Graduate Medical Education Group Leadership

The AAMC will invite self-nominations for the Graduate Medical Education Group Steering Committee annually. The Steering Committee provides leadership for the group and, in collaboration with the AAMC affinity group staff lead, helps shape the group’s strategic priorities and annual professional development opportunities.

All Graduate Medical Education Group members are encouraged to apply for any appropriate Steering Committee seat that aligns with their role, interest, and expertise. Early in the calendar year, all group members will receive notification of the open Steering Committee positions. Steering Committee members serve a two-year term, staggered among the six members-at-large, with an option to serve a second term if approved by the Nominations Committee.

The Steering Committee is comprised of:

• One chair (one-year term).
• One chair-elect (one-year term).
• One immediate past chair (one-year term).
• Six members-at-large with the following roles:
  • Graduate Medical Education Group Award Committee chair.
  • Institutional GME Leadership Competencies Committee chair.
  • Member Engagement and Communication Committee chair.
  • Nonphysician Education Administrator Community lead.
  • Survey and Data Benchmarking Committee Chair.
  • Member-at-large.

The Steering Committee shall also have one liaison from the Council of Deans and one liaison from the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Academic Affiliations.

Chair
Steven Angus, MD
Vice Chair for Education
Designated Institutional Official
University of Connecticut School of Medicine

Chair-elect
Glenn Ault, MD, MSEd, FACS, FASCRS
Professor of Surgery
Designated Institutional Official
Senior Associate Dean of GME
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California

Past Chair
Michelle Thompson, MD
Chief Education Officer
Vice Dean of GME
Designated Institutional Official
Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine

Members-at-Large
Gregory S. Cherr, MD
Professor of Surgery
Designated Institutional Official
Senior Associate Dean of GME
Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo

Yvonne Diaz, MD
Associate Dean of GME
University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
Designated Institutional Official
University of Miami/Jackson Health System

Jacqueline E. Levesque, AEd
Associate Dean for GME and Faculty Affairs
The University of Houston Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine

Dotun Ogunyemi, MD
Associate Dean for GME
Designated Institutional Official
Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science College of Medicine

Agatha Parks-Savage, EdD, RN, LPC
Associate Dean of GME
Associate Designated Institutional Official
Eastern Virginia Medical School at Old Dominion University

David Sengstock, MD, MS
Associate Designated Institutional Official
Corewell Health East

VA Liaison Representative
Ryan Scilla, MD, MS-HPE, FACP
Director of Medical and Dental Education
Office of Academic Affiliation
Veterans Health Administration

GME Leadership Advisory Committee
Woodson “Scott” Jones, MD
Vice Dean for GME
Designated Institutional Official
UT Health San Antonio

Council of Deans
Christopher F. Carpenter, MD, MHSA, FACP, FIDSA
Stephan Sharf Dean
Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine