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Chair
M. Dewayne Andrews, MD
Executive Dean and Vice President for Health
Affairs
University of Oklahoma College of
Medicine
940 Stanton L. Young Blvd,
Room 357
PO Box 26901
Oklahoma City,
OK 73126
dewayne-andrews@ouhsc.edu
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Dr. Dewayne Andrews is Vice President for Health Affairs
and Executive Dean of the College
of Medicine at the
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. He is David Ross Boyd
Professor of Medicine and also holds the Lawrence N. Upjohn Chair in
Medicine. Dr. Andrews has overall responsibility for the educational,
research and clinical enterprises of the College
of Medicine , including OU
Physicians, and he has oversight of both the Oklahoma
City and Tulsa campuses of the College of Medicine . He was appointed to this
position in July 2002. Dr. Andrews received a B.S. degree from Baylor University
in 1966 and earned his M.D. from the University of Oklahoma
in 1970. His residency and fellowship training in internal medicine were at
the Johns Hopkins Hospital
in Baltimore and the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. He served
for two years as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer with the Centers
for Disease Control of the U.S. Public Health Service. He is board certified
in internal medicine. His past research interests include hepatorenal
syndrome, hypertension, and career choice decision factors in medical
students. He has extensive experience in undergraduate medical curriculum
development, graduate medical education, and in administration in medical
school and hospital organizational structures. Dr. Andrews has received
several distinguished awards for excellence in teaching medicine. He has been
a member of the Board of Governors of the American College
of Physicians, and he is a past chairman of the National Commission on the
Certification of Physician Assistants. In 2004, in recognition of outstanding
contributions throughout his career, the American
College of Physicians awarded Dr.
Andrews the high honor of designation as a “Master” of the American College of Physicians.
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Chair-Elect
Betty M. Drees, MD
Dean
University of Missouri- Kansas City School of Medicine
2411 Holmes Street
Kansas City, MO
64108-2792
dreesb@umkc.edu
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Betty M. Drees, MD, FACP is currently dean at the University of
Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine. She received her medical degree at
the University of Kansas in 1984, and trained in internal medicine
and endocrinology at the University
of Kansas. After
completing training, she joined the faculty of the University of Kansas
School of Medicine and was an Associate Investigator in the Veterans
Administration Career Development Program at the Kansas City VA Medical
Center. Her research interest was in calcium metabolism and parathyroid
function. At the VA, she served as the Program Director for Specialty Care
Medicine at the Kansas City Veterans Affairs
Medical Center
in Kansas City, Missouri. In 1995, she served on the national
VA Data Capture Evaluation Study Advisory Group. In 1998, Dr. Drees was
appointed as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of
Missouri-Kansas City. In 2003, she was appointed as dean, after serving for
two years as the interim dean. She continues to serve as a Professor of
Medicine in the Section of Endocrinology. She was a fellow in the Executive
Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) program in 2001. She is a member of
Alpha Omega Alpha.
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Immediate Past Chair
Rod R. Parry, MD
Dean and Vice President for Health Affairs
Sanford School of Medicine of the
University of South Dakota
1400 W 22nd Street
Sioux Falls, SD 57105
rparry@usd.edu
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Dr. Parry received his medical degree from the University of Wisconsin
Madison in 1969 and completed his residency training in
internal medicine and pulmonary medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester MN.
He is a Diplomat of the American Board of Internal Medicine in both internal
medicine and pulmonary medicine. He served in the U.S. Army as a Major. He
joined the University of South Dakota School of Medicine as the section head
of pulmonary medicine in 1976. He is currently the Executive Dean of the School of Medicine and Professor of internal
medicine. His medical interest areas are asthma, cystic fibrosis, and lung
disease related to agriculture. He has served as the director of the South
Dakota Cystic Fibrosis Center since 1986. Dr. Parry has held numerous offices
in the Seventh District Medical Society and the South Dakota State Medical
Association including state president. He has been actively involved with the
South Dakota Student Section of the AMA which has 100% membership through
voluntary physician sponsorship. Dr. Parry has been active in the Association
of American Medical Colleges, pulmonary specialty organizations, volunteer
organizations and the American Medical Association.
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Delegate
Michael J. Reichgott, MD, PhD
Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs and
Graduate Medical Education
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
of Yeshiva University
1300 Morris Park Ave., Belfer Bldg 301
Bronx, NY 10461-1602
reichgot@aecom.yu.edu
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Dr. Reichgott is Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs and
Graduate Medical Education at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY.
A 1965 graduate of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, he completed
residency in Internal Medicine, fellowship in Clinical Pharmacology, and
received his PhD in Pharmacology, all at the University of California, San
Francisco. He joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania
in 1972. There he was member of the Section on General Internal Medicine, was
involved in research on anti-hypertensive agents. In 1980, Dr. Reichgott was
appointed Associate Chief of Staff for Ambulatory Care at the Philadelphia VA
Medical Center; he also served as Chief of General Internal Medicine at that
hospital. He returned to Einstein in 1984, as Medical Director of the Bronx Municipal Hospital
Center. In 1989, he
became Associate Dean for Students and the College’s first Associate
Dean for GME. In that dual capacity, he was responsible for managing the
College’s clinical education programs at both the undergraduate and
graduate levels. In August 1999, Dr. Reichgott shifted his emphasis from the
students to working with Einstein’s broad network of affiliated
institutions and clinical departments. He continues to oversee the
College’s role as Institutional Sponsor for its residency programs. Dr.
Reichgott was a founding member of the Section on Resident Education of the
Association of American Medical Colleges and served for many years on the
steering committee of the Group on Resident Affairs. He was liaison to the
steering committee of the Group on Educational Affairs and was the organizing
Chair of the new GEA Section on Graduate Medical Education. He served as the
AAMC representative on the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical
Education’s Institutional Review Committee and was recently appointed
to the Standing Appeals Panel. He is a past Chair of the Governing Council of
the American Medical Association’s Section on Medical Schools, and is
an AMA appointee to the Liaison Committee on Medical Education.
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Alternate Delegate
Donald G. Eckhoff, MD
Professor of Orthopedics
University of Colorado
School of Medicine
1635 North Ursula Street
Mail Stop F722, PO Box 6510
Aurora, CO 80045
donald.eckhoff@uchsc.edu
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Donald G. Eckhoff, MD is Professor of Orthopaedics at the
University of Colorado School of Medicine (UCSM). He received his
medical degree from the University of Minnesota Medical School in Minneapolis, did his internship at St. Luke’s
Hospital in Denver
and completed his residency training at the University of Colorado Health
Sciences Center. Dr. Eckhoff is board certified in orthopaedic surgery
and has served on numerous faculty committees as well as leadership positions
including: the Denver Medical Society as President; Colorado Medical Society
as a member of its Board of Directors; and American Academy of Orthopaedic
Surgeons as a Task Force member. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. Prior to
his appointment as Professor of Orthopaedics at UCSM, he was Medical Director
of the Department of Orthopaedics at University
Hospital in Aurora, Colorado.
He has held affiliate faculty appointments at the College
of Veterinary Medicine and School of Mechanical
Engineering at Colorado
State University
in Fort Collins.
He has published extensively in major medical journals and has been a guest
lecturer locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally. Dr.
Eckhoff currently practices in the Department of Orthpaedics at the
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.
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Member-at-Large
Louis J. Ling, MD
Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education
University of Minnesota Medical
School, MMC 293
420 Delaware Street, SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
lingx002@umn.edu
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Dr. Ling is the Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education at the
University of Minnesota Medical School as well as Associate Medical Director
for Medical Education at Hennepin County Medical
Center, both in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
He is a graduate of the University of Minnesota Medical School and did his
residency in emergency medicine at the University of Chicago.
He spent one year on the faculty at the University
of Illinois before returning to the University of Minnesota. He has practiced emergency
medicine for over 20 years at Hennepin
County Medical
Center and at times has
been responsible for the training programs in emergency medicine and the
transitional year. As one of the first board certified medical toxicologists
in the country, he was the Medical Director of the Hennepin Regional
Poison Center
for 18 years. Dr. Ling has published in medical toxicology and is a co-editor
of the three-volume standard textbook: Rosen’s Emergency Medicine as
well as three textbooks in medical toxicology.
He has served in many organizations, and has been chair of the Academic
Affairs Committee of the American
College of Emergency
Physicians. While President of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine,
he started the journal Academic Emergency Medicine. He is Past-president of
the American Board of Emergency Medicine, a past delegate to the American
Board of Medical Specialties, Past-chair of the Residency Review Committee in
Emergency Medicine, was a member of the original Institutional Review
Committee of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and
Past-chair of the Certification Committee of the American Association of
Poison Control Centers. He currently serves on the Robert Wood Johnson
Faculty Scholars National Advisory Committee.
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Member-at-Large
Arthur J. Ross, III, MD, MBA
Vice President for Medical Affairs and Dean
Chicago Medical School
Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
3333 Green Bay Road
North Chicago, IL 60064-3095
art.ros@rosalindfranklin.edu
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Dr. Ross is Vice President for Medical Affairs at Rosalind Franklin
University of Medicine and Science & Dean of the Chicago Medical
School. He graduated
with honors from Trinity College in Hartford,
Connecticut. He is an Alpha
Omega Alpha graduate of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
following which he entered the residency in General & Thoracic Surgery at
Duke University Medical
Center. While in the
Surgery Training Program at Duke he spent two years as a research fellow
which included a post doctoral fellowship in the Department of Pharmacology
at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel
Hill. Following his eight years at Duke Dr. Ross entered the
Pediatric Surgical Fellowship Training Program at the Children’s
Hospital of Philadelphia where he spent two clinical years followed by a
third year as the Glenmede Research Fellow in Pediatric Surgery. Upon
completion of his training he joined the faculty in the Department of Surgery
at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia/University of Pennsylvania
School of Medicine. At the time of his relocation from Philadelphia
to Wisconsin
in 1993, he had become an Associate Professor of Surgery and Director of the
Pediatric Surgical Research Laboratory.
Dr. Ross was responsible for the design, development and implementation of
the Western Clinical Campus of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine
located in La Crosse, Wisconsin. He served as the Campus’s inaugural
Associate Dean as well as Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics at UW Medical
School. Concurrently, he served as the Chief Academic Officer for the
Gundersen Lutheran Health System, the Director of Medical Education for the
Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation and he continued to practice Pediatric
Surgery.
In June 2004, Dr. Ross assumed the Deanship at the Chicago
Medical School
at Rosalind Franklin University.
He also serves as a Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics (with tenure) at the
School. In 2005 Dr. Ross was named Vice President for Medical Affairs at the
University.
Dr. Ross has been certified (and recertified) by the American Board of
Surgery in both General Surgery and Pediatric Surgery. He is a Fellow the American College
of Surgeons and the American
Academy of Pediatrics.
He is a member of a number of professional and scientific societies including
the Council of Deans of the Association of American Medial Colleges, the
American Pediatric Surgical Association, the Society of University Surgeons,
and the American
College of Physician
Executives. He also has numerous state and national committee appointments.
Dr. Ross is the author or co-author of almost 100 original articles and book
chapters.
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Member-at-Large
Maria Savoia, MD
Vice Dean for Medical Education
University of California, San Diego
School of Medicine
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0602
msavoia@ucsd.edu
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Dr. Maria Savoia is currently Vice Dean for Medical Education and
Professor of Medicine at the University
of California, San
Diego School of Medicine. Dr. Savoia received her MD degree from Harvard Medicine
School and completed her residency
training in internal medicine at the University
of California, San Diego (UCSD) Medical Center with subsequent fellowship
training in infectious diseases.
Dr. Savoia began her career as the Assistant Chief of Medicine at the San Diego Veterans Affairs
Medical Center,
where she was in charge of the educational offices of UCSD’s Department
of Medicine. She proceeded to serve as Acting Chief of Medicine and
Vice Chair of the Department of Medicine at UCSD until she joined the
Dean’s Office as Associate Dean for Curriculum and Student Affairs in
the School of Medicine in 1990. In 2004, she
became Vice Dean for Medical Education, a position with programmatic
responsibility for admissions, financial aid, diversity and community
partnerships, student affairs, undergraduate, graduate and continuing medical
education, and alumni relations.
On a national level, Dr. Savoia has served as Chair of the Group on
Student Affairs of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and
was recently honored with their National Service Award. She has also
served on advisory committees to the National Board of Medical Examiners and
the National Resident Match Program (NRMP), and recently was appointed to the
Board of Directors of the latter. She has consulted for a number of
medical schools and organizations as well as participated, on numerous occasions,
as a Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) site surveyor.
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Section Liaison to the Council on Medical
Education
Kenneth B. Simons, MD
Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Medical College of Wisconsin
8701 Watertown Plank Road
PO Box 26509
Milwaukee, WI 53226-0509
Phone: (414) 456-8279
Fax: (414) 456-6506
ksimons@mail.mcw.edu
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Dr. Simons received his medical degree from Boston
University School of Medicine in 1980. He completed his residency training in
ophthalmology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and a
fellowship in ophthalmic pathology at the Jules Stein Eye Institute of the University of California
– Los Angeles.
Dr. Simons is currently professor and director of ophthalmic pathology in the
department of ophthalmology and pathology as well as senior associate dean
for academic affairs at the Wisconsin Medical College (WMC). Prior to coming
to WMC, he held an academic appointment at the University of Arizona College
of Medicine. He has authored many scientific publications in his primary
discipline of ophthalmology.
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