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