Together, Klara Papp, PhD, and Thomas Graber, PhD, founded the Center for the Advancement of Medical Learning at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in 2006. Learn more about our founders below.
Klara Papp
Klara Papp, PhD, was the founding director of CAML and served as the Graber Term Professor Emerita of Health Learning. As the former associate dean of student assessment and continuous quality improvement (CQI) in the School of Medicine, her areas of expertise include program evaluation, learner assessment, and educational research and scholarship.
She served as deputy guest editor for the Journal of General Internal Medicine and on the editorial board for the International Journal of Medical Education. She chaired the Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine (CDIM) Research Committee and is recipient of the CDIM’s Charles H. Griffith III Educational Research Award. She worked under the leadership of Dr. Tom Graber with several distinguished faculty to establish CAML and support the teaching and learning community of Case Western Reserve. Read Papp’s publications.
Thomas Graber — In Loving Memory
Tom Graber, PhD, was a graduate of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. His passion for teaching and learning was the inspiration and the drive to begin CAML.
His dedication and commitment to improving teaching and helping learners master the concepts taught during medical school provided the motivation to have these conversations and to learn his views. Conversations were enlightening and inspirational.
Interviews with Dr. Graber
We were deeply saddened at the loss of Dr. Tom Graber, the founder of the Center for Medical Education at Case Western Reserve University in 2018. We cherish his legacy and continue the mission of CAML with a deeper commitment and stronger resolve, pouring our grief into making the center better as he would have wanted it.
We’re lucky to have transcripts of several interviews between Drs. Papp and Graber back in 2006. We encourage you to read what Dr. Graber had to say on CAML, on learning and on learning communities through these interviews.