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January 12, 2026
In this month's Faculty Development Bulletin:
Faculty Development Updates:
- Letter from the Vice Chair
- Save your spot for the 2026 Faculty Development events
- DOM welcomes new faculty members
- Now Open: Career Conference and Performance Reviews
DOM Updates:
- Emory Researchers Achieve the First Minimally Invasive Coronary Artery Bypass
- King Week starts tomorrow
- The American Society for Clinical Investigation honors Ann Chahroudi, MD, PhD
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FACULTY DEVELOPMENT UPDATES
As we reflect on the past year, I am filled with pride and gratitude for the incredible work accomplished by our Faculty Development Office. In a time of rapid change and growing demands in academic medicine, our commitment to supporting faculty at every stage of their careers has never been stronger. This year, we focused on advancing professional growth and creating opportunities for meaningful engagement across our department. These efforts are not just programs—they represent our shared vision for a thriving, collaborative academic community.
As we look ahead, we remain committed to building on this momentum—expanding programs, deepening mentorship, and creating new pathways for success. Stay tuned for our Mentoring Workshop and new Mentoring Series coming in 2026! Thank you to every faculty member who contributed to these accomplishments. Together, we are shaping a future defined by innovation, collaboration, and excellence in medicine. Here’s to another year of growth and achievement!
Warm regards,
Sushma K. Cribbs, MD, MSc
Professor of Medicine
Vice Chair of Faculty Development, Department of Medicine
FACULTY DEVELOPMENT EVENTS
DOM Mentoring Workshop
Friday, February 13, 2026 | 8 a.m.–noon | WMB Conference Room 1109
Through didactic teaching, interactive case studies, and discussion, this workshop provides teaching on key universal concepts that can be applied to help optimize all mentor/mentee relationships.
DOM CV Review Session
Wednesday, February 25, 2026 | 8–10 a.m. | Zoom
DOM's Faculty Development Promotion and Tenure (P&T) Sub-Committee reviews all senior-level promotion packets as a first step in the promotion process. This CV Review Session includes a 20-minute one-on-one virtual coaching session with one of our P&T Committee members to help you enhance your preparation for future promotion to associate professor or professor. We highly encourage assistant and associate professors to take advantage of this session.
Note: Registration closes Friday, January 30.
We're excited for "Coffee with Carlos” to resume this month. These are informal gatherings where faculty members can connect with Chair Carlos del Rio, MD, to share ideas and discuss important topics in a relaxed setting. This is a wonderful opportunity to engage in open dialogue, ask questions, and provide feedback on various aspects of our department.
Please review the location details listed below for each date and register only for a session held at your primary worksite. Sessions run from 7:30 to 8:45 a.m.
Emory University Hospital
- Visit 1: Monday, January 26
- Visit 2: Wednesday, July 29
Emory University Hospital at Midtown
- Visit 1: Tuesday, February 17
- Visit 2: Tuesday, August 4
Emory St. Joseph’s Hospital
- Visit 1: Monday, May 4 (Full)
- Visit 2: Wednesday, November 4
Atlanta VA Medical Center
- Visit 1: Monday, March 9
- Visit 2: Thursday, September 3
Grady Memorial Hospital
- Visit 1: Monday, April 6
- Visit 2: Monday, October 5
Emory John’s Creek Hospital
- Visit 1: Monday, June 1
- Visit 2: Monday, December 7
To maintain a small, engaging group environment, each session has a limited capacity. Registration is first-come, first-served, so early sign-up is encouraged.
Coffee and a light breakfast will be provided.
CCPR UPDATES
Now Open: Career Conference and Performance Reviews
The Career Conference and Performance Reviews (CCPR) system opened on Friday, January 2, and will close on Tuesday, June 30, 2026. It will utilize a three-point scale to better align with faculty salary deliberations. With the new timeline, it’s essential to plan ahead—start preparing now to stay ahead of the earlier opening and closing dates.
Pro Tip: Update your CV! As part of the evaluation process, you'll need to provide an updated version of your CV in Part I of the CCPR. You can find the updated CV template at the buttons below.
Don't just take our word for it! Read what Emily Cartwright, MD, Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases, has to say about keeping her CV updated:
“I received advice to continuously update my CV - that is, if I gave a presentation, put it on my CV immediately afterwards. Or, if I found out a manuscript was accepted for publication, put it on my CV and update the publication date later. Keeping the current version of my CV in my Emory OneDrive also facilitated this as it provides easy access to the document.
I would advise others to use the DOM Templates for promotion and read the instructions carefully. Attend a CV review session. Look for opportunities to engage in scholarly activity - busy clinicians can write up case reports or reflective commentaries or narratives.”
FACULTY NEWS
DOM welcomes new faculty members
Over the last several months, we have been excited to welcome new faculty members to the Department of Medicine! Please join us in giving them a warm welcome to Emory.
Division of Cardiology: Ijeoma Eleazu, Bianca Yoo
Division of Digestive Diseases: Sonya Bhaskar
Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Lipids: Lee Metchick
Division of General Internal Medicine: Iris A. Castro-Revoredo, Eun Jin Kim
Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology: Anabella Jacks
Division of Hospital Medicine: Dheeraj Alexander, Meraj Mohiuddin Asif, Michelle Edward, Samra Haroon Lodhi, John N. Onyekaba, Lindsay Rebecca Ripley, Jayasree Padma Sundaram
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine:
Michael Miller, Jesse Roman, Sameena Salcin
Division of Rheumatology: Sung Hoon Cho, Alexandra Tiliakos
Are you a new faculty member and don’t see your name listed above?
Let us know by filling out the survey at the button below.
MENTORING
DOM Mentoring Moment Video Part II: Building and Sustaining Successful Mentor-Mentee Relationships
In October, we shared Part I of a two-part Mentoring Moment video series, highlighting how early-career faculty and mentors can build strong, productive relationships. Now, Part II takes the conversation further as mentor Meena Prasad, MD, (Digestive Diseases) and her mentee Cindy Ye, MD, (Digestive Diseases) share insights on sustaining a successful mentoring partnership. Guided by thoughtful questions from Sheryl Cababat Caberto, MD (Renal Medicine), this discussion uncovers the heart of what makes mentorship so impactful.
Whether you're a mentor, mentee, or simply curious about the journey, this two-part video series offers meaningful insights into how mentorship can shape careers and lives. Click the video or the button below to watch Part II of this series.
CAREER DEVELOPMENT CORNER
Celebrating Impactful Mentorship: Share Your Stories
Do you have a mentor that has been significantly impactful to your growth and development? Or do you know of a mentor-mentee pair that has achieved notable accomplishments together?
If so, the Office of Faculty Development would love to celebrate and encourage the spirit of mentorship that is essential to our department by highlighting these stories in future editions of the newsletter. Send in mentor and/or mentor-mentee names to Bevin Pascual with a brief description of the mentor or mentor-mentee pair and their impact. Help us highlight the incredible work within our department and inspire others to engage in impactful mentorship.
DOM UPDATES
Emory Researchers Achieve the First Minimally Invasive Coronary Artery Bypass
In a monumental world first, a team of researchers at Emory's Department of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has successfully performed a coronary artery bypass — a normally open-heart surgery without cutting the chest wall. For high-risk patients, the method could offer a safer alternative to open-heart surgery.
The team, which includes three faculty members from the Department of Medicine, Associate Professor in Adam Greenbaum, MD, and Professor Vasilis Babaliaros MD, as well as Adjunct Assistant Professor and first author of the study, Christopher Bruce, MBChB, employed a novel intervention to prevent the blockage of a vital coronary artery, which is a very rare but often lethal complication following a heart-valve replacement. The results suggest that, in the future, a less traumatic alternative to open-heart surgery could become widely available for those at risk of coronary artery obstruction.
According to the press release from the NIH, the patient was a 67-year-old man whose aortic valve — which permits blood flow from the heart to the aorta, the widest artery in the body — had previously been replaced by a bioprosthetic, but, due to calcium buildup, the replacement now needed replacing. However, this patient’s unique anatomy placed the opening, or ostium, of his left coronary artery so close to the valve that its life-sustaining blood flow would likely become blocked during the standard valve replacement procedure. Due to several anatomical quirks, the patient was also not a good candidate for existing minimally invasive solutions.
A fluoroscopy image (left) and graphic representation (right) depict a stent graft (yellow arrowhead) being deployed, creating a new path for blood flow from the aorta (black arrowhead) to the left main coronary artery (asterisk). Bruce et al.
Fortunately, Drs. Greenbaum and Babliaros had recently begun developing a solution just for this kind of scenario. Dr. Bruce and Robert Lederman, who leads the Laboratory of Cardiovascular Intervention at NHLBI, joined the Emory physicians to help turn their concept into a viable medical procedure, having used it successfully in animal models. The procedure, called ventriculo-coronary transcatheter outward navigation and re-entry, or VECTOR, creates a new route for blood flow that is a safe distance away from the aortic valve. And rather than cracking open the chest to do it, the researchers use the body’s natural vascular circuitry to reach the heart, slipping catheters through vessels in the legs. While this mode of access is not new, what the study authors do with their tools once they get there is.
Tuesday, January 13 –
Saturday, January 24, 2026
Emory University will be closed this upcoming Monday, January 19, in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. To honor and celebrate his legacy and the civil rights movement, Emory's King Week is taking place tomorrow through Saturday, January 24. Programs include educational lectures, spiritual events, community service projects, celebrations, and exhibits. To see the full schedule, visit Emory's King Week webpage.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Service Awards Celebration
2026 Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Service Awards Celebration
Thursday, January 22, 2026 | 4–5:30 p.m. | Emory University Goizuetta Business School (Room: W525)
Goizueta Business School, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory School of Nursing, and Emory School of Medicine invite you to celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy by honoring the excellent service of individuals and organizations in Atlanta. This year's theme is “The Work Continues: Honoring the Past, Serving the Present, Shaping the Future,” centered around Dr. King’s quote, “The time is always ripe to do what is right."
Call for Nominations: Emory University Teaching Awards
The School of Medicine is seeking nominations for the following teaching awards.
- Provost's Distinguished Teaching Award for Excellence in Graduate and Professional Education
- Exemplary Teacher of the Year Award
- Vulcan Teaching Excellence Award
A faculty/student committee will forward one nominee for each award and will forward those names to the dean of the School of Medicine. The dean will submit the final nominees to the provost. To submit a nomination, email Traci Mack at traci.mack@emory.edu. Nominations should include:
- A brief statement (in the body of the email or as an attached letter) describing how the nominee meets the award criteria
- The nominee's CV
MEDICINE GRAND ROUNDS
Tomorrow's Medicine Grand Rounds
#MedicineGrandRounds
Tuesday, January 13 | noon–1 p.m. | Zoom
Zoom Meeting ID: 925 0599 6095
Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/92505996095?pwd=rW0p09z0nglM5l8FdpDeOBpvvsptvI.1
Passcode: MGR
Topic: Xenotransplantation: The Rapid Progression from First-in-Human Cases to Clinical Trials
Speaker: Robert A. Montgomery, MD, DPhil, FACS
H. Leon Pachter Chair and Professor of Surgery
Director, NYU Langone Transplant Institute
Note: Tomorrow's MGR will not offer CME credits and will not be recorded.
For more information about MGR, visit bitly.com/grandround.
DOM KUDOS
Adi V. Gundlapalli, MD, PhD, MS, named one of Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers
Congratulations to Adi V. Gundlapalli, MD, PhD, MS (Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine), who was recognized in the 2025 Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers list.
This list is based on a worldwide search for scientists and academics with the highest level of scholarly activity — including research papers ranked among the top 1% most cited in their fields. Among this worldwide group were 12 Emory faculty members, who are joining the ranks of the world’s most productive and influential scholars.
The American Society for Clinical Investigation
honors Ann Chahroudi, MD, PhD
The American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) honored Ann Chahroudi, MD, PhD (Infectious Diseases), with the 2025 ASCI Marian W. Ropes, MD, Award. This recognition honors the significant scholarly achievements of a middle-career woman physician-scientist. The recipient of the annual award receives an honorarium and presents the Ropes Lecture at the Society’s annual meeting.
Dr. Chahroudi is recognized for her contributions to the development of novel pediatric models of postnatal HIV and Zika virus infections. To learn more about her recognition, read the Journal of Clinical Investigation interview with Dr. Chahroudi.
EVENT SPOTLIGHT
This Wednesday: Virtual Women's Health Research & Leadership Lecture
2026 Women's Health Research and Leadership Lecture Series
Wednesday, January 14 | noon–1 p.m. | Zoom
The Emory SCORE and BIRCWH programs present the Women’s Health Research and Leadership Lecture, which will help raise the profile of women’s health research and support the growing community of women's health researchers at Emory and beyond.
Speakers:
Deborah Watkins Bruner, RN, PhD, FAAN
Professor and the Robert W. Woodruff Chair in Nursing, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing
Gaea A. Daniel, PhD, RN (Moderator)
Assistant Professor, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing
IN THE NEWS
Recent Department of Medicine News
Atlanta Journal-Constitution | DeKalb County issues alert as flu-related 911 calls spike 60% (Jay Varkey quoted)
Contagion Live 📺 | Addressing the three pillars of PPE in caring for patients with high-consequence infectious disease (Jill Morgan quoted) | Contagion Live 📺
Healio | FDA approves Wegovy pill, the first oral GLP-1 to treat obesity (Scott Isaacs quoted)
Medscape | Turning the tide in Type 2 diabetes: Evidence-based pathways to remission (Scott Isaacs quoted)
NBC News | Flu is surging nationwide, and doctors say we're nowhere near the peak (Emory research cited) | Yahoo! News
WSB-TV 📺 | Metro Atlanta sees surge in serious flu cases (Reema Dbouk quoted)
WXIA-TV 📺 | Metro Atlanta flu outbreak worst in years, doctors say (Gavin Harris quoted)
EVENTS
2026 Women's Health Research and Leadership Lecture Series *NEW*
Wednesday, January 14 | noon–1 p.m. | Zoom
Faculty-Staff Partnerships in Action
Thursday, January 15 | noon–1 p.m. | Zoom
2026 Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Service Awards Celebration
Thursday, January 22 | 4–5:30 p.m. | Emory University Goizuetta Business School (Room: W525)
2026 Inaugural Emory Obesity Summit: The Modern Obesity Management Paradigm
Friday, January 23 | 8 a.m.–3 p.m. | Emory Conference Center Hotel
Coffee with Carlos
EUH: Monday, January 26, 2026 | 7:30–8:45 a.m. | EUH: Suite 153 Conference Room
EUMH: Tuesday, February 17, 2026 | 7:30–8:45 a.m. | EUMH: Barker Boardroom
To see additional dates and locations, visit the faculty development calendar HERE.
Emory at Grady Awards Ceremony
Tuesday, January 27 | 5:30–7 p.m. | Grady Faculty Office Building (FOB) 101
Leadership Series: Navigating Conflict and Difficult Conversations
Friday, January 30 | noon–2 p.m. | Zoom
2026 Learning to be Better Teachers Conference
Tuesday, February 3 and Wednesday, February 4 | 8:30 a.m.–3:45 p.m. | James B. Williams Medical Education Building
February Ease of Research Town Hall
Friday, February 6 | noon–1 p.m. | Zoom
Researcher Survival Skills: Creating and Managing Grant Budgets
Wednesday, February 11 | 1–3 p.m. | Zoom
DOM Mentoring Workshop
Friday, February 13 | 8 a.m.–noon | WMB Conference Room 1109
Professional Development Lecture Series: Inclusive Leadership: Creating Space Where Everyone Thrives
Friday, February 13 | noon–1 p.m. | WMB Conference Room 1109
DOM CV Review Session
Wednesday, February 25 | 8–10 a.m. | Zoom
Professional Development Lecture Series: When Learners Struggle: Strategies for Support, Growth, and Accountability
Friday, March 13 | noon–1 p.m. | Zoom
Professional Development Lecture Series: Truth and Trust: Meeting Patients Where They Are in the Age of Medical Disinformation
Monday, April 20 | noon–1 p.m. | Zoom
2026 Health Equity Day *NEW*
Tuesday, May 19 | More details to come!
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