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Medical Education
Assessment of Clinical Skills
Clinical Reasoning
Simulation
Curriculum Development

I currently serve as the Assistant Dean for Assessment and Evaluation for the MD program and as Associate Professor of the Practice of Medical Education. My medical education expertise includes best practices in assessment, program evaluation, curriculum design and scholarship. My research interests focus on assessment of clinical skills, predicting learner performance across the medical education continuum, faculty development in medical education, and interprofessional education.

As a clinician/educator in the Division of Nephrology, my clinical activities are mainly focused on the care of patients with end-stage renal disease. I am a Medical Director of a dialysis unit in Henderson, NC which cares for approximately 155 patients. I am a rounding nephrologist at a dialysis unit in Warrenton, NC where I and my partners care for roughly 35 patients. When at Duke, my clinical activities are focused on inpatient care of maintenance dialysis patients and general consultative nephrology. In addition, I see outpatients with a variety of nephrologic problems (chronic kidney disease, proteinuria, and hypertension) in the Private Diagnostic Clinic. I mentor fellows in this outpatient clinic.  In recent years, I have been an attending physician for a Duke General Medicine inpatient service six weeks per year.

In regard to educational activities, I am a lecturer for Normal Body, the physiology course for first-year medical students.  I am the course director for Fluids and Electrolytes, an elective course for third- and fourth-year medical students.  I give several lectures per year for our Lecture Series for Renal Fellows.

Key words: end-stage renal disease, vascular access for hemodialysis, renal osteodystrophy, consultative Nephrology.