Leah Burt, PhD, APRN-FPA, ANP-BC, CHSE, FAANP
Dr. Leah Burt is a Clinical Assistant Professor and Director of Simulation Research and Assessment at the University of Illinois Chicago College of Nursing. A Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Faculty Scholar and Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator, she completed postdoctoral training as a Fellow in Diagnostic Excellence through the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM) and in simulation education and research. Her scholarship integrates educational design and mixed methods research to advance evidence-based approaches to learner competency. Her leadership has been recognized with SIDM’s Emerging Leader Rising Star Award and as a Fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners.
Eliana Bonifacino, MD, MS
Dr. Eliana Bonifacino is an academic hospitalist at MedStar Washington Hospital Center and Associate Professor of Medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine. She completed her medical school, residency, and chief residency at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and subsequently earned a Masters’ degree in Medical Education through the Academic Clinician Educator Scholar (ACES) fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh. Her primary area of academic interest is educational strategies to enhance clinical reasoning across the spectrum of medical education, both through curriculum development, implementation, and assessment, as well as through medical education research.
Paul A. Bergl, M.D., F.A.C.P.
Dr. Paul Bergl is an intensivist and the inaugural internal medicine residency program director at ThedaCare Regional Medical Center in Neenah, Wisconsin. He completed medical school at the University of Wisconsin (UW), internal medicine residency at the University of Chicago, and critical care fellowship at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW).
Dr. Bergl previously held academic faculty roles at MCW and UW and served as the fellowship director for the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine from 2019 to 2024. Since 2023, he has served on the American Board of Internal Medicine’s Critical Care Examination item-writing task force with subsequent appointment to an approval committee. A decorated educator with over a dozen major teaching awards from trainees, he is an inductee of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society.
His foremost passion in medical education is promoting critical thinking, and his scholarly work has focused on diagnostic error, point-of-care ultrasonography, and bedside teaching.