Educator TinyTalks Teachers

Keith Baker, MD, PhD

Dr. Baker is Vice Chair for Education and Faculty Affairs for the Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medical at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He serves as the Co-Chair for the MGB Center of Expertise in Medical Education for trainees in MGH programs. He was the Anesthesia residency Program Director for 15 years. His interests include the cognitive science of teaching and learning and the development of expertise. He also has studied evaluation and feedback processes aimed at improving performance. He is an America Board of Anesthesiology Senior Examiner and has served on the ACGME Anesthesiology Review Committee.

Steven T. Chen, MD, MPH, MS-HPEd

Dr. Chen is a board-certified internist and dermatologist and serves as the Vice Chair of Education for the MGH Department of Dermatology and an Associate Program Director for the Harvard Combined Dermatology Training Program. Dr. Chen earned his MD and MPH from Johns Hopkins University. He then completed an Internal Medicine residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and a Dermatology residency in the Harvard Dermatology Program. He then earned a Masters in Health Professions Education from the MGH Institution of Health Professions. Dr. Chen co-directs the Comprehensive Cutaneous Lymphoma Program at MGH, the Oncodermatology Program, and is Director of the Inpatient Dermatology Service as well as the Blistering Disorders Clinic. He attends on both the dermatology and internal medicine services with a clinical and research interest in oncodermatology, cutaneous lymphoma, and inpatient dermatology. He enjoys harnessing the power of social media for medical education, and particularly loves mentoring medical students and residents in their own career paths. In his free time, he is a recovering a cappella nerd, mahjong enthusiast, and spends most of his time chauffeuring his two kids to their activities.

Ariel Frey-Vogel, MD, MAT

Dr. Frey-Vogel is a medicine-pediatrics attending at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and a faculty member at Harvard Medical School. She completed medical school at Yale University School of Medicine and her residency in combined internal medicine and pediatrics at MGH. She is the Director of the Pediatric Education, Innovation, and Research Center for the Mass General for Children (MGfC) and in that role she conducts medical education research and mentors and supports faculty and trainees in doing the same. Her research interests include curriculum design and assessment, the role of residents as educators, and the use of simulation in medical education. She works clinically as the Director of Child and Adolescent Services at the MGH Transgender Health Program. She lives in a suburb of Boston with her husband and two little ones.

Anna Handorf, MD

Director of TinyTalks

Dr. Handorf is the Director of TinyTalks and Associate Program Director of the Pediatric Education, Innovation and Research Center at Mass General for Children. Additionally, she is one of the Associate Program Directors for the MGH Pediatrics Residency Program. She works clinically as a pediatric hospital medicine physician at Newton Wellesley Hospital.She completed her pediatric residency at the Mass General for Children and a fellowship in medical simulation and medical education in the Massachusetts General Hospital Learning Laboratory. Anna is interested in leveraging technology to augment medical education by providing high-yield resources that can be used flexibly. She believes that strengthening the educational experiences of trainees and faculty, alike, can help them to navigate complexities of medical education training.

Rebecca Inzana, M.S., CCC-SLP, CHSE

Rebecca Santos Inzana is a medical Speech-Language Pathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA, and an Assistant Professor in the Center for Interprofessional Education and Practice at MGH Institute of Health Professions. As a champion of IPE, she teaches within the IHP’s IMPACT™ curriculum and serves as Clinical Faculty Coordinator for the Interprofessional Dedicated Education Units program at Massachusetts General Hospital. She is also a member of MGH’s Slavin Academy for Applied Learning in Health Care and HMS’s Interprofessional Collabortive Care Theme committee. Rebecca’s scholarly interests center around interprofessional education and practice as well as simulation-based education. She holds certification as a healthcare simulation educator and is pursuing a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Educational Studies from Lesley University in Cambridge, MA.

Eli Miloslavsky, MD

Eli Miloslavsky is a rheumatologist and a clinician educator at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He holds leadership roles in the MGH Internal Medicine residency program, MGH rheumatology fellowship and Harvard Medical School as well as national committees. Dr. Miloslavsky is also involved in medical education research across undergraduate and graduate medical education where his interests include teaching during consultation, peer and near peer teaching and the learning environment.

Dan Saddawi-Konefka, MD, MBA

Dr. Dan Saddawi-Konefka completed his residency and fellowship training in Anesthesiology and in Critical Care Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital, where he currently practices and serves as the Program Director for the core Residency Program in Anesthesiology.  After his ICU fellowship, he completed a fellowship in Medical Education Research at the Harvard Academy. He combined his interests in organizational and behavioral change with his passion for medical education to focus his scholarship on helping learners self-regulate to get the best out of themselves. He has performed and published grant-funded research in this area and has spoken about these topics nationally and internationally. Through this work and his service as Program Director, he developed a strong appreciation for how untended mental health hinders optimal development. In 2020, he co-founded The Emotional PPE Project, a national non-profit that provides free, confidential mental health care to healthcare workers across the country.

Shannon Scott-Vernaglia, MD

Dr. Scott-Vernaglia is a primary care pediatrician and the Associate Chief for Clinical Faculty at MassGeneral for Children. She teaches in the outpatient setting as a preceptor for residents, medical and nurse practitioner students as well as in the classroom and simulation center. Her areas of interest include simulation, humanizing medical errors, using family voices in teaching, narrative medicine, and physician mental health. She is a senior pediatrics editor for NEJM’s Knowledge+ and Resident360 educational projects. She co-created a longitudinal simulation program for pediatric residents that began in 2011 and continues to this day, training and assessing all pediatric residents as MGfC in core pediatric knowledge, skills, and attitudes. 

Carlos Torres, MD

Dr. Carlos Torres is a pediatrician at MGH Chelsea HealthCare Center, Faculty Advisor at the Office of Recruitment and Multicultural Affairs (ORMA), and Associate Director for Learning and Education at the Center for Diversity and Inclusion. He was born and raised in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. He moved with his family to Milwaukee, Wisconsin during his teenage years, afterwards attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He ventured out to the East Coast to attend Harvard Medical School, then completed his pediatric residency at MassGeneral for Children and served as a chief resident. His clinical/research interest include immigrant health, disparity research, LGBTQ+ health, and resiliency.

Matt Tung, MD

Dr. Tung is an attending physician and Associate Program Director in the Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). He earned his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and completed his residency in anesthesia at MGH. Afterwards he completed a year of fellowship training in Critical Care Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Matt greatly enjoys any opportunity to get involved with medical education, especially in the setting of simulation facilitation, evidence-based medicine, and curriculum design. Outside the hospital he enjoys eating at new restaurants and assisting his wife with her food Instagram.

He can be reached at mtung@mgh.harvard.edu