Curriculum Vitae
A complete record of my clinical, educational, leadership, and scholarly work.
EDUCATION
Wright State University/Dayton Childrens Hospital, Dayton OH.
Jul 2014-Jun 2017
Pediatric Residency, Class of 2017
Boonshoft School of Medicine Wright State University, Dayton OH
Jun 2009-Jul 2014
MD candidate, class of 2014
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
May 2004-May 2006
Bachelors of Science; Biology and Society / Biomedical Ethics
Cumulative GPA 3.92/4.00
SUNY Rockland, Suffern, NY.
August 2002-May 2004
Associates degree; Mathematics
Minor Concentration in Biology
Cumulative GPA 4.00/ 4.00
Magna Cum Laude
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
Associate Dean of Student Affairs and Admissions;
May 2023-June 2026
Wright State University, Boonshoft School of Medicine.
Supervise all student affairs and admissions staff (16 person team; including Director, Manager, and coordinator levels) and function, including Budget management.
Oversee all aspects of BSOM applicant selection, including recruitment efforts.
Facilitate strategic planning for student academic success, and oversee all student support services, including academic, non-academic, financial and wellness.
Overseeing student disciplinary proceedings.
Provides guidance to students regarding short term absences and extended leaves of absence.
Direct students to resources, policies and procedures as indicated based on circumstance.
Monitor behavioral reporting portal, to then investigate and intervene as indicated.
Active involvement in Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) accreditation process.
Director of Medical Student Education; Dept. of Pediatrics
Jan 2021- May 2023
Wright State University, Boonshoft School of Medicine, at Dayton Children’s Hospital. Dayton OH.
Responsible for the designs, management, and evaluation of the Pediatrics core clerkship in 3rd year, various electives, 4th year clinical experiences including Sub-Internship, and early introduction to clinical medicine for the 2nd year students.
Communicate the expectations of the various clinical experiences to BSOM students, staff, faculty and administration.
Act as the liaison between students and faculty during the pediatric component of the doctoring phase of student education.
Director of the Medical Education Rotation; Pediatric Hospital Medicine fellowship.
July 2022- June 2025
Wright State University, Boonshoft School of Medicine, at Dayton Children’s Hospital. Dayton OH.
Maintain a learning environment conducive to educating PHM fellows coming through their MedEd rotation, in compliance with the ACGME requirements and in line with the competency areas set forth by the fellowship and its governing bodies.
Responsible for the designs, management, and evaluation of the Medical Education rotation.
Monitor training and Fellow development in the fundamental elements of medical education.
Develop opportunities for Fellows to integrate Medical Education skills into PHM practice.
Director of Continuing Medical Education (CME)
Jan 2021- Oct 2023
Dayton Children’s Hospital. Dayton OH.
Ensure appropriate institutional administration and coordination of all continuing medical education within DCH for program compliance with multiple accrediting and non-accrediting regulatory agencies.
Responsible for adherence to the CME guidelines set forth by WSU.
Provide administrative management, and coordination of, all CME functions.
Serve as an institutional resource and educator related to CME, including administrative, operations, and various regulatory issues.
Faculty Advisor for the Pediatrics Interest Group (PiG)
Jan 2021- Oct 2023
Wright State University, Boonshoft School of Medicine, at Dayton Children’s Hospital. Dayton OH.
PiG is an organization dedicated to exposing medical students to the countless opportunities in pediatrics. Faculty advisor role is to help guide these student-visions and create the opportunities.
Participate in group’s executive board meetings
Facilitate events, volunteering, and various other opportunities for students to get involved in DCH
Acting liaison between PiG and DCH faculty, staff, and patients.
Manage Observership program, where students shadow physicians throughout various DCH departments.
Director of The Healers Art and Finding Meaning in Medicine (FMM)
June 2017 - June 2024
The Remen Institute for the Study of Health & Illness (RISHI), and Dayton Children’s Hospital. Dayton OH
The Healer’s Art course enables the formation of a genuine community-of-inquiry between Residents and Attending Physicians. This encourages an in-depth sharing of experience, beliefs, aspirations and personal truths.
Responsible for recruitment and training of volunteer staff, guiding incoming interns through the initial “Healers Art” curriculum, and ensuring continued engagement of all residents through the FMM experience.
Responsible for scheduling, managing, and troubleshooting FMM throughout the year.
Lead bi-monthly team meetings and communicate on a regular basis with faculty and staff.
Pediatric Hospitalist (and former TCU)
Jul 2018 - Present
Division of Hospital Medicine (PHM), Dayton Children’s Hospital. Dayton OH.
Transitional Care Unit houses Technology Dependent patients, namely tracheostomy and ventilation dependent children.
The PHM division sees a diverse inpatient population, treating common through highly complex pediatric disease.
181-bed pediatric hospital
~100,000 ED visits annually
Level I Pediatric Trauma Center
Level I Children’s Surgery Center
Level IIIB NICU
50+ pediatric specialties/subspecialties
20-county regional reach
Urban, Suburban, military and Rural patient population
Chief Resident; Pediatrics
Jul 2017- June 2018
Dayton Children’s Hospital. Dayton OH.
Responsible for ~50 pediatric residents, as well as rotating residents from Family Medicine and Psychiatry programs.
Build resident educational curriculum that meets the content specifications of ACGME
Responsible for all resident clinical scheduling within the residency program, including Wright-Patterson-Air-Force-Base, inpatient rotations such as PICU, NICU, PHM, HEME/ONC, EM, Surgery, and outpatient subspecialty and general clinics.
Monitor professional behavior of residents, and intervene when appropriate.
Pediatric Resident
Jul 2014 - Jun 2017
Dayton Children’s Hospital. Dayton OH
Training after Medical School graduation, for ultimate specialization in the field of Pediatrics. 16 residents per class | ~50 residents total
This Integrated Pediatric Residency is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), identified as program 3203821193.
It is the country's only civilian/military integrated pediatric residency program.
Residents treat patients from different ethnic, socioeconomic, and geographic settings, including experience treating both military and civilian families.
The clinical exposure is broad, with residents participating in inpatient wards, intensive care, emergency medicine, and subspecialty clinics.
Civilian NRMP positions fully matched, 2022–2026
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT / EXPERIENCES
Provider Leadership Academy
2026 - 2027 (expected)
Dayton Children’s Hospital. Dayton OH
Designed to further the professional development of DCH providers, specifically developing their leadership skills by developing a “toolkit” of skills and resources which can be referenced in the future.
Participants must apply, and be selected to partake in this ten-month program.
Includes coaching with an identified hospital leader
Full concrete and actionable Capstone Project expected by the end of the course, including full financial planning.
Faculty Leadership Academy
2021 - 2022
Wright State University, Dayton OH
Curriculum included Leadership Styles, Accreditation, Communication, Bargaining and Negotiating, Emotional Intelligence, Human Resources, Finance and more.
Full EQi evaluation to assess leadership style and strengths.
Reporting Systems Task Force
2022-2025
Wright State University, Dayton OH
To ensure compliance with the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) standard requiring medical institutions have effective written policies that address violations of the professional code of conduct, have effective mechanisms in place for a prompt response to any complaints, and support educational activities aimed at preventing inappropriate behavior. Further, this taskforce became responsible to ensure all students were confident with their ability to engage said process.
Assess 3rd year students' confidence level with engaging the process of making reports, should they need to.
Modify and adjust the way we relay this information to BSOM doctoring/advanced doctoring students.
Assess the new 4th year students (same group as prior assessment, a year later) confidence level with engaging the process
Pediatric Response Team (PRT) Committee
Jul 2016- Jan 2021
Dayton Children’s Hospital. Dayton OH.
Committee member- alongside hospital’s chief safety officer and representatives from each relevant department.
Committee designed to critically evaluate and improve the process of the hospital’s stepdown-code, known as PRT.
Authored a note template which went live on hospital system EMR (2016), for standardized documentation following PRT.
Code Committee
Jul 2014 - Jun 2017
Dayton Children’s Hospital. Dayton OH.
Committee member- alongside hospital’s Chief Safety Officer and representatives from each relevant department.
Critically evaluate, and engage in quality improvement, of the code process at Dayton Childrens Hospital.
EXAMS
USMLE step 1 - PASS - 2011
USMLE step-2 CS - PASS - 2013
USMLE step-2 CK - PASS - 2013
USMLE step 3 - PASS - 2015
American Board of Ped - PASS - 2018
Ped Hospital Med Boards - PASS - 2022
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP); 2014 – Present
Society of Hospital Medicine; 2023 – Present
Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Group on Student Affairs (GSA); 2023 - 2026
Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics (COMSEP); 2021 – 2023
CERTIFICATIONS
License to practice medicine, State of Israel, Ministry of Health; Issued June, 2026
Specialist Recognition in Pediatrics, State of Israel, Ministry of Health; Issued July, 2026
Subspecialty Board Certification in Pediatrics Hospital Medicine; Nov 2022 - Active
Board Certification in Pediatrics; Oct 2018 - Active
State Medical Board, Doctor of Medicine. State of Ohio; Jul 2016 - Active
Basic Life Support (BLS), provider certified; Apr 2009 - Active
Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS), provider certified; Jun 2014 - Active
Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP), provider certified; Jun 2014 - Active
Pediatric Fundamental Critical Care Support (PFCCS); Oct 2015 - 2021
DEA-X; IssuedDecember, 2017
HONORS & AWARDS
Excellence in Medical Student Education Award (WSU BSOM); Recipient [2023]
Nominated by students
Selected by the Dean of Medicine
Above and Beyond Award (Dayton Childrens Hospital); Recipient [2020]
Nominated by fellow residents, Nurses and Attendings
Criteria for nomination includes excellent display of hospital core values: Safety, Compassion, Collaboration, Innovation and Value Creation.
Receipt of this award was highlighted on the hospital website and all internal communication modalities.
Resident of the Quarter; Recipient [2015]
Nominated by fellow residents, Nurses and Attendings
Criteria for nomination includes excellent display of hospital core values: Safety, Compassion, Collaboration, Innovation and Value Creation.
Receipt of this award was highlighted on the hospital website and all internal communication modalities.
Phi Theta Kappa; Inductee [2004]
Membership to this international honor society is extended by invitation only
Inducted for high academic achievement
Graduation cord and special mention at Commencement Ceremony
SCHOLARSHIP; Curriculum development
Development of new mandatory course for all Senior Medical Students at BSOM [Created 2026 - Active]
[Link #1] Clinical Medicine Advanced Doctoring (CMAD). Wright State University, Dayton OH
A required, virtual, longitudinal course for fourth-year medical students designed to close the well-documented gap between medical school and day-one residency readiness [a gap that is well documented in GME literature]
14 sessions, released one per month, engaged virtually and asynchronously to meet the flexibility needed in the M4 year.
Content is practical, intern-level, and focused on areas where new residents most commonly struggle — clinical reasoning, medication safety, handoffs, emergencies, procedures, EHR workflows, communication, and systems-based practice
This course is a graduation requirement for the School of Medicine.
Development of new curricula for the pediatrics clerkship [Created 2022 - Active]
Wright State University at Dayton Childrens Hospital, Dayton, OH.
Following mandated changes to the testing component of the Pediatric clerkship, an entire revamp was needed.
Project included:
massive review of Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics (COMSEP) content specification and content covered on the USMLE exams
robust discussion with other Pediatric program directors across the United States
assembling and leading a comprehensive steering committee
Authored hundreds of MCQ style questions, and enacting a peer-review process to ensure question quality.
Created a “graduated autonomy” style of grading within the new curriculum, where each student’s grade-weight became increasingly more reliant on the individual components of their assignment and less reliant on the group component.
Development and delivery of Education Module [Created 2018 - Active]
“Interpreting the CBC and Diff”
Module designed for learners who demonstrate needing a refresher on “why we order this test”, and “how do I interpret these results”
This was given quarterly to Nurse Practitioners in the Transitional Care Unit (TCU), as well as select residents as needed.
Development and delivery of Education Module [Created 2016 - Active]
“Infectious Derm Lecture Series; A Pediatricians Review”
Comprehensive dermatology lecture series that covers all infectious causes of skin rashes in pediatrics (including viral, bacterial and fungal)
This lecture series was designed for pediatrics residents, but has been given to Family Medicine residents and medical students over the years.
SCHOLARSHIP; Presentations
BSOM clinician ceremony; keynote speaker
[Link #2] “Medical students are the key to fixing the Doctor Patient Relationship”
At the close of their Foundations (pre-doctoring) phase, medical students at WSU’s Boonshoft School of Medicine partake in this ceremony where they renew their vow in front of loved ones, faculty and staff.
This marks their next phase of education in the Doctoring Phase.
Students of the class come together to vote for a chosen Keynote Speaker for the special event.
TedXDayton; selected speaker
[Link #3]“Making Room for Trust in the Doctor Patient Relationship: it Just May Save Us”
Established in 1984, TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas in the form of short, powerful talks. Independently run TEDx events help share those same great ideas, featuring local speakers presenting to local audiences.
After rigorous application and audition cycles, 200 initial applicants are whittled down to 15 speakers
Talks recorded during the stage presentation to a live audience, after which selected talks are uploaded to the TED website for posterity.
Grand-rounds; invited speaker
[Link #4]“Grief in the Adolescent”
Provided an educational lecture regarding normal adolescent development and the impact grief and development have on each other.
Presentation given to community practitioners, hospital providers including physicians, nurses, psychologists, and others including fellow residents and medical students.
This lecture provided attendees with CME credits.
Morbidity and Mortality (M&M) Presentation
Presented an M&M case in which I was not clinically involved (randomly assigned by Hospital’s Chief Safety Officer)
Presentation including comprehensive analysis, to a multidisciplinary medical team, including residents, general pediatric attendings, relevant subspecialists, nursing, RT, and ICU physicians.
Several QI projects resulted from the review of this case in this forum
“The Very Low Birth Weight Infant” - Scholarly Presentation
Presentation at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base for residents and medical students.
This scholarly presentation covered pathophysiology, differential diagnosis, and up-to-date guidelines regarding evaluation and workup for the VLBW infant.
SCHOLARSHIP; Quality Improvement
Intermediate Quality Improvement Course (IQIC) A course designed to teach Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) methodology
12 months of assigned readings, class discussion, and QI project development and implementation.
[Link #5] Nurse/Resident Nighttime Huddle - Quality Improvement
SMART AIM: To increase night huddle between nurses and residents on 3w from 0% to 75% of admitted patients by the end of the year.
Designed to replicate the interdisciplinary communication that takes place during the day without the intrusiveness of late-night Family Centered Rounds
Project culminated in a scholarly poster presentation
MCHAT and ASQ - Quality Improvement
SMART AIM: To increase pediatric resident engagement with MCHAT and ASQ within the WPAFB clinic from 37% to 85% of eligible well-child-visits by the end of the year.
Data collection and chart review for completion and appropriate coding of Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (MCHAT) and Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Pediatric Clinic.
Safe Sleep Initiative - Quality Improvement
Purpose: To actively partake in the Ohio Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics (Ohio AAP) Safe Sleep Collaborative in its efforts to significantly reducing the rising rates of sleep related infant injuries and deaths.
I conducted crib audits to assess adherence to recommended safe infant sleep practices in the inpatient setting
I provided parent education regarding safe sleep practices and risk reduction
Upon discharge, I engaged patients’ primary care physicians to reinforce safe sleep practices and support continued education
Following this institution wide project, Dayton Children’s achieved Gold Certified National Safe Sleep Champion status (2015)
SCHOLARSHIP; Posters and Publications
[Link #6]Atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumor in an infant presenting as bronchiolitis: delayed diagnosis.
Miri Lader, MD, Harsh Patel, DO.
Pediatric Forum. 2023;37(1):9–15
[Link #7] A Program's Experience with Healer's Art: Fostering Compassionate Healing and Human Connection.
Miri Lader, MD, Ann E. Burke, MD, Adrienne Stolfi, MSPH, Evangeline Andarsio, MD, Claire Hanson,MD, Craig Boreman, MD.
Academic Pediatrics, Vol 18, issue 5, E33, July 1, 2018.
[Link #8] A Healers Art in Residency - Bringing human connection and professional formation into graduate medical education
As part of the first pediatric residency program to adapt Healer's Art for GME, we studied residents' perceptions of its value to their practice. Participants identified value in compassion, patient-centeredness, and connectedness.
Our work was Published in Academic Pediatrics, and presented at the annual APPD conference.
Development of a Complex Porcine Model for the study of Hemorrhagic Shock
Participated in an extensive literature search on the above topic
Worked through the Institute for Research in Military Medicine (IRMM), in Jerusalem, Israel.
Sorted and tabulated raw laboratory data from the Hebrew University
Findings appear promising in the field of Military Medicine, and were planned to be submitted for publication.
COMMUNITY SERVICE & VOLUNTEERISM
Community Health Fair, Dayton, OH. Annual Volunteer
Reach-Out Clinic of Montgomery County (free community clinic). Volunteer
Sunday School teacher at Temple Israel, Dayton, OH. Before becoming a physician educator, I taught in various capacities, serving different local communities.
I taught Hebrew and Biblical studies to elementary students, and helped develop age-appropriate curriculum at Temple Israel in Dayton.
I created and delivered presentations to local elementary and high school students covering an array of health-related topics, catered to age group and developmental stage.
MISCELLANEOUS INTERESTS & EXPERIENCES
[Link #9] Aerial Dance - Competitive and performance aerial hoop artist; first place, Aerialympics Specialty Apparatus, and second place, Star Organization Specialty Apparatus
SCUBA; Rescue Diver (PADI trained) - Rescue Diver trained since 2002, with prior experience supporting water-based search-and-recovery operations.
Israeli Defense Force (Army) - Served as a drill sergeant responsible for training approximately 350 recruits every 12 weeks.
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