The Roland “Red” Hiss Lectureship

Roland Hiss

The Roland "Red" Hiss Lectureship was established in 2017 in honor of Roland “Red” Hiss, M.D. (1932 - 2016). Dr. Hiss was a Professor of Internal Medicine, Professor and Chair of Medical Education (now the Department of Learning Health Sciences), and Director of Extramural Education in the University of Michigan Medical School. The annual lectureship invites a leader in medical education to give a lecture and interact with faculty at Michigan Medicine, including faculty of the Medical Education Scholars Program (MESP). In honor of Dr. Hiss’ passion for continuing medical education, the Hiss Memorial Lectureship is intended to share innovations in medical education, provide MESP participants with an opportunity to discuss their work and interests with a national expert, and enable faculty to share advances taking place at Michigan Medicine with the visiting scholars.

 

Hold the date for next year's Hiss Lecture on Tuesday, June 3, 2025.

   

About Roland "Red" Hiss, M.D.

Roland "Red" Hiss attended the University of Michigan, where he received both his B.S. and M.D. degrees in 1955 and 1957, respectively. Following an internship at Philadelphia General Hospital (1957-58), service in the US Air Force (1958-61), and a residency (1961-64) and hematology fellowship (1964-65) at the University of Michigan, he became an assistant professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan in 1966. From there he became an assistant professor in the Department of Postgraduate Medicine and Health Professions Education (renamed Medical Education in 1995 and Learning Health Sciences in 2013) and later served as Department Chair and Professor of Medical Education until retiring in 2003. As Chair of the Department of Medical Education, he strived to make continuing medical education of healthcare professionals as systematic and effective as classroom and clinical training of students and residents. In 2002, the University of Michigan Medical School awarded him the Lifetime Achievement in Medical Education Award. Along with practicing hematology, Hiss was passionate about improving diabetes care by translating research findings into community-based care for diabetes. He served as Chief of the Demonstration and Education Division and Director of the Continuing Education and Outreach Core at the Michigan Diabetes Research and Training Center. At the national level, for the National Institutes of Health, he served  on the Steering Committees of the National Diabetes Advisory Board for Patient Education Initiatives and the National Diabetes Education Program. 

Donations 

Donations can be made toward the The Roland "Red" Hiss Lectureship Fund here

 

Archive 

2024

Roland "Red" Hiss Lecture, June 4, 2024

Geoffrey V. Stetson, MD

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine and Medical Education

Department of Medicine, Division of Academic Internal Medicine and Geriatrics

University of Illinois College of Medicine

Co-founder and CEO of MedEdMentor.org

Lecture Title: "AI in HPE Scholarship: Examples, Concerns, and Potential" 

Dr. Geoffrey V. Stetson provides primary care in the Primary Care Plus clinic and supervises care in the resident‐led General Medicine Clinic. Geoff also supervises the care of acutely ill patients on the general medicine inpatient wards. He has a special interest in treating people experiencing opiate use disorder and treats patients in a mobile community‐based clinic on Chicago’s west side. Geoff has expertise in medical education and serves as the Director of Clinical Faculty Development for the UIC College of Medicine (COM), Chicago Campus.

After completing his undergraduate degree at Brown University, Geoff attended The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. It was here that Geoff discovered his love of teaching. He was inspired by some of the foremost educators and leaders in the field, but he also experienced an antiquated system built on hierarchy pervasive to medical schools around the world. He knew it could be better and decided that working on these issues would be his career path.

Dr. Stetson left Chicago for the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), where he trained in internal medicine with an emphasis on primary care for systemically marginalized populations. At UCSF Geoff developed expertise in teaching with technology, teaching how to teach, feedback, and mentorship. He earned multiple teaching awards and was inducted into the UCSF Academy of Medical Educators in 2019.

In 2020, amidst the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, the vision of MedEdMentor was birthed. Geoff and co-founder Gregory Ow, MD shared a mutual concern for the difficulties of engaging deeply with medical education scholarship rooted in robust theoretical foundations. Could the path to theoretical understanding in medical education be made more navigable for newcomers? This contemplation laid the cornerstone for MedEdMentor.

 

 

 

2023

Roland "Red" Hiss Lecture, June 6, 2023

Laura Hirshfield, PhD

 

Keynote speaker Roland "Red" Hiss Lecture 2022

 

Inaugural Dr. Georges Bordage Medical Education Faculty Scholar

 

and Associate Professor, Department of Medical Education

 

University of Illinois College of Medicine

 

Lecture Title: "Improving Academic Medicine Pathways for Underrepresented Physicians: The case for a shift in focus from individuals to the profession" 

 

Laura E. Hirshfield is the inaugural Dr. Georges Bordage Medical Education Faculty Scholar and Associate Professor in the Department of Medical Education in the University of Illinois College of Medicine, where she is the Director of the Doctoral Program in Health Professions Education and the associate program director for the Masters in Health Professions Education program. She is also a faculty affiliate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, having received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Michigan. A sociologist and ethnographer by training, Dr. Hirshfield is broadly interested in social interaction, identity, education, science, work/organizations, and medicine. Her research investigates the impact of identity, especially gender, race, and gender identity, on the ways that individuals interact within academic and medical contexts, as well as the long-term impact of these differences on interaction style. Since becoming a medical educator, Dr. Hirshfield has also worked to highlight and strengthen the linkages between the fields of sociology and health professions education. Her work in this area includes several review articles on the topic and an upcoming special issue in Social Science & Medicine Qualitative Research in Health with the Executive Board Members of the Sociology of Health Professions Education Collaborative, a group she co-founded. Dr. Hirshfield’s research has been funded by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation, the NBME’s Stemmler Fund, AAMC, and UIC's Chicago Area Study and has been published in Medical EducationSocial Science & Medicine, and JAMA Surgery, among other venues. She is also an Assistant Editor for Academic Medicine.

 

2022

 

Roland "Red" Hiss Lecture, June 7, 2022

Louito Edje, MD, MHPE, FAAFP

 

Keynote speaker: Roland "Red" Hiss Lecture 2022

 

Master of Health Professions Education (MHPE) Program Alumna

 

Associate Dean, Graduate Medical Education, Designated Institutional Official, University of Cincinnati Medical Center

 

Dr. Edje is the Associate Dean of Graduate Medical Education at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center where she oversees the 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 began her education at Michigan State University at age 16, where she received a Bachelor of Science degree in Physiology. She earned her MD and MHPE at the University of Michigan, and was President of her medical school student body. Recently, Dr. Edje was 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 the recipient of the UC Health 2022 Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Humanitarian Award, and she has also recently been recognized by the U-M Michigan Medicine Alumni Society with the Distinguished Humanitarian Award. She is actively speaking globally on viruses, variants and vaccine hesitancy via multiple media platforms as a Moderna trial participant.

 

2018

 

The inaugural Roland "Red" Hiss Lecture on October 4, 2018 

 

Keynote speaker: David G. Marerro, PhD

Director, University of Arizona Center for Health Disparities Research

 

Professor of Health Promotion Science, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health

 

Professor of Endocrinology, College of Medicine-Tucson 

 

University of Arizona Health Sciences 

 

Lecture Title: A lecture in two parts: Roland Hiss; Friend and Mentor & Addressing Diabetes Disparities in Hispanic Populations

 

The Inaugural Hiss Lecture was given by David G. Marrero, PhD, Director of the University of Arizona's Center for Health Disparities Research. The Center for Health Disparities Research works to develop programs and strategies to improve health and wellbeing along the U.S.-Mexico border and across the greater Southwest. Dr. Marrero, whose research has focused on medication adherence, community health programs, early diabetes intervention and translational medicine, also is professor of public health at the UA Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, Department of Health Promotion Sciences, and professor in the UA College of Medicine – Tucson, Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology. Dr. Marrero joined the UA Health Sciences after 20 years at Indiana University, where he served as director of its Diabetes Translational Research Center and the J.O. Ritchey Professor of Medicine.  In 2016, he served as the president for health care and education of the American Diabetes Association. His research interests also include strategies for promoting diabetes prevention, improving diabetes care practices used by primary care providers and the use of technology to facilitate care and education. His clinical interests include diabetes, obesity and coping.

 

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