Advisor, Founder 

Andrew Elder, MBChB is a professor at the University of Edinburgh and the medical director of MRCP(UK), where he oversees clinical assessment of trainees. 

Society of Bedside Medicine

The bedside encounter between a patient and physician is central to the practice of medicine. This time-honored ritual provides the basis for trust and healing for the patient, but is also an important source of fulfillment and satisfaction for the physician. It is fundamental to accurate diagnosis and high-quality patient-centered care. The Society of Bedside Medicine was formed by a global community of physician educators dedicated to bedside teaching and improving physical examination and diagnostic skills. The purpose of the society is to foster a culture of bedside medicine through deliberate practice and teaching, and by encouraging innovation in education and research on the role of the clinical encounter in 21st century medicine.


Board Members

Stephen Russell 

University of Alabama, Birmingham 

Co-President

Stephen Russell, MD is assistant professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and lead physician of the Moody Health Clinic. He created the UAB faculty development program in clinical skills and is co-president for the SBM. 

Maja Artandi 

Stanford University

Co-President

Maja Artandi, MD is clinical assistant professor at Stanford where she leads the outpatient components of the Stanford Medicine 25. She is co-president for the SBM. 

Lars Osterberg 

Stanford University 

Secretary

Lars Osterberg, MD, MPH, Associate Professor (Teaching) of Medicine at Stanford School of Medicine; Co-director of Stanford Medicine Teaching and Mentoring Academy. He currently directs the Educators-4-CARE program at Stanford University School of Medicine.

John Kugler 

Stanford University 

Founding Board Member

John Kugler, MD is assistant clinical professor at Stanford, director of the Stanford Medicine 25 Skills Symposium and founding board member of the SBM. 

Brian Garibaldi 

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Founding Board Member

Brian T. Garibaldi, MD is associate program director for medicine at Johns Hopkins. He is a founding board member of the SBM and the Barondess Fellow in the Clinical Transaction through the New York Academy of Medicine. 

Sharon Onguti 

Southern Illinois University 

Founding Board Member 

Sharon Onguti, MD, MPH is assistant professor and associate clerkship director at Southern Illinois University. 

Andrew Elder

University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Andy Elder, Founding Board Member

Andrew Elder, MD is Honorary Professor at the Edinburgh Medical School, Scotland, UK. He is Medical Director of MRCP(UK) examinations, which include PACES, the largest international postgraduate assessment of bedside clinical skills, and collaborates with Dr. Verghese in the Stanford 25 program. He was a founding member and serves on the board of SBM.

Sonoo Thadaney

Stanford University

Founding Board Member

Sonoo Thadaney, MBA is executive director of the Presence Center and the Stanford Program in Bedside Medicine + director of Education Programs, Stanford Prevention Research Center.

Junaid Zaman

Imperial College London, Stanford University, Cedars Sinai Medical Center

Junaid Zaman, Founding Board Member

Junaid Zaman, MA, BMBCh, MRCP, obtained his medical degree from University of Oxford. He recently completed a 2 year postdoctoral Fulbright BHF Scholarship at Stanford, where he regularly contributed to the Stanford 25 Bedside Medicine Program. He has won teaching awards for his bedside teaching at Oxford and Imperial College London. He brings a transatlantic perspective to SBM from his post-graduate training in the US and UK.

Nicola N Zammitt

Edinburgh Centre for Endocrinology and Diabetes

Board Member

Nicola N. Zammitt, MD, FRCPE is the Clinical Director of the Edinburgh Centre for Endocrinology and Diabetes. She is an examiner for the MRCP PACES examination and set up and coordinates the Edinburgh PACES course at the Clinical Skills Centre at the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh. She is an honorary senior lecturer with the University of Edinburgh and is actively involved in both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.

Anna R. Dover

Edinburgh Centre for Endocrinology and Diabetes

Board Member

Anna R Dover, MA MbChB PhD FRCPE is a Consultant Physician at the Edinburgh Centre for Endocrinology and Diabetes and Training Programme Director for Diabetes and Endocrinology in South East Scotland. She is an examiner for the MRCP PACES examination, and editor of Macleod's Clinical Examination 14th Edition, a core international textbook on the physical examination and winner of the British Medical Association student textbook of the year 2019. She is an Honorary Senior Lecturer with the University of Edinburgh and is actively involved in both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.

Timothy Niessen

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Treasurer

Timothy Niessen is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins university, where he is an academic hospitalist with interests in bedside medicine and health technology.


 

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