Family Medicine Residency Learning Networks Speakers' Bureau

Name: Ryan Paulus, DO

Contact Info: email: ryan_paulus@med.unc.edu

Areas of expertise: POCUS

Bio: Dr Paulus is a core faculty member at the University of North Carolina family medicine residency program. He directs the point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) teaching for the residency and is a faculty instructor for POCUS education at the UNC medical school. Clinically, he works as a hospitalist and ER physician in a rural critical access hospital in addition to attending on the residency inpatient service.

His first exposure to POCUS was in medical school at Ohio University and he trained in POCUS as a resident at UNC. He gained further experience by focusing on POCUS during his rural fellowship program. Dr Paulus is lead faculty for STFM's FM Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Educator's Certificate Program and STFM's Teach POCUS online modules.

Name: Velyn Wu, MD, MACM, CAQSM 

Contact Info: wuvelyn@ufl.edu

Areas of expertise: Master Adaptive Learner, growth mindset, goal setting and deliberate practice, individualized feedback in different learning environments

Bio: Dr Wu is an associate clinical professor in the Department of Community Health and Family Medicine at the University of Florida College of Medicine. She completed both her family medicine residency training and fellowship in Primary Care Sports Medicine at Halifax Health Family Medicine Residency and Sports Fellowship in Daytona Beach, FL. She received a Master of Academic Medicine degree from the Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California. She served as an assistant program director and assistant clerkship director at the University of Florida College of Medicine, assistant director of sports medicine and core faculty at Lynchburg Family Medicine Residency, and worked in a community private practice in Jacksonville, FL where she maintained a broad scope of practice. Dr Wu has served as a team physician for community and professional sports teams, including youth leagues, high schools, colleges and universities, USA boxing, and minor league baseball. She has led community initiatives including a weekend free sports injury evaluation clinic and a food prescription and nutrition education program .

Dr Wu served as a co-chair of the STFM Collaborative on Musculoskeletal and Sports Medicine Education and was a member of the STFM Medical Student Education Steering Committee. She is currently on the STFM CBME Taskforce and is the UF FMIG advisor.  She has experience in curriculum redesign initiatives at both the medical student and residency education levels. 

Name: Velyn Wu, MD, MACM, CAQSM 

Contact Info: wuvelyn@ufl.edu

Areas of expertise: Master Adaptive Learner, growth mindset, goal setting and deliberate practice, individualized feedback in different learning environments

Bio: Dr Wu is an associate clinical professor in the Department of Community Health and Family Medicine at the University of Florida College of Medicine. She completed both her family medicine residency training and fellowship in Primary Care Sports Medicine at Halifax Health Family Medicine Residency and Sports Fellowship in Daytona Beach, FL. She received a Master of Academic Medicine degree from the Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California. She served as an assistant program director and assistant clerkship director at the University of Florida College of Medicine, assistant director of sports medicine and core faculty at Lynchburg Family Medicine Residency, and worked in a community private practice in Jacksonville, FL where she maintained a broad scope of practice. Dr Wu has served as a team physician for community and professional sports teams, including youth leagues, high schools, colleges and universities, USA boxing, and minor league baseball. She has led community initiatives including a weekend free sports injury evaluation clinic and a food prescription and nutrition education program .

Dr Wu served as a co-chair of the STFM Collaborative on Musculoskeletal and Sports Medicine Education and was a member of the STFM Medical Student Education Steering Committee. She is currently on the STFM CBME Taskforce and is the UF FMIG advisor.  She has experience in curriculum redesign initiatives at both the medical student and residency education levels. 

Name: Tonya L. Caylor, MD, FAAFP, PCC

Contact Info: tlcaylor@mac.com

Areas of expertise: gratefulness, time management, navigating demands, self-care,
professionalism 

Bio: Dr Caylor is a family physician and physician coach in Anchorage, Alaska, with 25 years of clinical and academic practice. She is a certified coach who has earned her ICF PCC credential with additional training in Trauma Mitigation and has her own external coaching practice for family medicine residencies. She also serves as co-director of the American Medical Women’s Association Evolve Leadership Coaching Program for trainees and is a member of the Better Together Coaching Program through the University of Colorado, which serves trainees and faculty across the country. Dr. Caylor is also a member of CHARM Connected Coaches - (Collaborative for Healing and Renewal in Medicine), through which she earned her GME Well-being Leadership Certification. She is currently leading a working group to develop a statewide GME Council. She has been involved in webinars and pilot studies with CBME with STFM on the topic of faculty roles and coaching skills. She also coaches leaders who are starting residency learning networks and is involved in Faculty Development at the WWAMI/Madigan Hybrid program. 

Name: Tonya L. Caylor, MD, FAAFP, PCC

Contact Info: tlcaylor@mac.com

Areas of expertise: coaching

Bio: Dr Caylor is a family physician and physician coach in Anchorage, Alaska, with 25 years of clinical and academic practice. She is a certified coach who has earned her ICF PCC credential with additional training in Trauma Mitigation and has her own external coaching practice for family medicine residencies. She also serves as co-director of the American Medical Women’s Association Evolve Leadership Coaching Program for trainees and is a member of the Better Together Coaching Program through the University of Colorado, which serves trainees and faculty across the country. Dr. Caylor is also a member of CHARM Connected Coaches - (Collaborative for Healing and Renewal in Medicine), through which she earned her GME Well-being Leadership Certification. She is currently leading a working group to develop a statewide GME Council. She has been involved in webinars and pilot studies with CBME with STFM on the topic of faculty roles and coaching skills. She also coaches leaders who are starting residency learning networks and is involved in Faculty Development at the WWAMI/Madigan Hybrid program.