Professor of Pediatrics and Vice Chair of Education

Senior Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education

University of North Carolina School of Medicine

Chief Graduate Medical Education Officer

University of North Carolina Hospitals – Chapel Hill Campus

Dr. Kenya McNeal-Trice is Professor and Vice Chair of Education in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Medicine. She earned a BS in Biology from Spelman College and an MD from Wayne State University School of Medicine. She completed pediatric residency training at UNC Hospitals’ North Carolina Children’s Hospital, and afterwards served as a Pediatric Chief Resident at an affiliate teaching hospital. In 2007, Dr. McNeal-Trice joined the faculty at UNC School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor and assumed a leadership role as Associate Director of Medical Student Education in Pediatrics. In 2010, she was appointed Director of Medical Student Education Programs in Pediatrics and became the Pediatric Residency Program Director in 2014. She has served in numerous committees and leadership roles within UNC School of Medicine, including two years as Interim Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

Dr. McNeal-Trice was appointed the Chief Graduate Medical Education (GME) Officer and ACGME Designated Institutional Official at UNC Hospitals, and the Senior Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education at the UNC School of Medicine in January 2021. She is responsible for the educational components, accreditation, and operations of all GME programs at UNC Hospitals and UNC School of Medicine - Chapel Hill campus. In her role, Dr. McNeal-Trice oversees an academic healthcare center with more than 100 GME programs and over 1000 trainees.

Dr. McNeal-Trice is a member of the Education and Training Committee for the American Board of Pediatrics and has been appointed to the ACGME’s Pediatric Residency Review Committee. In addition, she currently serves as an elected member of the AAMC Steering Committee for the Group in Women in Science and Medicine, Chair of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee of the Academic Pediatric Association, and the President-elect of the North Carolina Pediatric Society (NC Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics). Dr. McNeal-Trice has dedicated her career and scholarly work to implementing curricula and policies dedicated to promoting an equitable and inclusive learning environment at all levels of academic medicine.

Dr. Quesnelle is a Clinical Professor and Chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville (UofSC SOMG). She recently joined UofSC SOMG from Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine where she was a founding faculty member in the Department of Biomedical Sciences and the Department of Medical Ethics, Humanities, and Law. Dr. Quesnelle is a graduate of the University of Michigan (B.S.) and University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine (Ph.D.). She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Vascular Medicine Institute at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine before transitioning to a career in medical education.

Dr. Quesnelle is a pharmacology educator with hundreds of hours of classroom instruction and experience with many diverse active learning pedagogies. She is an active participant in all phases of curricular administration, from design and implementation to evaluation. Her current scholarship centers around the role of biomedical scientists in medical education, and she recently co-edited the book, “An Introduction to Medical Teaching: The Foundations of Curriculum Design, Delivery, and Assessment.”

Dr. Sara Dimeo

Dr. Dimeo serves as the Medical Education and Technology Fellowship Director at the Prisma Health Upstate Department of Emergency Medicine. She holds appointments as Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of South Carolina, School of Medicine, Greenville and as the Graduate Medical Director of Assessment and Feedback for the Prisma Health Upstate Emergency Medicine Residency Program. She is faculty for the national American College of Emergency Medicine Physicians' Teaching fellowship, which attracts EM educators from across the country. She completed a 2-year Multimedia, Design, Education Technology Fellowship at UC Irvine, as well as her Masters' in Education through Johns Hopkins. She is interested in active learning techniques, such as gamification and team-based learning, as well as incorporating  multimedia design principles into her lectures.