About Us

Internal Oversight Committee

Erica Friedman, M.D., Director of Evaluation

An Internist and Rheumatologist involved in teaching students and residents for over 20 years, Erica also has directed the third year Internal Medicine Clerkship and fourth year Medicine Subinternship at Mount Sinai since 1994 and is currently co-Director of the Combined Internal Medicine/Geriatrics Clerkship. Additionally, she has been Director of Evaluation for the Medical School since 1999. A member of the Council of Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine and the Council of Academic Societies of the AAMC, her interests focus on professionalism, self-directed and practice-based learning, and recognizing and learning from medical errors.

Jennifer Koestler, M.D., Pediatrics Clerkship Director

As Director of Year Three and the Pediatric Clerkship, Jennifer developed a case-based, Web-supported undergraduate pediatrics curriculum, based on a set of core competencies. In the process, she refined the existing course syllabus and goals and objectives. Specific teaching roles included major participation in the student didactic series, small group physical diagnosis rounds, and the “Introduction to the Pediatric Patient” lecture for all second year medical students. In addition, she serves as the Year Three Director for the Medical School. In this capacity, she has oversight for curricular innovations, coordination of the Orientation to the Clinical Years, and new Third Year Intersession course.

Adam I. Levine, M.D., Program Director, Director of Simulation, Department of Anesthesiology

Serving as Program Director and Director of Simulation since 1996, Adam is responsible for the oversight of the Anesthesiology Residency training program and the development of a state of the educational resourse known as the Department of Anesthesiology’s HELPS Center (Human Emulation, Education, Evaluation, Lab for Patient Safety and Professional Study). The Center houses three adult full-scale mannequin simulators, one of which is mobile, and a child simulator. The center also has several part-task trainers for virtual bronchoscopy, colonoscopy and intravenous placement. Based on Adam’s design, the center is supported by state of the art audiovisual technology that enables one the ability to control and monitor every room and simulator in the center and to broadcast it locally or internationally via teleconferencing. Adam is an educational pioneer who is responsible for developing and conducting simulator based educational programs throughout the Sinai community. Adam has been named outstanding Anesthesiology Attending Teacher twice, has received the award for “Excellence in Teaching” for all four years of medical school from the student body, received the first annual “Excellence in Teaching” award by the Institute for Medical Education, and was awarded joint appointment in the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics for his educational efforts during the first year medical student physiology course.

Joe Masci, M.D., Chairman, Department of Medicine - Elmhurst Hospital

Currently the Director of Medicine at Elmhurst, he is responsible for the inpatient teaching of residents and students. He supervises medical morning report (residents) and also conducts teaching rounds on the infectious diseases service (residents, students and fellows). From 1999-2002 he served as the Year 2 curriculum director for the medical school, and still lectures and precepts small groups in Pathogenesis and Mechanisms of Host Defense(first year course) Other teaching includes microbiology at the Sophie Davis School. He is a past recipient of the following teaching awards: the Solomon Berson Award, the Department of Medicine Distinguished Educator and Housestaff Teaching Awards from Mount Sinai, and the Housestaff Elective Teaching Award from Elmhurst. Also an author, he wrote Outpatient Management of HIV Infection.

Suzanne Rose, M.D., Associate Dean for Student Affairs

As the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Medical Education, she oversees the Clinical Curriculum and Student Affairs. Her educational focus has been in the creation of curriculum and innovations in programming in the areas of career development, professionalism, and competency. As a gastroenterologist, she is actively involved in teaching the GI fellows and the Medicine Residents and participates in the second year GI course as a lecturer and small group facilitator. On the national level, she serves on the Education Committee of the American Gastroenterological Association with a focus in faculty development and problem-based learning. Other contributions to the annual meeting include: preparing course objectives, developing creative formats for educational offerings, and preparing manuals for educational leadership.

Barry Stimmel, M.D., Dean for Graduate Medical Education

As Dean of Academic Affairs for 13 years (1981-1994) and Acting Chair of Medical Education for 15 years, he has taught on every level of the curriculum including residency training. Currently he resides as Dean for Graduate Medical Education and Chair of MSSM Consortium for GME consisting of 13 institutions and over 2200 residents. Author of over 140 publications and 130 abstracts or presentations, approximately one third in each group have been devoted to medical education issues. Additionally, he has been PI or co-PI on grants addressing residency training, standardized patients, assessing clinical competence and primary care.

Richard Woodrow, D.S.W., Director of Organizational Development and Learning

A teacher at Mount Sinai since 1990, Richard was course co-director for Introduction to Medicine. His other significant contribution was in curriculum design for the Art and Science of Medicine course at the Medical School. Previous teaching includes faculty at Columbia University School of Social Work (1979 to 1987) as well as high school English.

Randi Zinberg, M.S., Department of Human Genetics

As a genetic counselor, Randi is Assistant Professor of Human Genetics, Director of genetic counseling and directs the Master of Science Program in Genetic Counseling. She is course director of a three semester genetic counseling course, and an ethics and genetic course. She lectures in the medical school and graduate school and is a member of the ethics faculty. Educational research includes the use of standardized patients in genetics education.