GIA Steering Committee
National Officers: March 2009–April 2010
Officers are elected annually at the AAMC/GIA National Professional
Development Conference in March, and the position runs through to the
next National Professional Development Conference. They are available
to serve as a resource on academic medicine issues upon request by the
GIA members.
Read bios of the current
officers (PDF, 2 pages).
Chair
Larry Schafer
Vice President, Development
New-York Presbyterian Hospital and
Vice Provost, Development
Joan & Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University
lwschafe@med.cornell.edu
Chair-Elect
Dale Triber Tate
Executive Director, Communications and Government Relations
UCLA Health Sciences
UCLA Medical Center
dtate@mednet.ucla.edu
Vice Chair, Marketing, Public Relations and Public Affairs
Mary M. Koppel
Assistant Vice President, Public Affairs
Office of Communications, Academic Health Center
University of Minnesota
koppe006@umn.edu
Vice Chair, Alumni and Development
Chad B. Ruback
Assistant Vice President for External Relations
University of Iowa Health Care
chad-ruback@uiowa.edu
Immediate Past Chair
Tom Fortner
Chief Public Affairs and Communications Officer
University of Mississippi Medical Center
tfortner@pubaffairs.umsmed.edu
Executive Secretary-Treasurer
Chris Tucker
AAMC
ctucker@aamc.org
AAMC Administrative Support
Sandra Dunmore
Program Specialist
AAMC
sdunmore@aamc.org
Discipline Chairs: March 2009–April
2010
Discipline Chairs are elected at the National Professional Development
Conference (NPDC) in the spring, and serve their term until the next NPDC.
Five discipline chairs are elected representing each of the five GIA disciplines:
alumni affairs, development, marketing, public affairs and public relations.
Please feel free to contact them with suggestions on speakers and topics
to be presented at both the Annual Meeting (held in the fall), and the
National Professional Development Conference (held in the spring), or
volunteer your services as a Discipline Representative.
Development Chair
Jancy Houck
Associate Vice President for Development and Director of Medical Development
Yale University School of Medicine
jancy.houck@yale.edu
Alumni Chair
Patricia Comey
Director of Alumni Relations
Drexel University College of Medicine
patricia.m.comey@drexel.edu
Public Relations Chair
Joni Westerhouse
Executive Director for Medical Communications, Office of Medical Public
Affairs
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
westerhousej@wustl.edu
Public Affairs Chair
Michael E. Knecht, FACHE
Vice President Communications & Community Relations
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
michael.knecht@rwjuh.edu
Marketing Chair
Janet M. Caldwell
Associate Vice President for Marketing & Communications
Meharry Medical College
jcaldwell@mmc.edu
Discipline Representatives: March 2009–April
2010
Discipline Representatives are selected by the Discipline Chairs to assist
with planning the Annual Meeting and the National Professional Development
Conference. They serve one year term beginning at the spring NPDC until
the next NPDC.
Alumni Representative
Barry J. Collins
Executive Director
Associate Dean for Medical Alumni Affairs
U.Va. Medical Alumni Association and Medical School Foundation
barrycollins@virginia.edu
Development Representative
Andrew K. Welch
Senior Vice President, Chief Development Officer
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
awelch@ric.org
Marketing Representative
Brenda Maceo
Senior Vice President for Communications
City of Hope National Medical Center
bmaceo@coh.org
Public Affairs Representative
Kim Wirthlin
Associate Vice President for Marketing and Public Affairs and
Vice President for Government Relations
University of Utah Health Sciences
kim.wirthlin@hsc.utah.edu
Public Relations Representative
Christine Morris
Associate Vice President for Communications
Univeristy of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
cmorris@med.miami.edu
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