Margaret Visit 1: A 67-year-old woman with a previous cardiac diagnosis

Dr. Craig is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of California, San Diego.  Prior to UC San Diego, she held positions at the Harvard Medical School as an instructor in Medicine at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, and was an attending physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston.
 
She received her medical degree from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO, and completed her residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston. She was also a Pulmonary and Critical Care fellow in the Harvard Combined Fellowship Program. Dr. Craig is board certified in Pulmonary Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, and Internal Medicine.
 
Her clinical interests include Lung Transplantation, Interstitial Lung Disease, and Critical Care Medicine.

Sanjeev Bhalla, MD, associate professor of radiology and chief of the Section of Cardiothoracic Imaging, is co-chief of emergency radiology and body computed tomography at Washington University's Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology. He is highly sought after for consultations, even by members of his own department, particularly in the areas of cardiothoracic and pulmonary imaging. Dr. Bhalla is currently serving as director of the emergency medicine resident rotation in diagnostic radiology and advisor for medical students going into radiology. He has been honored with one of four Outstanding Teaching Awards in Radiology Residency every year since 2000. In 2003 and 2011 he was named the Radiology Residency Teacher of the year. In addition, he has received four teaching awards from medical students and one from surgery house staff, and twice has been named the Alpha Omega Alpha Lecturer at Washington University.

Dr. Bhalla is highly active in all of the major national radiology societies and is a frequent guest lecturer nationwide and internationally. He has contributed 55 peer-reviewed manuscripts and 13 book chapters.

He earned his bachelor's degree from Yale in 1990 and his medical degree from Columbia University in 1994. After an internship at Columbia, he came to Mallinckrodt for his diagnostic radiology residency, serving as chief resident, and his cardiac and thoracic imaging fellowship. He was named Fellow of the Year in 2000.

Kevin O. Leslie, MD received his medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1978, trained in anatomic and clinical pathology at the University of Colorado, and completed a fellowship in Surgical Pathology at Stanford University Medical Center in 1983. He became board certified in anatomic and clinical pathology in 1982.

In 1986 Dr. Leslie joined the faculty of the University of Vermont and served as Director of Surgical Pathology (1988-1990) and Director of Anatomic and Surgical Pathology (1990-1995) during his tenure. In addition to clinical service activities, he directed the Morphology Core of the Vermont Specialized Center for Organized Research (SCOR) in occupational and environmental lung disease, with a research focus on the role of myofibroblasts and contractile proteins in experimental lung fibrosis.

In 1996, he joined the faculty of the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona, where he is a Consultant in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology and holds the academic rank of Professor in the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine.  He has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications, serves on the editorial boards for several pathology journals, and lectures worldwide on a broad range of topics in pulmonary pathology.

In 2005 Dr. Leslie coauthored and co-edited (with Dr. Mark Wick) a textbook (now in its 2nd edition) entitled Practical Pulmonary Pathology: A Diagnostic Approach. This work was awarded "Medical Textbook of the Year" by the Royal Society of Medicine.

Devra Cohen-Tigör is the past Director of the Morchand Center for Clinical Competence at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai. In her role as Director, she oversaw the center operations and program development SP (standardized patient) that supported the curriculum and assessment for the undergraduate and components of graduate medical education. She also developed and supervised programming for multiple medical schools and other health care institutions throughout the metropolitan area and beyond. Ms. Cohen-Tigör is recognized as an expert in the area of communication skills training and assessment and has created and facilitated numerous unique programs such as: the Nurse/Physician Collegiality Program, Communication Training Program for New York Organ and Tissue Donor Coordinators, Genetic SP Counseling Training Program, and Bad News Communication and Advance Directives. She lectures worldwide and has helped facilitate many other SP Programs at other institutions.
 
In addition, she developed and was the Course Director for Communication Skills without Walls for MSSM. This course spans all four years of undergraduate school and weaves communication/interpersonal training and assessment in a progressional skill building fashion throughout the curriculum.
 
Ms. Cohen-Tigor is a founding member and the current past president of ASPE (The Association of Standardized Patient Educators). ASPE, an international not-for-profit organization mission is to promote and support the development and advancement of Standardized Patient (SP) education and research in the Health Sciences.