The AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) has announced its 2023-2024 Board of Directors. The incoming board’s term begins Nov. 7 and will end at the conclusion of Learn Serve Lead: The AAMC Annual Meeting in November 2024.
Lee Jones, MD, dean for medical education and professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University School of Medicine, has been elected to serve as chair of the AAMC Board of Directors. He will succeed 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, who will become immediate past chair. Julie A. Freischlag, MD, chief academic officer and executive vice president of Advocate Health, chief executive officer of Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, and executive vice president for health affairs of Wake Forest University, has been named chair-elect and will succeed Jones next year.
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.
Freischlag is the chief academic officer and executive vice president of Advocate Health, chief executive 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. Freischlag is a past president of the American College of Surgeons, was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2015, and was inducted into the Academy of Master Surgeon Educators in 2021. She is also a practicing vascular surgeon specializing in the treatment of thoracic outlet syndrome.
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 2023-2024 AAMC Board of Directors are:
Chair:
Lee Jones, MD
Georgetown University
Chair-elect:
Julie A. Freischlag, MD
Advocate Health
Immediate Past Chair:
LouAnn Woodward, MD
University of Mississippi Medical Center
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
Arthur R. Derse, MD, JD
Medical College of Wisconsin
Henri R. Ford, MD, MHA
University of Miami
Martha E. Gaines, JD, LLM
University of Wisconsin
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
Aditya Narayan
Stanford University
Joan Y. Reede, MD, MS, MPH, MBA
Harvard University
Adam C. Thompson-Harvey, MD
University of Virginia
Marc M. Triola, MD
NYU
Michael Waldrum, MD, MSc, MBA
ECU Health