Med-IQ course content is developed and updated by a distinguished faculty of physician-attorneys and medical-liability experts. With decades of clinical and instructional experience in analyzing and resolving medical liability problems, the Med-IQ editorial faculty brings expertise, experience, and authority to the coursework.

Jeff Shane, MD, JD
Dr. Shane, a board certified obstetrician/gynecologist and experienced trial attorney, has 35 years of experience in legal medicine. He is a graduate of Boston University, Boston University School of Medicine and George Washington University National Law Center. Prior to joining Med-IQ, Dr. Shane served as the Chief of the Division of Medicolegal Consultation at the Department of Legal Medicine, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. He was also a consultant for the Department of Justice and other government agencies on federal malpractice claims and lawsuits. For more than 30 years, he has lectured to hospitals, medical associations, and law schools on medical-legal topics, giving more than 100 presentations. Dr. Shane is a Fellow of the American College of Legal Medicine, and is certified by the American Board of Legal Medicine. He spent more than 20 years in trial practice before Federal and State Courts, and has argued before appellate courts in Maryland and Florida. He is also a retired United States Air Force Colonel.

Elizabeth Wiley, MD, JD, MPH
Dr. Wiley is a board-certified family and preventive medicine physician. A native of Nashville, she is a graduate of Smith College, University of Michigan Law School & School of Public Health and George Washington University School of Medicine. Dr. Wiley is both a Teach for America (Detroit) and Fulbright (Norway) alumna, and she previously served as national president of the American Medical Student Association (AMSA). Dr. Wiley completed family medicine residency at the University of Maryland and was awarded the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) Award for Excellence in Graduate Medical Education. She completed preventive medicine residency at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science & Technology Policy Fellowship at the FDA.

Kathy Schaefer, MSN, RN, CPHRM
As Lead Nurse Planner, Kathy is involved in the oversight of educational offerings developed for nursing education. Kathy has more than 25 years of professional nursing experience, working in primarily emergency and critical care nursing areas. Most recently, Kathy served as the educator for adult critical care nursing for a large, level one trauma center in Mid-Michigan. While in the educator role, Kathy was a Nurse Planner for multiple educational offerings, many of which provided continuing educational credits for nurses through the ANCC.

Sharon Bagalio, BSN, MPH, CPHRM
Sharon Bagalio has been a Registered Nurse since 1982. She has over 30 years of experience in the healthcare field and has worked within a diverse number of health care systems and held numerous positions including staff/charge Critical Care, Nursing Supervisor, Assistant Manager of Peri-operative Services, Director of Emergency Services, Director of Quality, Claims Administrator and Clinical Risk Manager. Ms. Bagalio attended the University of Southern Maine where she completed a Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 2000 and AT Still University with a Master's Degree in Public Health in 2008. Mrs. Bagalio has been published several times in publications including The Journal of Risk Management, Advance for Nurses magazine and a health wellness column called "An Apple a Day". She is currently the VP of Nursing at Parkview Adventist Medical Center. She has presented for Northern New England Society of Healthcare Risk Management (NNESHRM) and holds membership in healthcare risk management and nursing associations including the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management.

Caty House, Director of Education
Caty joined the Med-IQ editorial staff in 2010 and now directs the faculty, editorial, and instructional design teams in the development of courses that support andragogical principles, engage healthcare providers with different learning styles, and maximize the benefits of both the specialty-specific and interdisciplinary online learning experience. In order to ensure Med-IQ's courses address both the professional practice gaps of learners and emerging patient safety and professional liability risks, Caty is committed to designing and delivering assessment tools that enable Med-IQ to garner learner analytics that both effectively forecast risk and reveal attitudinal factors that preclude behavior modification and/or openness to change. In 2014, Caty earned a graduate degree in Patient Safety, Error Science and Full Disclosure from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Kansas, where she completed a practicum as a writing consultant and earned a B.A. in Humanities.

Neither the faculty nor the planners for Med-IQ's continuing education activities have any relevant financial relationships that would introduce or constitute bias or compromise the presentation of these materials. If, during activity planning, a relevant financial relationship is discovered and resolved, the specific disclosure information will be provided in the activity overview page.