Joshua Hartzell MD, MS-HPEd

Education

1994-98 BS, Biology, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA
1998-2002 MD, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD
2002-05 Internal Medicine Residency, Walter Reed Army Medical Center
2006-09 Infectious Disease Fellow, Walter Reed Army Medical Center
2015-2017 MS-HPEd, Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions

Biography

Colonel (retired) Joshua D. Hartzell, MD, MS-HPEd currently serves as faculty within the Center for Health Professions Education. He served 25 years in the Army before retiring in 2023. His final role in the Army was the Program Director for the National Capital Consortium Internal Medicine Residency Program at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC). His previous roles included being the Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency, Assistant Chief of Graduate Medical Education (GME), and Army Intern Director at WRNMMC and the the Assistant Dean for Faculty Development and Director of Internal Medicine Selectives at the Uniformed Services University. He is a board certified Internist and Infectious Diseases Physician.

Dr. Hartzell has a variety of research and scholarly interests. He has conducted research on infectious diseases to include pertussis, multidrug resistant organisms, leishmaniasis and Q fever. He was the lead author for the Armed Forces Practice Guidelines for the Management of Q fever and was a member of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention working group on Q fever that published similar recommendations. Dr. Hartzell’s primary interests, however, are medical education, mentoring, and leadership development. In particular, Dr. Hartzell has an interest in developing the leadership and teaching skills of residents and faculty. Dr. Hartzell attended the Stanford Faculty Development Clinical Teaching Course in October 2013 and has avidly been conducting faculty development since that time. Dr. Hartzell developed a military wide leadership curriculum for Graduate Medical Education that began in 2017.

Representative Bibliography

Moawad F, Wilson R, Kunar M, Hartzell JD. Role of the Battalion Surgeon in the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars. Mil Med. 2012; 177(4):412-6.

Hartzell JD, Gleeson T, Scoville S, Massung R, Wortmann G, Martin G. Practice Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Patients with Q Fever by The Armed Forces Infectious Diseases Society. Mil Med. 2012;177(5): 484-494.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Diagnosis and Management of Q Fever - United States, 2013: Recommendations from CDC and the Q Fever Working Group. MMWR Recomm Rep. 2013; 62(RR-03):1-30.

Cohee BM, Koplin SA, Shimeall WT, Quast TM, Hartzell JD. Results of a Formal Mentorship Program for Internal Medicine Residents: Can We Facilitate Genuine Mentorship? J Grad Med Educ. 2015;7(1):105-8.

Hartzell JD, Yu CE, Cohee B, Nelson M, Wilson R. Moving Beyond Accidental Leadership: A Graduate Medical Education Leadership Curriculum Needs Assessment. Mil Med 2017; 182(7): e1815–e1822.

Sadowski B, Cantrell S, Barelski A, O'Malley PG, Hartzell JD. Leadership Training in Graduate Medical Education: A Systematic Review. J Grad Med Educ. 2018;10(2):134-148.

Scott SE, Cook S, Farmer MA, Kim SK, Pomfret RW, Samardzic K, Hartzell JD, Hutchinson JW. The Rising Physicians Program: A Novel Approach for Mentoring Medical Students. Mil Med. 2018 Nov 13. doi: 10.1093/milmed/usy289.

Scott SE, Cook S, Farmer MA, Kim SK, Pomfret RW, Samardzic K, Hartzell JD, Hutchinson JW. The Rising Physicians Program: A Novel Approach for Mentoring Medical Students. Mil Med. 2018 Nov 13. doi: 10.1093/milmed/usy289.

Weber LA, Bunin J, Hartzell JD. Building Individual and Organizational Wellness Through Effective Followership. J Healthc Leadersh. 2022 Apr 21;14:47-53.

Blickle JG, Vojta L, Huang C, Wyse JM, Yarnell AM, Hartzell JD. Learning to Lead: 10 Leadership Lessons From Operation Bushmaster. Mil Med. 2022 May 3;187(5-6):113-115.