Pre-GREAT Workshops

Poster Presentation Skills

Date/Time: Wednesday, February 6, 2013, 12pm - 1pm

Presentation Video

Poster Template

Poster Presentation Handout

GREAT Poster Instructions

Location: OKC Bird Library Auditorium, Room 299

Tulsa Campus - LC 222

Presenter:
Melissa Medina, Ed.D.
Assistant Dean for Assessment and Evaluation
College of Pharmacy
Director, Preparing Future Faculty Program

Melissa S. Medina, Ed.D. is the Assistant Dean for Assessment and Evaluation at the College of Pharmacy and a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacy: Clinical and Administrative Sciences and at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. A doctoral graduate of Rutgers University in New Jersey, Dr. Medina joined the faculty at the University of Oklahoma College of Pharmacy in August 2000. She coordinates several teaching methods courses and teaching certificate programs for faculty, residents, and graduate and professional students. She serves as the Director of Preparing Future Faculty for the Graduate College where she coordinates a year-long teaching methods course for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.

Melissa was the 2009 Teacher of the Year, the 2008 Rho Chi Outstanding Faculty Award recipient, the 2005 College of Pharmacy Teacher of the Year, a multi-time recipient of the college’s Phi Lambda Sigma Outstanding Faculty Member Award. In 2007, Melissa and her colleagues were the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy Teaching Innovations Award for their work on Team-based learning. During her graduate studies, she was awarded the Kappa Delta Pi Honor Society in Education dissertation proposal award for her work on using cases in teaching.

Abstract Writing Skills:

Date/Time: Wednesday, February 20, 2013, 12pm - 1pm

Location: OKC Bird Library Auditorium, Room 299

Presenter:
Kristina Wasson-Blader

Presentation Video

PowerPoint

Kristina Wasson-Blader, PhD, ELS, is the Editor in Residence in the Office of Research Administration. She edits grant proposals, manuscripts, abstracts and poster presentations for OUHSC faculty, post-doctoral fellows and students.  Kristina received her PhD in biology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and completed an NRSA-supported postdoctoral fellowship before turning to writing and editing full time.  Before joining the OUHSC staff, Kristina worked as an independent science writer and editor for more than 10 years.

Oral Presentation Skills and Lunch:

Date/Time: Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 12pm - 1pm

Location: OKC Bird Library Auditorium, Room 299

Tulsa Campus - LC 204

Presenter:
Britta Thompson , Ph.D.
Assistant Dean for Medical Education
College of Medicine

Presentation Video

Powerpoint

Handout

Dr. Thompson is the Assistant Dean for Medical Education and the Director of the Office of Medical Education at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine. She oversees activities associated with medical education and simulation, including curriculum and faculty/staff development, curriculum evaluation and learner assessment, simulation and standardized patient program, instructional and information technology, as well as the Willed Body Program.

Dr. Thompson received her PhD in educational psychology from Texas A&M University and her Master’s degree in nutritional biochemistry from the University of Missouri at Columbia. After receiving her PhD, she joined the faculty at Baylor College of Medicine where she was the Director of Evaluation and Assessment and the Director of the Simulation Program.

Her research interests are in the area of medical education including evaluating activities that promote student reflection, assessing cultural competency education programs, evaluating faculty development programs, and determining the efficacy of curricular innovations such as Team-Based Learning. Through her work, she has been awarded several teaching and educational research awards. Her work has resulted in over 100 regional and national presentations and over 30 peer-reviewed articles.