2022 Roland "Red" Hiss Event

911 North University Avenue,Ann Arbor MI 48104

07 June, 2022

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Roland “Red” Hiss Lecture and Medical Education Scholars Program Research Symposium Please join us on June 7, 2022 from 2:30-5:00pm for the Department of Learning Health Sciences’ Annual Roland “Red” Hiss Event. This event honors the life and work of Dr. Roland “Red” Hiss and celebrates the accomplishments of Scholars in the Medical Education Scholars Program. 2:30-3:30: MESP Research Symposium 3:30-5:00: Roland “Red” Hiss Lecture The 2022 Roland “Red” Hiss Endowed Lecture will be given by Louito Edje, MD, MHPE, Associate Dean of Graduate Medical Education at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. Dr. Edje was the Ohio Academy of Family Physicians’ 2012 Family Physician of The Year. She started at Michigan State University at age 16 where she received a Bachelor of Science degree in Physiology. She was President of her medical school student body at the University of Michigan. She is the Associate Dean of Graduate Medical Education at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center where she oversees education of over 700 residents and fellows. She is also a board-certified family physician practicing at UC Health and fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians. Dr. Edje holds dual appointments as a professor in the Department of Medical Education and the Department of Family and Community Medicine. Dr. Edje was recently elected to the American Medical Association's (AMA) Council on Medical Education. As a member of Ohio Delegation to the AMA, Dr. Edje advocates for patients, colleagues and the medical profession. She was appointed in 2019 to the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education’s Family Medicine Residency Review Committee, an organization that improves healthcare by assessing and advancing resident and fellow education through accreditation. She is actively speaking globally on viruses, variants and vaccine hesitancy via multiple media platforms as a Moderna trial participant.