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A Time-Honored Ritual of Care and Trust
The bedside encounter between a patient and physician is central to the practice of medicine. This time-honored ritual provides the basis for trust and healing for the patient, but is also an important source of fulfillment and satisfaction for the physician. It is fundamental to accurate diagnosis and high-quality patient-centered care.
The Society of Bedside Medicine is a global community of physician educators dedicated to bedside teaching and improving physical examination and diagnostic skills. The purpose of the society is to foster a culture of bedside medicine through deliberate practice and teaching, and by encouraging innovation in education and research on the role of the clinical encounter in 21st century medicine.
Board of Directors
Maja Artandi, Co-President
Stanford University
Maja Artandi is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Stanford University. She is dedicated to improving the bedside teaching in Stanford's primary care clinics and the outpatient setting in general. She has taken the lead on developing curricular materials appropriate for the outpatient teaching setting.
Stephen W. Russell, Co-President
University of Alabama, Birmingham
Stephen W. Russell, MD is Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Alabama (UAB). He is Director of the Art in Medicine Program at UAB and teaches bedside medicine to learners in the inpatient and outpatient setting. He is Co-Director of Communications and Outreach of SBM.
Lars Osterberg, Secretary
Stanford University
Lars Osterberg is a Associate Professor of Medicine at Stanford University and is the director of the Educators 4 Care Program. In this role he seeks to improve the clinical skills teaching and mentoring of Stanford medical students.
Brian Garibaldi, Founding Board Member
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Brian T. Garibaldi, MD is the Associate Program Director of the Osler Medicine Residency Training Program at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He is the Co-president of the SBM and a Jeremiah A. Barondess Fellow in the Clinical Transaction through the New York Academy of Medicine.
John Kugler, Founding Board Member
Stanford University
John Kugler, MD is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at Stanford University, Director of the Stanford Medicine 25 Skills Symposium and the co-president of the SBM.
Junaid Zaman, Founding Board Member
Imperial College London, Stanford University, Cedars Sinai Medical Center
Junaid Zaman, MA, BMBCh, MRCP, obtained his medical degree from University of Oxford. He recently completed a 2 year postdoctoral Fulbright BHF Scholarship at Stanford, where he regularly contributed to the Stanford 25 Bedside Medicine Program. He has won teaching awards for his bedside teaching at Oxford and Imperial College London. He brings a transatlantic perspective to SBM from his post-graduate training in the US and UK.
Sharon Onguti, Founding Board Member
Southern Illinois University
Sharon Onguti, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at the Southern Illinois University. She also serves as an Associate Clerkship Director for Internal Medicine. She is the Secretary of SBM.
Sonoo Thadaney, Founding Board Member
Stanford University
MBA. Executive director, Stanford Presence Center. Sonoo is a Stanford-Intrapreneur, working with faculty, senior leadership and off campus partners to build academic courses/degrees, centers, programs and initiatives. Prior to Stanford, she spent 27 years as as an entrepreneur in film making, high technology, consulting, mediation and executive coaching. Sonoo serves on the boards of Scients, UNICEF USA Northwest Regional Board, among others.
Timothy Niessen, Treasurer
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Timothy Niessen is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins university, where he is an academic hospitalist with interests in bedside medicine and health technology.
Kerri Baker, Board Member Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
Dr Kerri Baker, MBChB(Hons), FRCP(Edin), PGCertMedEd is Director of Education at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, responsible for the delivery of the College’s educational programme to over 14000 doctors and allied health professionals worldwide. She is also Training Programme Director for all Internal Medicine trainees in South East Scotland, with over 150 trainees across 7 years of training in multiple different hospitals. As a Consultant in Acute and General Medicine in Fife, central Scotland, she sees her primary role as being a diagnostician via the art of bedside medicine!
Nayan K Kothari, Board Member Saint Peter’s University
Nayan Kothari, MD is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Chief Academic Officer, Chair, and Program Director at Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick, New Jersey. He is currently the Governor of the American College of Physicians New Jersey Southern
KeAndrea Titer, Board Member University of Alabama, Birmingham
KeAndrea Titer, MD is an Assistant Professor the at University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her academic interests include physical exam-focused medical education where she co-directs the Enhanced Clinical Skills Residency Track and serves as Investigator for the AMA Reimagining Residency Grant awarded to John Hopkins, Stanford, and UAB. She is also passionate about diversity, equity, and inclusion and serves as the Assistant Director of Diversity and Inclusion for the Tinsley Harrison Internal Medicine Residency Program.
Janet Record, Board Member Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Janet Record, MD is an Assistant Professor and Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Medical Education at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She is a clinician-educator with a focus on teaching person-centered care and communication, bedside clinical skills, and curriculum development.
*Board Members are the voting members of the Society of Bedside Medicine.
Advisory Council
Abraham Verghese, Advisor/Founder
Stanford University
Abraham Verghese, MD is the Linda R. Meier and Joan F. Lane Provostial Professor and Vice Chair for the Theory & Practice of Medicine, Stanford University. He founded the Stanford Medicine 25 and the Stanford Presence Center. He serves on the Advisory Council of SBM.
Stephen McGee, Advisor
University of Washington
Steve McGee is currently Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle, where for the last 35 years he has worked at the Seattle VA Medical Center. He supervises medical students who rotate through the VA and frequently attends at morning report, the General Medicine wards and the Infectious Diseases service. His favorite teaching activity is bedside rounds, which he conducts twice weekly with medical students and chief residents.
Institutional Members
Annual Reports
2017-2018 Annual Report for the Society of Bedside Medicine
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2019 Annual Report for the Society of Bedside Medicine
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2020 Annual Report for the Society of Bedside Medicine
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2021 Annual Report for the Society of Bedside Medicine
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2022 Annual Report for the Society of Bedside Medicine
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