Plenary Sessions
Leadership Forum
Keynote Address—Insight Spanning the Decades
Ted Koppel
Discovery Channel managing editor and National Pubic Radio senior news analyst
AAMC President's Address—The Tough Questions
Darrell G. Kirch, M.D.
Watch the Webcast | Read Dr. Kirch's remarks (PDF, 6 pages)
Chair's Address—Genome-based Medicine: Hope, Hype, and Reality
Robert J. Desnick, M.D., Ph.D.
Chairman, Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences,
Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
Leadership Forum summary and presentation materials
Creating a Better Tomorrow
- Achieving a High Performance Health System: Role of Academic Health Centers and Teaching Hospitals
- The Obligation of Interprofessional Education: Thirty-six Years After the First Institute of Medicine Report
- Science and Society
Creating a Better Tomorrow summary and presentation materials
Focus Sessions
- Doctors and Flat Screens in a Flat
World
- Advancing Gender and Ethnic Diversity in Biomedical Leadership: A Personal Perspective
- Is Your Academic Medical Center a Great
Place to Work? Lessons in Building Faculty
Vitality
- Reforms in Industry Funding of Academic Medicine
- Diversity Across the Physician Education Continuum
- Stopping Medical "Homelessness": Academic Health Centers' Role in the Medical Home
Focus Sessions summary and presentation materials
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News from the Meeting
Dr. Elliot Sussman, of Lehigh Valley Hospital, Becomes AAMC Chair
Elliot J. Sussman, M.D., M.B.A., president and chief executive officer of Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network, began his one-year term as chair of the AAMC. (Nov. 3, 2008)
AAMC President Poses "Tough Questions" to the Academic Medicine Community
Dr. Darrell G. Kirch challenged the leaders of the nation's medical schools and teaching hospitals to bring change to academic medicine by confronting five "tough questions" related to medical education, research, and patient care. (Nov. 2, 2008)
2008 AAMC Award Recipients
The AAMC awarded national recognition to nine individuals and one teaching hospital for their outstanding contributions to academic medicine. (Nov. 2, 2008)
Images from the Meeting
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RIME and IME Programs
47th Annual Conference on Research in Medical Education (RIME)
Poster, Oral, Research, Review and Symposia Paper Summary Presentations
Innovations in Medical Education (IME) Exhibits Program
Future Annual Meetings
- Nov. 6-11, 2009 - Boston
- Nov. 5-10, 2010 - Washington, D.C.
- Nov. 4-9, 2011 - Denver
- Nov. 2-7, 2012 - San Francisco
- Nov. 1-6, 2013 - Philadelphia
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