The AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) has announced its 2024-25 Board of Directors. The incoming board’s term begins Nov. 12, 2024, and will end at the conclusion of Learn Serve Lead: The AAMC Annual Meeting in November 2025.
Julie A. Freischlag, MD, chief academic officer and executive vice president of Advocate Health, chief academic officer of Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, and executive vice president for health affairs of Wake Forest University, has been elected to serve as chair of the AAMC Board of Directors. She will succeed Lee Jones, MD, dean for medical education and professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University School of Medicine, who will become immediate past chair. Michael Waldrum, MD, MSc, MBA, chief executive officer of ECU Health and dean of the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, has been named chair-elect and will succeed Freischlag next year.
Freischlag is the chief academic officer and executive vice president of Advocate Health, chief academic officer of Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, and executive vice president for health affairs of Wake Forest University. She is the immediate past dean of Wake Forest University School of Medicine and previously served as vice chancellor for Human Health Sciences and dean of the School of Medicine at UC Davis. Freischlag received her medical degree from Rush Medical College and completed her residency at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. She is a past president of the American College of Surgeons, was elected to the National Academic of Medicine in 2015, and inducted into the Academy of Master Surgeon Educators in 2021. Freischlag is a practicing vascular surgeon specializing in the treatment of thoracic outlet syndrome.
Waldrum was named chief executive officer of ECU Health in 2015 and named dean of the Brody School of Medicine in 2021. He previously served as president and CEO of The University of Arizona Health Network and as CEO of the University of Alabama Hospital at Birmingham. Waldrum is a specialist in critical care medicine and pulmonology and is trained in internal medicine. He received his medical degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine and completed his residency at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. Waldrum served as chair of the AAMC’s Council of Teaching Hospitals and Health Systems from 2022 to 2024.
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 (which will become the Council of Academic Health System Executives on July 1, 2024), and Council of Faculty and Academic Societies. The board also has nine at-large members, including a medical student, a resident physician, a junior faculty member, and two “public” members not affiliated with the AAMC, a medical school, or an academic health system.
The members of the 2024-25 AAMC Board of Directors are:
Chair:
Julie A. Freischlag, MD
Advocate Health
Chair-elect:
Michael Waldrum, MD, MSc, MBA
ECU Health
Immediate Past Chair:
Lee Jones, MD
Georgetown University
President and CEO:
David J. Skorton, MD
AAMC
Nita Ahuja, MD, MBA
Yale University
Robert A. Barish, MD, MBA
University of Illinois Chicago
Allison Brashear, MD, MBA
University at Buffalo
Catherine L. Coe, MD
University of North Carolina
Arthur R. Derse, MD, JD
Medical College of Wisconsin
Martha E. Gaines, JD, LLM
University of Wisconsin
Michael L. Good, MD
University of Utah
Cara V. James, PhD
Grantmakers In Health
Edward Jimenez, MBA
University Hospital
Charles P. Mouton, MD, MS, MBA
The University of Texas Medical Branch
Dennis Murphy, MHA
Indiana University Health
Aditya Narayan
Stanford University
Joan Y. Reede, MD, MS, MPH, MBA
Harvard University
Johnothan Smileye, Jr., MD
University of Pennsylvania
Marc M. Triola, MD
NYU