Julia Milden, MD, is a General Internal Medicine subspecialty resident at the University of Toronto. She completed core Internal Medicine residency at Queen’s University in Kingston, where she served as a Chief Resident, she is now the incoming Chief Resident for the University of Toronto General Internal Medicine program.  Dr. Milden is highly interested in medical education with a special focus on social accountability and structural competency. She is dedicated to exploring how medical learners can advocate for patients and health systems. Having worked with a variety of residency committees and organizations at the hospital, provincial, and national level, she believes supporting resident involvement and leadership in medical education is a key component to residency success.

Dr. Milden is enthusiastic about participating in ICRE 2024 and discovering new initiatives for advancing teaching, feedback, and the learning environment. Outside of the sphere of medicine, she enjoys reading, swimming, and travelling.

Mehrnoush Khoshnevis, MD, is a third-year resident in Clinical Pharmacology at the Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden. Research is a passion which led to a master’s degree in Biomedicine before she started her medical studies. Dr. Khoshnevis is an active member of her Residency Program Board, and she has long-standing experience of leading and teaching the undergraduate medical students. Currently she participates on a more strategic level in the development of the new medical curriculum at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden.

Dr. Khoshnevis is looking forward to being a part of the ICRE community and to share international experiences of clinical work environments and important factors for building a more sustainable workplace for future healthcare workers.

In her spare time, she is very interested in travelling the world or hiking in a forest and in recent years she is most likely to be found in the playground with her daughter.

Ovini Rodrigo, MD, is a general academic pediatrics fellow at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She completed her pediatrics residency at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, Texas, and served as the inaugural Chief Resident for the Primary Care L.E.A.D. (Leaders Evaluating and Addressing Disparities) residency program. She aspires to help mold the next generation of physicians as an academic general pediatrician and medical educator.

She is currently completing a master’s in medical education through the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education and looks forward to beginning a master’s in public health through the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 2024. Her academic interests include examining how we support trainees during critical career transition points and using narrative medicine to combat imposter syndrome and foster medical trainee resilience. She is an avid reader of both fiction and non-fiction and enjoys writing poems and narrative pieces.

Rory Clarke is a General Surgery Registrar at the Yorkshire and Humber School of Surgery in the UK. He completed his foundation and core training in the Yorkshire Region, and he has also gained international experience with training in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Currently, he is out of program, serving as a Future Leaders Fellow to improve the transition from core trainee to registrar. In parallel, he is pursuing a master’s in clinical education at the University of Leeds. His areas of interest include improving surgical training through the creation of integrated courses and improving access to surgical education, especially for those in the early stages of their careers. Mr. Clarke co-directed the Yorkshire and Humber General Surgery Bootcamp and is currently involved in designing a network for medical educators within his region.

Outside his surgical pursuits, he is a keen rugby fan, playing tag rugby at a regional level, hiking in the Peak District, and discovering new coffee shops and pubs.