SVP Wellness, Resiliency, Assessment & Advancement, Chief Strategic Research and Development Officer
The Wright Centers for GME and Community Health
The Wright Center for GME
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States
Dr. Meaghan Ruddy, PhD, began her journey in health care by teaching ethics and human development at the medical school level in 2011. During this time, she worked cross-departmentally in faculty and curriculum development, supporting cross-course, multiyear curricular framing. Dr. Ruddy’s work in teaching health centers began in 2014 with The Wright Center for GME’s (TWCGME) completely HRSA-funded National Family Medicine Residency program, where she supported the development of clinical learning environments in FQHCs. Dr. Ruddy ran sponsoring institution programmatic budgeting beginning in 2016, overseeing growth to more than 240 residents and fellows across 8 programs. She has been leading a longitudinal multidimensional evaluation project (MDEP) to ascertain the value (cost/benefit) proposition analysis of creating GME programming in FQHCs and medically underserved areas of varying geographies. As a member of the Society for Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM) Faculty for Tomorrow Taskforce (June 2015 to June 2017), Dr. Ruddy was, with her Taskforce colleagues, honored with the STFM President's Award in May 2017. She is an associate editor for the journal Family Medicine, a reviewer for HRSA, JGME and Academic Medicine, a Consulting Editor and reviewer for the Journal of Transformative Education and has presented at numerous national conferences. Dr. Ruddy is a senior executive for The Wright Centers for GME and Community Health serving grants, project management, research, and community-focused program benefit. She leads the enterprise investment in Sanctuary, resiliency and wellness inclusive of equity programming. She has worked on several HRSA PCTE funded projects. Currently, her work is supported by the PCTE-RTMB and PCTE-LDA programs.
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Monday, April 8, 2024
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM East Coast USA Time