RISE Advisory Council
The RISE Advisory Council provides guidance regarding new ideas, initiative processes and implementation strategies. The Council is instrumental in developing and reviewing outcomes measures and providing critical review regarding how innovation ideas can integrate into existing practices at Michigan Medicine.
Advisory Council Members

Brendan Appold
Medical Student

Veronica Beck, PhD
Medical School Research Administration Fellow

Serena Bidwell
Medical Student

Amy Cohn, PhD
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering; Associate Director Academic Program, Center for Healthcare Engineering and Patient Safety, College of Engineering and Professor of Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health

James Cooke, MD
Associate Professor of Family Medicine; Associate Professor of Learning Health Sciences

Kavya Davuluri
Medical Student

James DeVaney, MBA, MPP
Associate Vice Provost for Academic Innovation

Erin Dietrich
Senior Director, Research Applications and Advanced Computing Services

Michael Englesbe, MD
Cyrenus G. Darling Sr. M.D. and Cyrenus G. Darling Jr. M.D. Professor of Surgery and Professor of Surgery

Brian George, MD
Assistant Professor of Learning Health Sciences and Assistant Professor of Surgery, Medical School

Karri Grob, EdD, MA
Director of Student Services, Office of Medical Student Education

Larry Gruppen, PhD
Professor of Learning Health Sciences

Maya Hammoud, MD, MBA
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology; Professor of Learning Health Sciences

David Healy, MD
Assistant Dean for Continuing Medical Education and Life-long Learning, Associate Chair, Department of Anesthesiology, Faculty Affairs and Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Medical School

Laura Hopson, MD
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Residency Program Director, Co-Director, GME Innovations Program

Kristen Howard, JD
Senior Director, Office for Health Equity and Inclusion

Nadine Ibrahim, MD
House Officer, Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Edith Jones
Graduate Student - Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Taylor Kantor, MD
House Officer, Thoracic Surgery

Matthew Kaplan, PhD
Executive Director, Center for Research on Learning and Teaching

Kevin Karlic, MD
House Officer, Internal Medicine

Jenni Lane, MA
Program Manager, Adolescent Health Initiative

Joyce Lee, MD, MPH
Robert P. Kelch M.D. Research Professor of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, Professor of Pediatrics, Medical School and Professor of Nutritional Sciences, School of Public Health

Helen Morgan, MD
Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology; Professor of Learning Health Sciences

Allyson Munneke
Graduate Student - Cellular and Molecular Biology

Mary O'Riordan, PhD
Frederick C. Neidhardt Collegiate Professor, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Associate Dean for Graduate and Post-Doctoral Students, Medical School

Vani Patterson, MPH
Assistant Director of the Center for Interprofessional Education

Donald Peurach, MPP, PhD
Professor of Education

Jon Servoss, EdD
Fast Forward Medical Innovation Director of Commercialization Education

Maxwell Spadafore, MD
House Officer, Emergency Medicine

Sudharsan Srinivasan
Medical Student

Caren Stalburg, MA, MD
Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Associate Professor of Learning Health Sciences, Medical School

Shoba Subramanian, PhD
Director of Curriculum and Educational Initiatives and Adjunct Clinical Lecturer in Cell and Developmental Biology

Pariyamon Thaprawat
Graduate Student - Microbiology and Immunology

Isha Verma, PhD
Research Fellow - Neurology

James Woolliscroft, MD
Lyle C. Roll Professor of Medicine; Professor of Internal Medicine and Professor of Learning Health Sciences, Medical School