Peter W. Bates Award for Excellence for Health Professions Education Research 2021

Varaklis, Kalli; Van der Kloot, Thomas; Hallen, Sarah; Gearan, Thomas; Gordon, Lesley B.; Zelaya-Floyd, Melissa; White, Patricia; and Luro, Alec (2023). “Let’s pick up the iPace Leveraging innovative educational research to redesign healthcare delivery,” Journal of Maine Medical Center: Vol. 5 : Iss. 1 , Article 6.  https://doi.org/10.46804/2641-2225.1142

Gordon L, Zelaya-Floyd M, White P, Hallen S, Varaklis K, Tavakolikashi M. Interprofessional Bedside Rounding Improves Quality of Feedback on Resident Learners. Medical Teacher 2022.  https://doi.org/10.1080/0142159X.2022.2049735

Foshee CM, Walsh H, Van der Kloot TE, Boscardin CK, Calongne L, Telhiard NS, Ullman C, Backus C, Peyre SE.  Pursuing Excellence: Innovations in Designing an Interprofessional Clinical Learning Environment. J Grad Med Educ. 2022 Feb;14(1):125-130. https://doi.org/10.4300/JGME-D-21-01177.1 PMID: 35222835

Tavakolikashi M, Hallen S, Zelaya-Floyd M, White P, Varaklis K, Van der Kloot T, Perron A, Wilson E, Bing-You R (2021). Design Thinking to Spread iPACE™ in an Academic Medical Center. Journal of Maine Medical Center: Vol. 3 : Iss. 1 , Article 8.  https://doi.org/10.46804/2641-2225.1063

Choi LW, Moriates C, Payne AS, Varaklis K, Gonzales R, Baron RB. CLER Pursuing Excellence: Faculty Development Innovations in Quality, Safety, Equity, and Value. J Grad Med Educ. 2021 Oct;13(5):746-752. https://doi.org/10.4300/JGME-D-21-00793.1. Epub 2021 Oct 15. PMID: 34721814; PMCID: PMC8527941.

Traboulsi EI, Blanchard AK, Passiment M, Agrawal D, Baron RB, Calongne L, Hartmann D, MacClements J, Zaveri P, Varaklis K, Wagner R, Weiss KB. Pursuing Excellence: Driving GME Integration With Health System Strategic Priorities. J Grad Med Educ. 2021 Feb;13(1):153-160.  https://doi.org/10.4300/JGME-D-20-01540.1  Epub 2021 Feb 13. PMID: 33680321; PMCID: PMC7901633

Hallen S, Van der Kloot T, McCormack C, Han P, Lucas F, Wierda L, Meyer D, Varaklis K, Bing-You R. Interprofessional Partnership to Advance Care and Education Unit. J Grad Med Educ 1 October 2020; 12 (5): 598–610. doi: https://doi.org/10.4300/JGME-D-19-00675.1

Passiment M, Zaveri P, Traboulsi EI, Varaklis K, Blanchard A, Baron RB, Calongne L, Hartmann D, MacClements J, Agrawal D, Wagner R, Weiss KB. CLER Pursuing Excellence: Designing a Collaborative for Innovation. J Grad Med Educ. 2020 Aug;12(4):512-517. https://doi.org/10.4300/JGME-D-20-00712 PMID: 32879698; PMCID: PMC7450734

Davis K, Luro A, Zelaya-Floyd M, White P, Hallen S, Varaklis K.  Gender Bias in Internal Medicine Resident Narrative Evaluations:  Comparing Interprofessional Bedside Rounds to Traditional Inpatient Teaching.  Poster presented at:  2023 Costas T. Lambrew Research Retreat, May 2023.  Poster

Gordon L, Hallen S, Varaklis K, Zelaya-Floyd M, Tavakolikashi M, White P. Bring Resident Physicians to the Bedside to Foster High Quality Evaluations. Poster presented at: 2021 Costas T. Lambrew Research Retreat, May 2021, Virtual Retreat. Poster

Tavakolikashi M, Gordon L, Hallen S, Zelaya-Floyd M, White P. Barriers and Opportunities to Improve the Medical Education Experience in an Interprofessional Educational Setting: An Application of Concept Mapping. Poster presented at: 2021 Costas T. Lambrew Research Retreat, May 2021, Virtual Retreat. Poster

Varaklis K, Van der Kloot T, Hallen S, Gearan T, Wilson E, Gordon L, Zelaya-Floyd M, White P, Tavakolikashi M. Back to the Bedside: Interprofessional, Bedside Rounding Improves the Quality of Narrative Evaluations. Poster presented at: American Medical Associate Spring Consortium Meeting, April 2021, Virtual Meeting. Poster

Varaklis K, Van der Kloot T, Hallen S, Perron, A, Wilson, E, Zelaya-Floyd, M. Re-Engineering the Clinical Learning Environment to Optimize Interprofessional Collaboration, Care, and Education. Poster presented at: American Medical Association Change MedEd Conference, October 2020, Virtual Retreat. Poster

Varaklis K, Van der Kloot T, McCormack C, Hallen S, Bing-You R. Re-Engineering an Inpatient Clinical Learning Environment to Optimize Interprofessional Collaborative Care and Education “iPACE™”. Poster presented at: American Medical Association Change MedEd Conference, September, 2019, Chicago, IL; iPACE™ Launch Retreat, November 2019, Portland, ME. Poster

Kimball B, Wendler L, Nordmeyer A. iPACE™: pursuing excellence by transforming the care of patients and enhancing the education of pharmacy residents. Poster presented at: iPACE™ Launch Retreat, November, 2019, Portland, ME; American Society of Health Systems Pharmacists; December 2019 Las Vegas, NV. Poster

Our current research topics include:

• Design Thinking
• Transition from UME to GME
• Faculty Development
• Concept Mapping
• Feedback
• Cognitive Load
• Interprofessional Telehealth
• Professional Identity and IPE

We are excited to collaborate with others and would love to hear from you to see how we might work together and learn from one another.  Please reach out to us at iPACE@mmc.org

University Health Systems Engineering Institute HySE

Center for Health Organization Transformation

Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Pursuing Excellence in Clinical Learning Environments Initiative ACGME

American Medical Association Reimagining Residency Grant Program AMA