2025 MEAC in-person Workshop

Grow Where You're Planted: Cultivating Your Medical Education Career

Thursday, August 7, 2025

In-Person at Olbrich Botanical Gardens,

3330 Atwood Avenue, Madison, WI 

9:00am-3:30 CST

Fee: $149 per person

Fee includes:

·     Program handouts

·     Continental breakfast, refreshments and lunch

Please note any special dietary needs in your registration

Who Should Attend: Administrators, Coordinators, and Managers of undergraduate & graduate medical education programs from all specialties, experience levels, and settings including academic, urban, rural, and community training sites

Purpose: Provide practical training, professional development, networking, and inspiration for those who support medical education programs

Contact: Heather Roth, MEAC VP of Education, Education Program Manager, Medical College of Wisconsin – Central Wisconsin (MCW-CW) hroth@mcw.edu

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Monday, July 21, 2025

Agenda

9:00 – 9:30 am
Registration & Continental Breakfast

9:30 – 9:45 am
Welcome & Introductions

  • Tricia La Fratta, MEAC President, Advocate Aurora Health

  • Heather Roth, MEAC VP of Education, Medical College of Wisconsin – Central Wisconsin

9:45 – 10:45 am
Bloom Where You Are Planted… and Make the Soil Better for Others

  • Jami Kaiser, ACC, CPXP, MSc, Develop to Grow Consulting

10:45 – 11:00 am
Break

11:00 – 11:45 am
Project Management in Medical Education: Coordinating with Purpose

  • Kathryn Buschmann, C-TAGME

  • Krystal Carroll, C-TAGME

  • Eleanor McCarrier
    (All from Aurora Health Care)

11:45 am – 12:45 pm
Lunch & Networking

12:45 – 1:45 pm
Career Panel

  • Terry Frederick, Retired Manager of Medical Education

  • Michelle Grosch, UW School of Medicine and Public Health

  • Meaghan Hayes, Medical College of Wisconsin

  • Tara Loushine, UW School of Medicine and Public Health

  • Deborah Simpson, Aurora

1:45 – 2:00 pm
Break

2:00 – 3:15 pm
Recasting Change Management, Culture and Wellness: A Flourishing Approach

  • Lamya Augusthy, Kern National Network for Flourishing

  • Jerica Broeckling, Kern National Network for Flourishing

3:15 – 3:30 pm
Bringing It All Together