30 papers in Academic Medicine, as well as perspectives in JAMA and New England Journal of Medicine. Her work brings together medicine, education, research, teaching, mentoring and innovation.

Daniel J. Schumacher, MD, PhD, MEd

Dr. Schumacher is a tenured Professor in the Division of Emergency Medicine at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC). His research focuses on competency-based assessment, including milestones, entrustable professional activities, and resident-sensitive quality measures (RSQMs) that he developed as part of his PhD work. He is passionate about assessment approaches that are patient-focused, such as EPAs and RSQMs. A recipient of national and international awards for his research, he has garnered more than $4 million in medical education research funding. He is currently Chair of the American Board of Pediatrics Competency-Based Medical Education Committee and on the executive committee of the International Competency-Based Medical Education Collaborators group led by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Dr. Schumacher completed medical school, pediatric residency, and pediatric chief residency at the University of Wisconsin before completing pediatric emergency medicine fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Following training, he was an associate program director at the Boston Combined Residency Program before returning to Cincinnati Children’s to dedicate his career to medical education research. He obtained a PhD from the prestigious Maastricht University School of Health Professions Education, receiving the dissertation of the year award in the year he defended his thesis.

Sanjay Desai, MD

Sanjay Desai, MD, is the Chief Academic Officer for the American Medical Association overseeing Medical Education activities for the organization. Dr. Desai joined the AMA in October 2021 from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine where he served as a Chief Resident and was the Myron L. Weisfeldt Professor of Medicine, Director of the Osler Medical Residency, and Vice Chair for Education in the Department of Medicine. He is an accomplished clinician, researcher, educator, and administrator with appointments in Pulmonary and Critical Care, General Internal Medicine, as well as with the Carey School of Business. Before Hopkins, he was Director of the medical ICU at the Medstar Washington Hospital Center, the largest hospital in Washington D.C. Dr. Desai has been widely recognized for his accomplishments in academic medicine, clinical practice and health systems administration. His research focuses on generating high-quality data to inform policy and practice in medical education. He has authored over 50 peer-reviewed manuscripts, including a series of articles in the New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Desai was also awarded the highly acclaimed Professors’ Award for Excellence in Teaching from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Desai grew up in Baltimore, Maryland and graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Science in bioengineering and a Bachelor of Economics from the Wharton School of Business in healthcare management. He earned his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and completed his residency and subspecialty fellowship at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, where is also served as a Chief Resident. Dr. Desai is also a senior advisor for McKinsey & Company, where he also worked as a consultant for a variety of industries in the US and in Southeast Asia. Dr. Desai lives in Bethesda, Maryland with his wife and twin boys.