Site Directors Guide

Site Directors serve as the WWAMI site representative of the Pediatric WWAMI Program, a part of the University of Washington School of Medicine and the Department of Pediatrics. Site Directors are the center of communication between the site educators, residents, or students and the Seattle Leadership.

Our program has four kinds of Site Directors:

  • Resident Site Directors – Educating and mentoring 2nd year Pediatric residents for an eight week rotation
  • Medical Student Site Directors – Educating and mentoring Clinical and Explore and Focus Phase medical students during their clinical years. Six week required rotations for Clinical Phase students and two or four week rotations for Explore and Focus Phase students.
  • WWAMI's Rural Integrated Training Experience (WRITE) program for Clinical Phase medical students doing a 20 week rural program during their required clinical education.
  • Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship (LIC), a clinical phase year of required rotations integrated into the Olympia, WA geographical area where students meet all their required clinical phase rotations simultaneously.

Program Leadership

The WWAMI Program leadership is located at Seattle Children's Hospital in Seattle, WA. The program is directed and supported by the WWAMI leadership. The Pediatric WWAMI Leadership includes:

  • Dr. Richard Shugerman, WWAMI Program Director: WWAMI Program overall management concerns should be directed to Dr. Richard Shugerman.
  • Rebekah Burns, Medical Student Program Director: Medical Student concerns should be directed to Dr. Rebekah Burns.
  • Dr. Alissa Darden, Residency Program Director: Resident concerns should be directed to Dr. Alissa Darden.

Administrative Contacts

Direct questions regarding the following to My Linh Nguyen:

  • Resident rotations, credentialing, website information and resident site expansion
  • Visiting professor program

Direct questions regarding the following to Griffan Martin:

  • WWAMI Program administration
  • Medical Student Program, credentialing, medical student website information and student site expansion
  • LIC program
  • WRITE program

Clinical Faculty (Department of Pediatrics)

  • Assist your faculty with the process of obtaining a clinical faculty appointment who work with students more than one half day a week.
  • Write letters of recommendation for new and promotion appointments
  • Update annually status of your site faculty, notifying if they have moved
  • Promotion recommendations and annual memo
    The approximate due date is Early October for recommendations and for completed promotions packets in early December.