{"id":467,"date":"2016-05-05T13:33:03","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T17:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/continuing-education\/?page_id=467"},"modified":"2025-06-03T15:46:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T19:46:41","slug":"staff","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/continuing-medical-education\/about-us\/staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Who We Are"},"content":{"rendered":"

CME Faculty<\/h2>\n

Christine Thatcher, Ed.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\nAssociate Dean, Medical Education & Assessment
\nOffice: 860-679-1225
\nthatcher@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Melinda Sanders, M.D.<\/strong><\/a>
\nMedical Director for CME
\nOffice: 860-679-3386
\nmsanders@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Srimathi Manickaratna<\/strong>m, M.D.<\/strong>
\nAssociate Director for CME
\nOffice: 860-679-4130
\nmanickaratnam@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

CME Staff<\/h2>\n

Christine McNally, M.A.<\/strong>
\nAssociate Director Curricular Affairs
\nCME Office: 860-679-2602
\ncmcnally@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Kimberly Person<\/strong>
\nCME Program Administrator
\nCME Office: 860-679-4590
\ncme@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Darice Schroeder<\/strong>
\nRSS Administrator
\nCME Office: 860-679-3514
\ncme@uchc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

CME Committee<\/h2>\n

The Committee on Community & Continuing Medical Education (CCCME) will advise the Director and the Office regarding policies relating to CME. However, as the School of Medicine Education Council sets overall School of Medicine education policy, the Education Council delegates to CCCME responsibility to advise the Office on how to implement such policies.<\/p>\n

CCCME will meet quarterly and its membership will include physicians, residents, and medical students. CCCME will maintain a minimum of 6 voting members, and a minimum quorum for a meeting consists of 4 or more of voting members being present. The Director will nominate individuals to serve as members of CCCME after consulting with the Dean\u2019s designee in the appropriate category. For example, the Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education is consulted for the faculty representative of GME Program Directors and the resident representative and alternate. The medical student and alternate are selected by vote of the student body of the School of Medicine. Nominated members of the faculty will serve for a 3 year term and will have an opportunity to renew the term for an additional 3 years for a total of 6 years. The CCCME approves the membership. The School of Medicine Education Council reviews membership and policies of CCCME. (reference CME Policy: CME Administration<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The Committee on Continuing Medical Education serves as an oversight committee of the Office of Community and Continuing Medical Education. The Committee, comprised of health care professionals and educators, represents important stakeholders within UConn Health.<\/p>\n

VOTING MEMBERS<\/h2>\n

Melinda Sanders, M.D., Chair<\/strong>
\nMedical Director, CME<\/p>\n

Srimathi Manickaratnam, M.D., Co-Chair<\/strong>
\nFaculty Associate Director of CME<\/p>\n

Marriann Pappagallo, M.D.<\/strong>
\nProfessor, Department of Pediatrics<\/span><\/p>\n

Wendy Thibodeau, APRN<\/strong>
\nClinical Case Manager, Neag Cancer Center (JDH)<\/p>\n

Chindhuri Selvadurai, MD<\/strong>
\nAssistant Professor, Neurology<\/p>\n

Ketan Bulsara, M.D.<\/strong>
\nAssociate Professor, Neurosurgery<\/p>\n

Michelle Zur, M.D. (Resident) \/ Angela Quental, M.D. (Fellow)<\/strong>
\nResident or Fellow (plus Alternate)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Khaoula Ben Haj Frej (M4) \/ Kiran Singh-Smith (M4)<\/strong>
\nMedical Student (plus Alternate)<\/p>\n

NON-VOTING MEMBERS<\/h2>\n

Kimberly Person<\/strong>
\nCME Program Administrator<\/p>\n

Darice Schroeder<\/strong>
\nRSS Administrator<\/p>\n

Christine Thatcher, Ed.D.<\/strong>
\nAssociate Dean of Medical Education & Assessment<\/p>\n

Christine McNally<\/strong><\/strong>
\nAssociate Director of Curricular Affairs<\/p>\n

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CME Faculty Christine Thatcher, Ed.D. Associate Dean, Medical Education & Assessment Office: 860-679-1225 thatcher@uchc.edu Melinda Sanders, M.D. Medical Director for CME Office: 860-679-3386 msanders@uchc.edu Srimathi Manickaratnam, M.D. Associate Director for CME Office: 860-679-4130 manickaratnam@uchc.edu CME Staff Christine McNally, M.A. Associate Director Curricular Affairs CME Office: 860-679-2602 cmcnally@uchc.edu Kimberly Person CME Program Administrator CME Office: 860-679-4590 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"parent":452,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-21 17:14:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/continuing-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/continuing-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/continuing-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/continuing-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/continuing-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/continuing-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1786,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/continuing-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/467\/revisions\/1786"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/continuing-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/continuing-medical-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}