Group on Business Affairs (GBA)

Heather Sacks
Director, Constituent Engagement

Katie Beale
Constituent Engagement Senior Specialist

Natalie Floyd
Senior Administrative Specialist

To reach a member of the GBA program staff, please contact GBA@aamc.org. 

How to Join

To become a member of the GBA, an individual must be appointed by his or her medical school dean or principal business officer. A letter from the dean (or his or her designee) or principal business officer is sufficient to establish membership immediately.

There is no cost to join, nor is there a limit to the number of institutional representatives appointed to the GBA. However, only one representative may be designated as an institution's principal contact (PBO).

Member Categories/Criteria

• Principal Business Officer (PBO): The principal institutional contact to the GBA on matters involving finance and general institutional administration. This individual is usually the Chief Financial Officer of the medical school. Only one individual may serve as the PBO representative to the GBA.
• Other Representative: Any staff member of an AAMC member medical school who has significant responsibilities involving medical school operations.

Benefits of Membership

If you regularly attend the GBA's professional development programs, you will not only gain new insights into your work but how to do it more skillfully. Starting with your first meeting you can develop a network of colleagues and peers who not only understand the challenges you confront daily in your position but who also are open and willing to share their own experiences coping with similar issues. In the GBA you can potentially forge friendships that will last throughout your career.

Resources for members include:

• Data Resources
• Networking Opportunities
• Professional Development Opportunities
• AAMC Resources, including access to GBA Listservs

History

Download a copy of the GBA History Book (PDF).

GBA Listserv

To send a listserv message, please send your posting to the appropriate address:

• GBA listserv: gba@lists.aamc.org
• PBO listserv: pbo@lists.aamc.org
• GBA-Human Resources Interest Group listserv: gbahr@lists.aamc.org
• Department Administrator Interest Group listserv: gbada@lists.aamc.org
   

Please follow these important guidelines:

• Include your name and email address in the body of each email message you send.
• Identify the specific topic of your message in the subject line of your email.
• Be aware that when you use the "reply" function to a listserv message, your response goes to all listserv subscribers. If you wish to respond privately to an individual, do not hit the "reply" button; instead, send a message using that individual's direct email address.
   

Only messages from the email account by which you subscribed to the list will be accepted by the system. If you receive an automated bounce back to a message you sent from the same account to which listserv messages are sent, please forward the error message to gba@aamc.org.

Listserv Guidelines

All GBA listservs are moderated. This means that all messages will be reviewed by the listserv manager before posting. This is intended to minimize redundant requests for information and to avoid overwhelming the system with messages that result from automatic response functions such as out-of-office alerts.

AAMC policy prohibits the use of listservs to advertise job openings; however, position announcements that appear on the AAMC's CareerConnect may be distributed to an appropriate audience via listservs.

Listserv Archives

To access the listserv archives, please see links below: 

• GBA listserv archives 
• PBO listserv archives
• GBA-Human Resources Interest Group listserv archives
• Department Administrator Interest Group listserv archive

• GBA Moderated Call: Brief Presentations on Tools for Tracking cFTE
• Community Conversation - Human Resources as a Critical Element of Institutional Strategy
• FY 2022 AAMC Faculty Salary Report Overview
• GBA/GIP Virtual Programming: The Hub
• Unconscious Bias in Academic Medicine

• GBA Webinar: Developing Home-Grown Portals to Improve Efficiencies

• Remote, Hybrid, and Return to the Office

• GBA & GWIMS Joint Webinar: Closing the Gender Pay Gap in Medicine

• GBA Workshop, Part 2: Understanding Allyship and Responding to Microaggressions through Bystander Intervention

• Updates on the 340B Program

• An Update on Physician Compensation Methodologies in Academic Medical Centers

• Real-World Uses of the AAMC Faculty Salary Survey

• 2020 GBA/GIP Virtual Programming
• GBA Workshop, Part 1: Understanding Allyship and Responding to Microaggressions through Bystander Intervention
• Understanding the Impact of COVID-19 on Physician Compensation
• Virtual Programming Webinar on Faculty Office Space
• Student Debt Strategies Webinar
• Succession Planning Webinar
• Communication Around Compensation Plans Webinar
• Lessons Learned at Dartmouth Through an Institutional Reorganization Webinar
• Getting the Most From Your AAMC Data
• Creating a New Health System Through Integration: the Nebraska Medicine Story
• Reimagining the Hospital/Health System and Medical School Relationship
• The Academic RVU: Ten Years Developing a Metric for and Financially Incenting Academic Productivity at Oregon Health & Science University
• Addressing the Cost and Process of Implementing Medical Education Innovations
• Managing the Transition from Fee-For-Service to Population Health Management
• Financing the Academic Mission: How Medical Schools Work
• GBA Annual Membership/Business Meeting

• Supporting Wellness Initiatives in Health Care and Recommendations for Promoting a Culture of Well-Being

• Leveraging the Operations Management Tool (OMT) for Business Decisions and Assessing Financial and Operations Health

• FACTS TABLES
• US Medical School Faculty Data (Faculty Roster)
• AAMC Faculty Salary Report
• AAMC Report on the Compensation of the Dean’s Office Staff
• US Medical School Revenues Tables and Graphs
• Organizational Characteristics Database (OCD)
• Medical School Profile System (MSPS)
• Operations Management Survey and Tool (Accessible in the Metrics tab in the Medical School Profile System for participating schools)
• Department and Division Administrator Compensation Data (Accessible in the Compensation tab in the Medical School Profile System for participating schools)

Award Criteria

GBA Emeritus Status

GBA Service With Distinction Status

GBA Honorary Member Status

Approved January 2017

The Group on Business Affairs offers numerous opportunities for members to collaborate and participate in group decisions and governance.

Official governance and administration information for members of the Group on Business Affairs.