Dissemination Committee of Educational Resources

Vision

The Committee on Dissemination of Educational Resources for AEI’s facilitates and governs the distribution of content generated by the AEI Consortium using all ACS available infrastructure.

Mission

To provide a method to curate and distribute AEI Consortium generated content effectively and timely to the AEI Community.

To leverage the ACS available infrastructure to disseminate content appropriately and cost-effectively to the AEI Community and facilitate cross-AEI collaboration along with it.

The Virtual Grand Rounds Committee reports up to the Dissemination Committee as both have fully aligned vision and missions.

Co-Chairs

Mark Aeder, MD, FACS

Director of Surgical Quality, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Centers / Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

Kathleen A. Johnson, EdM

Vice-Chair

Julie A. Hartman, DC, MS, CCRP

Operations Manager, Center for Procedural Skills and Simulation

Members

Deborah E. Farr, MD, FACS

Surgical Oncology and Acute Care Emergency Surgery Faculty, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX

JaNae Joyner, PhD, MHA

Executive Director, Center for Experiential and Applied Learning; Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC

Mojca (Monica) Remskar Konia, MD, PhD, MACM

University of Minnesota; Residency Program Director/SIM Portal Director and Medical Director Minneapolis VA Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN

Mariela Rivera, MD, FACS

Mayo Clinic; Associate Program Director General Surgery Residency and Associate ICU Medical Director at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

Deborah Rooney, PhD

University of Michigan; Director of Surgical Simulation, Ann Arbor, MI

Jose Velasco, MD, FACS

Rush Center for Surgical Skills and Simulation; Director Surgical Innovation and Professor of Surgery at Rush Medical College, Chicago , IL

Benjamin R. Veenstra, MD, FACS

Co-Clerkship Director, General Surgery and Assistant Professor Division of Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery, Rush Medical College, Chicago, IL