In honor of Dr. Roland "Red" Hiss' passion for continuing medical education, the Hiss Memorial Lectureship shares innovations in medical education, provides participants with an opportunity to discuss their work and interests with a national expert and enables faculty to share advances taking place at U-M Medical School with the visiting scholars.
The Roland "Red" Hiss Lectureship, established in 2017, is in honor of Roland "Red" Hiss, M.D. (1932 - 2016). Dr. Hiss was a Professor of Internal Medicine, Professor and Chair of Medical Education (now the Department of Learning Health Sciences), and Director of Extramural Education at the University of Michigan Medical School. The annual lectureship invites a leader in medical education to give a lecture and interact with faculty at Michigan Medicine, including faculty of the Medical Education Scholars Program (MESP).
Save the date for the 2025 Hiss Lecture with keynote speaker John D. Mahan, MD, Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Nephrology & Hypertension at Nationwide Children's and OSU COM: Tuesday, June 3, 2025
Lecture Title: "AI in HPE Scholarship: Examples, Concerns, and Potential"
Speaker: Geoffrey V. Stetson, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine and Medical Education, Department of Medicine, Division of Academic Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, University of Illinois College of Medicine
Co-founder and CEO of MedEdMentor.org
Dr. Geoffrey V. Stetson provides primary care in the Primary Care Plus clinic and supervises care in the resident‐led General Medicine Clinic. Geoff also supervises the care of acutely ill patients on the general medicine inpatient wards. He has a special interest in treating people experiencing opiate use disorder and treats patients in a mobile community‐based clinic on Chicago’s west side. Geoff has expertise in medical education and serves as the Director of Clinical Faculty Development for the UIC College of Medicine (COM), Chicago Campus.
Lecture Title: "Improving Academic Medicine Pathways for Underrepresented Physicians: The case for a shift in focus from individuals to the profession"
Speaker: Laura Hirshfield, PhD
Inaugural Dr. Georges Bordage Medical Education Faculty Scholar and Associate Professor, Department of Medical Education, University of Illinois College of Medicine
Laura E. Hirshfield is the inaugural Dr. Georges Bordage Medical Education Faculty Scholar and Associate Professor in the Department of Medical Education in the University of Illinois College of Medicine, where she is the Director of the Doctoral Program in Health Professions Education and the associate program director for the Masters in Health Professions Education program. She is also a faculty affiliate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, having received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Michigan.
Lecture Title: "Kotter's Catalyst for Advocacy"
Speaker: Louito Edje, MD, MHPE, FAAFP
Master of Health Professions Education (MHPE) Program Alumna, Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education, School of Medicine, University of Michigan
Joint Faculty, Department of Learning Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Michigan
At the time of delivering the Hiss Lecture, Dr. Edje was the Associate Dean of Graduate Medical Education at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center where she oversaw the education of over 700 residents and fellows. She was also a board-certified family physician practicing at UC Health and fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians. Dr. Edje held dual appointments as a professor in the Department of Medical Education and the Department of Family and Community Medicine.
Lecture Title: A lecture in two parts: Roland Hiss; Friend and Mentor & Addressing Diabetes Disparities in Hispanic Populations
Speaker: David G. Marerro, PhD
Director, University of Arizona Center for Health Disparities Research, Professor of Health Promotion Science, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health
Professor of Endocrinology, College of Medicine-Tucson, University of Arizona Health Sciences
David G. Marrero, PhD, is the Director of the University of Arizona's Center for Health Disparities Research. The Center for Health Disparities Research works to develop programs and strategies to improve health and wellbeing along the U.S.-Mexico border and across the greater Southwest. Dr. Marrero, whose research has focused on medication adherence, community health programs, early diabetes intervention and translational medicine, also is professor of public health at the UA Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, Department of Health Promotion Sciences, and professor in the UA College of Medicine – Tucson, Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology.
The Hiss Event will take place Tuesday, June 3, at 2:00 PM at the Michigan Union. The event includes a medical education poster showcase, keynote lecture by Dr. John Mahan, and graduation reception for this year's cohort.
Roland "Red" Hiss attended the University of Michigan, receiving his BS and MD degrees in 1955 and 1957, respectively. Following an internship at Philadelphia General Hospital (1957-58), service in the US Air Force (1958-61), and a residency (1961-64) and hematology fellowship (1964-65) at the University of Michigan, he became an assistant professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan in 1966. From there, he became an assistant professor in the Department of Postgraduate Medicine and Health Professions Education (renamed Medical Education in 1995 and Learning Health Sciences in 2013).
Dr. Hiss later served as Department Chair and Professor of Medical Education until retiring in 2003. As Chair of the Department of Medical Education, he strived to make continuing medical education of healthcare professionals as systematic and effective as classroom and clinical training of students and residents. In 2002, the University of Michigan Medical School awarded him the Lifetime Achievement in Medical Education Award.
Along with practicing hematology, Hiss was passionate about improving diabetes care by translating research findings into community-based care for diabetes. He served as Chief of the Demonstration and Education Division and Director of the Continuing Education and Outreach Core at the Michigan Diabetes Research and Training Center. At the national level, for the National Institutes of Health, he served on the Steering Committees of the National Diabetes Advisory Board for Patient Education Initiatives and the National Diabetes Education Program.
Honor Dr. Roland "Red" Hiss' legacy by supporting his lectureship, which empowers faculty participants to exchange ideas in medical education with a variety of visiting scholars.
