RISE Innovators

Courtney Burns is a medical student on a research year in the Department of Anesthesiology in between her third and fourth years at the University of Michigan Medical School. As a RISE Innovator, Ms. Burns will develop the use of community-engaged art to promote emotional resilience among anesthesiology trainees and faculty after challenging clinical events (e.g., patient deaths, cardiac or respiratory arrests, etc.).

Dr. Kathrine Giarra is a second-year critical care fellow in the Department of Emergency Medicine & Internal Medicine at Michigan Medicine. As a RISE Innovator, Dr. Giarra will develop a computer-based simulation platform that will enable resident and fellow physician learners to hone clinical reasoning skills through deliberate practice on simulated critically ill patient cases.

Dr. Jenna Greenberg is a clinical assistant professor in family medicine and assistant residency director at Michigan Medicine. As a RISE Innovator, Dr. Greenberg will develop a novel feedback process with a focus on equitable assessment and mitigating bias to promote a culture of inclusion. 

Kayla Marcotte is an M.D./Ph.D. student in the Medical Scientist Training Program at the University of Michigan Medical School. As a RISE Innovator, Ms. Marcotte will develop and implement a faculty dashboard that displays quality metrics for narrative feedback given to medical trainees.

Dr. Michael Brenner is an associate professor of otolaryngology—head and neck surgery at University of Michigan Medical School, Michigan Medicine. As a RISE innovator, Dr. Brenner will address fragmented healthcare by integrating learning and patient care across medical, dental, nursing, social work and pharmacy health professions.

Dr. Ivan Co is a clinical assistant professor in emergency medicine and internal medicine, critical care. He serves as the assistant program director of the Emergency Medicine Critical Care Fellowship at Michigan Medicine. As a RISE innovator, Dr. Co will continue creating MI-DIVA (Michigan- Difficult IntraVenous Access Model). This model will allow trainees to practice challenging central venous catheter placement in a simulated environment through a deliberate practice model.

Ms. Chelsea Fisk is a clinical researcher in cardiothoracic surgery at Michigan Medicine. As a RISE innovator, Ms. Fisk will develop The Health Equity Literature Archive (HELA), an employee-centered initiative to foster independent, self-paced learning about the social determinants of health through memoirs, literary fiction and other works.

Dr. Alton R. Johnson Jr. is a clinical assistant professor, podiatrist, podiatric surgeon and wound care specialist in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Michigan Medical School. As a RISE innovator, he will develop and implement scalable utilization of augmented reality to enhance medical training education and patient care experiences.

Dr. Vitaliy Popov is an assistant professor in the University of Michigan Medical School Department of Learning Health Sciences with a courtesy appointment at the School of Information. As a RISE innovator, Dr. Popov will implement a validated radar graphical tool mapping the four constructs of shared decision-making (SDM) to provide real-time visualization of care provider/team and patient/family perspectives on a given SDM situation.

Dr. Sandra Hearn is the interim associate chair of education and professional development in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.  As a RISE innovator, Dr. Hearn reshaped the feedback culture using a virtual landscape.

Dr. Andrew Krumm is an assistant professor of learning health sciences at the University of Michigan Medical School.  As a RISE innovator, Dr. Krumm devised targeted assessment-feedback encounters to improve general surgeons’ operative performance.

Dr. John Burkhardt is an assistant professor in the Departments of Emergency Medicine and Learning Health Sciences.  As a RISE innovator, Dr. Burkhardt engaged residents to use their individual clinical practice data to stimulate critical reflection on unconscious bias in health care practices.

Ms. Jenni Lane is the assistant director, training and technical assistance at Weitzman Institute.  As a RISE Mini-Grant Recipient, Ms. Lane developed an educational model that translates research intro practice to improve provider practices for delivering confidential risk screening to adolescent patients.

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Dr. Shoba Subramanian is the principal program manager, university partnerships at Amazon.  As a RISE innovator, Dr. Subramanian developed competencies and a competency-based intervention to facilitate creativity and problem-solving in early biomedical sciences graduate students.