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Council of Academic Societies (CAS)
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Contacts
For information about the CAS and its programs and services:
Tony Mazzaschi
Senior Director, Scientific Affairs
tmazzaschi@aamc.org
202-828-0059
For CAS administrative matters:
Alison Augustine
CAS Program Specialist
aaugustine@aamc.org
202-828-0483
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The Council of Academic Societies (CAS) is one of three governing
councils of the AAMC,
along with the Council of Deans (COD) and the Council of Teaching
Hospitals and Health Systems (COTH). The CAS is presently comprised
of 94 academic societies devoted to biomedical and behavioral research,
medical education, and patient care.
The collective membership of the CAS societies include essentially
all faculty members and scientists in American medical schools engaged
in life sciences research, research training, and medical education.
The CAS, though diverse in membership, is a powerful forum for
discussing and exchanging information of common interest to medical
school faculty and for evaluating and recommending policy initiatives
to the association.
About the CAS
The CAS represents the faculty leadership of U.S. medical schools and teaching hospitals through representation from nearly 90 member professional organizations. The mission of the CAS is to help the faculty of academic medical centers in their primary responsibilities of research education, and patient care, with an ultimate goal of improving the health of all Americans.
Mission
The formal mission statement of the Council of Academic Societies is:
- The CAS is composed of faculty who represent medical school departments and their chairs, academic societies, and individual faculty members.
- Our mission is to help the faculty of medical schools and teaching hospitals to pursue their primary responsibilities of research, education, and patient care.
- Our goal is to help medical faculty, their institutions, and their societies, improve the health of all Americans.
Goals
To accomplish its mission, the Council of Academic Societies is committed to the following goals:
- To analyze, prioritize and articulate information and issues relevant to the core values of faculties and constituent societies.
- To support faculty and constituent societies in the exercise of essential core values.
- To articulate the role of the medical school faculty to academic medicine and to the public.
- To foster networking among scholars.
- To ensure that the CAS represents the broad interests of academic faculty and that constituent societies play an actual role in the CAS.
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