The Medical Education Program Planning Committee is responsible for evaluating the hundreds of medical education research abstracts, innovation abstracts, and session proposals submitted through the Medical Education Call for Proposals. The committee selects and organizes the content that will ultimately be presented at Learn Serve Lead: The AAMC Annual Meeting.
2025-2026 Committee
Chair
Irene Alexandraki, MD, MPH
Vice Dean of Education
The University of Oklahoma College of Medicine
Members
Diego F. Niño, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
University of Texas at Tyler School of Medicine
Kuan Xing, PhD
Associate Director of Educational Measurement Research and Development
Clinical Assistant Professor
Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa
Laura Weingartner, PhD
Associate Professor
University of Louisville School of Medicine
Joshua T. Hanson, MD, MPH
Professor/Clinical, Associate Dean of Student Affairs
UT Health San Antonio
Colleen Hayden, EdD
Associate Dean for Program Evaluation and Assessment
University of Missouri School of Medicine
Greg Malin, MD, PhD, MEd
Assistant Professor
University of Saskatchewan
Anne Zinski, PhD
Medical Education Professor
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Michaela Jansen, PharmD, PhD
Professor, Associate Dean for Medical Education and Accreditation, School of Medicine
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
Heather Harrell, MD, FACP
Associate Dean, Medical Education and Professor
University of Florida
Kara Sawarynski, PhD
Assistant Dean for Accreditation and Continuous Quality Improvement
Oakland University William Beaumont (OUWB) School of Medicine
Karri Grob, EdD, MA
Director of Curriculum
University of Washington School of Medicine
Shruti Chandra, MD, MEHP
Associate Professor
Thomas Jefferson University