Anju Relan is the Director of Instructional Design and Technology Unit at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She earned her doctorate in Curriculum and Instructional Systems, while specializing in Educational Technology, from the University of Minnesota in 1991. Her first two academic positions were in Teacher Education institutions, where she taught preservice and inservice teachers creative applications of technology in the classroom. She joined the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA in 1996 in her present position, to provide leadership in novel ways of integrating technology in the four year medical school curriculum. Dr. Relan has since then been actively serving as a consultant to the medical school faculty to facilitate the development of customized, web based teaching tools including cognitive imaging applications, interactive clinical cases, web based assessments, case authoring tools, and handheld computing modules. She co-teaches in the Medical Education Fellowship certificate program offered to clinical faculty with an interest in developing educational leadership skills. Under her leadership, the
Unit has successfully organized three Instructional Technology symposia for the
medical school and UCLA faculty. She has presented and published actively in professional organizations nationally and internationally. Her scholarship has focused on designing and implementing web based cases, role of cognitive monitoring and metacognition in web based instruction, efficacy of learning management systems, formative and summative assessments, and the potential of handheld computing technologies in clinical education. Ms. Relan's other passions include a daughter, Avni, five years old and a son, Ishaan, who just turned three.
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