Dean's Teaching Fellows
Dean's Teaching Fellows
Current Fellows
Donna Guardino, PhD
John Romano Dean’s Teaching Fellow, 2024 – 2026
Project: Addressing Healthcare Disparities in Deaf Communities: Development and Evaluation of Deaf-ACCESS Training
Donna L. Guardino, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry. She received her PhD degree in 2018 from Gallaudet University and completed her pre-doctoral internship under Deaf Wellness Center at University of Rochester Medical Center. Dr. Guardino is currently conducting individual and group psychotherapy primarily for adults at Deaf Wellness Center.
Dr. Guardino’s research interests are: 1) on Certified Deaf Interpreters’ experiences working with language deprivation Deaf individuals in medical settings, and 2) Deaf population health and language deprivation.
Lisa Lincoln, MD
Lowell A. Glasgow Dean's Teaching Fellow, 2024 - 2026
Project: Improving Wellness Through Curricular Innovation: Incorporation of Mindfulness Teaching and Cognitive Strategies for Stress Reducation into the Emergency Medicine Residency Simulation Curriculum
Dr. Lincoln was born and raised in Rochester, NY. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from the State University of New York at Geneseo. Dr. Lincoln then attended medical school at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and graduated with honors in 2009. She proceeded to complete her Emergency Medicine Residency at the University of Rochester, and she served as the Chief Resident in 2012.
Certified Specialties – Emergency Medicine
Faculty Appointments – Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine .
Patricia Luck, MBChB, MPhil, MSc
Marshall Lichtman Dean’s Teaching Fellow, 2024-2026
Project: The Photo/ Tiny Story: A Health Humanities Tool For Developing Critical Reflection Skills in Undergraduate Medical Education
Assistant Professor Health Humanities & Bioethics, and Program Director of the MS in Medical Humanities and the Health Humanities faculty lead for Undergraduate Medical Education in the Department of Health Humanities & Bioethics at the University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry.
Dr. Luck, born in Germany, graduated from the University of Cape Town Medical School in 1989, spent her residency years in Sydney, Australia, returning to South Africa to work in family medicine in 1993. She received an MPhil in Palliative Medicine from the University of Cape Town in 2006 while Medical Director of Wits Hospice. Dr. Luck subsequently was Pediatric Palliative Care team leader for Big Shoes Foundation, serving in three teaching hospitals in Johannesburg, South Africa. In 2015 she completed her MSc in Medical Humanities at King’s College in London, UK before moving to Rochester, NY in 2018 where she joined the faculty in her current position.
Isaac Schmale, MD
George W. Corner Dean's Teaching Fellow, 2024 - 2026
Project: Novel use of 3D Surgical Pre-planning and Augmented Reality with Motion Analysis to Improve Resident Endoscopic Sinus Surgery Education
Dr. Isaac Schmale earned his medical degree from the Keck School of Medicine of USC in Los Angeles, CA. He completed his residency in Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. Dr. Schmale continued his education and completed a fellowship in Advanced Rhinology, Neurorhinology and Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery at the Texas Sinus Institute in the Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
Area of focus include:
- Medical and surgical treatment of chronic rhinosinusitis
- Revision sinus surgery
- In-Office treatment for nasal breathing and sinus conditions
- Nasal polyps
- Endoscopic sinus surgery
- Endoscopic skull base surgery
- Endoscopic pituitary surgery
- Treatment of Benign and malignant nasal tumors
- Treatment of Skull-base tumors
- Deviated nasal septum
- Cerebrospinal fluid leak repair
- Anosmia (smell loss)
- Endoscopic lacrimal surgery
- Endoscopic orbital surgery
- Aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease (AERD)
Matthew Gorgone, DO
Jules Cohen Dean's Teaching Fellow, 2025-2027
Project: Trainee Entrustment in Quantitative and Qualitative Cardiac Ultrasound in Patients with Acute Pulmonary Embolism
Dr. Matthew Gorgone is a pulmonary and critical care physician who sees patients with general pulmonary disease at the Mary Parkes Center for Asthma, Allergy & Pulmonary Care, as well as in the hospital with critical illness and/or pulmonary disease. He has a special interest in patients with hematology and oncology related pulmonary conditions.
Certified Specialties:
Critical Care Echocardiography - National Board of Echocardiography
Critical Care Medicine - American Board of Internal Medicine
Internal Medicine - American Board of Internal Medicine
Pulmonary Disease - American Board of Internal Medicine
Jennifer L. Marsella, MD
George L. Engel Dean’s Teaching Fellow, 2025-2027
Project: Leadership Brainery: Development, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Longitudinal, Inclusive, Core Leadership Curriculum for Adult Neurology Residents
Dr. Jennifer L. Marsella is an Assistant Professor of Neurology – Sleep Medicine.
Residency & Fellowship
Fellowship, Neurology, University of Rochester Medical Center. 2018 - 2020
Fellowship, Sleep Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center. 2017 - 2018
Residency, Neurology, University of Rochester Medical Center. 2014 - 2017
Internship, Neurology, University of Rochester Medical Center. 2013 – 201
Education
MD | University of Rochester School of Medicine/Dentistry 2013
Meghan Train, DO
Andrew W. Mellon Dean’s Teaching Fellow, 2025-2027
Project: Evaluation of Residency Quality Improvement Training
Dr. Meghan Train received her B.S. in Biology and Political Science at Northeastern University, and later received her D.O. at West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine. She completed her combined Internal Medicine-Pediatrics residency training at the University of Rochester. Since 2014, she has worked in academic medicine as a hospitalist on inpatient medicine and in the internal medicine ambulatory care clinic. Dr. Train’s academic interests include medical education, quality improvement and high value care. She is the Quality Improvement project leader on 6-1600, which centers on at-risk patients to increase Naloxone prescriptions upon discharge from the hospital. She serves as Medical Director for the 6-1400 inpatient unit and is director of the Quality, Safety and Inter-Professional Communication course for students in the Schools of Medicine and Nursing.
Bridget E. Young, PhD
Gilbert B. Forbes Dean’s Teaching Fellow, 2025-2027
Project: Teaching Evidence-Based Support of Infant Formula Feeding - A Web-based Continuing Education Program
Dr. Bridget E. Young is an Associate Professor in Department of Pediatrics, Breastfeeding & Lactation Medicine (SMD) and the Department of Public Health Sciences (SMD) – Joint.
Dr. Young studied Maternal and Child Nutrition at Cornell University where she received her PhD. She then pursued a postdoctoral fellowship in Pediatric Nutrition at the University of Colorado. She joined the faculty at the University of Rochester in 2018 and is the Director of Research for the Division of Breastfeeding and Lactation Medicine.
Bridget Young's research interests are in early infant nutrition. She studies the impact of obesity and insulin resistance on breast milk composition, and resultant programming effects in the infant. She particularly focuses on the effect of oral insulin in human milk on infant pancreatic function and intestinal maturation in the neonate. Dr. Young also studies how variation in infant formula ingredients impact long-term outcomes in the infant.
New Dean's Teaching Fellows
Nisreen H. Al Jallad, DDS, MS
Lowell A. Glasgow Dean's Teaching Fellow, 2026-2028
Project: PEARL curriculum: Perinatal EducAtion in oRal heaLth curriculum
Dr. Nisreen Al Jallad was born and raised in Damascus, Syria, and earned her DDS degree from Damascus University. She joined the University of Rochester Medical Center in 2019, where she completed a research fellowship and advanced education in general dentistry residency at Eastman Institute for Oral Health and later earned a Master of Science in Clinical and Translational Sciences.
Dr. Al Jallad is an assistant professor at the Eastman Institute for Oral Health and the perinatal oral health clinic director. Her interests include perinatal oral health, interprofessional education, and artificial intelligence applications for dental caries detection and oral health improvement.
Emily K. Cromwell, PhD
John Romano Dean's Teaching Fellow, 2026-2028
Project: Advancing Pediatric Sleep Care Through Education: A Project ECHO® Approach
Emily Kaier Cromwell, PhD received her undergraduate degree from Syracuse University and her doctorate degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Tulsa. She completed her pre-doctoral and post-doctoral trainings in Clinical Psychology; Child and Adolescent Track at the University of Rochester Medical Center. Dr. Cromwell's professional interests include pediatric sleep disorders and anxiety. Dr. Cromwell sees children and families for short-term sleep related treatment through the Pediatric Sleep Medicine clinic in addition to seeing children and adolescents for outpatient psychotherapy at Pediatric Behavioral Health and Wellness.
Christina E. Schutt, DO
George W. Corner Dean's Teaching Fellow, 2026-2028
Project: Redesigning the Outpatient Pediatric Rheumatology Resident Experience
Dr. Schutt is interested in the care of rheumatologic disease in children, in both the ambulatory and inpatient setting, especially Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis and Juvenile Scleroderma. She is trained in point-of-care musculoskeletal ultrasound for diagnosis and management of musculoskeletal conditions.
Susan J. Wiener, MD, MPH
Marshall Lichtman Dean's Teaching Fellow, 2026-2028
Project: Promoting Adolescent Reproductive Health and Autonomy: A Person-Centered Contraceptive Counseling Curriculum for Pediatric Residents
Dr. Susan Wiener is a board-certified pediatrician who specializes in caring for adolescents and young adults. Her clinical expertise includes sexual/reproductive healthcare and caring for adolescents with eating disorders. Dr. Wiener is passionate about reducing adolescents’ barriers to receiving the care that they need, empowering young people to make decisions about their own health, and promoting health equity. Her research interests include sexual health education and patient-provider communication (particularly surrounding pregnancy options and contraceptive counseling).