Office of Pediatric Education

Faculty & Staff Leadership

Education Continuum

Mission: To be the nation’s premier medical and biomedical training center in child health by developing, evaluating, and continually improving transformative educational experiences and programs for learners.

AIMS:

  • Cultivate individuals and teams with the clinical and leadership skills necessary to deliver care and meet the needs of children’s health in the 21st century.
  • Develop individuals’ research skills that empower them to be leaders and innovators in scholarship that advances children’s health.
  • Foster a positive learning culture that values diversity, inclusivity, and equity and encourages reflection, respectful discourse, and an authentic appreciation of differences.
  • Promote a learning community that supports wellbeing through institutional and individual practices.
Organization Chart

Rebecca Blankenburg, MD, MPH

Associate Chair of Education

Sarina Tom

Education Operations Manager

Allison Guerin, EdD, MEd

Director of Education Administration

Ingrid Garnica

Education Coordinator

Medical Student Education

Mission: To educate and inspire leaders in medicine and science who will improve human health through discovery, innovation, scholarship, education, and the delivery of outstanding patient-centered care.
 

Elizabeth Stuart, MD

Director of Clerkship Education

Julia Arndt

Medical Student Education Coordinator

Kevin Chi, MD

Associate Core Clerkship Director

Residency Education

Mission: To create outstanding clinicians and leaders in children's health.
 

Caroline Rassbach, MD

Program Director

Sarah Hilgenberg, MD

Associate Program Director, Curriculum

Caroline Buckway, MD

Associate Program Director, Advising & Wellness

Caroline Okorie, MD

Associate Program Director, Advising

Michelle Brooks, C-TAGME

Residency Coordinator

Katherine Jackman

Associate Residency Coordinator

Kevin Kuo, MD

Associate Program Director, Curriculum

Lahia Yemane, MD

Associate Program Director, Advising & Recruitment

Elizabeth Stuart, MD

Associate Program Director, Continuity Clinic

Carrie Johnson, MBA

Residency Education Manager

Carrie McGaughey

Residency Coordinator

Fellowship Education

Mission: To foster a learning community that promotes innovation, clinical excellence, and future physician leaders.
 

Hayley Gans, MD

Director of Fellowship Education

Charlene Rotandi, AB, C-TAGME

Department Fellowship Manager

Wendy Cardamone

Fellowship Coordinator, Allergy/Immunology & Pediatric Rheumatology

Mary Riordan, MA

Fellowship Coordinator
Pediatric Hospital Medicine & Clinical Informatics

Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, PhD

Director of Fellowship Research

Erica Okamura, MA

Department Fellowship Coordinator

Kim Vo, C-TAGME

Fellowship Coordinator, Pediatric Endocrinology & Pediatric Infectious Diseases

Leanne Rodriguez

Residency & Fellowship Coordinator, Medical Genetics Residency, Combined Pediatrics-Medical Genetics Residency, Medical Biochemical Genetics Fellowship

Postdoc & Student Education

Mission: To provide research education that trains learners as scientists who can contribute to the empirical knowledge base of pediatrics, and who advance the discovery, integration, and application of scholarship in the basic, clinical, and translational sciences.
 

Manuel Amieva, MD, PhD

Director of Postdoctoral Affairs

Margaret Murphy, MSEd

Student Services Manager