Bio
Dr. Regan is the Residency Program Director and Vice Chair for Education at Johns Hopkins Emergency Medicine. She joined the EM faculty at Johns Hopkins in 2007. Prior to her arrival here, she served as the Assistant Program Director at the NYU/Bellevue Emergency Medicine residency program.
Dr. Regan’s interests are in medical education, spanning from curriculum development and evaluation, resident evaluation and feedback methods, and adult learning theory. She has developed interactive ways of teaching resident professionalism and communication skills, and was the primary investigator of a grant-funded project that evaluated this curriculum. She has a focused interest in remediation methods and in the learning trajectory of learners in medicine, with a focused interest in adaptive expertise. Serving as the Vice-Chair for Education, she also serves as the Education Division director and oversees all educational programs and activities for the department and is actively involved in faculty development. In addition to her scholarly work, she has received multiple teaching and mentorship awards and is a 2012 American College of Emergency Physicians Faculty Teaching Award winner. She is also the recipient of both the EMRA Program Director Award and the CORD Michael Wainscott Residency Program Director Award.
Dr. Regan is a national leader in Emergency Medicine, having served on the board of directors for the Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors (CORD) and on the program committees of both CORD and Society of Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM). She has lectured nationally at the ACEP, CORD, SAEM, and ACGME national conferences and internationally at ICRE and AMEE. She sits on the RRC in Emergency Medicine.
Dr. Regan’s interests lay mainly in medical education and range from curriculum development and evaluation, resident evaluation and feedback methods as well as adult learning theory. She developed interactive ways of teaching resident professionalism and communication skills and was the PI of a grant funded project which evaluated this curriculum. She started a fellowship in Medical Education within the Department of Emergency Medicine and is actively involved on a national level in furthering education within the field.
She is on the Board of Directors for the Council of Residency Directors in Emergency Medicine (CORD), sits on the Program Committee of both CORD and SAEM and has lectured nationally at ACEP.
Her main interest outside of medical education involves radiation exposure in emergency medicine.
Speaking Topics
- Leadership, Professional Development, Wellness
- Medical Education (Simulation, FOAM, Innovations)
- Lecture Preparation
- Communication Skills in the ED
- Medical Radiation Exposure
- Developing Writing Accountability Groups
- Resident Remediation
- Developing Learning Skills and Adaptive Expertise in Trainees
- Lecture Preparation
- Communication Skills
- Special populations in the ED (e.g. dialysis patients, transplant patients)