Debra Lee Klamen, MD, MHPE Senior Associate Dean for Education and Curriculum Professor and Chair, Department of Medical Education Southern Illinois University School of Medicine Dr. Klamen has been interested in clinical performance assessment since very early in her career. She designed and implemented a radically different third year clinical clerkship at SIUSOM, followed by a change in assessment methodology of said clerkships one year later. Other areas of interest include curriculum design and innovation and the use of standardized patients in clinical reasoning assessment.