About Us

Institute Leaders

Lisa Coplit, M.D.

Dr. Coplit is the Director of the IME at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She completed her medical school, residency, and chief resident training at Boston University School of Medicine. She is an alumnus of both the Harvard Macy Program for Physician Educators and the Stanford Faculty Development Program in Clinical Teaching Skills. As the director of the IME, she works with other medical educators to create and implement faculty development and professional development programs for educational leaders, basic science faculty, clinical faculty and residents.

In her role as a faculty developer, she directs the Resident Teaching Development Program, which is a multispecialty teaching skills curriculum for all residents at Mount Sinai Hospital and our 12 affiliates. This is now one of the most extensive multidisciplinary resident as teacher curricula in the United States. She developed the "Teach the Teacher" curriculum to train Mount Sinai and affiliate faculty to teach and implement teaching skills courses for the faculty and residents in their own departments. Lisa is the director of the Education Leadership Conference which is an annual, day-long teaching and professional development program for educational leaders not only at MSSM and its affiliate institutions, but for national figures in medical education. She is co-director of Medical Education Grand Rounds. She is the co-course director of a fourth year medical student elective called "Becoming a Medical Teacher" and also directs Training Tomorrow's Teachers Today, American Medical Student Association (AMSA) and Mount Sinai School of Medicine's (MSSM) annual teaching and leadership institute for medical students from around the country. In addition, she has developed and directed various individualized faculty development programs for residents and faculty at MSSM and its affiliate institutions.

She is co-director of the recently created MSSM Curriculum Content Reform Task Force, whose role is to ensure a comprehensive review of the undergraduate medical education curriculum at MSSM. As an Internist, she is actively involved in teaching residents and students in the hospital and outpatient clinic and in developing and teaching primary care curricula. She serves on many committees in undergraduate and graduate medical education and is active in both regional and national medical education organizations.

Dr. Coplit believes that the IME serves as a vital and unique resource to MSSM educators because the IME is dedicated to enhancing the teaching skills of our faculty and residents and assisting faculty with their professional development and promotion so that they thrive as educators.

Laurie Brown, M.A.

Ms. Brown is the Institute Program Director in addition to her primary role as the Assistant Dean of Student Affairs. She completed her undergraduate education at The Ohio State University and did her master's training in counseling psychology at the Illinois School of Professional Psychology. Before moving to New York and joining the medical education team at Mount Sinai, she was Director of Special Projects in the Admissions office at Northwestern University Medical School, and Special Projects Coordinator at University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine. Her interests include PBL, career and professional development of medical students, and student well being.

Ms. Brown is part of the Curriculum Content Reform Taskforce, whose role is to ensure a comprehensive review of the undergraduate medical education curriculum at MSSM. Additionally, she co-directs a first year Bench to Bedside selective in Sexual and Reproductive Health and is the Courses without Walls Career Development director. She serves on many committees in undergraduate medical education and is active in both regional and national medical education organizations.

Bridget O'Brien

Ms. O'Brien is the IME Program Coordinator. She is responsible for coordinating the many events the IME hosts for it's educators and students. She obtained her B.A. in Marketing from Marist College.

Richard Woodrow, D.S.W.

Faculty Development Advisor