Speaker & Contributors
We welcome all active participants and look forward to their contributions to the symposium. The list of contributors is in alphabetical order.
Olga Chernikova
PhD, MSc
Dr. Olga Chernikova has graduated Master programs in Psychology in Ukraine, Turkey and Germany. She obtained her PhD in Learning Sciences in 2018 from Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) in Munich, Germany. Dr. Olga Chernikova is currently a post doc and a research assistant at the chair of Educational Psychology and Educational Sciences at LMU Munich.
Her research interests focus largely on use of simulation-based learning, digital media and personalized instructional support in teacher and medical education, as well as use of learning analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence to advance research methodologies.
Stefan Endres
MD, Professor, BA
Prof. Dr. med. Stefan Endres, BA (Harvard ’80)
Director, Division of Clinical Pharmacology
LMU University Hospital, LMU Munich
Dean of Research, Medical Faculty, LMU Munich
Member of the Board of Directors, LMU University Hospital
Chairman, Scientific committee, Else Kröner-Fresenius-Foundation
Research focus: Immunopharmacology, immunotherapy of cancer
CV available here.
Moshe Flugelman
MD, Professor emeritus
Professor Emeritus Moshe Flugelman is the former Director of the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center in Haifa. An interventional cardiologist and specialist in Coronary Intensive Care, Professor Flugelman graduated from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (IIT) in Haifa and completed his cardiology specialization at Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem. He pursued post-doctoral training at the Heart and Lung Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, focusing on vascular biology and gene therapy.
His research interests include vascular biology, tissue engineering, and medical education. Professor Flugelman has served three terms as Vice Dean for Academic Affairs at the Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion IIT, Haifa. He actively teaches cardiology, clinical skills, and clinical reasoning, and he founded and mentors the “Touching the Future” program for interns at Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center.
Nataliya Haliyash
MD, PhD
Specialist in Pediatrics and Pediatric Immunology
With over 20 years of experience in medical education, I focus on enhancing the teaching of professional communication to medical students. My recent research focuses on students' perspectives regarding the design of medical communication curricula. I am particularly interested in implementing simulation-based education and Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCE), as well as enhancing clinical reasoning within the undergraduate medical curriculum. Additionally, as a member of the Centre for Teaching Excellence at TNMU, I have developed several Train-the-Trainer courses on topics such as professional communication and simulation training methods.
Andrzej A. Kononowicz
PhD, MSc, Associate Professor
Andrzej A. Kononowicz, PhD, MSc, is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Bioinformatics and Telemedicine at Jagiellonian University Medical College. He holds a degree in computer science, a PhD in biomedical engineering, and a habilitation degree in health sciences. Dr. Kononowicz completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. His research focuses on the application of new technologies in medical education, particularly virtual patient integration, clinical decision support systems, and computer-aided clinical reasoning education.
Jochen Kuhn
PhD, Professor
Jochen Kuhn is head of the Chair of Physics Education Research. He works on multimedia learning with multiple representations using future technologies such as Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality as well as Artificial Intelligence in STEM. To analyze the effects on learning and problem solving, process-based measures (physiological methods such as eye tracking) on cognitive and affective variables are used – besides “classical” analysis of corresponding outcome variables.
Vitaliy Popov
PhD, Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor of Learning Health Sciences, Medical School
Assistant Professor of Information, School of Information
Director of Learning Sciences and Technology for the Clinical Simulation Center, University of Michigan
Christina Tsiverioti
Christina Tsiverioti is a medical student at LMU and a student organizer of the Clinical Case Discussion Program of the LMU. She was the main student organizer of the "International Clinical Case Discussion Summer School 2024" with guest professors and students form Weill Cornell University, Washington University in St. Louis and Nagoya University.
Constanze Richters
PhD, M.A.
Constanze Richters is a research associate at the Institute of Medical Education at LMU University Hospital, LMU Munich. She holds a master’s degree in educational sciences and a PhD in learning sciences. Her research focuses on utilizing simulation-based learning to foster collaborative diagnostic reasoning. Her latest research interest is in the cognitive and collaborative processes underlying collaborative intervention reasoning.
Ralf Schmidmaier
MD, Professor
Ralf Schmidmaier is medical educator (MME) and physician with specialization in internal medicine and endocrinology. He is deputy director of the medical deparment IV at LMU University Hospital. Ralf was investigtor within the DFG research unit FOR2385 Facilitating diagnostic competences in simulation-based learning environments in the university context.
Henk G. Schmidt
PhD, Professor
Henk Schmidt is a professor of psychology and medical education at Erasmus University’s Faculty of Social Sciences and founding dean of its problem-based psychology curriculum. His areas of interest are learning and memory, and he has published extensively on problem-based learning, long-term memory, and the development of expertise in medicine. He is among the most cited Dutch educational psychologists.
His research team is particularly interested in studying educational strategies to improve diagnostic reasoning and in the sources of cognitive error.
Previously, Schmidt held positions as dean of the faculty of health sciences of Maastricht University and Vice Chancellor (“Rector Magnificus”) of Erasmus University.
Oksana Sydorenko
MD, PhD, Professor
Prof. Dr. Oksana Sydorenko got her Master`s degree in Rheumatology, her PhD in Nephrology and her Professor Dr title in Emergency Cardiology in Ukraine.
Her main interests include cardiology (conservative and surgical treatment), medical education, medical communication, digital learning and international projects.
She conducts research in the field of cardiology, medical communication and education. Oksana is the coordinator of several international projects aimed at improving medical education in Ukraine.
Oksana is a Professor of the Emergency Department and full-time lecturer and researcher at the I. Horbachevskiy Ternopil National Medical University, Ukraine, and she also works as a cardiologist in a private clinic.
Frank Wissing
PhD
2016 – present
General Secretary of Medizinischer Fakultätentag e.V., Member of the Board
2005-2015
Programme Director at Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Department II,
responsible for the program "Clinical Studies" and for the subjects Human Genetics,
Pediatrics, Biometry, Medical Statistics, Epidemiology, Medical Informatics, Public
Health, Health Services Research
2002-2005
Specialist at Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Department II responsible
for internal medicine and nutrition research
Meredith Young
PhD, Associate Professor
Meredith Young is an Associate Professor and the Associate Director for Research in the Institute of Health Sciences Education at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She earned her PhD in cognitive psychology from McMaster University studying how individuals (both individuals with and without medical expertise) think through a variety of complex problems in medicine. More specifically, she studied the intersection of more intuitive decision-making and more structured, rule-based reasoning.
Her current work examines reasoning in Health Professions Education (HPE), and the assumptions that underpin what we think makes for a good decision. Within this broad theme, her research work examines a variety of reasoning contexts including how individuals make decisions in the context of delivering care (i.e., clinical reasoning) and the assumptions that underpin what we think makes a good decision and what makes for a ‘good’ reasoner. In HPE, complex concepts – like clinical reasoning - need to be defined or operationalized in order to teach them, assess them, and study them. Given the interdisciplinarity inherent in HPE, we frequently have multiple conceptualizations of key concepts, which can overlap, conflict, or suggest very different targets for teaching, assessment, or research. In order to support sound research, teaching, and assessment practices, clarity around just what we mean by concepts such as clinical reasoning is critical.
Scientific Chairs & Academic Hosts
Institute of Medical Education (DAM)
LMU University Hospital
Martin Fischer
MD, Professor
Prof. Fischer is an internist, endocrinologist and medical educator. His research interest is in clinical reasoning and digitally supported teaching and learning.
Since August 2011 he is full professor and Director of the Institute of Medical Education at the LMU University Hospital of LMU Munich, Germany. In November 2012 he was elected as Dean of Studies of the Medical Faculty of LMU Munich, Germany. He also serves as the Chair of the Educational Board of LMU.
Since 2023 he is also Professor for Medical Education at the Teaching Center of the Medical University Vienna, Austria. He was the President of the tri-national Gesellschaft für Medizinische Ausbildung (GMA) from 2011-2017 and serves as the Editor-in-Chief of GMA´s Open-Access Journal for Medical Education (JME). He also was a member of the Executive Committee of the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE) from 2015-2018 and serves as a reviewer for numerous journals and institutions.
He received his Master of Medical Education (MME) degree at the University of Berne, Switzerland, and is also certified in Medical Informatics. Since 2004 he is Co-Director of the German Master of Medical Education (MME) program at Heidelberg University.
Matthias Stadler
PhD, Professor
Matthias Stadler is Professor of Learning Analytics in Medicine at the Institute of Medical Education. In addition, he is a fellow of the Young College of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. His research focusses on simulated learning environments, computer-bsaed assessment and adaptive support. His current projects involve the use of virtual reality and artificial intelligence to augment simulated learning environments and help researchers in using open text responses.