Brian Persaud, MD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of Translational Sciences at Illinois College of Osteopathic Medicine. He also serves as a facilitator for the national Veterans Association (VA) CME course known as Project MODEL (Maximizing Ongoing Development and Educational Leadership) to facilitate the training of a network of clinician educators. Prior to medicine, he taught as a high school teacher, college calculus professor and helped author multiple Differential Equations textbooks. His interest in adult learning motivated him to pursue medicine. After completing his Internal Medicine residency and chief residency at Yale New Haven Hospital, he joined Harvard and has been intimately involved with the development of Training to Teach in Medicine from its inception. He now serves as Associate Director for the Training to Teach in Medicine program.