Steering Committee
The Steering Committee manages the affairs of the Section and approves all committee appointments.
Chair
Talia Swartz, MD, PhD
Director, Medical Scientist Training Program
Senior Associate Dean for MD-PhD Education
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Members-at-Large
Justin T. Baca, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
Director, MD-PhD Program
University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center
Neil C. Chi MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine/Cardiology
Assistant Dean of Physician Scientist Education
Co-Director UCSD MD-PhD Medical Scientist Training Program
University of California, San Diego
Marshall S. Horwitz, MD, PhD
Associate Dean, Physician-Scientist Education
Director, Medical Scientist Training Program
Professor, Department of Pathology (Adjunct, Medical Genetics and Genome Studies)
University of Washington School of Medicine
Tiffani Quan, PhD
MSTP Program Manager
University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
Mary-Claire Roghmann, MD, MS
Director, Medical Scientist Training Program
Professor, Epidemiology and Public Health
Associate Dean for Physician-Scientist Training
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Randy Seay, MA, MPA, MPH
Associate Director of Physician Scientist Development
University of Alabama at Birmingham Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine
Christopher Williams, MD, PhD
Associate Dean, Physician-Scientist Education
Director, Medical Scientist Training Program
Associate Director of the Harrison Society
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Communications Committee
The Communications Committee is charged with identifying tools and developing an inventory of resources to assist MD-PhD program directors and administrators. In addition, the committee will recommend appropriate avenues to increase the visibility of MD-PhD programs and propose to the group Steering Committee a communications plan that is based on the existing MD-PhD Section website, as well as other methods of information dissemination.
Chair
Megan Williams, PhD
Assistant Director, Medical Scientist Training Program
Instructor, Pharmacology
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Vice-Chair
Linda Varvel
Administrative Director, Medical Scientist Training Program
University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine
Members-at-Large
Joseph T. Barbieri, PhD
Director, Medical Scientist Training Program
Medical College of Wisconsin
Catharine Boothroyd, PhD
Executive Director, Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program
Weill Cornell Medicine
Santos I. Cayetano, MS
Director, MSTP Administration
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Neil C. Chi, MD, PhD
Director, UCSD MD-PhD Medical Scientist Training Program
University of California, San Diego
Andrea Liu
Assistant Dean of Admissions
Assistant Director, Medical Scientist Training Program
Duke University School of Medicine
Cathy Quinones, PhD
Associate Director, Medical Scientist Training Program
Emory University School of Medicine
Nancy B. Schwartz, PhD
Associate Dean for Postdoctoral Affairs
Co-Director, Office of Graduate Affairs
Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
Director of the Kennedy Center
University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
Alison Smolinski, MA
Program Administrator, MD-PhD Program
Penn State College of Medicine
Talia Swartz, MD, PhD
Director, Medical Scientist Training Program
Senior Associate Dean for MD-PhD Education
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Bianca Taylor, MSEd
MD-PhD Administrative Director
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Susanne Tranguch, MBA, PhD
Associate Dean, Research Training & Communications
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Jason Wertheim, MD, PhD, FACS
Vice Dean for Research and Graduate Studies
Professor of Surgery (Transplantation)
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson
Elias (Eli) Wisdom
MD-PhD Student
Oregon Health & Science University
American Physician Scientist Association Liaison
Ali Zarrinpar, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
University of Florida College of Medicine