Rate My Professor Alan Dow

Dow is an award-winning educator, having received the VCU School of Medicine’s Enrique Gerszten, M.D. Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, the school’s highest teaching honor, and VCU’s Distinguished Teaching Award, the university’s highest teaching award. He was selected as a 2011 Macy Faculty Scholar by the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation. His scholarship focuses on interprofessional education, communication and teamwork in healthcare, patient safety, healthcare quality improvement, mindfulness training for professionals, telemedicine adoption, and learning health systems. Dow employs qualitative, mixed-methods, simulation-based, and network analysis approaches to develop and evaluate innovative programs that address practice and community needs. Key publications include “Teamwork on the rocks: Rethinking interprofessional practice simulations” (2017), “Things We Do for No Reason™: Race adjustments in eGFR calculations” (2022), “Using Virtual Reality to Teach Medical Students Cross-Cultural Communication” (2024), and “Patient care in complex Sociotechnological ecosystems and learning health systems” (2024). With 1,853 citations documented on ResearchGate, his contributions have advanced collaborative care and medical education at VCU and beyond.