Mission Area
The Office of Curricular Affairs is responsible for overseeing, managing, and developing our medical student curriculum from preclerkship through transition to residency. We also supervise the Commitment to Underserved People (CUP) program, the Rural Health Professions Program (RHPP), our clinical skills lab, student assessment and program evaluation, faculty instructional development, and Medical Humanities program. We are committed to the continuous improvement of our medical student curriculum and the wide array of extracurricular activities that we offer. Please feel free to contact us at (520) 626-8074 or by email at comt-ca@arizona.edu.
Best,
Raquel Hernández Givens, PhD
Associate Dean, Curricular Affairs
Staff
Raquel H Givens, PhD
Associate Dean of Curricular Affairs
Director, LCME Accreditation
Clinical Reasoning Course
Kate Hughes, DO
Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine - (Clinical Scholar Track)
Doctor & Patient Course/Societies
Colleen K. Cagno, MD
Professor, Family and Community Medicine - (Clinical Scholar Track)
Director, Doctor & Patient Course
Co-Director, Societies
Vicky Soto
Program Coordinator, Senior
Doctor & Patient/Societies, OSCE
Commitment to Underserved People (CUP) Program / Rural Health Professions Program (RHPP) / Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship (LIC)
Anna Sophia Peterson Landau, MD MPH DTM&H
Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine
Director, Commitment to Underserved People Program
Director, Rural Health Professions Program
Director, Rural Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship
Soham Dave, DO
Assistant Clinical Professor, Medicine - (Clinical Series Track)
Associate CUP Director
Hildi M. Williams
Program Coordinator, Senior
Commitment to Underserved People Program
Rural Health Professions Program
Rural Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship
Preclinical (Preclerkship Phase)
Jennifer A. Yelich
Program Manager, Preclinical Education
Musculoskeletal Block. Advanced Topics Block. Health Disparities.
Justin Darling
Program Coordinator, Senior
Digestion, Metabolism, and Hormones Block; Nervous System Block; Clinical Reasoning Course
Katherine Marie Schumann
Program Coordinator, Senior, Preclinical Education
Foundations, Immunity & Infection, Medical Humanities
Lindsey Epperson
Program Coordinator, Senior, Preclinical Education
Cardio, Renal, & Pulmonary, Life Cycle
Milena Starobinskaya
Administrative Assistant, Curricular Affairs
Curriculum Mapping, Pathways of Health and Medicine
Clinical (Clerkship and Transition to Residency Phases)
Josephine Galarza Acuña, MD
Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
Advanced Emergency Medicine Ultrasonography Core Faculty
Assistant Dean for Clinical Competency
Diversity Champion for Emergency Medicine
