Clinician Educator Training Pathway

Christen Dilly is a general gastroenterologist with a career focus on medical education. She truly loves her work, and this drives her to help learners and colleagues develop fulfilling careers. Her clinical practice is at the Roudebush VA Medical Center, where she is the Director of Endoscopy and the Director of the Medical Weight Loss Program.  In conjunction with this CETP program, she conducts research into professional identity formation in future educators.  At the fellowship level, she serves as the chair of the clinical competency committee. She also enjoys faculty development, and she has facilitated several faculty learning communities centered around the scholarship of teaching and learning.  She is the Director of the AGA Academy of Educators, where she is working to help GI educators across the country flourish.

Dr. Sara Kane is a clinical neonatologist in the Simon Family Tower and the Maternity and Newborn Tower at Riley Hospital for Children. She completed her fellowship training in Neonatal-Perinatal medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine, and during her fellowship training also earned her Master’s Degree in Adult Education. She served as the Associate Program Director for the Neonatal Fellowship Program for three years, and is now the Program Director for the Pediatric Residency training program as well as the Associate Director for the Clinician Educator Training Pathway at IU. Her research interests focus on resident and fellow education, especially in program development, curriculum design, and evaluation methodology. In addition, she participates in running neonatal simulations for pediatric and emergency medicine residents and outreach programs throughout the state.