Faculty Biography

Faculty List:

Donna D. Elliott
Peter Katsufrakis
Jeffrey Ring
Maura E. Sullivan
Beverly Wood
Win May

Donna D. Elliott

Donna D. Elliott, M.D., Ed.D. is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Dean for Student Affairs at the Keck School of Medicine. Dr. Elliott received her B.S., M.D., MSEd. and Ed.D. from USC. She joined the faculty at USC in 1989 as Associate Director of Pediatric Nephrology at LAC+USC Medical Center. Her role as a medical educator began when she became the Pediatric Clerkship Director in 1991. She was active in COMSEP, the national pediatric clerkship director’s organization, and served on local and national committees with that organization. Dr. Elliott was the Associate Residency Program Director for the USC Pediatric Residency Program from 1999 - 2001. She was the Director of Undergraduate Medical Education for the Department of Pediatrics from 1991 – 2000. Dr. Elliott has chaired many University committees including the Clinical Curriculum Committee, the Educational Policy Committee and most recently was appointed by the Provost as the Chair of the Committee on Work and Family Life for USC. She is member of the Executive Committee for the California Consortium for the Assessment of Clinical Competence, has been a member of an LCME accreditation site visit team, AOA advisor and liaison for the AAMC Careers in Medicine Program. Dr. Elliott has received numerous teaching awards including the excellence in teaching award from the University of Southern California and was recently named a faculty fellow in the Center for Excellence in Teaching at USC.

She obtained her baccalaureate degree in nursing from Fairfield University, her Masters degree in nursing from UCSF and her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the Rossier School of Education at USC.

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Peter Katsufrakis

Peter J. Katsufrakis, M.D., M.B.A., is a board-certified Family Physician and associate vice-president for post-graduate and developmental programs of the National Board of Medical Examiners. He is a past associate dean for student affairs at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, where he also served as the chief financial officer for Educational Affairs, interim associate dean for administration of the school, principle investigator of USC’s Pacific AIDS Education and Training Center, and as faculty of the California Medical Center Family Practice Residency program. He has been the national chair of the Group on Student Affairs of the Association of American Medical Colleges.

Working with colleagues from USC’s Marshall School of Business, Dr. Katsufrakis founded USC’s MD/MBA dual degree program and served as its director at the Keck School. He helped establish and taught in the Keck School’s Professionalism & the Practice of Medicine course. In cooperation with the Health Resources and Services Administration and the International Training and Education Center for HIV, he has helped develop training programs and provide training for health care professionals in Ethiopia.

Dr. Katsufrakis received his baccalaureate degree from U.C. Berkeley; his M.D. degree from UCSD; and completed his residency training in 1988 at the Santa Monica Hospital Medical Center Family Practice Residency program. He obtained his MBA from USC’s Marshall School in 1998.

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Jeffrey Ring

Dr. Jeffrey Ring, PhD the Director of Behavioral Sciences at the Family Medicine Residency Program at White Memorial Medical Center in East Los Angeles. After receiving a doctorate degree in community/clinical psychology at Boston University, he completed a fellowship in minority and community psychology with an emphasis on Latino/a mental health at the School of Medicine at the University of California at San Francisco.

Dr Ring has been working in the area of culturally responsive health and mental health for twenty years, with a number of published articles and international lectures and presentations. He is the lead author of Curriculum for Culturally Responsive Medical Care: A Step-By Step Guide for Cultural Competence Training. He also published a self-reflective article on the provision of culturally responsive care from a white, male perspective in the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. Dr. Ring has served as co-chair of the Group on Minority Health and Multicultural Education in the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, and is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association.

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Maura E. Sullivan

Maura E. Sullivan Ph.D., MSN is the Vice Chair for Educational Affairs and the Executive Director of the Surgical Skills Training and Education Center for the Department of Surgery. She has a dual appointment in Educational Affairs, Office of the Dean, Keck School of Medicine and is a mentor in the Professionalism and Practice of Medicine Course. She helped to develop the Career Pathways Advising Program and served as the past Director. She also holds a joint appointment in the Rossier School of Education as an Assistant Professor. She is actively involved in the Association of Surgical Education where she serves as an advisor for the Surgical Educational Fellowship program and serves on the research and membership committees. She also holds an appointment with the American College of Surgeons as an ATLS Educator.

She obtained her baccalaureate degree in nursing from Fairfield University, her Masters degree in nursing from UCSF and her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the Rossier School of Education at USC.

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Beverly Wood

Beverly Wood, MD, PhD is Professor of Radiology and Pediatrics at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California with an MS in Medical Education and completing her dissertation on perceptual expertise for a Ph.D., in Educational Psychology and Technology at the Rossier School of Education, USC. She chairs the Distance Education and Distributed Learning Committee at USC. She is Curriculum Editor of PediaLink and chairs the Committee on CME, as well as serving on The Committee on Pediatric Education and the National Conference planning committee at the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Editorialboard of Pediatrics Online. As the Editor of the Learning File on Pediatrics for the American College of Radiology, she is developing methods of interactive education with digital media.

She is also a member of the Lifelong Learning Committee of the American College of Radiology and the Strategic Planning Committee, Education and CME committee of the American Roentgen Ray Society. She teaches Presentation preparation and Skills at the Radiologic Society of North America and is Deputy Editor of Academic Radiology, and corresponding Editor of AAP Grand Rounds.

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Win May

Win May, MD, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Division of Medical Education and the Director of the Standardized Patient program. She teaches in the Introduction to Clinical Medicine course and is a mentor in the Professionalism and the Practice of Medicine course. She teaches in the fellowship programs in medical education.  She is an awardee of the AMA Medical Education Research Consortium planning grant and a Steering Group member of the AMA initiative Innovative Strategies for Transforming the Education of Physicians.. She is a member of the California Consortium for the Assessment of Clinical Competence. She is the Member-at-Large for the Association of Standardized Patient Educators and also a member of the Education and Professional Development subcommittee. She is an Associate Editor for the Journal of International Medical Science Educators and is a reviewer for MedEdPortal, MedEd Online, Journal of Palliative Medicine and Medical Teacher. She is collaborating with the World Health Organization on developing a tool for measurement of the educational environment for EBM.

She worked for the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, and in New Delhi, before joining USC.  Prior to that, she was the founding Dean of the Institute of Nursing in Yangon, Myanmar, and a faculty member at the Institute of Medicine (I), Yangon.  She received her doctorate in education from USC, her master's in health personnel education from the University of New South Wales, her master's in physiology from the Institute of Medicine, Mandalay and her medical degree from the Institute of Medicine (I), Yangon. winmay@usc.edu

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