2015 Master Teacher Award
Winner
Huntington, WV
June 26, 2015 - The International Association of Medical Science Educators
(IAMSE) is pleased to announce the winners of the prestigious Master Scholar
Award and Master Teacher Award for 2015. The Master Teacher Award was
established to honor an IAMSE member who has consistently demonstrated
extraordinary excellence in teaching.
Master
Teacher Award Winner: John Szarek, PhD, CHSE, John received his PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the
University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy, a BS in Pharmacy from the
University of Illinois Chicago College of Pharmacy, and a BS in Biology from
the University of Illinois Urbana. In 2013 he became a Certified Healthcare
Simulation Educator by the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. Prior to
moving to Scranton, PA and joining the faculty at The Commonwealth Medical
College (TCMC), he was a member of the faculty at Marshall University School of
Medicine where he was involved in lunch research, Chair of the Department of
Pharmacology at Ross University School of Medicine in Dominica where he also
started and ran the simulation program for the second year medical students,
and a faculty member and Director of Human Simulation at A.T. Still University
School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizona. John wears many hats at TCMC.
Foremost he is a Professor of Pharmacology in the Department of Basic Sciences
and the Director of Clinical Pharmacology, as well as Education Director for
curriculum thread for TCMC, a role in which he helps develop and lead
activities bringing together students from multiple health professions schools
in the surrounding geographic area.
John’s focus
began to shift toward teaching and learning about 15 years ago after
participating in a week-long course on effective teaching. He found himself
reading books and journals related to education and attending workshops to
learn more about teaching and learning. He has published abstracts and
manuscripts related to medical education, and conducted many faculty
development sessions at TCMC and society meetings (ASPET, IAMSE, SSH, and
AMSPC) on topics such as facilitating small group sessions, the use of
simulation in medical education, question writing, and presentation skills.
More recently, he has been an advocate for the flipped classroom and
Interprofessional education. In addition to thanking IAMSE for this honor, he
is most grateful to his wife of 35 years, Laura, for her love and support
throughout this journey.
The International Association of Medical Science
Educators (IAMSE) is a professional society based on the guiding principle
that all who teach the sciences fundamental to medical practice should have
access to the most current information and skills needed to excel as educators.
With members in over 40 countries, IAMSE is international in scope and
interdisciplinary in nature. For more information, please visit iamse.org.
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