EDge Impact

Monday, May 18, 2026 | 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Griffis Faculty Club

WCM EDge Impact is a celebration to highlight exciting projects focused on shaping the future of medical education, both within WCM and across the broader academic landscape. The event features oral presentations from of our Education Scholar Award recipients, as well as nearly 20 education scholarship abstracts from across the WCM faculty.

This medical education scholarship showcase, the first of its kind at WCM, will allow WCM education faculty to demonstrate dissemination of educational work on a local level and will help them achieve some of the metrics for the new promotion pathway.

Education Scholar Award Presentations

A Longitudinal OSCE Curriculum within the Clinical Clerkships

Sydney Katz, M.D. is an adult hospitalist at Weill Cornell Medical College and an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine. She serves as the Director of the Margaret and Ian Smith Clinical Skills Center, where she leads initiatives focused on clinical skills development and assessment. Her scholarly and educational interests include improving the quality and effectiveness of care at hospital discharge. She is the receipent of the Gary Sumers Educational Scholar Award for her project titled “A Longitudinal OSCE Curriculum within the Clinical Clerkships.” The project focuses on strengthening the Mid-Clerkship OSCE (MCO) orogram as a formative, growth-oriented assessment that supports competency-based clinical skills development and across the curriculum.

The Student Neurology Ambulatory Preceptorship

Matthew Robbins, M.D. is a neurologist, headache specialist, Division Chief of Headache, and Professor of Neurology at Weill Cornell Medicine. He is the Program Director for the Neurology Residency Program at New York Presbyterian – Weill Cornell. He is the recipient of the Louis and Rachel Rudin Foundation Education Scholar Award supporting the Student Neurology Ambulatory Preceptionship (SNAP) Clinic which uses the ambulatory environment to foster professional development for neuroscience oriented medical students. Dr. Robbins also serves as the President of the NY State Neurological Society and the President-Elect of the American Headache Society (AHS). He was recently honored with the 2025 AHS Seymour Solomon Award and the 2026 American Academy of Neurology Program Director Recognition Award.

Abstracts

Abstracts
Project Title	Contributors
Radiology Oral Board Prep: Case Space	Alexa Bolock, Geraldine Brusca-Augello, Grace Lo, Marina Corines, and Andrew Schweitzer
From Uncertainty to Understanding: The Focus on Follow-Up Initiative	Marina Corines, Michio Taya, Vishal Sinha, Oren Jaspan, Emily Brady, Cecilia Davis Hayes, Jennifer Pitman, Grace Lo, Andrew Schweitzer, Harry Agress Jr.
VITALRN: A Peer-Created Pre-Rounding Checklist for Internal Medicine Clerkship Students	Maressa Cumbermack, Jacob Jamison, Caroline Young, Alexander Zhao, Aram Kim, Katherine Penziner, Bryan Leppert
Supervision of evidence synthesis projects in health sciences education: A mixed-methods study	Michelle Demetres, Andy Hickner, Diana Delgado, Paul Christos, Madeline Sterling
Appling the Autistic SPACE Framework and AI-Standardized Patient Stimulation to Build Inclusive Care Skills in PA Students	Lisa Doron, MacKenzi Preston, Yann Hicke
The Weill Cornell Skull Base and Microneurosurgery Skills- Based Neurosurgery Fellowship: A 20-Year, 200-Fellow Retrospective	Alexander Evins, Antonio Bernardo
Improving Internal Medicine Resident Seizure Recognition and Management Through a Targeted Neurology-Led Education Session	Kara Farnes, Safa Kaleem, Moises Dominguez
Integrating Financial Toxicity Management into Hematology & Oncology Ed ucation: A Multi-Institutional Curricular Innovation	Christina Garcia, Susan Machal, Sarah Waxse, Adriana Malone
Integrating a Compassionate Care Curriculm into Internal Medicine Residency	Jeanie Gribben, Nekee Pandya, Bradley Hayward, Kirana Gudi
Implementation of a Menopause Curriculum for OB/Gyn Trainees	Natalie Squires, Susan Loeb-Zeitlin, Charlene Thomas, Wing Kay Fok
The Hospital Medicine Education Hub: Cultivating a Community of Educators to Advance Educator Identity and Scholarship	Laura Greisman, Alice Tang
An Embedded Clinical Learning Ecosystem: The Platinum Education Lab for Faculty Development, Trainee Education, and Scholarship	Laura Greisman, Alice Tang, Justin Choi, and Kirana Gudi
“SAFE-DC”: A communication tool to supervise discharge planning and coach trainees on rounds	Kirsten Homma, Samara Levin, Jeannie Gribben, Matthew Harrington, Laura Greisman, Sydney Katz
Can a Narrative Medicine Curriculum Impact Burnout Scores and Quality of Life for Residents on the Pediatric Oncology Service?	Rachel Kowalsky, Marie Barnett, Priya Marathe, Stephen Douglas, Susan Fraymovich, CB Stewart, Shari Platt, Susan Ball, Charlene Thomas, Hailey Finkelstein, Ellen Basu
Defining the Effective Supervisory Resident: Perspectives from Interns, Seniors, and Attending Physicians	Emily Lang, Pamela Fazzio, Anna Weiss
Evaluating Progressive Improvement in IPASS Handoff Performance During a Transition to Residency Program	Neha Nagpal, Debpriya Das, Will Simmons, Kevin Ching
Reimagining Weekly Didactive Curriculum for Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellows Through Faculty-Led Sessions	N. Bryce Robinson, Michael Rogers, Leonard Girardi, Sebron Harrison, Charles Mack
A Novel Curriculum Introducing the Electronic Medical Record to Pre-clerkship Medical Students	Lee Seligman, Arthur Evans, Carly Borinsky, Kimberly Bloom-Feshbach
Generative AI for Clinician Educators: A Faculty Development Curriculum	Karlen Ulubabyan, Justin Choi, Arthur Evans, Amiran Baduashvili, Eulho Jung, Alice Tang