Shobhina G. Chheda, MD, MPH

Shobhina Chheda
Associate Dean for Medical Education

sgc@medicine.wisc.edu
UW School of Medicine and Public Health
4287D Health Sciences Learning Center
750 Highland Avenue
Madison, WI 53705-2221

Executive assistant
Roxane Olsen
608-265-3859
rrolsen@wisc.edu

Shobhina G. Chheda, MD, MPH, is the associate dean for medical education and a professor in the Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics.

In her role as associate dean for medical education, Chheda is responsible for the overall development and management of curriculum and assessment for medical students. In 2016 her office launched the ForWard curriculum, an innovative curriculum focusing on integrated and developmental learning for medical students. The ForWard curriculum highlights the development of over 35 faculty in their role as Longitudinal Teacher Coaches for the purpose of guiding medical student development of lifelong learning skills through the use of self-directed learning. Chheda is currently co-principal investigator on a three-year Wisconsin Partnership Program grant entitled Transforming Medical Education 3.0-Moving Medical Education ForWard, which has supported this innovation.

Chheda has been a leader in medical education locally and nationally. She has received the School of Medicine and Public Health’s Dean Teaching Award and the Department of Medicine Schilling-Harkness Teaching Award. She was founding member of the national Society of General Internal Medicine TEACH program for faculty development. She has received the Clinician Educator of the Year Award from the Midwest Society of General Internal Medicine and recently has been elected president for the national Alliance of Academic Internal Medicine/Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine.

Chheda practices both inpatient and ambulatory general internal medicine at UW Health West Clinic, with a focus on women’s health.

Chheda received her undergraduate degree in nutritional biochemistry from Cornell University and her medical degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. She received her master’s in public health at Saint Louis University School of Public Health and completed a combined internal medicine and pediatrics residency at Cornell University Medical College/North Shore University Hospital. She joined the UW School of Medicine and Public Health faculty in 2001.