CME Enterprise has a team of 24 experts in the field of continuing professional development. From executive leadership to program implementation teams, we have the intellectual capital and experience to increase practitioner knowledge and improve patient outcomes. Team members include:

• Former Executive Director of the Alliance for CME
• Full-Time Medical Director
• Cadre of Clinical Adjunct Faculty
• Network of Medical Experts
• Medical and Scientific Writers and Researchers
• Adult Learning Experts
• ACCME Surveyors and Instructors
• …and more

Executive

Bruce J. Bellande, PhD, FACME
President

Dr. Bellande's more than 25 years in the realm of lifelong learning and professional development provides the foundation for his leadership at CME Enterprise. He leads teams of experts in the development, delivery, and measurement of continuing medical education. He has served on numerous boards and in leadership roles, including as Executive Director of the Alliance for CME for more than ten years. He is a board or committee member of numerous organizations, including the National Task Force on CME Provider/Industry Collaboration, the American Heart Association, and Conjoint Committee on CME.

Dr. Bellande is a site surveyor for ACCME, receiving an award for Meritorious Service for exceeding 50 accreditation surveys. He also is a workshop leader at ACCME’s conferences. He is a regular contributor to numerous professional education publications and speaks frequently at industry gatherings. Dr. Bellande earned his PhD in Healthcare Administration from the University of Mississippi. He also completed Harvard University’s Management Lifelong Education and Leadership in Continuing Professional Education Institutes.

Education Development, Design, and Delivery

Sheila Robertson, MPH
Senior Manager

Sheila is responsible for mentoring and training the team of professionals involved in the writing, research, and analytics aspects of proposals and educational activity content. With over six years of experience collaborating with renowned medical experts to develop content for continuing medical education activities, her expertise includes ensuring that content is scientifically rigorous, accurate, in compliance, well organized, and tailored to the audience’s needs, and that its impact is measured to demonstrate improved clinician competence or performance.

Prior to joining the company in 2001, Sheila spent five years providing tailored cancer education to patients, the public, and health professionals through the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Information Service. During this time, she also participated in a fellowship at NCI in which she liaised between regional and national offices to negotiate program improvements. Sheila earned her Masters in Public Health and her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, both from the University of Kansas.

Anthony H. Choi, PhD
Medical Writer

Dr. Choi's main responsibility is to research, synthesize, and develop educational content, with a focus on scientific rigor and accuracy, for both educational proposals and activities. He identifies and recruits nationally as well as internationally renowned medical experts to serve as CME faculty, and assists them in developing their materials for various interventions.

Prior to joining CME Enterprise in June 2007, Dr. Choi wrote NIH grant proposals and was the recipient and program director of several NIH grants in the areas of vaccine development and oncology. He has over 15 years of research experience in rotavirus vaccine and has authored 33 peer-viewed research articles. He is a regular presenter at international and national conferences. Dr. Choi earned his PhD in Developmental Biology from the University of Toronto, Master of Science in Cell and Developmental Biology from York University, and Bachelor of Science in Genetics from the University of Alberta.

Richard Thielen, PhD
Medical Education Content Specialist

Dr. Thielen researches and develops the content for needs assessments and helps ensure that the design of all CME activities is learner-centered and appropriate for the particular audience. He also partners with faculty to develop curriculum and assessment components of activities. His clinical areas of expertise include alcoholism and addictions, anxiety disorders, and depression. Dr. Thielen has 21 years of experience in neuroscience research and teaching, has authored 15 peer-reviewed research articles, and has served as a graduate-level course lecturer for over 18 years in 11 different courses.

Prior to joining CME Enterprise, Dr. Thielen was Assistant Research Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Laboratory of Basic and Applied Neurophysiology of Addictions in the Institute of Psychiatric Research at Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis. His research focused on the neurochemical mechanisms involved in neural adaptation to the presence of ethanol, and he lectured for and facilitated numerous courses for medical and graduate students and mentored numerous undergraduates interested in careers in the health sciences.

Dr. Thielen earned his PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Indiana University School of Medicine, and his Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry and Chemistry from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He also completed his postdoctoral fellowship training in Neuropsychopharmacology at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.

Fran Daniel, MPH
Medical Education Content Specialist

Fran researches and develops the content for needs assessments and helps ensure that the design of all CME activities is learner-centered and appropriate for the particular audience. She also partners with faculty to develop curriculum and assessment components of activities. Fran has five years of experience in the realm of medical writing; four of these years were at a major pharmaceutical company.

Her clinical areas of expertise include oncology, diabetes, osteoporosis, and tobacco cessation. She also spent over ten years coordinating oncology clinical trials at a private practice and in academia. Fran earned her Masters in Public Health from Saint Louis University and undergraduate degrees in Psychology and Health Information Management from Indiana University and Saint Louis University, respectively.

Kathleen Cox, MA
Medical Editor

Kathleen assists the writers in the research and development of educationally valid needs assessments, proposals, case studies and monographs to ensure that they are comprehensive, learner-centered, and appropriate for the particular audience. Kathleen provides developmental editing to ensure that the content is complete, correct, and well organized; copy editing for grammar, punctuation, and appropriate style; and proofreading for accuracy and consistency.

Kathleen has been an editor and communication specialist for more than thirty years, including sixteen years at the former Medical Educational Resources Program of the Indiana University School of Medicine, where she edited curriculum materials and other educational communications and wrote for multiple media. She also spent more than ten years with a major publishing company working on books for consumer use that explored a variety of topics, including health care. Kathleen earned her Bachelor and Master of Arts in Journalism from Ohio State University.

Zev Winicur, PhD
Curriculum Development, Design, and Delivery Specialist

Dr. Winicur is responsible for researching and developing appropriate educational design aspects of curriculum and delivery of content for needs assessments, learning objectives, activity content, and assessments. In addition to collaborating internally with the CME Enterprise medical team, Dr. Winicur also plays a role in faculty communication and support.

Dr. Winicur has six years of experience in science and technical communication and four years of experience with both academic and corporate training. He has developed and taught courses at the Universities of Minnesota and Colorado, and he is the immediate past president of the Indiana Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication. Dr. Winicur earned is PhD in Cellular and Molecular Biology from the University of Colorado, and his Bachelor of Science in Biology and Chemistry from Indiana University.

Heather Flynn
Manager of Medical Informatics and Analytics

Heather serves as the company technology liaison, with the primary goal of accurately and effectively translating business needs into robust and relevant technology solutions. She also interfaces with the rest of the medical team to ensure thorough and effective linkage of identified needs, learning objectives, and desired results, as they relate to various methods of assessment and continuous performance improvement.

Heather has been with the company since 2001, during which time she has consistently played a leading role in improving the architecture and functionality features of the company’s enterprise management system. Heather earned her Bachelor of Science, with Distinction, in Business Marketing and International Studies from Indiana University.

James Doane
Research Librarian

James serves the company by providing reference verification, bibliographic research, literature research, and environment scanning. His other responsibilities include materials cataloging and distribution, copyright permissions, collection development, and archiving. James has been with the company since 2003, during which time he has supported the content, medical, and educational opportunities teams. James earned his Bachelor of Arts, with Honors, in Psychology from Lourdes College, and is currently enrolled in Indiana University’s Library and Information Science Masters Program.

Activity Management

Robyn Snyder
Manager of Activities

Robyn is responsible for mentoring and training the team of activity managers as they implement high-quality educational activities on-time and within budget. With nearly six years of experience managing continuing education activities, she brings a wealth of expertise in program planning, communication, and process creation and management.

In previous roles at CME Enterprise, her responsibilities included interacting with commercial supporters, associations, and providers, developing budgets for proposed projects, and overseeing all aspects of planning for live and enduring activities. Prior to joining the company in 2001, she served as a Project Manager for Lockheed Martin IMS and Netgov.com, and she also spent five years as the Director of Hiring and Training and Alternative Programming for the Marion Superior Court Juvenile Division in Indianapolis, Indiana. Robyn earned her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from DePauw University and a Certificate in Public Management from Indiana University, Indianapolis.

Educational Opportunities

Dan Sloan
Senior Medical Education Consultant

Dan’s main focus is to introduce CME Enterprise to potential supporters, as well as educational collaborators such as specialty societies and associations. His responsibilities include identifying diversified funding sources, cultivating relationships, and ultimately, seeking out opportunities for educational activities and partnerships.

In addition to six years of experience in the medical education industry, Dan has an extensive background in sales, sales management, sales training, meeting and event planning, and manufacturing management. Dan recently moderated a panel discussion on Collaboration by Educational Partners in the development of medical education initiatives at the Center for Business Intelligence conference on Continuing Medical Education. Dan received his Bachelor of Science in Business from Butler University.