Jesse Burk-Rafel is an assistant professor of medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Previously, Jesse graduated summa cum laude in Bioengineering from the University of Washington; worked as a deckhand on a salmon gillnetting boat in Bristol Bay Alaska; was a Luce Scholar for a year in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia working in the Biotechnology Institute; completed a master’s degree in translational research at University College London where he researched variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease; attended the University of Michigan Medical School for medical school where he was valedictorian; and completed internal medicine residency at NYU Langone Health training at the historic Bellevue Hospital.

At the NYU Institute for Innovations in Medical Education, Jesse is the Director of Research and leads the Precision Education Laboratory. In the Division of Hospital Medicine, he is a practicing hospitalist and the inaugural Research Coach. Jesse is conducting multiple grant-funded studies at the intersection of medical education, informatics, artificial intelligence, and health services. His research aims to assess trainees’ clinical performance in the native clinical environment and the outcomes of our medical training programs. By understanding the relationship between training and clinical care, he hopes to develop precision-guided educational interventions that engage learners through efficient personalized training and produce graduates equipped to provide high-quality care to their patients and communities.

Jesse lives with his wife and two exuberant young children in the Lower East Side of New York City.

About Dr. Richard Reznick

Richard Reznick received his medical degree from McGill University, followed by a general surgical residency at the University of Toronto. He spent two years in fellowship training, first obtaining a Masters’ degree in medical education, followed by a fellowship in colorectal surgery at the University of Texas. 

Dr. Reznick was the inaugural Director of the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine’s Centre for Research in Education at University Health Network, and in 1999 was appointed Vice President of Education at University Health Network. He served eight years as the R. S. McLaughlin Professor and Chairman of the Department of Surgery at the University of Toronto. 

From 2010 -2020, Dr. Reznick assumed the position of Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences at Queen’s University and Chief Executive Officer of the Southeastern Ontario Academic Medical Organization (SEAMO). 

From 2021 - 2023, Dr. Reznick assumed the position of President of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.