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Section Governing Council 2008-2009
The Governing Council serves as the direct communication link between the AMA and the Section representatives. Governing Council members are nominated by the ad hoc elections committee and elected by the Section representatives attending the Annual Meeting in June.
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Chair M. Dewayne Andrews, MD Executive Dean and Vice President for Health Affairs University of Oklahoma College of Medicine 940 Stanton L. Young Blvd, Room 357 PO Box 26901 Oklahoma City, OK 73126 dewayne-andrews@ouhsc.edu |
| Dr. Dewayne Andrews is Vice President for Health Affairs and Executive Dean of the College of Medicine at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. He is David Ross Boyd Professor of Medicine and also holds the Lawrence N. Upjohn Chair in Medicine. Dr. Andrews has overall responsibility for the educational, research and clinical enterprises of the College of Medicine , including OU Physicians, and he has oversight of both the Oklahoma City and Tulsa campuses of the College of Medicine . He was appointed to this position in July 2002. Dr. Andrews received a B.S. degree from Baylor University in 1966 and earned his M.D. from the University of Oklahoma in 1970. His residency and fellowship training in internal medicine were at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. He served for two years as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer with the Centers for Disease Control of the U.S. Public Health Service. He is board certified in internal medicine. His past research interests include hepatorenal syndrome, hypertension, and career choice decision factors in medical students. He has extensive experience in undergraduate medical curriculum development, graduate medical education, and in administration in medical school and hospital organizational structures. Dr. Andrews has received several distinguished awards for excellence in teaching medicine. He has been a member of the Board of Governors of the American College of Physicians, and he is a past chairman of the National Commission on the Certification of Physician Assistants. In 2004, in recognition of outstanding contributions throughout his career, the American College of Physicians awarded Dr. Andrews the high honor of designation as a “Master” of the American College of Physicians. | |
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Chair-Elect Betty M. Drees, MD Dean University of Missouri- Kansas City School of Medicine 2411 Holmes Street Kansas City, MO 64108-2792 dreesb@umkc.edu |
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Betty M. Drees, MD, FACP is currently dean at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine. She received her medical degree at the University of Kansas in 1984, and trained in internal medicine and endocrinology at the University of Kansas. After completing training, she joined the faculty of the University of Kansas School of Medicine and was an Associate Investigator in the Veterans Administration Career Development Program at the Kansas City VA Medical Center. Her research interest was in calcium metabolism and parathyroid function. At the VA, she served as the Program Director for Specialty Care Medicine at the Kansas City Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri. In 1995, she served on the national VA Data Capture Evaluation Study Advisory Group. In 1998, Dr. Drees was appointed as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. In 2003, she was appointed as dean, after serving for two years as the interim dean. She continues to serve as a Professor of Medicine in the Section of Endocrinology. She was a fellow in the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) program in 2001. She is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha. |
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| Dr. Parry received his medical degree from the University of Wisconsin Madison in 1969 and completed his residency training in internal medicine and pulmonary medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester MN. He is a Diplomat of the American Board of Internal Medicine in both internal medicine and pulmonary medicine. He served in the U.S. Army as a Major. He joined the University of South Dakota School of Medicine as the section head of pulmonary medicine in 1976. He is currently the Executive Dean of the School of Medicine and Professor of internal medicine. His medical interest areas are asthma, cystic fibrosis, and lung disease related to agriculture. He has served as the director of the South Dakota Cystic Fibrosis Center since 1986. Dr. Parry has held numerous offices in the Seventh District Medical Society and the South Dakota State Medical Association including state president. He has been actively involved with the South Dakota Student Section of the AMA which has 100% membership through voluntary physician sponsorship. Dr. Parry has been active in the Association of American Medical Colleges, pulmonary specialty organizations, volunteer organizations and the American Medical Association. | |
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Delegate |
| Dr. Reichgott is Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs and Graduate Medical Education at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY. A 1965 graduate of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, he completed residency in Internal Medicine, fellowship in Clinical Pharmacology, and received his PhD in Pharmacology, all at the University of California, San Francisco. He joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania in 1972. There he was member of the Section on General Internal Medicine, was involved in research on anti-hypertensive agents. In 1980, Dr. Reichgott was appointed Associate Chief of Staff for Ambulatory Care at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center; he also served as Chief of General Internal Medicine at that hospital. He returned to Einstein in 1984, as Medical Director of the Bronx Municipal Hospital Center. In 1989, he became Associate Dean for Students and the College’s first Associate Dean for GME. In that dual capacity, he was responsible for managing the College’s clinical education programs at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. In August 1999, Dr. Reichgott shifted his emphasis from the students to working with Einstein’s broad network of affiliated institutions and clinical departments. He continues to oversee the College’s role as Institutional Sponsor for its residency programs. Dr. Reichgott was a founding member of the Section on Resident Education of the Association of American Medical Colleges and served for many years on the steering committee of the Group on Resident Affairs. He was liaison to the steering committee of the Group on Educational Affairs and was the organizing Chair of the new GEA Section on Graduate Medical Education. He served as the AAMC representative on the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education’s Institutional Review Committee and was recently appointed to the Standing Appeals Panel. He is a past Chair of the Governing Council of the American Medical Association’s Section on Medical Schools, and is an AMA appointee to the Liaison Committee on Medical Education. |
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Alternate Delegate Donald G. Eckhoff, MD Professor of Orthopedics University of Colorado School of Medicine 1635 North Ursula Street Mail Stop F722, PO Box 6510 Aurora, CO 80045 donald.eckhoff@uchsc.edu |
| Donald G. Eckhoff, MD is Professor of Orthopaedics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine (UCSM). He received his medical degree from the University of Minnesota Medical School in Minneapolis, did his internship at St. Luke’s Hospital in Denver and completed his residency training at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. Dr. Eckhoff is board certified in orthopaedic surgery and has served on numerous faculty committees as well as leadership positions including: the Denver Medical Society as President; Colorado Medical Society as a member of its Board of Directors; and American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons as a Task Force member. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. Prior to his appointment as Professor of Orthopaedics at UCSM, he was Medical Director of the Department of Orthopaedics at University Hospital in Aurora, Colorado. He has held affiliate faculty appointments at the College of Veterinary Medicine and School of Mechanical Engineering at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. He has published extensively in major medical journals and has been a guest lecturer locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally. Dr. Eckhoff currently practices in the Department of Orthpaedics at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. | |
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Member-at-Large |
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Dr. Ling is the Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education at the University of Minnesota Medical School as well as Associate Medical Director for Medical Education at Hennepin County Medical Center, both in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is a graduate of the University of Minnesota Medical School and did his residency in emergency medicine at the University of Chicago. He spent one year on the faculty at the University of Illinois before returning to the University of Minnesota. He has practiced emergency medicine for over 20 years at Hennepin County Medical Center and at times has been responsible for the training programs in emergency medicine and the transitional year. As one of the first board certified medical toxicologists in the country, he was the Medical Director of the Hennepin Regional Poison Center for 18 years. Dr. Ling has published in medical toxicology and is a co-editor of the three-volume standard textbook: Rosen’s Emergency Medicine as well as three textbooks in medical toxicology. He has served in many organizations, and has been chair of the Academic Affairs Committee of the American College of Emergency Physicians. While President of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, he started the journal Academic Emergency Medicine. He is Past-president of the American Board of Emergency Medicine, a past delegate to the American Board of Medical Specialties, Past-chair of the Residency Review Committee in Emergency Medicine, was a member of the original Institutional Review Committee of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and Past-chair of the Certification Committee of the American Association of Poison Control Centers. He currently serves on the Robert Wood Johnson Faculty Scholars National Advisory Committee. |
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Dr. Ross is Vice President for Medical Affairs at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science & Dean of the Chicago Medical School. He graduated with honors from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He is an Alpha Omega Alpha graduate of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine following which he entered the residency in General & Thoracic Surgery at Duke University Medical Center. While in the Surgery Training Program at Duke he spent two years as a research fellow which included a post doctoral fellowship in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill. Following his eight years at Duke Dr. Ross entered the Pediatric Surgical Fellowship Training Program at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia where he spent two clinical years followed by a third year as the Glenmede Research Fellow in Pediatric Surgery. Upon completion of his training he joined the faculty in the Department of Surgery at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia/University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. At the time of his relocation from Philadelphia to Wisconsin in 1993, he had become an Associate Professor of Surgery and Director of the Pediatric Surgical Research Laboratory. In Wisconsin, Dr. Ross was responsible for the design, development and implementation of the Western Clinical Campus of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine. Located in La Crosse, he served as the Campus’s inaugural Associate Dean as well as Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics at UW Medical School. Concurrently, he served as the Chief Academic Officer for the Gundersen Lutheran Health System, the Director of Medical Education for the Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation and he continued to practice Pediatric Surgery. In June 2004, Dr. Ross assumed the Deanship at the Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University. He also serves as a Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics (with tenure) at the School. In 2005 Dr. Ross was named Vice President for Medical Affairs at the University. Dr. Ross has been certified (and recertified) by the American Board of Surgery in both General Surgery and Pediatric Surgery. He is a Fellow the American College of Surgeons and the American Academy of Pediatrics. He is a member of a number of professional and scientific societies including the Council of Deans of the Association of American Medial Colleges, the American Pediatric Surgical Association, the Society of University Surgeons, and the American College of Physician Executives. He also has numerous state and national committee appointments. Dr. Ross is the author or co-author of almost 100 original articles and book chapters. |
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Member-at-Large Maria Savoia, MD Vice Dean for Medical Education University of California, San Diego School of Medicine 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093-0602 msavoia@ucsd.edu |
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Dr. Maria Savoia is currently Vice Dean for Medical Education and Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. Dr. Savoia received her MD degree from Harvard Medicine School and completed her residency training in internal medicine at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Medical Center with subsequent fellowship training in infectious diseases. Dr. Savoia began her career as the Assistant Chief of Medicine at the San Diego Veterans Affairs Medical Center, where she was in charge of the educational offerings of UCSD’s Department of Medicine. She proceeded to serve as Acting Chief of Medicine and Vice Chair of the Department of Medicine at UCSD until she joined the Dean’s Office as Associate Dean for Curriculum and Student Affairs in the School of Medicine in 1990. In 2004, she became Vice Dean for Medical Education, a position with programmatic responsibility for admissions, financial aid, diversity and community partnerships, student affairs, undergraduate, graduate and continuing medical education, and alumni relations. On a national level, Dr. Savoia has served as Chair of the Group on Student Affairs of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and was recently honored with their National Service Award. She has also served on advisory committees to the National Board of Medical Examiners and the National Resident Match Program (NRMP), and recently was appointed to the Board of Directors of the latter. She has consulted for a number of medical schools and organizations as well as participated, on numerous occasions, as a Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) site surveyor. |
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Section Liaison to the Council on Medical Education Kenneth B. Simons, MD Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Medical College of Wisconsin 8701 Watertown Plank Road PO Box 26509 Milwaukee, WI 53226-0509 Phone: (414) 456-8279 Fax: (414) 456-6506 ksimons@mail.mcw.edu |
| Dr. Simons received his medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine in 1980. He completed his residency training in ophthalmology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and a fellowship in ophthalmic pathology at the Jules Stein Eye Institute of the University of California – Los Angeles. Dr. Simons is currently professor and director of ophthalmic pathology in the department of ophthalmology and pathology as well as senior associate dean for academic affairs at the Wisconsin Medical College (WMC). Prior to coming to WMC, he held an academic appointment at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. He has authored many scientific publications in his primary discipline of ophthalmology. |
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