The AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) has announced its 2022-2023 Board of Directors. The incoming board’s term begins Nov. 15 and will end at the conclusion of Learn Serve Lead: The AAMC Annual Meeting in November 2023.
LouAnn Woodward, MD, vice chancellor for health affairs at the University of Mississippi Medical Center and dean of the University of Mississippi Medical Center School of Medicine, has been elected to serve as chair of the AAMC Board of Directors. She will succeed Kirk A. Calhoun, MD, president of the University of Texas (UT) at Tyler, who will become immediate past chair. Leon “Lee” Jones, MD, dean for medical education and professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University School of Medicine, has been named chair-elect and will succeed Woodward next year.
Woodward assumed her current dual role as vice chancellor for health affairs and dean of the school of medicine at UMMC in 2015. In 2013, she was appointed as a member of the Liaison Committee for Medical Education, the accrediting body for all medical schools in the United States and Canada, which is co-sponsored by the AAMC and the American Medical Association. She became chair of the committee in July 2017. A native of Mississippi’s Carroll County, Woodward graduated from Mississippi State University in Starkville, Miss., and completed medical school and a residency in emergency medicine at UMMC. She later joined the faculty in the Department of Emergency Medicine, where she currently holds the rank of tenured professor.
Jones became dean for medical education at Georgetown University School of Medicine in 2021. Prior to joining Georgetown University, he served as associate dean for students and health sciences clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California (UC) San Francisco School of Medicine. Jones received his medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and completed his residency at UCLA's Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. Following residency, he completed a consultation-liaison fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, and a research fellowship at UC San Diego. Jones previously served as chair of the AAMC Group on Student Affairs.
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 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 a teaching hospital.
The members of the 2022-2023 AAMC Board of Directors are:
Chair:
LouAnn Woodward, MD
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Chair-elect:
Lee Jones, MD
Georgetown University
Immediate Past Chair:
Kirk A. Calhoun, MD
The University of Texas at Tyler
President and CEO:
David J. Skorton, MD
AAMC
Nita Ahuja, MD, MBA
Yale University
Robert A. Barish, MD, MBA
University of Illinois Chicago
Catherine L. Coe, MD
University of North Carolina
Henri R. Ford, MD, MHA
University of Miami
Julie A. Freischlag, MD
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist
Martha E. Gaines, JD, LLM
University of Wisconsin
Aviad Haramati, PhD
Georgetown University
Jennifer Hayashi
Tulane University
Danny Jacobs, MD, MPH
Oregon Health & Science University
Cara V. James, PhD
Grantmakers In Health
Charles P. Mouton, MD, MS, MBA
The University of Texas Medical Branch
Dennis Murphy, MHA
Indiana University Health
Joan Y. Reede, MD, MS, MPH, MBA
Harvard University
Adam C. Thompson-Harvey, MD
Medical College of Wisconsin
Michael Waldrum, MD, MSc, MBA
ECU Health