Sarita Warrier, MD, is the Associate Dean for Medical Education at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. A native of Detroit, Michigan, she completed her undergraduate and medical school education at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor (Go Blue!), and trained at the Brown Internal Medicine Residency program. As an academic general internist on the teaching faculty at Rhode Island Hospital since 2008, she trains residents and students in both the inpatient and outpatient settings. In her role as Associate Dean, she is responsible for oversight of the four year medical school curriculum, including the dual degree MD-ScM program, known as the Primary Care-Population Medicine program. Her research interests include undergraduate and graduate medical education.
| Wallace PM, Warrier S, Kahn MJ, Welsh C, Fischer M. "Developing an opioid curriculum for medical students: A consensus report from a national symposium." Substance Abuse, 2019, pp. 1-7. |
| Dumenco L, Monteiro K, George P, McNicoll L, Warrier S, Dollase R. "An Interactive Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Workshop for First-Year Medical Students." MedEdPORTAL : the journal of teaching and learning resources, vol. 14, 2018, pp. 10734. |
| Wong DE, Williams E, Warrier S. "Dermatomyositis Developing Post Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy and Lumpectomy." Rhode Island medical journal (2013), vol. 101, no. 6, 2018, pp. 34-36. |
| Ockene JK, Ashe KM, Hayes RB, Churchill LC, Crawford SL, Geller AC, Jolicoeur D, Olendzki BC, Basco MT, Pendharkar JA, Ferguson KJ, Guck TP, Margo KL, Okuliar CA, Shaw MA, Soleymani T, Stadler DD, Warrier SS, Pbert L. "Design and rationale of the medical students learning weight management counseling skills (MSWeight) group randomized controlled trial." Contemporary Clinical Trials, vol. 64, 2018, pp. 58-66. |
| Daniel, Michelle, Rougas, Steven, Warrier, Sarita, Kwan, Brian, Anselin, Emma, Walker, Amy, Taylor, Julie. "Teaching Oral Presentation Skills to Second-Year Medical Students." MedEdPORTAL Publications, 2015. |
| Daniel, Michelle, Rougas, Steven, Warrier, Sarita, Tabaddor, Ramin, Bray, Kirsta, Taylor, Julie. "Teaching Physical Exam Skills to Novices: Developing all the Tools in the Clinician Toolbox." MedEdPORTAL Publications, 2015. |
| Tong, Iris L., Dodd, Kimberly A., Warrier, Sarita S., Pugliese, Louis J., McMackin, Naomi Y., Taylor, Julie Scott. "An Assisted Living Facility Curriculum to Introduce Geriatrics to First-Year Medical Students." Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, vol. 36, no. 1, 2014, pp. 79-95. |
| Taylor JS, Daniel M, George PF, Warrier S, Dodd K, Dollase RH. "Warren Alpert Medical School's Doctoring program: a comprehensive, integrated clinical curriculum." Medicine and health, Rhode Island, vol. 95, no. 10, 2012, pp. 313-6. |
| Warrier S. "Improving physician hand-offs." Medicine and health, Rhode Island, vol. 94, no. 11, 2011, pp. 344-5. |
| Warrier S, McGillen B. "The evolution of quality improvement." Medicine and health, Rhode Island, vol. 94, no. 7, 2011, pp. 211-2. |
George P, Warrier S, Dumenco L. “Training Health Professional Students in Rhode Island,” grant no. 1H79TI025938-01, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), $917,615, 2015-2018, Co-Principal Investigator
Warrier S. Subcontract from Ockene JK, Hayes R. “Weight Management Counseling in Medical Schools: A Randomized Controlled Trial,” grant no. 1R01CA194787-01A1, National Cancer Institute (NCI/NIH), $136,437, 2015-2020, Alpert Medical School Site Principal Investigator
Warrier S, George P. “Area Health Education Centers Point of Service Maintenance and Enhancement,” grant no. U77HP23064, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), $1,370,023, 2017-2022, Principal Investigator (2019-present)
National presentations
Warrier S, Cahill K, Gardner R, Picchioni M, Alford D. “Beyond Pain Contracts: A Practical, Multidisciplinary Model for Safer Opioid Prescribing,” workshop, Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) Annual Meeting, Denver, April 25, 2013
Warrier S, Cassidy H, Gardner R, Harrington C, Landau C, Pizza M. “Psychology and Psychiatry in Primary Care: Interdisciplinary Models to Teach Internal Medicine Residents to Treat Psychiatric Illness,” workshop, Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, April 25, 2015
Crowe R, Fornari A, Ovitsh RK, Ramsey-Williams V, Warrier S. “Teaching History-Taking for Next Generation Physicians: The Sexual History,” workshop, Directors of Clinical Skills Courses (DOCS) Annual Meeting at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, November 11, 2016
Warrier S, Gardner R, Cassidy H, McGillen B. “Take a Deep Breath: How to Process and Respond to Challenging Feedback from Learners,” workshop, Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, April 21, 2017
Gardner R, Warrier S. “How to Reduce the Risks of Opioids: Best Practices for States, Systems, and Prescribers,” speaker, Opioid Health Care Response Initiative Summit, Palm Beach County Medical Society, West Palm Beach, FL, October 12, 2017
Bernstein L, Ward M, Warrier S. “Incorporating Clinical Skills Across Clerkships,” workshop, Directors of Clinical Skills Courses (DOCS) Annual Meeting at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, November 3, 2017
Warrier S, Cahill K, Gardner R. “’Help me help you’: Peer mentoring for success in academic medicine,” workshop, Academic Internal Medicine Week 2018 (Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine), San Antonio, TX, March 21, 2018
Warrier S, Cahill K, Cassidy H, Gardner R. “’Help me help you’: Peer mentoring for success in academic medicine,” workshop, Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, April 12, 2018
| Year | Degree | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | MD | University of Michigan |
| 2001 | BS | University of Michigan |
2011, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2021 Dean's Excellence in Teaching Award, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
2014 Beckwith Family Award for Outstanding Teaching, Department of Medicine, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
2014 40 Under Forty Award, Providence Business News (awarded for career accomplishments and community involvement)
2015 Early Career Women Faculty Professional Development Seminar, Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)
2017 Attending Teaching Award, Department of Medicine, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
2018 AAMC Curricular Innovation Award Winner (as part of the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University's Office of Medical Education)
2022 Faculty Marshal, selected by the MD Class of 2022, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Cahill, Kate | Associate Professor of Medical Science, Clinician Educator, Associate Professor of Medicine, Clinician Educator |
| Catanese, Stephanie | Associate Professor of Medicine, Clinician Educator |
| Dollase, Richard | Adjunct Professor of Medical Science |
| Dumenco, Luba | Associate Professor Emerita of Medical Science, Associate Professor Emerita of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine |
| Fagan, Mark | Professor Emeritus of Medicine |
| Gardner, Rebekah | Associate Professor of Medicine |
| George, Paul | Associate Dean for Medical Education, Professor of Family Medicine, Professor of Medical Science |
| Hilliard, Ross | Associate Professor of Medicine, Clinician Educator |
| Sobota, Mindy | Associate Professor of Medicine, Clinician Educator |
Attending Physician, Division of General Internal Medicine, Rhode Island Hospital
American College of Physicians
Society of General Internal Medicine
Directors of Clinical Skills Courses
Association of American Medical Colleges, Group on Educational Affairs
| Medical License | State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations | 2008-2020 |
| Associate Professor of Medicine and Medical Science. 2021-Present |
| Assistant Professor of Medical Science. The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, 2016-2021 |
| Assistant Professor of Medicine. The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, 2009-2021 |
| Attending Physician. 2008-2020 |
Before becoming an Assistant Dean for Medical Education, Sarita Warrier was the course leader for the Year 1 Doctoring Courses (BIOL 3640 and 3650) from 2012-2017. She was recently a small group leader in the Health Systems Sciences course, and actively teaches on the inpatient general medical service at Rhode Island Hospital and at the Center for Primary Care and Medical Specialties (the internal medicine residency clinic) on Chapman Street.
| BIOL 3650 - Doctoring 2 |
