Dr Linda Regan

Dr. Linda Regan is Associate Professor and Vice-Chair for Education in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland (US). She completed her medical school training at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, her Emergency Medicine residency training at the NYU Emergency Medicine residency and obtained her Master’s in Education for the Health Professions from the Johns Hopkins University School of Education. She currently serves as the Program Director for the Emergency Medicine residency training program and combined Emergency Medicine-Anesthesia residency program, as well as the Medical Education Fellowship.  Dr. Regan is well known at Johns Hopkins for her work as an educational program builder and is well known for the Focused Advanced Specialty Track, or FAST program within the residency program, a unique program that allows residents to develop a focused niche during their final year of residency.

Dr. Regan’s interests lay mainly in curriculum development and evaluation, trainee evaluation and feedback, as well as new applications of adult learning theory to postgraduate education including how learners can learn to be adaptive experts. She has extensive interest and experience in resident remediation, in particular for professionalism and communication skills, and is a frequent lecturer on this topic. In addition to her scholarly work, she has received multiple teaching awards from the residents she teaches, is a 2012 American College of Emergency Physicians Faculty Teaching Award winner, as well as the 2016 national recipient of the Emergency Medicine Residency Association’s Residency Director of the Year award and the 2020 Michael P. Wainscott Program Director Award from the Council of Residency Directors in Emergency Medicine