Barondess Fellowship Webinar: Reinvigorating the Patient-Physician Relationship

The New York Academy of Medicine, in partnership with the ACGME, established the Jeremiah A. Barondess Fellowship in the Clinical Transaction to honor Dr. Barondess’ visionary role teaching clinical skills at the bedside to generations of medical students and medical residents. The Fellowship supports early-career internal medicine faculty with exemplary clinical skills and a commitment to enhancing the ability of young physicians to conduct the essential elements of the clinical transaction, including communicating with patients, conducting the physical examination, and applying clinical reasoning. The Session will include an introduction of the Barondess Fellowship and a description of the application process. Following this introduction, two former Barondess Fellows, Drs. Brian Garibaldi and Chelsea Chang, will share their experience as fellows and discuss how their projects supported the improvement of teaching of the clinical transaction in the hospital and ambulatory care setting.  The session will end with questions from the participants in the webinar.

Session Objectives/Goals 

1. Describe the importance of the Barondess Fellowship in promoting early faculty career development in clinical education and clinical practice in Internal Medicine.
2. Understand the application process for junior faculty who are considering applying for the 2025-2027 Jeremiah A. Barondess Fellowship.
3. Provide examples of the impact of Barondess Fellowship projects on internal medicine training and practice of physicians.  

Speakers

Brian Garibaldi, MD MEPH

Brian Thomas Garibaldi is professor of medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, where he attends in the Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU). He is the founding director of the Northwestern Center for Bedside Medicine which is dedicated to redesigning the modern clinical encounter to meet the needs of patients, healthcare professionals and healthcare systems.

In 2017, Brian co-founded and became the first co-president of the Society of Bedside Medicine, an organization devoted to education, innovation and research on the role of the clinical encounter in 21st century medicine. In his previous role at Johns Hopkins he led a multicenter team exploring the factors that impact graduate medical resident clinical skills and professional fulfillment as part of the American Medical Association's Reimagining Residency Initiative. Brian was the inaugural recipient of the Jeremiah A. Barondess Fellowship in the Clinical Transaction from the New York Academy of Medicine and the ACGME. He is a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and the American College of Physicians.

Brian is the former director of The Johns Hopkins Special Pathogens Center and the Johns Hopkins Biocontainment Unit (BCU), a federally funded special pathogens treatment center. When the President of the United States became ill with COVID-19 in October 2020, Brian served as a member of his care team at Walter Reed Medical Center and the White House. Brian also co-founded and directed the COVID-19 Precision Medicine Center of Excellence, which is dedicated to understanding the pathobiology of COVID-19 and the impact of therapeutics on disease outcome.

Chelsea Chang, MD

Dr. Chelsea Hook Chang is an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine (UTRGV). She serves as the Associate Dean of GME, DIO, and Division Chief of Primary and Preventive Care. During her tenure at UTRGV, her grant-funded awards have included the Jeremiah A. Barondess Fellowship in the Clinical Transaction, a partnership of the New York Academy of Medicine and ACGME, from 2019-2021 on advancing clinical reasoning.  She is an active Board member and the President-Elect for Texas American College of Physicians and has presented at national meetings including ACGME and APDIM.  She practices outpatient Internal Medicine with special interests in population health, preventive care and training the next generation of physicians. 

 Dr. Chang earned her medical degree from Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine and completed her residency training in internal medicine at Scott & White in Temple Texas where her awards included Intern of the Year and Outstanding Teaching Attending in Internal Medicine. She is a board-certified internal medicine physician practicing primary care. She enjoys spending time outdoors, triathlons, running and keeping up with their children.