Mark A. Graber, M.D., F.A.C.E.P.

Mark A. Graber is a graduate of the College of William and Mary, and Eastern Virginia Medical School. He is a professor of Emergency Medicine and Family Medicine at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine in Iowa City, Iowa as well as Deputy Medical Examiner, Johnson County, Iowa and Medical Director of EMS services for Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa (RABGRAI). The author of numerous papers and two books: The University of Iowa Family Medicine Handbook, now in its 5th edition (2006, Elsevier, Philadelphia) and Family Practice Examination and Board Review, 2nd edition (2008, McGraw-Hill, New York), Dr. Graber is also clinical associate editor of Prescriber's Letter (Stockton, California). His research interests include medical ethics, medical informatics and medical decision making. When not working, he can usually be found on his bicycle.

Diane Levine, M.D.

Diane Levine is a graduate of both Wayne State University and Wayne State University School of Medicine. She completed training in Internal Medicine and an additional year of service as Chief Medical Resident. She is board certified in Internal Medicine with added qualifications in Geriatric Medicine. Following training, she practiced Internal Medicine in a variety of clinical venues including managed care and solo private practice. She left private practice in 1991 to devote herself to medical education and until 2001 she ran student programs at a large community teaching hospital. In 2001 she joined the Department of Medicine at Wayne State University to lead their educational mission. As current Vice Chair for Education she oversees education provided by the Department.

Dr. Levine’s clinical and research interests have focused on optimization of student and resident education and, to this end, she has developed a number of innovative educational programs. She has also published in the area of HIV diagnosis and, specifically, the diagnosis of HIV in elderly women.

She has received over twenty-five awards for mentorship and teaching, including the Outstanding Faculty Award and the Staff Award, given to the one faculty member whose “conduct, precepts, and warmth have revealed the art, science, and life of medicine”. She received the Arnold P Gold Foundation’s Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award and was nominated for the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Humanism in Medicine Award. She was the recipient of the first Gender Equity Award at Wayne State University for promoting a gender-free environment for the education and training of women physicians and has received the Pillar Award of Excellence for Reducing Health Disparities.

Dr. Levine is a member of the Society of General Internal Medicine, Physicians for a National Health Plan and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.

Anderson Spickard, III, M.D., M.S., F.A.C.P.

Dr. Anderson Spickard, III, M.D., M.S., F.A.C.P. is Associate Professor of Medicine in the Departments of Medicine and Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Dr. Spickard received his bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina and received his MD from Vanderbilt University. He completed his residency and chief residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Washington and obtained a masters in epidemiology from the University of Virginia. He joined the faculty at the Vanderbilt School of Medicine in 1995.

Dr. Spickard is the Director of the Medical Student Clerkship Program for the Vanderbilt Department of Medicine and the Director of Programs for Technological Innovations in Medical Education for the Vanderbilt Medical Center. Dr. Spickard is an active practitioner and teacher in Internal Medicine and is designated a Master Teacher at Vanderbilt. He teaches residents and students throughout the Medical Center. He is a frequent lecturer to the public and other universities on topics related to medical education, informatics, and clinical medicine. He has received numerous national teaching awards and recently served as President of the Southern Society of General Internal Medicine.

Dr. Spickard has helped to redesign the entire medical school curriculum and develop the new Office of Teaching and Learning at the Vanderbilt School of Medicine. He and his team have created web-based tools used by the Medical School to track concepts taught in the curriculum and encountered by learners through their interactions with patients on the wards and in the clinics. These tools have changed the way that education is delivered at Vanderbilt and are shaping curriculums at other universities now adopting this technology. Dr. Spickard’s expertise in study design and the evaluation of medical education helps in forming partnerships between departments that are providing Vanderbilt with innovative curricula and a sustained research agenda in the education of health care professionals and their patients.

Dr. Spickard’s research interests and publications include all aspects of medical education with a special focus on the design and application of innovative informatics approaches to education.