Spring 2026 Retreat
Thursday, March 26
LINCATS Conference Room
Basic Science Tower, Level 6
5 to 8 pm
Schedule of the Retreat
5:00 PM
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Stella Tsirka, PhD
SUNY Distinguished Professor
Miriam & David Donoho Professor, Pharmacology
Director, ACES
5:05 PM
Keynote Address: “Artificial
Intelligence and Clinical Reasoning:
A New Era of Medical Education
and Assessment” (via zoom)
Verity Schaye, MD, MHPE
Assoc. Professor of Medicine, NYU Grossman
School of Medicine
Assistant Dean, Education in Clin. Sciences
Assistant Director, Curricular Innovations,
Institute for Innovations in Medical Education
6:15 PM
ACES Fellows Presentations
Kathleen Scarbrough, MD
Dept. of Family,Population & Prev.Medicine
Karrisa Weidman, MD
Dept. of Medicine
Lauren Maloney, MD
Dept. of Emergency Medicine
Sobia Khan, MD
Dept. of Medicine
Zhaosheng (Jims) Jin, MD
Dept. of Anesthesiology
Samita Heslin, MD
Dept. of Emergency Medicine
Imran Chaudhri, MD
Department of Medicine
Michael Ernst, MD
Department of Urology
Julia Powelson, MD
Department of Medicine
Critical Care Medicine
7:30 PM
ACES Fellows Graduation