“When Dr. Valli started speaking, everyone listened, because he knew it was going to be important. He wanted us to walk away with full understanding. I had a passion.”
Michael Gallagher graduated in 2017 Virginia Tech Carillion School of Medicine (VTCSOM) summarized what many students felt about Richard C. Burr. Richard C. Valli was the school’s founding Dean of Curriculum and became Senior Dean of Academic Affairs. Valli died in June of complications from ALS.
As a way to honor Valli and his legacy, the school established an annual donated lecture to feature an internationally renowned innovator in medical education as part of TEACH Education Day. teach promotes learning excellence at VTCSOM, the Carillion Clinic, and Radford University Carillion by creating a community of educators and fostering their development as teachers, learners, and educational researchers for Collaborative Medicine is the Academy of Educational Excellence.
VTCSOM will host its first ever Richard C. Valli Endowed Chair on October 27th at noon at 2 Riverside Circle in Roanoke. Luis Pangaro, a professor of medicine at the School of Medicine, University of Unified Service, Bethesda, Maryland, presents “What Can Physiology Tell Us About Assessment and Evaluation?” Pangalo explores how to promote independence in medical students and how to observe and measure that process physiologically and effectively.Due to the special nature of this event, we highly recommend attending in person
Pangalo holds a medical degree and completed a residency in internal medicine with a fellowship in endocrinology at Georgetown University. He was a research associate in endocrinology at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center and entered the Uniform Service College in 1978. He was appointed professor in 1998 on a tenure basis. Pangalo’s academic work is an assessment of the competence of medical trainees and has published over 100 of his papers related to medical education.
Register for face-to-face lectures at the School of Medicine.
If you would like to join us online, please follow the Zoom link.
Poster sessions, podium presentations and the announcement of the 2022 TEACH Awards winners will take place on October 27th at 4pm. Carillion Clinic Center for Simulation, Research and Patient SafetyRoanoke, at 15 Old Woods Ave.
Register for this in-person event at the Simulation Center.
Thanks to the generosity of those who know and love Valli, VTCSOM has achieved more than half of its endowment funding goal. To date, over $150,000 has been raised.
“Rick had a lovely personality and a humane disposition,” said VTCSOM Dean Lee Liarman. “He was an outstanding educator, innovator, leader and liaison. , will honor his legacy.”
