HCPro Boot Camp Instructor

Marie Wegeman Ray, C-TAGME, has over 25 years of experience in graduate medical education. In 1991, Ray began her career in GME as the founding program coordinator of the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Emergency Medicine Residency located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In 2013, Ray became the founding director of graduate medical education at Osceola Regional Medical Center, where she worked closely with its affiliated allopathic and osteopathic medical schools to develop and obtain ACGME accreditation for several new residency training programs. Ray is dedicated to providing and supporting professional education for the residency management team, and through this devotion, she cofounded the Emergency Medicine Association of Residency Coordinators (EMARC) and the National Board for Certification of Graduate Medical Education (TAGME). Her national presentations have focused on ACGME accreditation, residency management processes, coordinator professionalism, and coordinator certification. In 2013, Ray received the ACGME Program Coordinator Excellence Award.