As a future physician-innovator at the Carle Illinois College of Medicine, your engineering-infused training will prepare you to be at the forefront of cutting edge medical innovation with the support our Medical Education Facilitators—four world-class educators who will walk hand-in-hand with you during your time at Carle Illinois. As a life-long learner and problem solver, you will be ready to tackle current unknowns in health care head-on.
One facilitator will lead your eight-student cohort providing support as you work through medical cases during your problem-based learning Basic Science integrated with Clinical, Engineering, and Professionalism (BiCEP) sessions. Each facilitator brings a rich background of research, teaching, technology, or medicine. They are committed to training students to become self-learners in the classroom in order to graduate as innovative problem-solvers in medicine. Hear from our Medical Education Facilitators in the video below.
Meet the Medical Education Facilitators
OLIVIA COIADO, Ph.D.
Olivia Coiado is passionate about anything that involves education, innovation and technology. She holds a doctorate in Electrical and Biomedical Engineering and did her postdoctoral training from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she developed a new technology for cardiac therapy. She has 10 years of experience in education, mentoring students, and teaching engineering, biomedical engineering and medicine. She has experience at the professional level with ultrasound, health information technology, medical device, biomedical instrumentation, bioacoustics, animal models and cardiology research. She has published journal articles describing a new technology to pace the heart using ultrasonic pulses and presented her work at multiple ultrasound and biomedical conferences.
Advice for students: “Just have fun, and do your best.”
ROBERTO GALVEZ, Ph.D.
Roberto Galvez holds 10 years of teaching experience in neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, cognitive neuroscience, molecular biology, behavioral neuroscience and learning and memory. He holds a doctorate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign specializing in neuroscience, was a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and had an active research laboratory for 8 years examining neuronal mechanisms of learning and memory and neurological disorders. He has been recognized as an excellent educator through the Incomplete List of teachers Ranked as Excellent award at the University of Illinois, presented at multiple lectures and conferences, covering various topics in neuroscience, and has extensive local and national experience mentoring students on various educational and interpersonal issues.
Advice for students: “Enjoy yourself. Take advantage of the opportunities at the University of Illinois. There are so many great things to do in this town. Have fun with it. We very much want to make this an enjoyable experience for you.”