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Recognizing Our Reviewers

MedEdPORTAL relies on the voluntary contribution of reviewers and associate editors to assess the quality of submissions, ensuring they are accurate, clear, complete, and relevant to health professions education. Reviewers’ thoughtful feedback is important to authors as they seek recognition of their scholarly work and endeavor to make continued improvements.

2024 MedEdPORTAL Outstanding Reviewers

Each year, MedEdPORTAL editors recognize the invaluable contribution of volunteer reviewers who have provided comprehensive and timely reviews, by awarding a special distinction of Outstanding Reviewer to those who provide exceptional feedback, in both quality and timeliness.

MedEdPORTAL lists with much appreciation our Outstanding Reviewers for 2024. Our top peer reviewers are those who have completed at least three reviews and provided the most comprehensive and timely feedback to our authors.

Andrea Garcia, MD
Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health

Lisa Gilmer, MD
University of Kansas Medical Center

Betsy Goebel Jones, EdD
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
School of Medicine

Melanie C. Marsh, MD
Advocate Lutheran General Hospital Marie Burns Library

Pilar Ortega, MD
University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago

Chantal Pyram-Vincent, MD, MPH
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Emily K. Ruedinger, MD, MEd
University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine
and Public Health

Raymond Ten Eyck, MD, MPH, CHSE
Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine

Rebecca Lyn Toonkel, MD
Florida International University Herbert Wertheim
College of Medicine

Gordon L. Woods, MD, MHPE
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine

MedEdPORTAL Distinguished Reviewers
This year we would also like to recognize those receiving our Distinguished Reveiwer Certificate, indicating their third year achieving our Outstanding Reviewer award.

Waletha Wasson, DDS, MPA, MS
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
College of Dentistry

2024 MedEdPORTAL Associate Editors of the Year

Jennifer Potter, MD​
Professor of Medicine​
Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center​

Laura Weingartner, PhD
Research Director, Health Professions Education​
Assistant Professor of Undergraduate Medical Education​
University of Louisville School of Medicine​