Rita Dadiz
Rita Dadiz, DO, is Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry (URSMD) and a neonatologist at the Golisano Children’s Hospital in Rochester, New York. She has developed a career in education, training and mentoring medical, nursing, and advanced practice providers across the educational and continuing professional development continuum. Her educational scholarship centers on the applications of educational innovation and simulation to improve patient safety, patient care, and the clinical learning environment. At URSMD, she directs the Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship Program in graduate medical education and co-directs the Dean’s Teaching Fellowship for faculty who are dedicated to developing and championing a career as leaders in health professions education. In addition, she is the founding director of the Neonatal Innovation and Safety Simulation Program, a program that crosses professions and specialties to incorporate simulation and debriefing methodologies to advance education, quality improvement and patient safety. Nationally, she serves as the vice-chair of the National Neonatology Curriculum for the American Academy of Pediatrics Organization of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Training Program Directors. In this role, she collaborated with program directors to develop a flipped classroom curriculum with online materials that have been accessed worldwide, as well as a mentoring structure for fellows and early-career faculty to collaborate in multicenter educational scholarship. She also serves as Associate Editor of NeoReviews, a journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and helped to create a longitudinal mentoring structure for fellows to hone their communication skills through writing and critical appraisal of submissions for publication.
