Katherine Grichnik, MD

Professor of Anesthesia
Associate Dean DukeCME
Director, Center for Educational Excellence, DCRI

Phone: 919-401-1203

Cell: 919 612-3682
Email: grich002@mc.duke.edu

 

Katherine Grichnik is the Associate Dean for Continuing Medical Education and an Associate Professor in the Division of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine. Her career has focused on establishing excellence in perioperative clinical care, investigating perioperative morbidity and pain control strategies, and educating anesthesia practitioners, from the medical student to the post-graduate physician. She has a wealth of experience having directed regional and national CME courses and as a member of national CME oversight committees. She notes that being an excellent clinician, researcher, and educator involves continually acquiring new knowledge, especially in our rapidly changing clinical world. She is dedicated to lifelong learning, patient safety and providing the highest quality CME for all healthcare providers.

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Kathryn Andolsek, M.D. M.P.H. CME Advisor
Pager: (919) 970-3006
Email: andol001@mc.duke.edu

Kathryn Andolsek, M.D. M.P.H. is Associate Director of Graduate Medical Education for Duke University Hospital.  She served as medical director for Duke Office of CME from 2001-2006 and the Interim  Associate Dean for Continuing Medical Education from 2004-2006.  She is a Professor in the Department of Community and Family Medicine.  She is well known nationally for her academic contributions in family medicine and has won accolades for the development of the Life Curriculum (http://www.lifecurriculum.info/) - a collaborative effort of Duke University Hospital, the UNC Hospitals, the NC AHEC, and the NC Physician's Health Program to assist graduate medical education programs, their residents, and faculty to prevent, identify, and manage resident fatigue and impairment.

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CME Coordinators

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Sherry Layton, MA, Senior CME Coordinator

 

In 2009 Sherry Layton completed a Masters degree in Liberal Studies from Duke University.  She recently completed the Certificate in Non-Profit Management at Duke University and first-authored and presented an abstract at the annual Canadian Association of Continuing Health Education (CACHE), entitled “Environmental Management System and Continuing Medical Education: CHE/CME Goes Green.” This abstract was the first from Duke to link sustainability with continuing medical education practices.  She also recently first-authored an abstract, "Partnering to Educate a Community of Learners: A Case Study," for the Alliance for Continuing Medical Education annual meeting, which she presented in 2009. Subsequent to this presentation, the case study was published in March 2009 in the Alliance for CME’s monthly newsletter, Almanac.

Ms. Layton received her BA in Mass Communications from the University of North Carolina, Asheville, and has two years of graduate training in English at North Carolina State University. Sherry joined the Duke School of Medicine’s Office of Continuing Medical Education in February 2006. She has experience in strategic planning and development and marketing, with extensive training in scientific editing and writing; publication design, management and production; proposal writing; fiscal management; Web-site management; conference coordination; and project direction and management. Ms.Layton wrote and published two articles in the Duke Anesthesiology Alumnus magazine, which she cofounded, and narrated Duke University’s video, “Do You Know the Pain? Emergency Room Care for the Sickle Cell Disease Patient.” She has worked as Senior Editor for Duke University Press; Project Manager for the Environmental Protection Agency; Senior Editor for McGraw-Hill Publishing; Assistant to the Executive Co-Chairman at the Department of Anesthesiology, Duke University Medical Center; and as on-air host for NPR’s Weekend Edition at WCQS-FM radio.

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Gloria Huang CME Coordinator

Gloria was born in Taiwan.  She received BA degree from Providence College in Taiwan.  She has been with CME office for 10 years.  She and her husband Jamin married in Ithica, NY and then moved to North Carolina.  They have two daughters.  Diana, who graduated from Elon University, is working in special education at Ephesus Elementary School in Chapel Hill.  Bernice, who graduated from University of Richmond, is currently in Graduate School of Virginia Commonwealth University.  Outside work, Gloria enjoys Chinese calligraphy, quilting, gardening and hiking.

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