The AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) has announced its new board of directors. The board’s term will run through the conclusion of Learn Serve Lead: The AAMC Annual Meeting in November 2020.
Joseph E. Kerschner, MD, dean, Medical College of Wisconsin School of Medicine, and executive vice president and provost, Medical College of Wisconsin, is the new chair of the AAMC Board of Directors. He succeeds Lilly Marks, vice president for health affairs for the University of Colorado (CU) Anschutz Medical Campus. J. Larry Jameson, MD, PhD, executive vice president of the University of Pennsylvania for the Health System and dean of the Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine, has been named chair-elect and will succeed Kerschner next year.
Kerschner became the dean of the school of medicine and executive vice president of the Medical College of Wisconsin in November 2011 following 10 months as interim dean. He assumed the additional role of provost in 2017, and also serves as professor in the departments of otolaryngology and communication sciences and microbiology and immunology. In addition to his administrative roles, Kerschner maintains an active research laboratory focused the causes of and potential new treatments for ear infections. He previously served as chair of the AAMC Council of Deans. Kerschner maintains an active membership on numerous professional and honorary societies, is past president of the American Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology, and immediate past president of the International Society for Otitis Media.
Jameson became executive vice president of the University of Pennsylvania for the Health System and dean of the Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine in July 2011. Together, the two entities make up Penn Medicine. Jameson also serves as the Robert G. Dunlop Professor of Medicine. Prior to being named chair-elect of the AAMC Board of Directors, Jameson served as chair of the AAMC Council of Deans. A prolific physician-scientist, Jameson’s research has focused on the genetic basis of hormonal disorders. He is an elected member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine.
In addition to the chair and chair-elect, the AAMC Board of Directors includes the AAMC president and CEO, immediate past chair, and chairs and chairs-elect from the association’s three member councils: Council of Deans, Council of Teaching Hospitals and Health Systems, and Council of Faculty and Academic Societies. The board also has seven at-large members, including a medical student, a resident physician, and one “public” member not affiliated with the AAMC, a medical school, or a teaching hospital.
A list of the 2019–2020 AAMC Board of Directors follows:
Chair:
Joseph E. Kerschner, MD
Medical College of Wisconsin
Chair-elect:
J. Larry Jameson, MD, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
Immediate Past Chair:
Lilly Marks
University of Colorado
President and CEO:
David J. Skorton, MD
Association of American Medical Colleges
Members:
Peter F. Buckley, MD
Virginia Commonwealth University
Kirk A. Calhoun, MD
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler
Aviad Haramati, PhD
Georgetown University
Daniel A. Hashimoto, MD, MS
Massachusetts General Hospital
Danny Jacobs, MD, MPH
Oregon Health & Science University
Beverley H. Johnson
Institute for Patient- and Family-Centered Care
Lee D. Jones, MD
University of California, San Francisco
Alicia D. H. Monroe, MD
Baylor College of Medicine
Gabriela K. Popescu, PhD, MS
University at Buffalo
Elizabeth L. Travis, PhD, MEd
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Kate Walsh, MPH
Boston Medical Center
Marie C. Walters, PhD, MS
Wright State University
LouAnn Woodward, MD
University of Mississippi Medical Center
The Association of American Medical Colleges is a not-for-profit association dedicated to transforming health care through innovative medical education, cutting-edge patient care, and groundbreaking medical research. Its members are all 154 accredited U.S. and 17 accredited Canadian medical schools; nearly 400 major teaching hospitals and health systems, including 51 Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers; and more than 80 academic societies. Through these institutions and organizations, the AAMC serves the leaders of America’s medical schools and teaching hospitals and their more than 173,000 full-time faculty members, 89,000 medical students, 129,000 resident physicians, and more than 60,000 graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in the biomedical sciences.