GFA Communications and Research & Scholarship Committees

Communications Committee 

This committee shall be responsible for disseminating information and news among members of the GFA and to the AAMC. The Communications Committee will be chaired by the Chair-elect.

Chair 

Lisa Cain, PhD
Adjunct Professor, Neurobiology and Anatomy, McGovern Medical School
Professor, Diagnostic and Biomedical Sciences, School of Dentistry
Associate Dean for Professional Development and Faculty Affairs, School of Dentistry
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Members 

Erika T. Brown, PhD 
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Development
SACSCOC Liaison
Associate Professor, Pathology and Anatomy
Morehouse School of Medicine

Jennifer Hagen, MD 
Associate Dean, Faculty Development
Professor
University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine

Leigh A. Patterson, MD, MAEd 
Interim Associate Dean for Faculty Development
Associate Professor
The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University

Morgan Resnick-Kahle, MAEd
Assistant Director, Faculty Affairs and Leadership Development
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine

Susan L. Rosenthal, PhD, ABPP
Professor of Medical Psychology
Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

Jessica Schonberg Womack
Program Director, Faculty Development
Duke University School of Medicine

Research & Scholarship Committee

This committee is responsible for promoting faculty affairs and faculty development research and scholarship.

Chair

Kimberly A. Skarupski, PhD, MPH
Associate Dean for Faculty Development, Office of Faculty Development, School of Medicine
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins University

Members

Beatrice A. Boateng, PhD
Assistant Dean, Faculty Assessment and Evaluation, College of Medicine
Professor, Department Pediatrics
Director of Evaluation, UAMS Translational Research Institute (TRI)
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine

Troy Buer, PhD, MS
Director of Faculty Development & Special Projects
University of Virginia School of Medicine

Leonie Gordon, MD
Associate Dean for GME/Faculty Development
Medical University of South Carolina College of Medicine

Diana Gray, MD
Associate Dean, Faculty Affairs
Washington University School of Medicine

Michele Kutzler, PhD
Assistant Dean for Faculty Development
Associate Professor of Medicine 
Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Drexel University College of Medicine

Clara Lapiner, MPH
Director of Faculty Professional Development and Manager of Academic Affairs
Columbia University Vagelos College