Dr. Skeff is the George DeForest Barnett Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at Stanford University, and Co-Director of the Stanford Faculty Development Center for Medical Teachers (SFDC). Dr. Skeff was the internal medicine residency program director at Stanford for two decades. He received his MD from the University of Colorado and his PhD from the Stanford School of Education. Dr. Skeff’s academic career has focused on methods to assist faculty and residents internationally to improve their teaching effectiveness, resulting in the development of the Stanford Faculty Development Center (SFDC). The SFDC has used a dissemination approach to train faculty from institutions internationally to train their own faculty colleagues and housestaff to become more effective teachers. Since 1986, the SFDC has trained 395 faculty trainers from 156 institutions in 19 countries to become local, regional, and national resources for the improvement of medical education. These faculty have, in turn, assisted over 30,000 faculty and residents to improve their teaching effectiveness. He and colleagues have now developed an online version of the teaching improvement course.