The Teaching Academy is proud to highlight the work of scholar Lisa Ricker, whose dedication to rapid response, clinical education, and team-based learning continues to transform care at Vassar Brothers Medical Center (VBMC). Lisa has built a career around improving patient outcomes through education—from launching VBMC’s Rapid Response Team in 2006 (which cut Code Blue […]
The 2024–2025 Trainee Track Scholars teamed up to explore current trends and emerging topics in healthcare, including Technology & Diagnostics, Patient-Centered Care, Specialty Practice, and Education & Training. Their collaborative work was featured at the 4th Grand Rounds & Academic Symposium on June 11, 2025, and is now on display at Norwalk Hospital’s McGraw Library […]
This past spring marked an exciting academic milestone as Jeanne completed her Doctor of Education (EdD) degree at the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences. She also successfully defended her dissertation on, Enhancing Clinical Leadership Skills: Impact of Rehabilitation Professionals’ Leadership Development. Read Jeanne’s publication on The Leadership Challenge. Jeanne described the journey as […]
The Teaching Academy was thrilled to host Alexa Miller, visual artist, health humanities educator, and pioneer in integrating Visual Thinking Strategies into medical training, for our first ever VTS Workshop! Miller has spent over 20 years helping clinicians sharpen their observation, communication, and diagnostic skills through the arts—championing the art of doctoring as essential to the future of medicine.
Welcome to our 2025 Academic Symposium e-publication. We truly appreciate your support as we showcase the incredible work of our many Teaching Academy scholars, and continue this work proudly carrying the name of Dr. Patricia A. Tietjen. Dr. Tietjen is remembered as a lifelong learner and teacher, committed to helping Nuvance thrive by leveraging our […]
Join us: Our key note speaker will be Abraham M. Nussbaum, MD, author of Progress Notes: One Year in the Future of Medicine.
DANBURY, NORWALK, Connecticut, March 8, 2021 — Dr. Ramanathan Seshadri has joined Nuvance Health and is seeing patients and performing surgeries at Danbury Hospital and Norwalk Hospital. Dr. Seshadri specializes in treating liver, bile duct and pancreatic cancer, and other complex hepatobiliary conditions. Dr. Seshadri has extensive abdominal transplant and hepatobiliary surgery experience using open, laparoscopic, and […]
The Patricia A. Tietjen, MD Teaching Academy held their Inaugural Academic Symposium on May 18th, 2022 at the Ballroom of The Summit at Danbury. The Academic Symposium opened with remarks from Dr. Robyn Scatena, Executive Director of the Teaching Academy. Dr. John Murphy, President and CEO of Nuvance Health also offered a poignant testimony of […]
The Teaching Academy was very excited to kick off the first fall Lunch & Learn! session on Wednesday, September 28th, from 12-1pm with an invited guest speaker, Dr. Neil Osheroff. Dr. Osheroff is a Professor of Biochemistry and Medicine at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and John G. Coniglio Chair in Biochemistry. Dr. Osheroff […]
Dr. Patricia Rivera, a leading expert in the field of pulmonary medicine, presents on Disparities in Lung Cancer Screening to an in-person and virtual audience on June 30, 2022 at Danbury Hospital’s Creasy Auditorium. John M. Murphy, MD, President and Chief Executive Officer, provides warm opening remarks for the event, held on the birthday of […]