Washington, D.C., April 6, 2007 - The AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) has selected D. Daniel Hunt, M.D., to be the association's secretary to the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME). He will also serve as vice president for the Section for LCME and Accreditation Services in the AAMC Division of Medical Education. He is currently vice dean for academic activities at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine in Canada.

Dr. Hunt served on seven LCME accreditation site teams between 1996 and 2003. In the United States, he has been involved in many initiatives to increase the number of minority applicants to medical schools. He is currently active in the Association of Faculty of Medicine of Canada (the national association representing Canadian medical schools), where he serves on the National Task Force on Aboriginal Health and on the Academic Leadership Group.

Dr. Hunt joined the faculty and administration of Northern Ontario School of Medicine in 2004 as chief academic officer for accreditation, campus dean, and professor of psychiatry. Prior to moving to Canada, he served in a variety of administrative positions at the University of Washington School of Medicine, where his responsibilities included accreditation issues, academic affairs, and curriculum management, as well as a faculty appointment as professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences. Dr. Hunt is also past president of the International Health Medical Education Consortium (now the Global Health Education Consortium).

"Dr. Hunt's experience with curriculum development, distributed education, and the launching of a new medical school will be invaluable assets to the LCME and the academic medicine community during this time of national medical school expansion," said Carol Aschenbrener, M.D., executive vice president for the AAMC.

After earning his medical degree from the Cornell University Medical College (now the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College and Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Cornell University) in 1973, Dr. Hunt earned a graduate degree in business administration from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business in 1977. A board certified psychiatrist, he completed his postgraduate training at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and spent additional training time as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar and a World Health Organization Fellow.

Dr. Hunt is a U.S. citizen with permanent Canadian residency. He will join the AAMC full-time on September 1.

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