Chair and Associate Chairs of Clinical Departments
The Chair and Associate chairs of a clinical department are appointed by the Dean of the SOM upon the recommendation of the Senior Associate Dean of Clinical studies and report to the Senior Associate Dean of clinical studies. The chairs of clinical departments are responsible for:
- developing and implementing the educational goals, objectives, must-see patient list, syllabus, curriculum, curriculum mapping, and guidelines in their clinical discipline as published in the Clinical Training Manual
- coordinating the program for this discipline in all hospitals in which it is taught
- conducting biannual departmental meetings and annual site visits to affiliated hospitals to ensure that the programs at different affiliated hospitals are comparable and conform to the Clinical Training Manual
- tracking national recommendations relevant to their subject matter
- assuring comparability of educational experiences and equivalency of student assessment and feedback across the SGU SOM Clerkship Sites
- collaborating with SOM leadership to ensure vertical integration of the curriculum
- publishing a schedule of office hours to students and DMEs
Department | Chair | Associate Chair |
| Internal Medicine | Jeffrey Brensilver, MD | Jimmy Chong, MD |
| Stanley Bernstein, MD | ||
| Gary Ishkanian, MD | ||
| Surgery | James Rucinski, MD | Lee Dvorkin, MD, FRCS |
| Pediatrics | Warren Seigel, MD, MBA, FAAP, FSAHM | Marry-Anne Morris, MBBS, FRCPCH, MD |
| Obstetrics/Gynecology | Paul Kastell, MD, FACOG | Timothy Hillard, BM, DM, MRCOG, FRCOG (UK) |
| Michael Cabbad, MD | ||
| Psychiatry | Amy Hoffman, MD | Brian C. Douglas, MBChB, MRCP |
| Family Medicine & General Practice | Everett Schlam, MD | Adnan Saad, MRCS, MBBS, MRCGP, BSC |
| Emergency Medicine | Theodore Gaeta, DO, MPH |