Michael Tseng, MD and G. Dodd Denton, MD, MPH

Michael Tseng, MD is a PGY-1 internal medicine resident in the Virginia Commonwealth University program in Richmond, VA. Dr. Tseng was born in Chicago, IL, and grew up in Taipei, Taiwan. He returned to the United States for his high school years and earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry with a minor in mathematics from Emory University. At Emory, he worked in Dr. David Lynn ’s lab in the biochemistry department as a laboratory assistant and co-authored the article “Defining the Dynamic Conformational Networks of Cross‐β Peptide Assembly.” He continued his passion for science and patient care by starting medical school in The University of Queensland/Ochsner Clinical School program in 2016. After completing 2 years of study in Brisbane, Australia, he spent 2 years in clinical study at Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans, LA, during which he was selected by his colleagues as a member of the Gold Humanism Honor Society. As an executive member of the Internal Medicine Interest Group and a tutor with the student-led USMLE Step 1 tutorial group in medical school. Dr. Tseng invested much of his time in education. While working with his mentor, Dr. Dodd Denton at Ochsner, he was introduced to the educational video on cardiopulmonary bypass made by Dr. Eugene Parrino. Collaboratively, Drs. Tseng and Denton recruited medical students to participate in a student-based learning study that was developed into the manuscript published in the Ochsner Journal.

G. Dodd Denton, MD, MPH

G. Dodd Denton, MD, MPH is currently an associate professor and Dean of Students at The University of Queensland/Ochsner Clinical School in New Orleans, LA, a unique US/Australian hybrid medical school designed to train US citizens in a global environment with a focus on primary care. Dr. Denton received his MD degree from the University of Mississippi and his MPH from Johns Hopkins University. He is board certified in internal medicine. He completed residency training at the National Naval Medical Center and served as chief resident. He received the Master Teacher Award from the Navy chapter of the American College of Physicians in 2006, was awarded the Teacher of the Year Award from the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in 2012, was a finalist for the 2013 Teacher of the Year at the Ochsner Clinical School, and won the 2014 Academic Contributor of the Year Award for the Ochsner Health System. He practiced general internal medicine for 23 years in the US Navy, retiring as a captain in 2012 before moving to New Orleans to join Ochsner Health.

Dr. Denton is a 2004 graduate of the Stanford Faculty Development Program (SFDP) in Clinical Teaching and has facilitated sessions of the SFDP at many institutions around the country, training more than 250 faculty in these concepts. On a national level, Dr. Denton has been very active in the Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine organization. He served 6 years on the council and finished his term as president in 2017. He was awarded the Chipper Griffith Educational Research award in 2010 and the Louis Pangaro Education Program Development award in 2013. Dr. Denton has published more than 35 peer-reviewed papers and has presented numerous workshops and invited lectures on educational topics at national and international meetings during his career.

Drs. Denton and Tseng are co-authors of “Cardiopulmonary Bypass Is an Effective Learning Tool” published in the Fall 2020 issue of the Ochsner Journal.