Finance and Business Affairs Group Membership & Benefits

The Finance and Business Affairs Group is comprised of communities, standing committees, and ad hoc work groups to encourage networking among colleagues in similar roles or with similar interests. Participation in the Finance and Business Affairs Group is open to anyone within an AAMC-member institution that has an interest and responsibilities in finance and business affairs. When joining the Finance and Business Affairs Group, you have the option to also participate in the Health System Finance and Department Administrator Communities and the Data-Driven Academic Medical Centers Standing Committee. You can join either of these communities at any time. The Principal Business Officer Community is limited to one member per medical school and must be appointed by the medical school dean.

Principal Business Officer (PBO) Community: Serves as a community for PBOs and focuses on issues that impact the sustainability of medical schools. PBOs are dean-designated and are the senior finance and administrative leader at each AAMC-member medical school. Participation is limited to one member per medical school.

Health System Finance (HSF) Community: This community welcomes senior officers of academic health centers responsible for the center's financial and business affairs, and anyone from the Finance and Business Affairs Group can join. Community participants oversee business operations of their respective academic health centers. Community participants also include individual business managers within health systems.

Department Administrator Community: The Department Administrator Community is open to any department administrator (e.g., basic, clinical, center) or others who have an interest in departmental issues.

To become a member of the Finance and Business Affairs Group, please fill out this enrollment form.

Department Administrator Advisory Standing Committee: The Department Administrator Advisory Standing Committee leads the programming and direction of the administrator community. Committee members are appointed on July 1.

Data and Benchmarking Standing Committee: Focuses on providing input to the AAMC around data collection and information distribution related to overall medical school finance, administration, and compensation; conducts short and timely surveys to collect information on specific topics related to medical school finances; and hosts topical calls related to recent surveys and data. Committee members are appointed on July 1.

Data-Driven Academic Medical Centers (DDAMC) Standing Committee: The DDAMC seeks to provide a forum for ideas and discussion around creating and continuously improving data-driven decision-making across the academic medicine community by sharing knowledge and enabling academic medical centers to leverage new and existing data to inform the decisions across their missions, strategic initiatives, and daily operations. You may join this committee at any time.

Mentorship Circle Ad Hoc Committee: This committee is tasked with shaping the experience of mentees and mentors participating in the Mentorship Circle Program including reviewing applications, matching mentors with mentees, providing training and guidance to mentors and leading Mentorship Circle Program engagements during the Finance and Business Affairs Group spring conference.

Spring Conference Planning Ad Hoc Committee: This committee is charged with shaping the programming for the AAMC Business Affairs, Planning, and Operations Conference, held annually each spring.