Collective Wisdom, Amplified

Research from our Educator Consortium

20+

clinical disciplines &
professional roles

285

active educators

100+

institutions & programs

Shared Expertise. Lasting Impact.

Aquifer's Educator Consortium brings together nationally respected educators whose scholarship, leadership, and clinical expertise help shape both Aquifer and healthcare education. The research and publications below highlight the breadth of expertise and collective impact of this extraordinary community.

Amit Pahwa, MD
Associate Editor

Esther Dale, PhD
Associate Editor, Assessment Lead

Angela Beckert, MD
Associate Editor - Curriculum Lead

Jason Chao, MD
Associate Editor - Assessment Lead

Amit Pahwa, MD

Clinical Excellence Board

Amit was published in the Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions. His article, "Implementing patient- and family-centered rounds training with direct-observation assessment for medical students in the United States: a prospective feasibility study," evaluates the implementation of a patient- and family-centered rounds (PFCR) educational intervention and a standardized assessment form developed to assess changes in medical students' PFCR performance over time.

Xiao E, Chen E, Pahwa A. Implementing Patient- and Family-centered Rounds Training with Direct-observation Assessment for Medical Students in the United States: A Prospective Feasibility Study. Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions. 2026;23:18. doi:10.3352/jeehp.2026.23.18

Esther Dale, PhD

Sciences Board

Esther's article, "Implementing Core Entrustable Professional Activities in Emergency Medicine Clerkships: A Psychometric Study of Student Growth," was published in AEM Education and Training. This article is a psychometric analysis of over 7,700 EPA-based assessments from 481 medical students in an emergency medicine clerkship found that most EPAs followed the expected negative exponential learning curve and achieved adequate reliability with six raters, supporting the EPA framework as a practical, informative tool for clerkship assessment and design.

Griebie AM, Dale ED, Abulela MAA, Violato C. Implementing Core Entrustable Professional Activities in Emergency Medicine Clerkships: A Psychometric Study of Student Growth. AEM Educ Train. 2026;10(3):e70191. Published 2026 Jun 23. doi:10.1002/aet2.70191

Angela Beckert, MD

Geriatrics Board

Angela's article, "Med-Geri: A Novel Integrated Residency and Fellowship Model to Expand the Geriatrics Workforce," was recently published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. The Med-Geri pathway, a 48-month integrated Internal/Family Medicine-Geriatrics residency and fellowship launched as an ACGME AIRE pilot in 2020, has grown from 3 to 14 sites with 38 trainees enrolled for 2025-2026, showing promising early results in retention, program visibility, and leadership development as a scalable strategy to address the geriatrics workforce shortage.

Beckert A, Fernandez H, Harlow E, Hansen L, O’Brien CC. Med‐Geri: A Novel Integrated Residency and Fellowship Model to Expand the Geriatrics Workforce. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2026;74(6):1709-1714. doi:10.1111/jgs.70513

Jason Chao, MD

Family Medicine Board

Jason was published in the Journal of Dental Research, with his article "A Cluster-Randomized Clinical Trial of Silver Diamine Fluoride vs Atraumatic Restoration in Older Adults." In a cluster-randomized trial of 568 older adults in subsidized housing, biannual topical 38% silver diamine fluoride was noninferior to atraumatic restorative treatment for both caries arrest and prevention of new caries at 52 weeks, supporting SDF as a simple, deliverable option for controlling dental caries in this population.

Nelson S, Albert JM, Selvaraj D, et al. A Cluster-Randomized Clinical Trial of Silver Diamine Fluoride vs Atraumatic Restoration in Older Adults. Journal of Dental Research. Published online March 18, 2026. doi:10.1177/00220345261429949

Internal Medicine Board

Pahresah Roomiany, MD, MS, FACP

Roomiany P, Eshraghi A, Farber F. Clozapine-Associated Myocarditis Presenting with Acute Heart Failure: Inflammation before Injury. Cureus. 2026;18(3). doi:10.7759/cureus.105736

Roomiany P, Shuman T, Pichan C. Hemopericardium from Ventricular Rupture: A Rare but Predictable Complication of Subacute Infarction. Annals of Internal Medicine: Clinical Cases. 2025;4(10). doi:10.7326/aimcc.2025.0378

Neha Deshpande, MD

Nemeth A, Deshpande N, Zhang Y, Singh M. Take Charge of Your Professional Network of Colleagues to Succeed in Academic Medicine. Academic Medicine: Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges. 2025;100(5):648. doi:10.1097/ACM.0000000000005971

Geriatrics Board

Amit Shah, MD, AGSF, FACP

Schwartz AW, Sehgal M, Dawson CMP, et al. Updated Geriatrics Competencies for Graduating Medical Students: Training Physicians to Provide Age-Friendly Care. Academic Medicine: Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges. 2025;100(5):592-599. doi:10.1097/ACM.0000000000005958

Neurology Board

Doris Kung, MD

8.Anandan C, Anderson NC, Barbour K, et al. Enhancing Neurologic Clinical Competency-Implementing Competency-based Medical Education and Workplace-based Assessments in a Neurology Clerkship. Seminars in Neurology. 2026;46(3):257-262. doi:10.1055/a-2762-9535

Brian Emmert, MD

Emmert BE, Lenka A, Frey J, et al. Neurology Residency Training In 2022. Neurology Education. 2025;4(2). doi:10.1212/ne9.0000000000200221

NP Affinity Group

Danielle Hebert, DNP, MBA, MSN, ANP-BC

Isenberger J, Carpenter D, Menard A, Rossetti V, Hebert D, Garuti R. Impact of Continuation of Antipsychotic Medications and Benzodiazepines after Critical Care Discharge. Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. Published online 2026:10.1097/JXX.0000000000001268.

Menard A, Isenberger J, Hebert D, Bilica S, Stevens GA, Carpenter D. Review of Studies That Examine the Role of Advanced Practice Registered Nurses and Physician Associates in Mass Shooting Incidents. Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. 2026;38(5):343-350. doi:10.1097/JXX.0000000000001239.

Isenberger J, Carpenter D, Menard A, Stevens GA, Hebert D. A Systematic Review of Transitional Care Visits After Critical Illness. The Journal for Nurse Practitioners. 2025;21(8):105439-105439. doi:10.1016/j.nurpra.2025.105439

Marcy Ainslie, EdD, APRN, Danielle Hebert, DNP, MBA, Patricia Griffith, PhD

Ainslie M, Hebert D, Miller J, et al. Scaffolding Case Studies. Nurse Educator. Published online January 27, 2025. doi:10.1097/nne.0000000000001825

Obstetrics & Gynecology Board

Tarnisha Hemphill, DNP, CNM

Quattrini VR, Taylor L, Lynch-Smith D, et al. Artificial Intelligence-Ready Doctor of Nursing Practice Education: A Competency-Based Approach. Journal of Doctoral Nursing Practice. 2026;19(1):11-23. doi:10.1891/jdnp-2025-0051

Pediatrics Board

Aleisha Nabower, MD, MHPTT

Soni M, Fan AL, Micolisin E, et al. "Listening Neglect": A Mixed-Methods Study of How Families Feel Unheard in Hospitals. Pediatrics. 2025;156(4):e2024070332. doi:10.1542/peds.2024-070332

Allen AJ, Nguyen N, Lorman V, et al. Respiratory and Other Infections Following COVID. Pediatrics. 2025;156(3):e2024068280. doi:10.1542/peds.2024-068280

Buscher JF, McConnell CR, Ortmann LA, et al. Trends in the Management of Complex Febrile Seizures Across Children’s Hospitals. Pediatric Emergency Care. 2025;41(9):e87-e93. doi:10.1097/pec.0000000000003413

Emily Graham, MD

Culver S, Graham E. IV Iron Lowers the Risk of HF Hospitalization for Patients with HF (EF<50%) and Iron Deficiency. The Hospitalist. Published October 1, 2025. Accessed July 28, 2026. https://www.the-hospitalist.org/hospitalist/article/39866/cardiology/iv-iron-lowers-the-risk-of-hf-hospitalization-for-patients-with-hf-ef/

Kanika Gupta, MD

Lackey A, Calardo S, Gupta K. Don’t Be Rash: Exploring Mucositis in a Teenager. Pediatrics in Review. 2026;47(3):182-184. doi:10.1542/pir.2024-006617

Sciences Board

Julie Kerry, PhD

Hardy KP, Burbage AK, Kerry JA. Influence of Faculty-Derived Concept Maps on Student Study Strategies. Medical Science Educator. 2025;35(6):2933-2942. doi:10.1007/s40670-025-02496-4

Youngjin Cho, PhD & Amy Wilson-Delfosse, PhD

Cho Y, Croniger CM, McEnery MW, McLin R, Wilson-Delfosse AL. The Prompt-powered Worksheet: Transforming Educators’ Generative AI Trepidation into Student Learning Tools. Medical Teacher. Published online September 24, 2025:1-4. doi:10.1080/0142159x.2025.2558903

Jinen Thakkar, MD

Thakkar J, Weber J, Zain M. Phrenic Nerve Stimulation-Induced Persistent Singultus: A Case of Atrial Lead Dislodgement after Dual-Chamber Pacemaker Implant. Journal of Brown Hospital Medicine. 2026;5(2). doi:10.56305/001c.160255