We don't just support academic physicians. We build the infrastructure that keeps them.
Academic Medicine Strategy Group (AMedSG) builds faculty development infrastructure that increases promotion, retention, and academic impact — for individual physicians and the institutions that depend on them.
AMedSG is ACCME-Accredited
Our programming meets the highest national standards for Continuing Medical Education — bringing academic rigor to every engagement, whether you're an individual physician investing in your career or an institution building a culture of sustainable faculty performance.
We work at two levels:
For Departments & Institutions
Our flagship program, the Faculty Excellence & Retention Initiative (FERI)™, is a structured team coaching and consulting engagement designed to reduce faculty burnout, improve retention, and build lasting faculty development infrastructure within your division or department.
For Individual Physicians Reset & Refocus
Our performance coaching program for academic medicine physicians — supports faculty navigating promotion, leadership transitions, research productivity, and career sustainability — with strategies grounded in behavioral science and built for the realities of academic medicine.
DR. STACEY ISHMAN
Founder | MD, MPH, FACS, FAAP
The academic medicine expert your faculty needs.
Dr. Stacey Ishman brings over two decades of experience as an academic otolaryngologist and sleep physician — at Johns Hopkins, Cincinnati Children's, and the University of Wisconsin — to every engagement she leads. She built AMedSG because she lived the gap between what academic medicine asks of its faculty and what it actually gives them.
Dr. Ishman's Credentials: ✓ Triple board-certified in Otolaryngology, Complex Pediatric Otolaryngology, and Sleep Medicine ✓ NIH/DOD Grants & 230+ Publications ✓ 20+ Years as Academic Otolaryngologist & Sleep Physician at Johns Hopkins, Cincinnati Children's, and University of Wisconsin ✓ Past President, International Surgical Sleep Society ✓ Board Member of Multiple National and International Organizations ✓ Distinguished Service Award Recipient (2015, 2018, 2023) ✓ Helen F. Krause, MD Trailblazer Award (2017) ✓ University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Mentorship Award (2019) ✓ National Keynote Speaker on Strategic Career Design That Works ✓ Creator of the Faculty Excellence & Retention Initiative™ (FERI)
Dr. Ishman's Credentials
KIRSTEN BOMBDIGGITY
Chief Education Officer MT | Certified in Narrative Intelligence & Experiential Narrative Practice
Kirsten Bombdiggity has spent her career translating behavioral science into practical tools that actually work for physicians — not just in theory, but in the middle of a 60-hour week.
As AMedSG's Chief Education Officer, Kirsten brings a Master's in Teaching and dual certification in Narrative Intelligence and Experiential Narrative Practice to every program she designs and facilitates. She has worked with over 3,000 physicians across specialties and career stages, with a deep focus on retention, burnout prevention, and professional sustainability.
Before joining AMedSG, Kirsten served as Chief Experience Officer for a Fortune 5000 physician education company, where she built programming at scale without losing the human at the center of it.
Her work helps physicians and institutions move from survival mode to sustainable, high-performance careers — and gives departments the tools to stop losing the people they worked so hard to recruit.
Ready to build something that lasts?
Whether you're a physician looking to reignite your career or a department chair ready to stop the attrition cycle — we'd love to talk.
