Vice President, Faculty Development and Associate Dean Educational Skills Development
Donald and Barbara Zucker SOM at Hofstra Northwell and Northwell Health
BIO2021-Alice Fornari, EdD, FAMEE, C-CEC, RDN
Dr. Fornari is a Professor in Science Education, Occupational Health and Family Medicine. She is an Associate Dean of Educational Skills Development, Zucker SOM (ZSOM) and is the Vice President of Faculty Development for the 23 hospitals of Northwell Health. Her faculty development role at both institutions is designed to align the UME, GME and CPD continuum. Serving in these roles for the past 11 years allows her to bring UME curricular innovations originating at the ZSOM to Northwell GME programs and recruit educators from GME to participate in faculty development and teaching at the Zucker School of Medicine. Most recently she was appointed as a Fellow of the Association of Medical Education of Europe (FAMEE). In June 2021 she will receive the IAMSE award Distinguished Career Award for Excellence in Teaching and Educational Scholarship.
Recognizing a need for additional faculty development to align UME and GME education, in 2016 she created and admitted the inaugural cohort to a Master’s of Health Professions Education degree program. As Program Director, she supports high level faculty development for faculty who teach in Northwell Health's GME programs and desire an advanced degree in education. She has developed and implemented longitudinal continuing professional development opportunities for faculty: “Just in Time Teaching TIPS (JITT), “Learning Drives Teaching and Assessment” workshops, an educational research curriculum, “Educational Research Skills Development”, and system-wide “Resident as Teacher” and “Chief Resident” curriculum courses, all of which include interactive didactics and experiential components to assure skill-building is occurring in real-time.
An interest in health humanities and reflective practice as a core competency has supported successful implementation of health humanities curriculum across UME, GME, and CME at the SOM and Northwell Health. She is currently co-leading a AAMC/NEGEA Special Interest Group (SIG) on Health Humanities as Teaching and Learning tool.
Dr. Fornari is actively engaged in obtaining external funding and implementing novel programs to transform medical education across the continuum. In 2014, Dr. Fornari was awarded a 2-year grant, Mentoring and Professionalism in Training (MAP-IT), that focuses on developing mentoring skills in clinicians to achieve humanistic relationships with trainees, colleagues and ultimately patients across the continuum. Currently she is preparing a new IAMSE Manual as a co-editor entitled Mentoring in Health professions education: Evidence Informed Strategies.
Dr. Fornari obtained her EdD, Higher Education, College Teaching and Academic Leadership at Columbia University, Teachers College in 2001. Her research interest was focused on curriculum to support ethical decision making for healthcare professionals. Her interest in ethics education has continued and she obtained a Graduate Certificate in Clinical Bioethics form Hofstra University in 2018. She has a bachelor’s degree in Food and Nutrition (1974) and master’s degree in Nutrition Education (1979). She has been a Registered Dietitian since 1976 to present.
Disclosure: Nothing to disclose
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
7:35 AM – 9:00 AM CDT
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
10:45 AM – 11:00 AM CDT