Michelle Kiger currently serves as a general pediatrician and the Director of Medical Education Research and Scholarship at the University of Colorado and is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado and the Uniformed Services University.  She is a former military Pediatric Residency Program Director for the pediatric residency program at Wright-Patterson Medical Center/Wright State University.  A leader in medical education, she holds an MD from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and a PhD in Health Professions Education from Uniformed Services University (USU).  She is an Associate Editor for MedEdPORTAL and the co-director for the new Scholarly Community of Practice in Education (SCoPE) through the Association of Pediatric Program Directors.  As the Director for Medical Education Research and Scholarship, she has co-founded a monthly educator development series open to students, residents, fellows, and faculty within the Department of Pediatrics known as ASCENT: Advancing Scholarship, Collaboration, Education, and iNnovative Teaching, as well as twice-monthly Works in Progress sessions to advance educational scholarship within the Department.  She also serves as a resource for anyone in the Department seeing mentorship and/or collaboration in educational scholarship. In her prior role as program director, she implemented a longitudinal, case-based curriculum in behavioral and mental health that has been presented nationally at multiple conferences, a comprehensive newborn nursery curriculum, a practice-based Quality Improvement curriculum that has been published in MedEdPORTAL, and a direct observation program.  She also served as the site director for the Military Medical Humanitarian Assistance Course, co-led the Finding Meaning in Medicine and Healer’s Art wellness programs for the residency, and ran the Military Medical Officer Training and Orientation Course for her senior residents.  Her current research interests include patient care ownership, behavioral and mental health education for pediatric trainees, competency-based medical education, and educator identity development.