Core Faculty
Suely Grosseman, M.Sc., M.D., Ph.D.
Suely Grosseman is Associate Professor in the Pediatrics Department at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil, a position she has held since 1994. She teaches preventive and social pediatrics and is very committed to medical education and the process of curriculum change. From 2010 to 2011, she was the Dean of Curriculum. In pediatrics, her primary interest is in breastfeeding.
Dr. Grosseman is a 2008 Brazil-FAIMER Regional Institute Fellow. Her FAIMER education innovation project was on student assessment. Since 2010, she has been invited to study and discuss leadership with FAIMER faculty and to participate as a facilitator in the Brazil-FAIMER Regional Institute.
In August 2011, Dr. Grosseman began post-doctoral training at the Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia as part of a sabbatical year from UFSC. She is studying with Professor Dennis Novack, M.D., working as a facilitator in the teaching and learning of communication skills for physician-patient relationships. Dr. Grosseman is also working with health care students and residents in the development of research on this topic, as well as research on professionalism and the students’ personal well being and empathy for patients. She is also working with Professor Mohammadreza Hojat, Ph.D., to develop research on empathy using qualitative methods, quantitative methods, or both, as required to meet the research needs.
Dr. Grosseman is currently proposing the translation into Portuguese of educational modules on communication skills used at American medical schools, so that Brazilian medical students and residents can use them to study the teaching-learning process and communication skills for physician-patient relationships in a more systematic way.
Dr. Grosseman earned her medical degree in 1981 and completed her specialization in pediatrics in 1983 through a residency program at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). She earned her Master of Science in Mother and Child Health at the Institute of Child Health, University College London, United Kingdom, in 1999 and her Ph.D. in Production Engineering–Ergonomics from UFSC in 2001.
