2021 TTR Symposium

The 2021 TTR Symposium was a huge success, thank you to everyone who participated and contributed! Check out the videos below if you missed anything!


Plenary Speaker

Julie Story Byerley, MD, MPH, UGRC member

University of North Carolina

Dr. Julie Byerley Julie Story Byerley, MD, MPH, is currently the Interim Dean of the UNC Adams School of Dentistry and professor of pediatrics in the UNC School of Medicine. Until stepping into the interim dean role, Dr. Byerley served as the Vice Dean for Academic Affairs and Chief Education Officer for UNC School of Medicine. In that capacity, Dr. Byerley oversaw the educational enterprise as well as the Office of Faculty Affairs and Leadership Development. She will become the Dean of the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine in January, 2022. Byerley has served as dean’s office leader at UNC since 2013 when she was named Vice Dean for Education in the School of Medicine. She was co-PI of the $1.8M AMA Reimagining Residency grant and has been involved in the AMA Accelerating Change in Medical Education Consortium since 2015, serving as co-chair of the executive committee until recently. She served on the Coalition for Physician Accountability UME to GME Recommendation Committee and chaired the workgroup on Post Match Optimization. Previously Dr. Byerley served the Department of Pediatrics as Pediatric Residency Program Director and Vice Chair for Education, after leading the clerkship for a decade. Dr. Byerley earned a BA in Physics at Rhodes College. Before medical school at Duke University, she worked as a high school science teacher. She completed her Residency and Chief Residency at UNC and earned a Master’s of Public Health at UNC in Maternal and Child Health. She has been a member of the UNC faculty since 2002.


Oral Presentations

Chat Transcript - Preparing for Duties When Life Ends

02:35:34 Lynn Buckvar-Keltz, NYUGSOM: Please feel free to enter questions for Dr. Kaloti in the chat!

02:40:27 Michelle Keating- Wake Forest School of Medicine (she/her): Great presentation! A few questions: 1) How long is your course? 2) was the survey results about course satisfaction based on the death certification curriculum alone or the whole TTR course?

02:41:32 Michelle Keating- Wake Forest School of Medicine (she/her): To clarify- the whole TTR course- how long?

02:41:36 Dawn DeWItt-Washington State: The knowledge was “self-reported” is that correct, and not based on a quiz or objective knowledge assessment?

02:42:50 Diane Levine: 1 month. There is a knowledge teat but we do not have the results at this time.

02:43:00 Anthony Gaynier: great job!

Chat Transcript - Creating a Virtual Escape Room

02:48:33 Margaret Lewis, Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center: Our emails: Margaret.Lewis@atriumhealth.org; Courtney.Brantley@atriumhealth.org; Anthony.Dang@atriumhealth.org; Travis.Shaw@atriumhealth.org

02:52:09 Jon Goforth - Wake Forest SOM: Please feel free to post any questions for Drs. Lewis, Brantley, or Dang in the chat

02:55:01 Celeste Colcord: Amazing work! Love this for students

02:55:07 Aby Frank WV School of Osteopathic Medicine: How many students participated?

02:55:35 Andrea AndersonGW: This looks like a really fun learning activity for the students

02:55:37 Margaret Lewis, Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center: 5 teams - 3 students each.

02:55:39 Jennifer Hasvold: This is wonderful! How long did each room take on average?

02:56:40 Jaini Sutaria UTSW Dallas, TX: How did students go from one room to another? Was it more like one zoom breakout room to next ?

02:57:16 Margaret Lewis, Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center: About 10 minutes/room, with 2 minutes in between in room to transision

02:58:30 Zaid Kaloti M.D.: how long did it take you to put all of this together?

03:00:11 Rachel Gordon (she/her) Columbia: Did any team ever get stuck in a room?

03:00:21 Jon Goforth - Wake Forest SOM: To clarify - the proctors did not manage the pages?

03:00:33 Rachel Gordon (she/her) Columbia: Ouch

03:02:28 Matt Rustici: Every time we make something harder in our course, it gets better reviews

03:02:32 Lisa Howley: Great to hear from my friends at Atrium Health! Thank you

03:03:09 Margaret Lewis, Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center: HI!


Please direct all conference questions to the symposium coordinator, Mary Teel (mary.teel@cuanschutz.edu) or Dr. Matt Rustici (matthew.rustici@cuanschutz.edu).