Medical Education, Health Patient Care

Dr. Javeed Sukhera is Associate Chief Academic Officer at Hartford HealthCare and Chair of Psychiatry at the Institute of Living and Hartford Hospital. He also serves as Founding Director of the Center for Research on Racial Trauma and Community Healing.

An internationally recognized leader in health professions education, his work focuses on physician wellbeing, bias in medical education, and the intersection of healthcare, education, and community systems. He holds academic appointments at Quinnipiac University, Yale School of Medicine, and the University of Connecticut.

Dr. Edje is a Board Certified Family Physician, Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physician and was the Ohio Academy of Family Physicians 2012 Family Physician of The Year. She had the honor of being the 2019 Thomas Stern Memorial Lecture Plenary Speaker for the Association Family Medicine Residency Directors. She started at Michigan State University at age 16 where she received a Bachelor of Science degree in Physiology. She was President of her medical school student body at the University of Michigan. She completed her Family Medicine training, with honors, at the Toledo Hospital Family Medicine Residency where she served as Program Director for seven years. In the course of practicing at St.Luke’s Hospital (SLH) she was the youngest Chief of Staff in the 100 year history of the Hospital and the first female Chair of the Department of Medicine. She enjoyed serving her community on the Toledo Children’s Board, ProMedica Health System's Physician Leadership Council and is Past President of University of the Michigan's Michigan Medicine Alumni Society. She was an active member of the University of Michigan Medical School Admissions Executive Committee, an elected representative of Lucas County physicians to the Ohio State Medical Association and an Ohio Delegate to the American Medical Association. She is currently on the Michigan State Medical Society Board of Directors a the academic director. She served as Member-at-Large on the AMA Organized Medical Staff Section Governing Council. She is in her second of three years as chair of the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education’s Family Medicine Residency Review Committee and fifth year as member appointed by the AMA Board of Trustees. Dr Edje has a Masters in Health Professions Education from the University of Michigan where she is on faculty in the MHPE Program. She was Designated Institutional Officer for SLH and founding Program Director for the Family Medicine Residency then DIO for over 100 programs at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine where she was also Associate Dean of Graduate Medical Education. She currently oversees the education of 2,400 medical students, residents and fellows and the continuing medical education of 3,500 faculty. Her interests include assessment in competency based, health professions education and health policy.

Professor Anna Ryan is a medical doctor and the Head of the Department of Medical Education (DME) at the Melbourne Medical School. With a PhD in Medical Education, she has an extensive background in teaching, clinical practice, and research supervision for doctoral candidates.

Her primary expertise lies in the strategic use of assessment to guide learning, balancing educational goals with certification of competence and patient safety. Anna holds influential leadership roles in health professional regulation and accreditation, including significant work with the Australian Medical Council. She is also a Fellow of ANZAHPE and serves as an associate editor for Advances in Health Sciences Education.

John (Jack) R. Kues, Ph.D., M.A. (Forum Member), graduated with a B.S. degree in psychology and a B.A. degree in sociology from Northern Kentucky University. He earned his M.A. degree in sociology and Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Cincinnati (UC). He is associate dean for Continuous Professional Development and professor emeritus at the University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center where he is responsible for continuing medical education and continuing interprofessional education. He is also the project evaluator for the UC Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) from NIH. Dr. Kues is currently the president of the Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions. He is a past president of the Society for Academic Continuing Medical Education (SACME), where he has also chaired the Research Endowment Council, the Research Committee, and the Communications Committee. He is a past chair of the CME Section of the AAMC Group on Educational Affairs. Dr. Kues has been an active volunteer for SACME, the Alliance, the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education, and other organizations.