2014-2015 Annual Report Building Momentum

Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education

We improve health care

and population health by

assessing and advancing

the quality of resident

physicians’ education through

accreditiation.

We imagine a world

characterized by:

• a structured approach to

evaluating the competency

of all residents and fellows;

• motivated physician role

models leading all GME

programs;

• high-quality, supervised,

humanistic clinical

educational experience,

with customized formative

feedback;

• residents and fellows

ahieving specialty-speciﬁc

proﬁciency prior to

graduation; and

• residents and fellows

prepared to become

Virtuous Physicians who

place the needs and well-

being of patients ﬁrst.

• Honesty and Integrity

• Excellence and Innovation

• Accountability and

Transparency

• Fairness and Equity

• Stewardship and Service

• Engagement of

Stakeholders

• Foster innovation and

improvement in the

learning environment

• Increase the accreditation

emphasis on educational

outcomes

• Increase efﬁciency

and reduce burden in

accreditation

• Improve communication

and collaboration with key

external stakeholders

• Customer Focus

• Integrity/Ethics

• Results Focus

• Teamwork

VisionMission Values

Strategic

Priorities

Core Staff

Values

About the Accreditation Council

for Graduate Medical Education

and ACGME International

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)

is a private, non-proﬁt organization that reviews and accredits

graduate medical education (residency and fellowship) programs,

and the institutions that sponsor them, in the United States.

The ACGME was established in 1981 from a consensus in the

academic medical community for an independent accrediting

organization. Its mission is to improve health care and population

health by assessing and advancing the quality of resident physicians’

education through accreditation. Accreditation is achieved through

a peer-review process overseen by volunteer physicians making

up 30 Review Committees that annually evaluate the specialty and

subspecialty programs and Institutions in their respective disciplines

for adherence to established Common, Program, and Institutional

Requirements. One Recognition Committee, the Osteopathic

Principles Committee, confers Osteopathic Recognition upon

any ACGME-accredited program providing requisite training in

Osteopathic Principles and Practice.

The ACGME’s member organizations are the American Board of

Medical Specialties, American Hospital Association, American

Medical Association, Association of American Medical Colleges,

the Council of Medical Specialty Societies, the American

Osteopathic Association, and the American Association of

Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine.

ACGME International (ACGME-I), an LLC of the parent organization

ACGME, arose consequent to petitioning by governments and

institutions that the ACGME extend its accreditation model

internationally. It is funded through contracts with individual

ministries of health or institutions. The ACGME-I mission, though

similar to that of the ACGME, focuses on improving the quality of

health care speciﬁc to each individual country’s need.

Year In ReviewIntroduction Features

Statistics

& Financials Lists

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Message from the CEO

Message from the Chair

of the Board of Directors

Department of

Accreditation Services

Department of

Field Activities

Department of Education

Journal of Graduate

Medical Education

Council of Review

Committee Residents

Milestones Department

Reaches Early Milestones

in the Next Accreditation

System

Statistical Highlights

2015 ACGME Awards

Timeline: The Next

Accreditation System

ACGME International

Making an Impact

Board of Directors

Review/Recognition

Committees and Accredited

Specialties

ACGME Staff Listing

Record Setting Attendance

at the 2015 Annual

Educational Conference

2014 Financial Report

Clinical Learning Environment

Review Program

Council of Review

Committee Chairs

Review/Recognition

Committee Members

www.acgme.org | 2014-2015 ACGME Annual Report

2014-2015 ACGME Annual Report

Academic Year 2014-2015 was a

productive one for the ACGME,

and one in which projects

that spanned years came to

fruition. The fulllment of the

Outcome Project, rst outlined

in the Journal of the American

Medical Association in 1978,

manifested in successful

creation and implementation

of the Milestone Project. Every accredited specialty

and subspecialty now has articulated in behavioral

terms the key elements of the six domains of clinical

competency that should be evaluated in each

resident or fellow in the discipline, and has described

observable developmental steps, called Milestones,

in each key element. The momentum generated by

this effort is profound. For the rst time, across each

specialty, there is agreement about the core skills

and competencies that are important and shared

by all physicians in that discipline. Specialties now

have the opportunity to evaluate the effectiveness of

their educational effort at a national level, and tools

to introduce new “competencies” as their disciplines

evolve. Programs will be able to compare the progress

of their residents and fellows over time to national

cohorts in the same discipline.

Whether at the specialty society level, or the program

level, interest in excellence in educational outcomes

and effective evaluation has been energized. This

concentration on effective achievement of outcomes

in our graduates has re-invigorated the graduate

medical education (GME) effort in the United States,

and we hope to demonstrate the salutary benets of

this effort in the effectiveness of our graduates in their

service to the public.

The Next Accreditation System (NAS) was fully

instituted across all specialties in 2014-2015 with

the successful implementation across the Phase II

specialties. Extensive training and preparation of the

Review Committees was completed, and accreditation

decisions were rendered for all programs. The next

step in implementation and renement of the NAS

is to accelerate the accreditation process, moving

it earlier in the academic year, to permit earlier

dissemination of national data back to programs to

facilitate continuous quality improvement efforts.

The Clinical Learning Environment Review (CLER)

Program, envisioned in 2010 during the deliberations

of a national committee formed to advise the ACGME

on patient safety, completed its rst cycle of evaluation

of the principle training site of nearly 300 institutions

sponsoring residency and fellowship programs.

The ndings, now being compiled, will guide the

nation’s efforts toward enhancing the clinical learning

environment for GME. Our goals are enhancement

of the safety and quality of clinical care rendered

both today in the teaching environment, as well as

tomorrow in the future practice of our graduates,

and removal of health care disparities while ensuring

the modeling of professionalism and effacement of

self-interest among our faculty, staff members, and

graduates. The ACGME’s efforts in enhancement of

the clinical learning environment have been joined

by other organizations with similar goals. A national

alliance, the National Coalition for the Improvement

of the Clinical Learning Environment (N-CICLE), has

emerged, providing an opportunity for the efforts of

the ACGME to be multiplied, and positive changes

accelerated, through shared efforts.

A single accreditation system for all GME came

to fruition in 2014-2015. After more than 15 years

of intermittent discussion, and three years of

concentrated efforts in the latest round of negotiations,

the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) and the

American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic

Medicine (AACOM) joined the ACGME as Member

Organizations after a unanimous afrmative vote by

the ACGME’s ve allopathic Member Organizations

to approve the bylaws changes required to make

this a reality. For the rst time in nearly 125 years,

allopathic and osteopathic medicine have formally

come together to oversee the education of the

entire physician cohort being prepared to serve the

American Public.

As the backdrop to these important advances,

the ACGME Board of Directors approved a new

strategic plan for the organization. The result of a

two-year in-depth scenario planning process, the six

strategic directions and 15 strategies are designed to

prepare the ACGME to support and ensure that the

physicians of the future are well prepared, to uphold

the ACGME’s responsibilities as a Public Trust, and

to fulll our professional responsibility to prepare the

next generation of physicians to serve the American

Public.

These efforts and many others are outlined in the

pages of this report. The successes achieved are the

result of the more than 300 volunteer physicians and

members of the public who serve on the ACGME’s

31 Review/Recognition Committees and the Board

of Directors, the nearly 200 dedicated professionals

who make up the administration and staff of the

ACGME, and the more than 300 individuals from

the profession and beyond who participated in the

ACGME’s strategic planning process. The efforts of

these individuals are a microcosm of the efforts of

the more than 150,000 physician faculty members,

tens of thousands of nurses and other professionals,

administrators, and more than 120,000 residents

and fellows in ACGME-accredited programs who are

teaching, learning, and caring for the American Public

each and every day.

Respectfully submitted,

Thomas J. Nasca, MD, MACP

Chief Executive Ofcer

Message from the CEO

INTRODUCTION

2014-2015 ACGME Annual Report

The ACGME and graduate

medical education (GME)

as a whole have been on a

remarkable and accelerating

path of change. With the full

implementation of the Next

Accreditation System, the

promulgation and application

of the Milestones, the

development and roll-out of the Clinical Learning

Environment Review (CLER) Program, and the

critically important work of coming together with

the American Osteopathic Association (AOA)

and the Association of American Colleges of

Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM)—establishing

a single system of accreditation—the medical

profession and society’s expectations of it have

entered a time of great transition.

Even as we execute these changes within the GME

community, there is an array of corresponding

and at times confounding changes in the

greater environment that impacts us. Among

these changes are: Medicaid expansion; federal

scrutiny of GME funding; workforce shortages

across all domains; and growing demands

on our faculty. All of these have vast potential

consequences for residency and fellowship

programs and GME.

This is one of the most amazing times in human

and medical history. Fortunately for us, we have

the great privilege of witnessing and contributing

to the management of this incredible change.

Advances in the clinical applications of molecular

medicine alone promise to offer more therapies

and cures to disease and human suffering than

could have been imagined just two decades ago.

The progress of information systems and clinical

informatics increasingly enables the harvesting

of benets from decades of investment through

deployment of predictive medicine applications

while improving the safety of health care.

Greater transparency in the practice of medicine

and in medical education is a large part of this

evolution. The Milestones provide tangible

evidence of clinical competence in learners.

CLER forces evaluation of care and patient safety

while facilitating improvement and attention to

problem areas. We are changing the way we do

what we do, and in doing so, are helping doctors

become better doctors, while providing patients

with better care.

On the international stage we see tremendous

growth coupled with a desire and dedication to

the standards and principles of better outcomes,

greater patient safety, and improved care overall

no matter where we are on the globe. What this

says about the work and mission of the ACGME

and ACGME International, and about its stewards,

is nothing short of remarkable.

The momentous history-changing agreement

among the ACGME, AOA, and AACOM only

further conrms this is not just a moment in

history, but an evolution. We welcome our newest

members with open arms, and celebrate this

exciting development: the establishment of a

single accreditation system for all of GME.

The momentum from all of these efforts both

domestically and internationally is driving toward

a broad embrasure of the highest achievable

standards in medicine.

Graduates of accredited programs are the leaders

of tomorrow, and along with their interprofessional

teammates, will build systems that ensure the

care provided by attending physicians and

learners alike is safe, timely, effective, efcient,

equitable, and patient-centered. If we do this

and do this well, we will build a great future for

graduate medical education.

Mr. John Duval

Chair, Board of Directors

This is one of the

most amazing times in

human and medical history.

Message from the Chair of the Board of Directors

2014-2015 ACGME Annual Report

Institutional Accreditation in

Transition to the Next Accreditation System

The academic year and the transition to the Next

Accreditation System (NAS) for ACGME-accredited

Sponsoring Institutions began with implementation

of revised Institutional Requirements that became

effective on July1, 2014. The revision represented

an overall simplication and reorganization

of the previous version of the Requirements.

However, several new requirements—including

implementation of an Annual Institutional Review

of a Sponsoring Institution’s own performance

with regard to its educational mission; the

introduction of a Special Review process by the

Graduate Medical Education Committee (GMEC);

and an expectation for oversight of the programs’

Annual Program Evaluations—emphasize quality

improvement, a cornerstone of the NAS. A new

section focused on the Resident Learning and

Working Environment reects concern for how

residents and fellows are integrated into the setting

in which patient care is provided.

Until recently, institutional compliance for smaller

institutions with only one accredited specialty

program was assessed by the specialty-specic

Review Committee concurrent with the program

site visit. In the NAS, and with the maturation

of the institutional review process, the ACGME

Board delegated responsibility for all institutional

accreditation decisions to the Institutional Review

Committee (IRC).

In 2014-2015, the IRC approved 28 new Sponsoring

Institutions. It also conducted full reviews of

institutions which had received Initial Accreditation

under the prior accreditation system, and continued

to monitor some Sponsoring Institutions through

review of progress reports.

The IRC plans to begin NAS review of annual

institutional data in 2015-2016. The Committee

continues to work closely with ACGME leadership,

and with the Department of Data Analysis and

Applications in particular, to identify the data

elements it will review annually for all Sponsoring

Institutions. In 2015-2016, the IRC will collaborate

with the Department of Field Activities to develop

the process for the institutional self-study and the

10-year accreditation site visits that will begin in

approximately two years.

Reﬂections on Year One of the

Next Accreditation System

July 1, 2014 marked the dawn of the rst round

of accreditation decisions under the NAS for

Phase II specialties. A time of both excitement

and unease, anticipation of great success

was offset by concerns related to the greater

unknown, specically, the shift in the approach

from an episodic (1-5-year) to an annual program

accreditation review.

The rst set of annual accreditation data for Phase

II programs was summarized and reported to the

respective Review Committees in Fall 2014. The

outcome data included information corresponding

to the 2013-2014 academic year, Resident and

Faculty Survey results, Board pass rates, Case

Log data (as applicable), and scholarly activity. A

visualization software program was used by the

executive directors to compare the data against

decision rules the Review Committees developed

to guide the work of the NAS.

Under the previous accreditation model, Review

Committees focused equally on high functioning

programs and those deemed underperforming

(e.g., those with continued areas of non-

compliance in critical areas as identied by

the Review Committee). The new model allows

Review Committee staff to use Committee-

determined criteria to identify high functioning

programs for Continued Accreditation, thereby

allowing the Committees to focus attention on the

underperforming programs.

Department of Accreditation Services

YEAR IN REVIEW

In 2014-2015, the IRC approved

28 new Sponsoring Institutions

The 2014-2015 year was especially momentous for the Department of Accreditation Services (DAS). The Next Accreditation System was fully implemented

for all core specialties while department staff also prepared for review of new institutional and program as well as Osteopathic Recognition applications

as part of the historical transition to a single accreditation system for all graduate medical education (GME). The scope of some of these activities are

addressed in the following vignettes.

2014-2015 ACGME Annual Report

In the new system, the Committees review

programs by examining annual program data

submitted via the Accreditation Data System (ADS)

in comparison to the Program Requirements, and

by carefully evaluating responses to previous

citations.

In the rst round of reviews, a number of

programs received Continued Accreditation with

citations or areas for improvement (AFI). AFIs

are new in the NAS, and unlike citations, do not

require programs to provide a response in ADS.

The expectation is that AFIs will be monitored

locally (by the program director and GMEC) so

as to avoid future citations. Although AFIs do not

require a formal response, the Review Committee

is able to track them to determine if they have

been resolved.

Upon conclusion of the rst year of the NAS for

Phase II specialties, some Committee members

said they missed the days when they reviewed

high-functioning programs, identied best

practices, and provided commendations to their

peers. Overall, the benets of the NAS were

widely recognized and it was found to be an

efcient and effective system. Further, the Review

Committees’ initial unease was assuaged by their

ability to provide critical feedback to programs

earlier to assist them in achieving substantial

compliance with the Requirements.

Department Emphasizes Outreach and

Communication

Individuals in the DAS communicate daily with

the programs and institutions accredited by

the ACGME to answer questions and respond

to concerns. On a regular basis, they also

leave the ofce and go into the community to

provide educational opportunities for program

coordinators, program directors, and designated

institutional ofcials (DIOs). In 2014-2015, a time

of great change, the Review Committee Executive

Directors and the Senior Vice Presidents for the

DAS sections (Hospital-based, Institutional,

Medical, Osteopathic, and Surgical) participated

in meetings and workshops across the country

for coordinators in specic specialties, regional

coordinator groups such as GME Action,

program director meetings, program director

workshops, and various gatherings of DIOs. The

Executive Directors, often in conjunction with the

Review Committee Chairs, allot time during these

sessions for scheduled one-on-one meetings

with program representatives to answer specic

questions and concerns about their programs.

2014-2015 was particularly busy for DAS staff

because of the implementation of the NAS, as

well as the approaching transition to a single

accreditation system for all of GME. In addition to

making presentations to all of the groups noted

above representing currently accredited programs

and institutions, staff members were also meeting

with and educating osteopathic colleagues about

the ACGME and the accreditation processes. To

that end, presentations were made at the ACGME

Annual Educational Conference, the Osteopathic

Medical Education Conference, the combined

American Academy of Colleges of Osteopathic

Medicine/Association of Osteopathic Directors

and Medical Educators Conference, several

statewide osteopathic GME meetings, and for a

number of program director groups and specialty

college meetings. The Department also produced

more than 20 specialty-specic and general

webinars regarding the transition to a single GME

accreditation system.

Introducing a Unique Subspecialty to the

ACGME Accreditation Process

At the time Clinical Informatics was approved

as a new subspecialty for certication by the

American Board of Medical Specialties and

for accreditation by the ACGME in 2012, there

were over 30 programs afliated with medical

schools, and over 1400 self-identied physician

informaticians. The eld met the denition of

clinical “by providing clinical decision support

and information systems…” but was different

enough from other clinical programs that a new

paradigm was used to review the specialty.

After developing the Program Requirements,

soliciting feedback, and incorporating revisions,

the rst applications for new clinical informatics

programs were received for accreditation review

in 2014. These programs are reviewed by the

nine Review Committees representing the

specialties with the most practitioners today

(anesthesiology, diagnostic radiology, emergency

medicine, family medicine, internal medicine,

medical genetics, pathology, pediatrics, and

preventive medicine) and predicted to most likely

sponsor future programs. Review Committees

are familiar with many subspecialties and their

Program Requirements, but because of the

initial need to learn more about this area and

provide for a consistent background, an Advisory

Group was formed to pre-review programs.

The informaticians comprising this group’s

Overall, the beneﬁts of the NAS

were widely recognized and it

was found to be an efﬁcient and

effective system

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2014-2015 ACGME Annual Report

membership volunteered many hours to learn the

ACGME review process and develop a special

form to use in review of the informatics-specic

section of the application. The completed pre-

reviews were subsequently sent to the Review

Committees for full review. As the Review

Committees gain experience and familiarity with

clinical informatics, it is anticipated that the need

for pre-reviews will eventually decrease. Ten

programs were accredited in this rst year, with

more to follow as clinical informatics grows and

adds a new expertise to the scope of GME.

ACGME Osteopathic Accreditation Section in

Place

Osteopathic Accreditation is new for the

ACGME. This section of the DAS was developed

in association with the transition to a single

accreditation system for all GME. Since the

agreement among the ACGME, American

Osteopathic Association (AOA), and American

Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine

(AACOM) was announced on February 26, 2014,

the process of this transition has moved at a fast

pace. The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)

approved by all three organizations gives AOA-

approved institutions and programs a specic

window of time during which they may apply for

and obtain ACGME accreditation. Institutions

began applying for accreditation on April 1, 2015,

and programs could submit applications beginning

July 1, 2015.

The February 2015 meeting of the ACGME Board

of Directors was historic, with the addition of

osteopathic representatives to the Board’s

membership (four representatives were added,

with two nominated by the AOA and two by

AACOM).

New Board Members:

• Karen J. Nichols, DO (nominated by AOA)

• David Forstein, DO (nominated by AOA)

• Gary Slick, DO (nominated by AACOM)

• Clinton Adams, DO (nominated by AACOM)

Two additional osteopathic directors (one each

from the AOA and AACOM) will be added in 2018

and 2020 (eight will be the total members added

by the 2020 conclusion of the MOU). Osteopathic

members also joined each Review Committee for

specialties that were found in both the ACGME-

accredited and AOA-approved arenas.

Two new committees—the Review Committee

for Osteopathic Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine

[(ONMM; a new specialty for the ACGME) that

reviews and approves new ONMM programs],

and the Osteopathic Principals Committee (OPC)

that reviews and approves ACGME-accredited

programs for Osteopathic Recognition—

have been formed. The OPC and the Review

Committee for ONMM each met for the rst time

in Fall 2014, and have since developed, vetted,

and implemented Requirements for Osteopathic

Recognition and accreditation in ONMM. The

timeline for both committees to create these new

requirements was unprecedentedly short, and the

committee members and ACGME staff members

who supported them (notably Kathy Malloy and

Tiffany Moss) were instrumental in this success.

Both sets of Requirements were approved at

the February meeting of the Board, and both

committees now meet on a regular schedule.

Milestones for Osteopathic Recognition and for

ONMM are in development, and it is anticipated

they will be ready for approval in September 2015.

The Osteopathic Accreditation section’s

responsibilities include stafng the ONMM and

Osteopathic Principles committees and working

collaboratively with all ACGME departments. The

staff includes a senior vice president, Osteopathic

Accreditation (Dr. Lorenzo Pence), an executive

director, Osteopathic Accreditation (Tiffany

Moss), and an executive assistant (Julia Weigle).

The ACGME and AOA celebrate the end of

Academic Year 2014-2015 with much to report

on the transition to a single GME accreditation

system, including decisions from most Review

Committees that would allow AOA-boarded

physicians to be approved as program directors

if other program director requirements are met.

The AOA has 1,247 approved programs and

fellowships, 163 of which are dually accredited by

the ACGME, and 1,084 of which can now move

forward with the application process for ACGME

accreditation. The 2015-2016 year will be an

exciting one, as institutions and programs move

forward pursuing ACGME accreditation and

Osteopathic Recognition.

2014-2015 ACGME Annual Report

2014-2015 was an important year for the Department of Field Activities and the accreditation eld representatives. Major efforts included the second year

of site visits in the Next Accreditation System (NAS), and the design and development of the site visit components of the ACGME self-study, as well as

related to the transition to a single accreditation system for graduate medical education (GME).

Department of Field Activities

The Department coordinated all aspects of

program and institutional accreditation site visits,

including scheduling and logistics, site visit

reporting, quality improvement, and eld staff

professional development.

2014-2015 marked the second year of site visits in

the NAS, and eld representatives conducted 212

site visits for programs with full accreditation. The

majority, 168 were “data-prompted” visits that

were scheduled because the review of the annual

data suggested a possible problem for further

exploration through a site visit. An additional

44 were scheduled at the request of the Review

Committees for concerns not arising directly out

of the annual data.

Accreditation eld representatives also conducted

site visits for new program applications, programs

transitioning at the end of the period of Initial

Accreditation, and Sponsoring Institutions, visits

to assess the merits of a complaint, and visits for

international programs for ACGME-I.

The Department developed new site visit

protocols for site visits of osteopathic programs

with pre-accreditation status in the transition

to a single GME accreditation system, as well

as a voluntary non-accreditation site visit for

programs with an ACGME self-study scheduled

between April 2015 and January 2017, and for the

subsequent 10-year site visit for these programs.

By June 30, 2015, a total of 253 programs in Phase

I of the NAS had volunteered for a voluntary self-

study pilot visit.

2014-2015 also saw collaboration with the

Department of Accreditation Services to continue

to rene the protocols for data-prompted site

visits. Renements aim to enhance the utility of

the information for the Review Committees, with a

special focus on exploring and diagnosing areas

of potential concern identied during the review

of the annual data.

Professional development for eld representatives

in 2014-2015 focused on aspects of new site visit

types, including data-prompted visits in the NAS,

the self-study pilot visits, and visits to osteopathic

programs.

An ongoing focal area for professional

development related to the new role of the eld

representatives in offering suggestions or ideas

for innovative practices found in the medical

education literature or through other programs

and institutions successful in creating an effective

working and learning environment.

2014-2015 ACGME Annual Report

The Department of Education serves the ACGME mission to meet the needs of over 9,600 programs and 700 Sponsoring Institutions that prepare over

120,000 residents and fellows to embark on the path of mastery to effectively meet the health and health care needs of the public. The department

accomplishes this mission through dissemination of knowledge and furthering skill development, often acting as a facilitating body serving and collaborating

with other departments within the ACGME and with appropriate outside organizational and individual collaborators.

Department of Education

The department’s division of Educational

Activities, led by Director Debra Dooley and

staffed by Educational Project Manager Jessalynn

Watanabe; Continuing Medical Education

Administrator Laura Barbo; Registration

Specialist Andrea Rio, MA; Educational

Administrator Lauren Wojnarowski; and

Educational Project Associate Victoria Shaffer,

designs, develops, produces, and evaluates the

ACGME’s educational activities, including the

ACGME Annual Educational Conference, various

ACGME workshops and workshop series, the

Baldwin Lecture Series, the ACGME Webinar

Series, some of the CLER Program’s educational

initiatives, and more.

The 2015 Annual Educational Conference was a

phenomenal success on multiple levels, reecting

years of vision, development, and collaborative

efforts (see article, p.16).

ACGME Webinar Series

The ACGME Webinar Series began during

2013-2014 with presentations specic to the

implementation of the Next Accreditation System

for program directors, designated institutional

ofcials (DIOs), and coordinators, and has

reached an audience of 17,212 participants to

date. These highly evaluated sessions were

developed by ACGME Senior Vice Presidents

Mary Lieh-Lai, MD; Louis Ling, MD; Ingrid

Philibert, PhD; John Potts, MD; and Kevin Weiss,

MD, and were delivered in collaboration with the

Executive Directors and physician leaders of the

Review Committees. In 2014-2015, the Webinar

Series expanded to other topics of interest,

including the transition to a single accreditation

system for all graduate medical education (GME),

the Milestones, and the CLER program.

Workshops

Ten Basics of Accreditation for New Program

Coordinators workshops were delivered with

a total registration of 280. These workshops

provide new coordinators with the opportunity

to meet their specialty’s Review Committee staff

members and other members of the ACGME’s

senior staff and administration, while learning the

nuts and bolts of ACGME accreditation.

The Baldwin Seminar Series, named after Senior

Scholar in Residence DeWitt C. Baldwin Jr., MD,

is a series of didactic seminars held throughout

the year at the ACGME ofces. The goal of the

Baldwin Series is to develop an educational

interchange between colleagues that will

stimulate creative, innovative thinking on topics

pertinent to GME. Speakers are drawn from

across the country, and in 2014-2015 included

ACGME Accreditation Field Representative Serge

Martinez, MD, JD; Liselotte Dyrbye, MD, MHPS,

FACP; ACGME Board member Kenneth Ludmerer,

MD; F. Daniel Duffy, MD; Frederic W. Hafferty,

PhD; and Robert Englander, MD, MPH. Subjects

covered included burnout, the history and future

of residency education, the Hidden Curriculum,

and Entrustable Professional Activities.

The Developing Faculty Competencies in

Assessment Workshop was designed by Senior

Vice President, Milestone Development and

Evaluation Eric Holmboe, MD, MACP. This six-day

interactive workshop, limited to 30 participants,

was given twice in 2014. The program was highly

rated and successful, and more sessions are

scheduled for 2015-2016.

CLER Conversations is a two-day workshop

developed by Senior Vice President, Institutional

Accreditation Kevin Weiss, MD and Vice President,

CLER Program Robin Wagner, RN, MHSA. This

innovative, interactive workshop bring teams of

senior executive leaders of teaching hospitals

and medical centers of ACGME Sponsoring

Institutions to join in a facilitated discussion

focused on strategic planning. The program

was successfully piloted in 2014-2015, and two

workshops are planned for 2015-2016.

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The department convened a Joint Steering

Committee composed of three members of the

allopathic community and six members of the

osteopathic community to assess the educational

needs of and design educational activities for

osteopathic institutions and programs entering

the ACGME accreditation process in the transition

to a single GME accreditation system. Starting

with comprehensive interviews of Osteopathic

Post-doctoral Training Institutes (OPTIs), the

team developed educational activities at the

major educational meetings of the American

Osteopathic Association, Association of

American Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine, and

the ACGME, and created a series of specialty-

specific webinars for all specialties entering the

single accreditation system.

Future planned activity includes the development

of an advanced coordinator training that would

go beyond the basics of accreditation, as well

as new educational initiatives with the CLER and

Milestones teams.

Ofﬁce of Resident Services

The Ofce of Resident Services works closely

with residents, program directors, DIOs, and the

Review Committees to help them navigate the

concerns and complaints process and provide

essential ACGME support. Senior Associate

Amy Beane also staffs the Council of Review

Committee Residents (CRCR), made up of the

resident members of each of the Review and

Recognition Committees. The CRCR (see article,

p.13) advises the ACGME and Board of Directors

on issues of concern important to the ACGME,

providing the resident/fellow perspective.

Senior Scholars in Residence

The Senior Scholars in Residence, led by Senior

Scholar Dr. Baldwin, continues its stellar work

of discovery and dissemination. During 2014-

2015, Paul Rockey, MD; Joanne Schwartzberg,

MD; and Nicholas Yaghmour, MPP conducted

research and provided vital insight in a number

of important areas, including resident well-being,

interprofessional team-based training, physician

workforce issues, and health policy.

A longitudinal survey asking questions related to

resident well-being conducted by the team and

led by Mr. Yaghmour has yielded responses from

approximately 20,000 residents per year since

2013.

Leadership Skills Training Programs for

Chief Residents

Robert Doughty, MD, PhD, the senior scholar

for Experiential Learning and Leadership

Development, has conducted multi-day, multi-

specialty leadership training programs for 2,000

chief residents from all specialties since 2010.

Nine workshops were conducted in 2014-2015, all

lled to capacity and evaluated extremely highly.

For the rst time the ACGME conducted two chief

resident workshops internationally, one in Abu

Dhabi and one in Singapore. Both were delivered

by Dr. Timothy P. Brigham and Dr. Doughty

and were eye opening experiences for both

the ACGME-I facilitators and the international

participants. It is expected that the sessions

will be offered again in 2015-2016. A pilot test

continues to train facilitators for these Leadership

Skills Training Programs for Chief Residents,

resulting in nine “apprentice” facilitators working

in 2014-2015.

As the department looks forward to 2015-2016,

continued program growth development is on the

horizon.

A Distance Learning Director has been identied.

Anne Gravel Sullivan, PhD will lead the ACGME’s

distance learning activities. She brings a special

blend of content expertise and understanding

of the ACGME to this position that makes

her uniquely qualied to lead these efforts.

Dr. Sullivan will continue to also serve as the

Executive Director for the Review Committees for

Anesthesiology and the Transitional Year as she

begins her new responsibilities.

In conjunction with the leadership of the

ACGME-I, the Department of Education will build

a systematized and coordinated educational

arm to meet the needs of its international

colleagues. Included in this effort is the creation

of an ACGME-I Conference to be conducted in

Singapore in 2017.

Drs. Brigham and Doughty with participants from the Leadership Skills

Training Program for Chief Residents conducted in Abu Dhabi.

2014-2015 ACGME Annual Report

Program Concludes First Cycle of Visits—In March 2015, the CLER Program completed the rst cycle of visits to participating sites of Sponsoring

Institutions with three or more core residency programs. This rst cycle included visits to 297 of the nation’s teaching hospitals and medical centers.

The Journal of Graduate Medical Education (JGME) is the ACGME’s peer-reviewed publication. Editorially independent, JGME was inaugurated in 2009

to disseminate scholarship and promote critical inquiry to inform and engage the graduate medical education community. JGME is published quarterly

and is provided to more than 10,000 residency and fellowship program directors, designated institutional ofcials, and members of the ACGME’s Review

Committees and Board of Directors.

Clinical Learning Environment Review

Journal of Graduate Medical Education

With the close of Cycle 1, the CLER Program is in

the process of analyzing the data and drafting a

national report for release later in 2015. The report

will present aggregate, de-identied data that

highlight key ndings across the six focus areas.

Simultaneous with preparing the report, the CLER

Program is exploring opportunities to partner

with other organizations and engage teaching

hospitals and medical centers in targeted efforts

to better integrate graduate medical education in

strategic planning to improve patient safety and

health care quality.

In April 2015, the CLER Program began Cycle 2.

In this next round, the CLER team is conducting

repeat visits to the hospitals and medical centers

visited in Cycle 1 to assess each site’s goals and

priorities resulting from the initial CLER visit and

progress towards those goals. The protocol for

Cycle 2 has been updated to closely align with

the CLER Pathways to Excellence. Cycle 2 also

includes initial visits to the approximately 400

small and single-program Sponsoring Institutions

(those with one or two core residency programs).

The Journal’s rst aim is to be a leading peer-

reviewed journal in graduate medical education.

Evidence of success in meeting this aim includes:

• PubMed/MEDLINE indexing in June 2015

• A steady increase in the rejection rate from

less than 50% during the early phase of the

Journal, to 78% in 2014

• A 30-member Editorial Board under the

direction of an Editor in Chief and three

Deputy Editors. The Editorial Board includes

US members and representatives from

Canada, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom,

the United Arab Emirates, Germany, and

Singapore, as well as residents and fellows.

Members have broad, diverse expertise,

including in the areas of assessment, faculty

development, survey design, qualitative

research, and quality and safety of care.

• Business oversight of the Journal provided

by a subcommittee of the ACGME’s Board of

Directors that includes a chair, Dr. Kenneth

Ludmerer, who is a noted medical historian

and author

2014-2015 ACGME Annual Report

The second aim is to promote scholarship and

enhance the quality of research in the eld, with

success in a number of key areas:

• 812 manuscripts were submitted in 2014,

which represents a sizable increase over the

just over 500 manuscripts submitted in 2013.

International submissions have grown to 10%

of all submissions.

• JGME

works with trainees and junior faculty

members, as well as with other authors new

to academic publishing, through workshops,

practical guidance for authors, and pre-

submission review and suggestions on

manuscripts from trainees and new authors.

• Journal-sponsored workshops and lectures

at national and international meetings seek

to enhance authors’ skills, and have drawn

from 50 to more than 100 participants each.

In addition to general topics in scholarly

publishing, sessions in 2014–2015 covered

topics including survey design and use of

different assessment methods in research in

graduate medical education. An international

session on research design and submissions

to scholarly journals was also conducted.

The Journal’s third aim is to disseminate evidence-

based approaches related to educational

curricula and content, assessment, and the

learning environment. Evidence of success in

meeting this aim includes:

• Online content received 204,604 web hits in

2014 compared to 50,857 for 2010, the rst full

year of publication; dissemination of content

through electronic tables of content with direct

links to articles.

• Use of social media, particularly Twitter

(follow @JournalofGME), to raise community

awareness of content and to stimulate

discussion.

• Selected articles relevant to residents/fellows

are made available via an open-access page,

with commentaries by members of the ACGME

Council of Review Committee Residents.

• Online journal clubs with two major

organizations in medical education to expand

JGME outreach to the faculty and resident/

fellow community, with topics of general

interest, such as residents as teachers and

resident well-being.

• New approaches to journal metrics offer

authors and readers information about the use

of content beyond traditional citations.

The fourth JGME aim is to contribute to new

knowledge that enhances the competence

of residency/fellowship graduates and their

effectiveness in providing safe and high-quality

patient care. Evidence of success in meeting this

aim includes:

1. JGME has published early seminal work

on the development and validation of the

educational Milestones, and continues to

publish articles on the validation of the

Milestones and on their use in resident/fellow

assessment, including studies that seek to

develop best practices for Milestone use.

2. Survey tools, research protocols, and other

practical information are made available as

online supplemental data, so these resources

are accessible to educators and researchers.

3. A section in each issue is devoted to updates

on key ACGME initiatives, with these pages

clearly distinguished from peer-reviewed content.

In 2014–2015, this section included updates on

the Clinical Learning Environment Review (CLER)

program, ACGME strategic planning, initiatives in

residency programs already in keeping with the

recommendations in the Institute of Medicine’s

report Graduate Medical Education That Meets

the Nation’s Health Needs, and the ACGME

program self-study.

continued on next page

2014-2015 ACGME Annual Report

Journal of Graduate Medical Education

Editorial Board

Gail M. Sullivan, MD, MPH

Editor-in-Chief

University of Connecticut

Anthony R. Artino Jr., PhD

Deputy Editor

Uniformed Services University of the

Health Sciences

Deborah Simpson, PhD

Deputy Editor

Aurora UW Medical Group

Lalena M. Yarris, MD, MCR

Deputy Editor

Oregon Health & Science University

Kathryn M. Andolsek, MD, MPH

Associate Editor

Duke University School of Medicine

Hans Arora, MD, PhD

Resident Member

Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Peter J. Carek, MD, MS

Associate Editor

University of Florida College of Medicine

Katherine C. Chretien, MD, FACP

Associate Editor

Washington DC VA Medical Center,

George Washington University School of Medicine

and Health Sciences

Joseph B. Cofer, MD, FACS

Associate Editor

University of Tennessee College of Medicine

Thomas G. Cooney, MD

Associate Editor

Oregon Health & Science University

Denise Dupras, MD, PhD

Associate Editor

Mayo Clinic, Rochester

Cameron Escovedo, MD

Resident Member

Mattel Children’s Hospital, UCLA

Michael Hann, MD LT MC USN

Resident Member

Naval Medical Center San Diego

Halah Ibrahim, MD, MEHP

Associate Editor

Tawam Hospital, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Jonathan Ilgen, MD, MCR

Associate Editor

University of Washington

S. Barry Issenberg, MD, FACP

Associate Editor

University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

Barbara G. Jericho, MD

Associate Editor

University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago

M. Douglas Jones Jr., MD

Associate Editor

University of Colorado School of Medicine

Dotun Ogunyemi, MD, FACOG, MFM

Associate Editor

Oakland University William Beaumont

School of Medicine

Lawrence Opas, MD

Associate Editor

USC/LAC+USC Healthcare Network

Harm Peters, MD, PhD

Associate Editor

Charité–Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany

Joan Sargeant, PhD

Associate Editor

Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

Lori A. Schuh, MD, FAAN

Associate Editor

Spectrum Health

Meredith J. Sorensen, MD, MS

Associate Editor

Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center

Prof Dame Lesley Southgate, MB, FRCP, FRGGP

Associate Editor

St. George’s University School of Medicine,

London, United Kingdom

Th. J. (Olle) ten Cate, PhD

Associate Editor

University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands

Christopher R. Thomas, MD

Associate Editor

University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

Travis Paul Webb, MD

Associate Editor

Medical College of Wisconsin

Max Wohlauer, MD

Resident Member

University of Colorado, Denver

Brian Wong, MD

Associate Editor

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre,

University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

2014-2015 ACGME Annual Report

Peter Carek, MD, MS, Chair, Review Committee for Family Medicine

Council of Review Committee Chairs

Historically, the Council of Review Committee

Chairs (CRCC) has been an excellent venue for

Review Committees and their chairs to gather

information from the other committees and

organizations associated with graduate medical

education, receive updates and other data from

the ACGME, and discuss topics relevant to

their work and the work of their Committees.

With the introduction and implementation of

the Next Accreditation System (NAS), the work

of the CRCC has changed. Still

a valuable setting for information

gathering and dissemination, the

CRCC’s meetings now also provide

an extraordinary opportunity to

solve problems associated with the

accreditation process and discuss

quality improvement activities that

pertain to graduate medical education

in all disciplines. Additionally, the

meetings have allowed the chairs

to share valuable “lessons learned”

from colleagues from specialties and

Committees at varying phases of

the transition into the NAS, including

unique challenges, or opportunities

for innovation in the efforts to improve

residency and fellowship education.

This enhancement of CRCC activity served as

a model for the work of the Review Committee

for Family Medicine in the efforts to maintain

the momentum of moving to a more quality

improvement-focused approach to program

review. As such, the communication with

residency and fellowship programs has shifted,

more often addressing issues identied as

areas for improvement than citations. So far

the Committee has found that often, we seek a

better understanding and clarication of program

activities prior to rendering a formal citation. The

Review Committee for Family Medicine is hoping

for a more collegial relationship with programs

in this, the Next Accreditation System. We do

not take lightly the great responsibility we have

in reviewing programs and making accreditation

decisions, and our intent is rmly to work

constantly toward program improvement and

educational innovation.

Members of the Council of Review Committee Chairs, September 2014

2014-2015 ACGME Annual Report

Council of Review Committee Residents

Providing the Resident Voice in Advancing

Educational Policy

The Council of Review Committee Residents

(CRCR) promotes the mission of the ACGME by

advising on resident matters, graduate medical

education (GME), and accreditation. In January

2015, the current vice chair, Dinchen Jardine, MD,

MS (ENT), was elected chair and will succeed

Timothy Daskivich, MD, MSHPM (Urology) when

his term of service concludes in September.Over

the last year, the Council has focused its efforts on

the topics of physician wellness and mental health

awareness in the GME learning environment, as

well as on leadership training during residency.

Physicians in training are at high risk for burnout

and depression, and early career physicians have

substantially elevated risk of suicide compared

with those in other professions. In November

2015, the ACGME will host a national symposium

on physician well-being that will bring together

GME leadership, scholars, residents, and

program directors to determine how to change

the training environment to promote wellness

during training and beyond. As an adjunct to

this effort, the CRCR wrote an article, published

in the March issue of the

Journal of Graduate

Medical Education (JGME) (http://www.jgme.org/

doi/pdf/10.4300/JGME-07-01-42) that provides a

trainee-level perspective on the resources that

currently exist and those that are lacking in the

learning environment to address this issue. Using

an appreciative inquiry approach, the CRCR

identied several actionable goals for national

policy: (1) to increase awareness of the high

risk of depression during training and thereby

destigmatize it; (2) to build systems to identify and

treat depression condentially; (3) to formalize

peer and faculty mentorship; (4) to promote a

supportive culture within the profession; and

(5) to support research to learn more about the

issue. The CRCR looks forward to partnering with

ACGME leadership to address this critical issue.

The CRCR also devoted effort over the last

year to envisioning ideal systems for formal

leadership training during residency. Because

health care is increasingly carried out by teams of

providers—physicians, nurses, care coordinators,

pharmacists, social workers, nutritionists,

physical and occupational therapists—physicians

must learn to be co-leaders (and team players) in

the clinical environment. Despite this, there is no

formalized training in leadership that is universally

available for residents. The CRCR wrote an

article for the June 2015 issue of JGME (http://

www.jgme.org/doi/pdf/10.4300/JGME-07-02-31)

that calls for a national leadership curriculum for

residents. The Council hopes that this piece will

spark further discussion on developing critically-

needed leadership training in GME.

The CRCR is delighted to play a role in assisting

the ACGME in its visionary efforts to advance

the GME learning environment. We look forward

to continuing to provide the resident perspective

on salient issues within GME to further the

mission of the organization: to improve health

care and population health by advancing the

quality of resident physicians’ education through

accreditation.

Timothy J. Daskivich, MD, MSHPM, Chair, Council of Review Committee Residents

Members of the Council of Review Committee Residents, September 2014

2014-2015 ACGME Annual Report

Engagement

In conjunction with full implementation of the Next

Accreditation System (NAS) for all specialties, all

core specialties, and the majority of subspecialties,

reported Milestones data in Academic Year 2014-

2015. In the mid-year reporting period, a total of 7,498

programs reported on a total of 117,548 residents

and fellows (99.96%). Additionally, at the year-end,

7,628 programs reported on 118,360 residents and

fellows for a 99.98% resident level response rate.

Educational initiatives

The Milestones Department successfully piloted a

week-long interactive faculty development course

in assessment. Developing Faculty Competencies

in Assessment: A Course to Help Achieve the Goals

of Competency-Based Medical Education (CBME),

had three successful sessions during the 2014-2015

pilot year, with two in the fall of 2014 and one in the

spring. In all, 73 faculty members from 55 different

institutions and 15 different specialties participated.

The highly interactive course involves multiple

exercises and small-group learning exercises, as well

as a half-day session at the Northwestern Feinberg

School of Medicine simulation center, which allows

the participants to practice their direct observation

assessment and feedback skills working with

standardized patients and residents. This experience

was routinely the highest rated session of the week.

In addition to the direction of Dr. Eric Holmboe,

senior vice president, Milestone Development and

Evaluation, the course also features other major

educational leaders in the eld facilitating some

of the workshops: Dr. Jennifer Kogan, from the

University of Pennsylvania; Dr. William Iobst from

the Commonwealth Medical College; and Dr. Kelly

Caverzagie from the University of Nebraska. In

Academic Year 2015-2016, the ACGME will offer four

sessions of this course in Chicago, and in October will

also pilot a shortened version, focusing on essential

teaching faculty, in collaboration with Drs. Donald

Brady, Sandy Moutsios, and John McPherson of

Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.

The Department also produced its rst publication, a

new guidebook for Clinical Competency Committees

(CCCs), in February 2015. The guidebook provides

information regarding the purpose and structure of

the CCC, how to prepare for and run a CCC meeting,

and post-CCC meeting actions, as well as legal

and other considerations. Clinical Competency

Committees: A Guidebook for Programs can

be found in the Milestones section of the ACGME

website. The Milestones Department will continue to

develop educational resources related to assessment

to help program directors in the coming year.

The Listening Tour

The ACGME, as represented by the gure (next page)

of the Professional Self-Regulatory Assessment

System, fully understands that, ultimately,

effective accreditation is highly dependent on

the effectiveness of the residency and fellowship

programs in producing highly competent physicians;

or, in other words, that as an organization, the

ACGME is only as successful in its work as are

the programs it accredits in producing competent

physicians. During 2014-2015, Drs. Holmboe, Stan

Hamstra, and Laura Edgar attended over 25 society

meetings and met with over 30 institutions and

organizations to discuss the Milestones initiative

and provide faculty development. Perhaps more

importantly, staff of the Milestones Department took

the opportunity to conduct informal focus groups

that included, in aggregate, hundreds of program

directors, designated institutional ofcials (DIOs),

and faculty leaders. These rich sessions enabled

department leadership to learn, directly from

the programs, how the Milestones are impacting

programs, including meaningful successes, but also

in terms of challenges in implementing the changes.

This information will be invaluable in making real-

time adjustments in the Milestones system, and

will help to inform what revisions will be important

in the future. The Milestones Department ascribes

Milestones Department Reaches Early Milestones

in the Next Accreditation System

FEATURES

The past year was momentous for the Milestones Department. New staff members in key functions joined the team, the remaining core residency

disciplines entered the Milestones system, and the department launched a number of new activities and collaborations. This report will touch on four major

themes for the past year: engagement, educational initiatives, listening to our stakeholders, and research.

continued on next page

2014-2015 ACGME Annual Report

to a philosophy of service and continuous quality

improvement, in alignment with the ACGME’s

placement of importance on these features in the

model for the NAS. As such, these focus groups

are an invaluable and critical demonstration of the

application of that philosophy, and will continue. The

department also invites feedback and comment,

at any time, through the Milestones mailbox:

milestones@acgme.org.

Research

Ongoing research and evaluation of the Milestones

is critically important. The Milestones Department

also recognizes it cannot and should not do the

research and evaluation alone; the best research

and learning will come from robust collaborations.

To that end the Department launched two important

advisory committees: an analytic group and a

CCC group. The Analytic Advisory Group includes

Drs. John Norcini of FAIMER, Ara Tekian and Rachel

Yudkowsky of the University Illinois Chicago, and

Reed Williams of Indiana University, all highly

regarded measurement experts. The Analytic

Advisory Group is supported by Dr. Hamstra, Senior

Vice President, Applications and Data Analysis

Ms. Rebecca Miller, and Outcomes Assessment

Project Associate Dr. Kenji Yamazaki. The CCC

Advisory Group includes Drs. Kathy Andolsek of

Duke University, Karen Hauer of UCSF, and Jamie

Padmore of Medstar Health, whose expertise and

wisdom has been vital in planning Milestones

research activities.

One the more exciting developments last year was the

initial validity research led by the American Board of

Emergency Medicine (ABEM) in partnership with the

ACGME. The rst Emergency Medicine Milestones

study demonstrated early evidence of validity as an

assessment instrument for competency development.

The Milestones were able to discriminate between

residency years, and an exploratory factor analysis

found the factor structure further supported the

validity of the Emergency Medicine Milestones. The

group that conducted this research also submitted

a paper to Academic Medicine that examines the

relationship between emergency medicine resident

performance on the in-training examination and

performance on the Emergency Medicine Milestones.

The research arm of the Milestones Department is

also currently collaborating on a qualitative study with

Dr. Nate Selden and his team at the Oregon Health

Sciences University (OHSU), investigating the early

experience of residents and program directors with

the Milestones. Data collection should be completed

by early fall, and lessons from this study will inform

similar studies with other specialty disciplines.

The ACGME will also be one of the collaborators

on the Professionals Accelerating Clinical and

Educational Redesign (PACER) national initiative to

improve the quality of ambulatory-based training

and care. This exciting project is being primarily

funded by the Josiah Macy Foundation, with

additional support from the American Boards of

Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Pediatrics

and the ACGME. The PACER project builds off

the successful Primary Care Faculty Development

Initiative (PCFDI) pilot interdisciplinary project.

The Milestones team is also developing research

activities with other certication boards and

medical educators around the country. This is a

very exciting time for graduate medical education

and the Milestones team wants to help advance the

research and science around competency-based

medical education.

An Overview of the Professional Self-regulatory Assessment System in United States

(from Holmboe ES, Batalden P.

Achieving the Desired Transformation: Thoughts on Next Steps for Outcomes-Based Medical Education.

Acad Med. 2015 Jun 16. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 26083400)

The majority of learner assessments occur within

the training institution and program. Milestones

and entrustable professional activities (EPAs) can

serve as the guiding framework and blueprint for

curriculum and assessment. Programs need to

implement a combination of assessment tools

(e.g., direct observation, medical record audit of

clinical performance using validated measures)

to align with the competencies and Milestones.

The ﬁgure also highlights the critical importance

of active resident engagement in the assessment

system. Effective group process via the CCC

leads to better decisions and judgments about

learner development. Professional self-regulation,

represented in the United States by the ACGME

(accreditation) and the American Board of Medical

Specialties (certiﬁcation), are the public-facing

entities of the system, but depend substantially

on the programs for execution of standards. The

bi-directional arrows signify the co-dependent

relationships of all actors in the system.

2014-2015 ACGME Annual Report

The 2015 ACGME Annual Educational Conference

(AEC) achieved a signicant milestone that was

only dreamed of a decade ago. 3472 participants

attended the conference, held in San Diego,

California, marking the rst time the AEC exceeded

3,000 registrants, and representing the largest

graduate medical educational conference in the

world to date.

This is signicant for several reasons:

1. In 2005, conference attendance was 802. The

2015 gathering reached over four times as many

graduate medical education (GME) professionals

with essential accreditation information, high

quality GME research and scholarship, and the

opportunity to network with and learn from peers

from around the world.

2. It marks a signicant expansion of the

nature of the event and the type of educational

experiences and opportunities offered during

the conference. The 2005 AEC was limited

to large group presentations given mainly by

ACGME staff members and administrators,

primarily on accreditation-specic topics. Since

2008, the conference planning team widened

the tent to include an array of courses using

a variety of educational methodologies with

faculty members drawn, yes from the staff

and administration, but also from outside

experts and the GME community at-large, and

with content expanded beyond accreditation

to include the total spectrum of GME to meet

the needs of program directors, designated

institutional ofcials, coordinators, residents

and fellows, and others, both domestically and

internationally.

3. The expansion in scope allowed another

signicant dimension to emerge – the AEC has

become a gathering place for the worldwide

GME community, increasing collegiality,

collaboration, and community, and enabling

the participants to share knowledge and

experience. The opportunity to meet and learn

from fellow travelers on the GME road has

been cited time and again as a vitally important

reason participants return to this conference

year after year.

Record-Setting Attendance at

2015 Annual Educational Conference

Total AEC attendance,

2004-present

Year Attendance

2004 712

2005 802

2006 1003

2007 1160

2008 1209

2009 1380

2010 1622

2011 1753

2012 2251

2013 2941

2014 2869

2015 3472

Total Accreditation versus General (GME research/educational)

AEC presentations, 2005-present

Year Accreditation General

Total

Sessions

2005 43 24 67

2006 42 16 58

2007 35 17 52

2008 38 22 60

2009 41 41 82

2010 37 52 89

2011 37 54 91

2012 35 79 114

2013 42 76 118

2014

(includes

NAS)

57 133

2015 52 81 132

Total number presentations selected for AEC from

those submitted for consideration

Year

Selected

Presentations

Total

Presentations

2009 36 82

2010 41 89

2011 45 91

2012 60 114

2013 63 118

2014 91 133

2015 73 132

2014-2015 ACGME Annual Report

ACGME Awards

Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Award

Presented to up to 10 program directors who

have fostered innovation and improvement in their

residency programs and served as exemplary

role models for residents.

Anthony Arnold, MD

Ophthalmology

Jules Stein Eye Institute, UCLA School of Medicine

Bashar Attar, MD, PhD

Gastroenterology

John H. Stroger Hospital of Cook County

Samuel Borden, MD

Medicine-Pediatrics

Baystate Medical Center

Kalli Doyle, MD

Pediatrics

William Beaumont School of Medicine

Karl Golnik, MD, MEd

Ophthalmology

University of Cincinnati

E. Gormley, MD

Urology

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Kevin Means, MD

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of

Medicine

Matthew Short, MD

Transitional Year

Madigan Healthcare System

Christopher Varley, MD

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

University of Washington

Kenneth Zukerman, MD

Hematology and Oncology

University of South Florida and H. Lee Moffitt Cancer

Center

Parker J. Palmer Courage to Lead Award

Presented each year to up to three designated

institutional ofcials who have demonstrated

strong leadership and astute resource

management, and who have also encouraged

innovation and improvement in residency

programs and their sponsoring institutions.

Roseanne Berger, MD

University at Buffalo

Thomas Blackwell, MD

University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

Miriam Bar-on, MD

University of Nevada School of Medicine

Each year the ACGME recognizes notable program directors, designated institutional ofcials, residents, and coordinators for their outstanding work and

contributions to graduate medical education through its Awards Program. Below are the 2015 awardees who were honored at a luncheon reception during

the 2015 ACGME Annual Educational Conference held February 6-March 1, 2015 in San Diego, California.

Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Award Winners

Parker J. Palmer Courage to Lead Award Winners

2014-2015 ACGME Annual Report

David C. Leach, MD Award

Presented to up to ve residents who have

fostered innovation and improvement in their

residency programs, advanced humanism in

medicine, and increased efciency and emphasis

on educational outcomes.

Prathit Kulkarni, MD

Pediatrics

Baylor College of Medicine, Houston

Kenneth Remy, MD

Surgery

Erlanger Medical Center

GME Program Coordinator Excellence Award

Presented to up to ve program coordinators in

recognition of their in-depth understanding of the

accreditation process, excellent communication

and interpersonal skills, and projects to improve

residency programs.

Alicia Crispin

Family Medicine

Grand Rapids Medical Education Partners/Michigan

State University

Denise Mussehl

Anesthesiology

University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public

Health

Cynthia Neal

Family Medicine

Long Beach Memorial Medical Center

Mary Rich

Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Coordinator

University of Cincinnati Medical Center College of

Medicine

GME Institutional Coordinator Excellence

Award

Presented to one institutional coordinator upon

whom everyone depends to know graduate

medical education and what the process is for

internal review. The ACGME depends on this

person to wear many hats, including those of

administrator, counselor, enforcer, coordinator,

organizer, and scheduler.

Paul Johnson

Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

GME Program and Institutional Coordinator Excellence Award Winners

David C. Leach, MD Award Winners

Swing, SR. ACGME Launches

Outcomes Assessment Project.

JAMA. 1998. 279(18);1492.

Intellectual Foundation of NAS

Educational Innovations Project (EIP)

 EIP Initiated by Henry Schultz, MD, Roger Bush, MD, T.J. Nasca, MD

and RRC-IM in 2001-2002. Completed in 2012.

Nasca, T.J., Day, S.H., Amis, E.S., for the ACGME Duty Hour Task Force.

Sounding Board: The New Recommendations on Duty Hours from the ACGME Task Force.

New England Journal of Medicine. 362 (25): e3(1-6). 2010. June 23, 2010.

“Task Force on Patient Safety and Professionalism”

The New

Accreditation

Model

Foster innovation and

improvement in the

learning environment

Increase the

accreditation emphasis ON

educational outcomes

Increase efficiency

and reduce burden

in accreditation

Improve communication

and collaboration with key

internal and external

stakeholders

1998 1999 2002 2005 2007 20092008

The Next Accreditation System

1998

Launch of the Outcome Project

2009

Task Force on

Patient Safety and

Professionalism convened

2001-2002

“Intellectual Foundation of the Next Accreditation

System” // Educational Innovations Projects initiated

by H. Schultz, MD, R. Bush, MD, T. Nasca, MD, and the

Review Committee for Internal Medicine

2005

ACGME Board Executive Committee

endorses “four strategic priorities”

designed to enable the emergence of a

new model of accreditation

2008

Institute of Medicine releases

Resident Duty Hours:

Enhancing Sleep, Supervision,

and Safety report

1999

ACGME/ABMS Competencies

introduced

2007

Thomas J. Nasca, MD, MACP

named CEO of ACGME

TIMELINE:

2014-2015 ACGME Annual Report

Nasca, T.J., Philibert, I., Brigham, T.P., Flynn, T.C.

The Next GME Accreditation System: Rationale and Benefits.

New England Journal of Medicine. Published Electronically, February 22, 2012. In Print, March 15, 2012.

DOI:10.1056/nejmsr1200117 www.nejm.org

NEJM. 2012.366;11:1051-1056.

Clinical Learning

Environment Review (CLER)

CLER Pathways

to Excellence

Expectations for an optimal clinical

learning environment to achieve safe

and high quality patient care

2014 Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education

Assessments within

Program:

• Direct observations

• Audit and

performance data

• Multi-source FB

• Simulation

• Exams

“Data”

Synthesis:

Committee

Residents

Faculty, PDs

and others

Milestones and EPAs

as Guiding Framework and Blueprint

Accreditation

Unit of Analysis:

Program

Certification and

Credentialing

Unit of Analysis:

Individual

MILESTONES

RESEARCH

2016201520142013201220112010

2011

• ACGME Board of

Directors approves phased

implementation of the Next

Accreditation System (NAS)

• Policy change revisions

relating to NAS initiated

• Revised Duty Hour

Requirements in effect

2014-2015

NAS fully implemented

for all specialties

2015

Spring 2015: Pilot for 10-year accreditation

site visit/self-studies begins

2012-2013

Milestones process and

reporting structure formalized

and operationalized across all

disciplines; Working Groups

convene to develop Milestones

2013

• July 1, 2013: NAS Policy

Changes in Effect

• July 1, 2013: Phase I

implemented with 7 specialties

(Diagnostic Radiology, Emergency

Medicine, Internal Medicine,

Pediatrics, Neurological Surgery,

Orthopaedic Surgery, Urology) and

their subspecialties

• Milestones reporting/rst data

collection for Phase I

2015-2016

Transitional implementation

to NAS for institutions

2012

• Public announcement of

the Next Accreditation System

• Clinical Learning

Environment Review Program

launched

2014

• February 2014: CLER

Pathways to Excellence

launched

• July 1, 2014: Phase

II implemented for

remaining specialties and

subspecialties

2014-2015 ACGME Annual Report

The ACGME-I Mission

ACGME International (ACGME-I) was developed

after multiple countries reached out to the

ACGME for accreditation information and

assistance. There was an expressed need for

physicians to be trained to better serve individual

international communities. The ACGME’s highly

structured system of education and accreditation

demonstrated unique appeal as compared to

alternative models. This endeavor was rst

sparked by Singapore in 2009 and has been

expanded to other countries across the globe. The

mission—though similar to that of the ACGME—

focuses on improving the quality of health care

speciﬁc to each individual country’s need

It is important to clarify that the ACGME-I does

not serve individuals from other countries who

wish to enter into a residency in the United States.

One of the major expectations of countries

and institutions that seek ACGME-I services

is to prevent brain drain and to cultivate a local

environment that encourages a physician to

stay in one’s own country. Though the emphasis

for the ACGME-I is to create quality residency

programs abroad, an absence of subspecialists

internationally has created a desire by many

ACGME-I graduates to add an accredited

fellowship year in the US. Some domestic

Review Committees have dened such graduates

as “exceptional candidates” for fellowship

consideration. Notably, such individuals do not

become eligible to sit for an American Board of

Medical Specialties certifying examination.

The relationship with the ACGME

Organizationally, ACGME-I is an LLC of the parent

organization ACGME. As such, it is nancially

self-sufcient. The ACGME-I is funded through

contracts with individual ministries of health or

institutions. The ACGME-I reports to the ACGME

Board of Directors through its Finance Committee

(see Financial Reports, p.26).

The ACGME-I does rely on certain tools and

resources housed within the ACGME. For example,

data collection through the Accreditation Data

System, site visits by professional staff, reliance

upon the Education Department related to areas

such as the Milestones, and other features all

utilize the services and personnel of the ACGME.

The ACGME-I Requirements and Review

Process

While the system is similar to that of the ACGME,

the ACGME-I accreditation requirements for

both institutions and programs are necessarily

distinct. Accreditation is rst granted to an

institution; programs must be sponsored by such

an accredited institution. Both institutions and

programs are held to accreditation requirements.

The ACGME-I accreditation process reects

a similarity to the ACGME system of recent

design (prior to the implementation of the Next

Accreditation System), typied by review cycle

lengths of three years or fewer between site

visits; program information forms; and other

processes designed to assist programs as they

adopt ACGME-I requirements particular to a

specialty/subspecialty. Undoubtedly, there will

be future iterations of international requirements

reective of growth and change, just as domestic

requirements have evolved under the Next

Accreditation System.

A substantial component of international

accreditation, just as with domestic norms, is the

presence of volunteerism and peer standards-

setting. International members of the Review

Committee do a superlative job of representing

the patients’, residents’, educators’, and

countries’ needs as unique to their environment.

The organization especially thanks Drs. Margaret

Blott; Sally Ho; Abdulatif al Khal; Halah Ibrahim;

and Colin Song; and notes with sadness the

passing of Dr. Vijayan Appasamy, a charter

member of the Review Committee-International.

ACGME International Making an Impact

ACGME-I BY THE NUMBERS - 2014-2015

3.5 new FTE ACGME-I staff members

6 new country inquiries/discussions

7 newly-accredited programs

10 countries visited one or more times

during 2014-2015

38 accredited specialties

64 site visits

99 accredited programs

~2000 residents in accredited programs

2014-2015 ACGME Annual Report

Making a Difference

After six years, the ACGME-I has over 100

programs currently or soon to be accredited. The

Journal of Graduate Medical Education

includes

international articles describing improvements in

residency education and patient care. Residents

who experienced GME in their countries both

before and after the implementation of ACGME-I

accreditation note the value of a structured

evaluative system, and of knowing what it is they

need to know as they learn. Faculty members

echo this, expressing a clearer understanding of

what needs to be taught, of a dened approach

to teaching, and of a better educational process

for different types of learners. Medical education

leadership is beginning to see the value of the

Milestones and Clinical Competency Committees

as tools for identifying areas requiring attention

or earlier intervention, so that remediation may

occur more effectively when necessary.

Ultimately, the ACGME-I hopes to dene a

stronger collaboration between domestic

accredited programs and international programs.

Such opportunities are limitless, from rotations

that provide international learning, to identication

of best practices, to teaching and learning that

takes advantage of mobile health technologies.

Collaborative efforts, above all, are intended

to honor both similarities and differences

in countries’ needs, and to tailor education

appropriately.

Continuing to Build

Thus far, the ACGME-I’s success has in large

part been in economically stable countries that

seek a more rigorous medical education system.

But this approach is changing in order to more

fully serve the Mission of improving global health.

In the past year, visits were conducted in Haiti

and Panama, where highly committed medical

education leaders reached out for assistance. The

ACGME-I team witnessed the most fundamental

of pre-requisites for solid medical education: a

dedicated administrative core; an enthusiastic

faculty desirous of improving; residents wanting

to provide the best care; and long lines of patients

needing help. There were clear differences

in the economic resources and technological

sophistication in these two countries, but both

afrmed the need to expand what the ACGME-I

can do. Consequent to these visits, the ACGME-I

is cultivating stakeholders in an effort to dene

how the needs of such countries can be met.

Rather than producing an “all or none” model

for accreditation, a tiered approach to improving

education is being developed. The ACGME-I is

also working with institutions devoted to global

health to identify graduate medical education’s

current status in numerous locations in order to

more fully serve its Mission.

The ACGME-I launched a redesigned website at www.acgme-i.org in January 2015.

2014-2015 ACGME Annual Report

2014-2015 Statistical Highlights

STATISTICS AND FINACIALS

Institutions

There are 692 institutions that sponsor graduate medical education

programs. Over 60% sponsor multiple programs, while almost 40%

sponsor single programs.

Sponsoring Institutions

Multiple programs 429 62%

Single programs 263 38%

692 100%

Sponsoring Institutions use 4,858 participating sites to teach residents and

fellows. Over the past decade, the number of teaching sites has nearly

doubled, while ambulatory teaching sites nearly tripled during the same

timeframe.

2014-2015 ACGME Annual Report

Specialty

Subspecialty

4,020

4,867

4,060

4,962

4,084

5,181

4,134

5,393

4,171

5,474

Number of Programs

1,500

3,000

4,500

6,000

2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15

Programs

Accredited Programs

During 2014-2015, there were 9,645 accredited programs of which

4,171 were specialty programs and 5,474 were subspecialty programs.

Additionally, there were 193 new programs, which is the smallest annual

increase in new programs in over a decade. The number of programs that

closed or voluntarily withdrew their accreditation was 46.

During the 2014-2015 annual review cycle, Review Committees reviewed

and issued 8,816 accreditation decisions to programs participating in the

Next Accreditation System annual review.Based on review of their annual

indicators, the vast majority of programs (82.8%) did not require an in-depth

review by the Review Committee.The remaining programs were assessed

by Review Committee reviewers with or without a site visit.Most programs

were conferred a status of Continued Accreditation.A small number, 190

programs (2.2%), were granted a status of Continued Accreditation with

Warning or placed on Probationary Accreditation.

Specialty Program: A structured educational experience

in a eld of medical practice following completion of

medical school and, in some cases, prerequisite basic

clinical education designed to conform to the Program

Requirements of a particular specialty; also known as

‘core’ programs.

Subspecialty Program: A structured educational

experience following completion of a prerequisite

specialty program in GME designed to conform to the

Program Requirements of a particular subspecialty.

Accredited Programs

2014-2015 ACGME Annual Report

Number of Residents and Fellows

25,000

50,000

75,000

100,000

125,000

2010-2011 2011-2012 2012-2013 2013-2014 2014-2015

66,989

66,056

64,435

63,183

62,260

27,534

27,004

26,974

26,737

26,107

121,599

120,108

117,717

115,293

113,142

24,775

25,373

26,308

27,048

27,076

Note: 'Pipeline programs' are programs within specialties that lead to initial board

certification. Residents entering the pipeline are in Year 1 (e

xcluding preliminary year).

Number of Residents

Continuing in Pipeline

Programs that lead to

Initial Board Certificatio

Number of Residents

Entering Pipeline

Programs that lead to

Initial Board Certification

Number of Residents and

Fellows in Preliminary

Positions, Transitional

Year Programs, and

Fellowship Programs

Residents and Fellows

Active Residents and Fellows

There are 121,599 active residents and fellows in 9,645 programs. Of

the total 121,599 residents and fellows in 2014-2015, 23% were entering

pipeline programs, 55% were continuing in pipeline programs, and 22%

were in preliminary positions, transitional year programs, and fellowships.

Active Residents and Fellows by Medical School Type

Of the 121,599 active residents/fellows in ACGME-accredited programs

during Academic Year 2014-2015, the majority, at 65% completed LCME-

accredited medical schools in the U.S. Over a quarter, at 26%, are

international medical school graduates (IMGs).

Medical School Type

Count of

Residents

US-LCME Accredited Medical School 79,142

International Medical School 31,271

Osteopathic Medical School 10,999

Canadian Medical School 178

Medical School Unknown 9

Resident and Fellow Status

In addition to the 121,599 active residents, 42,741 successfully completed

and graduated from their ACGME-accredited programs.

Resident Status

Count of

Residents

Active 121,599

Completed Training 42,741

Left Program

Prior to Successful Completion

2,238

Inactive 1,368

Note: More breakdowns and additional details regarding these data are provided in the

ACGME’s Graduate Medical Education Data Resource Book, which can be found on the

ACGME website, www.acgme.org.

Active Residents and Fellows

2014-2015 ACGME Annual Report

ACGME revenue comes primarily from annual

fees charged to all programs accredited during

the academic year, accounting for nearly 87% of

ACGME income. Applications for new programs

accounted for 3.5% of 2014 revenue. Conference

and Workshop revenue and Investment income

accounted for 5.2% and 3.5% of total revenues,

respectively. During 2014, total revenues

amounted to more than $54.9 million. Of this

amount, the ACGME generated just under $51.4

million and the ACGME-I generated just under

$3.6 million.

As a service organization, salary and benet

expenses, as well as travel and meeting costs,

make up over 69% of the ACGME’s annual

expenses. During 2014, total expenses incurred

amounted to $53.6 million. The ACGME incurred

$51.1 million, while the ACGME-I incurred just

under $2.5 million.

Net income for 2014 was just over $1.3 million.

The ACGME’s net gain for 2014 was $247,000,

while the ACGME-I’s net gain was just under $1.1

million.

2014 Financial Reports

The ACGME’s scal year runs from January 1-December 31. These results represent audited results for Fiscal Year 2014.

 Program Fees $47,557,370 86.6%

 Conferences and Workshops $2,867,728 5.2%

 Application Fees $1,918,380 3.5%

 Net Investment Income $1,925,463 3.5%

 Rent Revenue $449,334 0.8%

 Other $218,668 0.4%

Total Revenues $54,936,943 100.0%

2014 Revenue

 Personnel $29,932,145 55.8%

 Meetings and Travel $7,261,291 13.5%

 Depreciation $3,509,259 6.5%

 Facilities $3,480,226 6.5%

 Professional Services $3,863,255 7.2%

 Ofce Supplies and Other $5,559,242 10.4%

Total Expenses $53,605,418 100.0%

2014 Expenses

2014-2015 ACGME Annual Report

Clinton Adams, DO

Term began January 2015

Stephen Albanese, MD

Stanley Ashley, MD

Carol Bernstein, MD

Donald Brady, MD

Term began September 2014

David Brown, MD

Term ended September 2014

Baretta Casey, MD

Term ended September 2014

Candice Chen, MD

Federal Government Representative

Term began September 2014

Jordan Cohen, MD

At Large Director

Timothy Daskivich, MD

Chair, Council of Review Committee Residents

Anjali Dogra, MD

Term ended September 2014

John Duval

Chair

David Entwistle

Term began September 2014

Ted Epperly, MD

Norman D. Ferrari III, MD

David Fine, MD

Term ended September 2014

David Forstein, DO

Term began January 2015

Rosemary Gibson

Public Director

Jeffrey Gold, MD

Steven Goldstein

Term began September 2014

Paul Grundy, MD

At Large Director

Diane Hartmann, MD

Term began September 2014

James Hebert, MD

Chair, Council of Review Committee Chairs

Carmen Hooker Odom, M.R.P.

Public Director

Lynne Kirk, MD

Dorothy Lane, MD

Term ended September 2014

Lorrie Langdale, MD

Jo Ellen Linder, MD

Term ended September 2014

Kenneth Ludmerer, MD

At Large Director

William McDade, MD

John B. McWhorter III

Term began September 2014

Travis Meyer, MD

Term began September 2014

Karen Nichols, DO

Term began January 2015

William Pinsky, MD

Peter Rapp

Term ended September 2014

Karen Sanders, MD

Federal Government Representative

Term began September 2014

Henry Schultz, MD

Treasurer

Gary Slick, DO

Term began January 2015

Edwin Zalneraitis, MD

Rowen Zetterman, MD

Vice Chair

ACGME Board of Directors • 2014-2015

LISTS

ACGME Board of Directors, September 2014

2014-2015 ACGME Annual Report

Review/Recognition Committees and Accredited Specialties

Review/Recognition Committee Specialized Areas Appointing Organizations

Allergy and Immunology

American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology

American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology

Anesthesiology

Adult Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology

Clinical Informatics

Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine

Hospice and Palliative Medicine

Obstetric Anesthesiology

Pain Medicine

Pediatric Anesthesiology

American Board of Anesthesiology

American Osteopathic Association

Colon and Rectal Surgery

American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgery

American College of Surgeons

Dermatology Dermatopathology Micrographic Surgery and Dermatologic Oncology

American Board of Dermatology

American Osteopathic Association

Diagnostic Radiology

Abdominal Radiology

Clinical Informatics

Endovascular Surgical Neuroradiology

Interventional Radiology

Musculoskeletal Radiology

Neuroradiology

Nuclear Radiology

Pediatric Radiology

Vascular and Interventional Radiology

American Board of Radiology

American College of Radiology

American Osteopathic Association

Emergency Medicine

Clinical Informatics

Emergency Medical Services

Medical Toxicology

Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Sports Medicine

Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine

American Board of Emergency Medicine

American College of Emergency Physicians

American Osteopathic Association

Family Medicine

Clinical Informatics

Geriatric Medicine

Hospice and Palliative Medicine

Sports Medicine

American Board of Family Practice

American Academy of Family Physicians

American Osteopathic Association

Institutional

ACGME Board of Directors

American Osteopathic Association

Internal Medicine

Adult Congenital Heart Disease

Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology

Cardiovascular Disease

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology

Clinical Informatics

Critical Care Medicine

Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism

Gastroenterology

Geriatric Medicine

Hematology

Hematology and Medical Oncology

Hospice and Palliative Medicine

Infectious Disease

Internal Medicine-Pediatrics

Interventional Cardiology

Medical Oncology

Nephrology

Pulmonary Critical Care

Pulmonary Disease

Rheumatology

Sleep Medicine

Transplant Hepatology

American Board of Internal Medicine

American College of Physicians

American Osteopathic Association

Medical Genetics

Clinical Informatics

Medical Biochemical Genetics

Molecular Genetic Pathology

American Board of Medical Genetics

American College of Medical Genetics

Neurological Surgery Endovascular Surgical Neuroradiology

American Board of Neurological Surgery

American College of Surgeons

American Osteopathic Association

Neurology

Brain Injury Medicine

Child Neurology

Clinical Neurophysiology

Endovascular Surgical Neuroradiology

Epilepsy

Neurodevelopmental Disabilities

Neuromuscular Medicine

Pain Medicine

Sleep Medicine

Vascular Neurology

American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

American Academy of Neurology

American Osteopathic Association

Nuclear Medicine

American Board of Nuclear Medicine

Society of Nuclear Medicine

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Female Pelvic Medicine

and Reconstructive Surgery

American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

American Osteopathic Association

2014-2015 ACGME Annual Report

Review/Recognition Committee Specialized Areas Appointing Organizations

Ophthalmology Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

American Board of Ophthalmology

American Academy of Ophthalmology

American Osteopathic Association

Orthopaedic Surgery

Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery

Foot and Ankle Orthopaedic Surgery

Hand Surgery

Musculoskeletal Oncology

Orthopaedic Sports Medicine

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine

Orthopaedic Trauma

Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery

American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery

American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons

American Osteopathic Association

Osteopathic Neuromusculoskeletal

Medicine

ACGME Board of Directors

American Osteopathic Association

Osteopathic Principles Committee

ACGME Board of Directors

American Osteopathic Association

Otolaryngology Neurotology Pediatric Otolaryngology

American Board of Otolaryngology

American College of Surgeons

American Osteopathic Association

Pathology – Anatomic and Clinical

Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine

Chemical Pathology

Clinical Informatics

Cytopathology

Dermatopathology

Forensic Pathology

Hematology

Medical Microbiology

Molecular Genetic Pathology

Neuropathology

Pediatric Pathology

Selective Pathology

American Board of Pathology

Pediatrics

Adolescent Medicine

Child Abuse

Clinical Informatics

Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics

Hospice and Palliative Medicine

Internal Medicine-Pediatrics

Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine

Pediatric Cardiology

Pediatric Critical Care

Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Pediatric Endocrinology

Pediatric Gastroenterology

Pediatric Hematology Oncology

Pediatric Infectious Diseases

Pediatric Nephrology

Pediatric Pulmonology

Pediatric Rheumatology

Pediatric Transplant Hepatology

Sleep Medicine

Sports Medicine

American Board of Pediatrics

American Academy of Pediatrics

American Osteopathic Association

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Brain Injury Medicine

Neuromuscular Medicine

Pain Medicine

Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine

Spinal Cord Injury Medicine

Sports Medicine

American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

American Academy of Physical Medicine and

Rehabilitation

American Osteopathic Association

Plastic Surgery Craniofacial Surgery Hand Surgery

American Board of Plastic Surgery

American College of Surgeons

American Osteopathic Association

Preventive Medicine

Clinical Informatics

Medical Toxicology

Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine American Board of Preventive Medicine

Psychiatry

Addiction Psychiatry

Brain Injury Medicine

Child Psychiatry

Forensic Psychiatry

Geriatric Psychiatry

Hospice and Palliative Medicine

Psychosomatic Medicine

Sleep Medicine

American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

American Psychiatric Association

American Osteopathic Association

Radiation Oncology Hospice and Palliative Medicine

American Board of Radiology

American College of Radiology

Surgery

Complex General Surgical Oncology

Surgical Critical Care

Hand Surgery

Pediatric Surgery

Vascular Surgery

American Board of Surgery

American College of Surgeons

American Osteopathic Association

Thoracic Surgery Congenital Cardiac Surgery

American Board of Thoracic Surgery

American College of Surgeons

Urology

Female Pelvic Medicine

and Reconstructive Surgery

Pediatric Urology

American Board of Urology

American College of Surgeons

American Osteopathic Association

Transitional Year

ACGME Board of Directors

American Osteopathic Association

* The American Medical Association’s Council on Medical Education is an appointing organization for all Review Committees except for the Institutional Review Committee, the Transitional Year Review

Committee, the Osteopathic Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine Review Committee, and the Osteopathic Principles Committee.

2014-2015 ACGME Annual Report

Review/Recognition Committee Specialized Areas Appointing Organizations

Ophthalmology Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

American Board of Ophthalmology

American Academy of Ophthalmology

American Osteopathic Association

Orthopaedic Surgery

Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery

Foot and Ankle Orthopaedic Surgery

Hand Surgery

Musculoskeletal Oncology

Orthopaedic Sports Medicine

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine

Orthopaedic Trauma

Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery

American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery

American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons

American Osteopathic Association

Osteopathic Neuromusculoskeletal

Medicine

ACGME Board of Directors

American Osteopathic Association

Osteopathic Principles Committee

ACGME Board of Directors

American Osteopathic Association

Otolaryngology Neurotology Pediatric Otolaryngology

American Board of Otolaryngology

American College of Surgeons

American Osteopathic Association

Pathology – Anatomic and Clinical

Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine

Chemical Pathology

Clinical Informatics

Cytopathology

Dermatopathology

Forensic Pathology

Hematology

Medical Microbiology

Molecular Genetic Pathology

Neuropathology

Pediatric Pathology

Selective Pathology

American Board of Pathology

Pediatrics

Adolescent Medicine

Child Abuse

Clinical Informatics

Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics

Hospice and Palliative Medicine

Internal Medicine-Pediatrics

Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine

Pediatric Cardiology

Pediatric Critical Care

Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Pediatric Endocrinology

Pediatric Gastroenterology

Pediatric Hematology Oncology

Pediatric Infectious Diseases

Pediatric Nephrology

Pediatric Pulmonology

Pediatric Rheumatology

Pediatric Transplant Hepatology

Sleep Medicine

Sports Medicine

American Board of Pediatrics

American Academy of Pediatrics

American Osteopathic Association

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Brain Injury Medicine

Neuromuscular Medicine

Pain Medicine

Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine

Spinal Cord Injury Medicine

Sports Medicine

American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

American Academy of Physical Medicine and

Rehabilitation

American Osteopathic Association

Plastic Surgery Craniofacial Surgery Hand Surgery

American Board of Plastic Surgery

American College of Surgeons

American Osteopathic Association

Preventive Medicine

Clinical Informatics

Medical Toxicology

Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine American Board of Preventive Medicine

Psychiatry

Addiction Psychiatry

Brain Injury Medicine

Child Psychiatry

Forensic Psychiatry

Geriatric Psychiatry

Hospice and Palliative Medicine

Psychosomatic Medicine

Sleep Medicine

American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

American Psychiatric Association

American Osteopathic Association

Radiation Oncology Hospice and Palliative Medicine

American Board of Radiology

American College of Radiology

Surgery

Complex General Surgical Oncology

Surgical Critical Care

Hand Surgery

Pediatric Surgery

Vascular Surgery

American Board of Surgery

American College of Surgeons

American Osteopathic Association

Thoracic Surgery Congenital Cardiac Surgery

American Board of Thoracic Surgery

American College of Surgeons

Urology

Female Pelvic Medicine

and Reconstructive Surgery

Pediatric Urology

American Board of Urology

American College of Surgeons

American Osteopathic Association

Transitional Year

ACGME Board of Directors

American Osteopathic Association

* The American Medical Association’s Council on Medical Education is an appointing organization for all Review Committees except for the Institutional Review Committee, the Transitional Year Review

Committee, the Osteopathic Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine Review Committee, and the Osteopathic Principles Committee.

Review/Recognition Committee Members • 2014-2015

Allergy and Immunology

Amal H. Assa’ad, MD

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

Cincinnati, Ohio

William K. Dolen, MD—Chair

Georgia Regents University

Augusta, Georgia

Mary Beth Fasano, MD

University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

Iowa City, Iowa

Anita T. Gewurz, MD

Rush Medical College, Rush University

Chicago, Illinois

David P. Huston, MD

Texas A&M Health Science Center

Houston, Texas

Bruce J. Lanser, MD—Resident

National Jewish Health

Denver, Colorado

Gailen D. Marshall Jr., MD

The University of Mississippi Medical Center

Jackson, Mississippi

Michael R. Nelson, MD

Walter Reed National Medical Center

Bethesda, Maryland

Jay M. Portnoy, MD—Vice Chair

Children’s Mercy Hospital

Kansas City, Missouri

Stephen I. Wasserman, MD—Ex-Officio

American Board of Allergy and Immunology

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Anesthesiology

J. Jeffrey Andrews, MD—Ex-Officio

(Term ended September 30, 2014)

American Board of Anesthesiology

San Antonio, Texas

Deborah J. Culley, MD

Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts

Brenda G. Fahy, MD

University of Florida

Gainesville, Florida

Robert Gaiser, MD—Vice Chair

Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Linda Jo Mason, MD

Loma Linda University Medical Center

Loma Linda, California

Joel Musee, MD—Resident

Vanderbilt University

Antioch, Tennessee

Andrew Patterson, MD, PhD

Stanford University

Stanford, California

James Ramsay, MD

University of California, San Francisco

San Francisco, California

James P. Rathmell, MD—Ex-Officio

(Term began October 1, 2014)

American Board of Anesthesiology

Boston, Massachusetts

Richard W. Rosenquist, MD

Cleveland Clinic

Cleveland, Ohio

Margaret Wood, MD—Chair

Columbia University

New York, New York

Cynthia A. Wong, MD

Northwestern University

Feinberg School of Medicine

Chicago, Illinois

Colon and Rectal Surgery

Patrice Blair, MPH—Ex-Officio

American College of Surgeons

Chicago, Illinois

Russell W. Farmer, MD—Resident

University of Louisville

Louisville, Kentucky

Tracy L. Hull, MD

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

Matthew G. Mutch, MD

Washington University School of Medicine

St. Louis, Missouri

Bruce A. Orkin, MD—Chair

Rush University

Chicago, Illinois

David J. Schoetz Jr., MD—Ex-Officio

American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgeons

Burlington, Massachusetts

Anthony J. Senagore, MD—Vice Chair

University Hospitals/Parma Medical Center

Parma, Ohio

Michael J. Snyder, MD

University of Texas Medical School

Houston, Texas

Charles B. Whitlow, MD

Ochsner Medical Center

New Orleans, Louisiana

Dermatology

Robert T. Brodell, MD

University of Mississippi

Jackson, Mississippi

C. William Hanke, MD, MPH, FACP

Laser Skin and Surgery Center of Indiana

Carmel, Indiana

Brian R. Hinds, MD—Resident

University of Louisville

Louisville, Kentucky

Thomas D. Horn, MD, MBA—Ex-Officio

American Board of Dermatology

Newton, Massachusetts

Nicole M. Owens, MD—Chair

Skin Specialists of San Antonio

San Antonio, Texas

Amy Susan Paller, MD—Vice Chair

Northwestern University

Chicago, Illinois

James W. Patterson, MD

University of Virginia

Charlottesville, Virginia

Mary Stone, MD

University of Iowa

Iowa City, Iowa

Colonel George W. Turiansky, MD

Uniformed Services University of

the Health Sciences

Bethesda, Maryland

John A. Zitelli, MD

University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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Diagnostic Radiology

James C. Anderson, MD—Chair

Oregon Health & Science University

Portland, Oregon

Bradley Carra, MD—Resident

San Antonio Uniformed Services

Health Education Consortium

San Antonio, Texas

Kristen K. DeStigter, MD

University of Vermont/Fletcher Allen Health Care

Burlington, Vermont

Donald Flemming, MD

Penn State Hershey Radiology

Hershey, Pennsylvania

Valerie Jackson, MD—Ex-Officio

American Board of Radiology

Tucson, Arizona

Susan D. John, MD

University of Texas Medical School at Houston

Houston, Texas

Jeanne M. LaBerge, MD

University of California, San Francisco

San Francisco, California

Mary Mahoney, MD

UC Health

Cincinnati, Ohio

Duane G. Mezwa, MD—Vice Chair

Oakland University, William Beaumont Hospitals

Rochester Hills, Michigan

Elizabeth Oates, MD

University of Kentucky

Lexington, Kentucky

Gautham P. Reddy, MD

University of Washington

Seattle, Washington

Kay Vydareny, MD—Ex-Officio

American Board of Radiology

Tucson, Arizona

Emergency Medicine

Brandon R. Allen, MD—Resident

University of Florida

Newberry, Florida

Steven H. Bowman, MD

Stroger Cook County Hospital

Chicago, Illinois

Lance Brown, MD

Loma Linda University

Loma Linda, California

Wallace Carter, MD

New York Presbyterian

Bronxville, New York

Amy Church, MD

Rutgers University

Stockton, New Jersey

Marjorie Geist, PhD—Ex-Officio

American College of Emergency Physicians

Irving, Texas

Diane Gorgas, MD

Ohio State University

Columbus, Ohio

Douglas McGee, DO

Einstein Healthcare Network

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Earl J. Reisdorff, MD—Ex-Officio

American Board of Emergency Medicine

East Lansing, Michigan

Philip Shayne, MD—Chair

Emory University

Atlanta, Georgia

Christine Sullivan, MD—Vice Chair

Truman Medical Center

Kansas City, Missouri

Suzanne R. White, MD

Detroit Medical Center

Detroit, Michigan

Family Medicine

Suzanne M. Allen, MD

University of Washington School of Medicine

Boise, Idaho

John R. Bucholtz, DO

Columbus Regional Family Residency Program

Columbus, Georgia

Gary Buckholz, MD

University of California at San Diego

La Jolla, California

Paul A. Callaway, MD—Vice Chair

University of Kansas School of Medicine

Wichita, Kansas

Peter J. Carek, MD, MS—Chair

University of Florida

Gainesville, Florida

Samuel Jones, MD

VCU-Fairfax Family Medicine Residency

Fairfax, Virginia

Stanley Kozakowski, MD—Ex-Officio

American Academy of Family Physicians

Leawood, Kansas

Martha H. Lansing, MD

UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

New Brunswick, New Jersey

Michael K. Magill, MD

University of Utah School of Medicine

Salt Lake City, Utah

Stacy E. Potts, MD

UMass Memorial Group

Barre, Massachusetts

James Puffer, MD—Ex-Officio

American Board of Family Medicine

Lexington, Kentucky

Nicholas Weida, MD—Resident

Swedish Family Medicine Residency

Seattle, Washington

Institutional Review Committee

Ronald G. Amedee, MD, FACS

Ochsner Health System

New Orleans, Louisiana

James A. Clardy, MD

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Little Rock, Arkansas

Andrew T. Filak, MD

University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

Cincinnati, Ohio

Joseph Jaeger, DrPH

Monmouth Medical Center

Long Branch, New Jersey

Dinchen Jardine, MD LCDR MC USN

—Resident

Naval Medical Center – Portsmouth

Portsmouth, Virginia

Susan Kirk, MD

University of Virginia Health System

Charlottesville, Virginia

Peter M. Nalin, MD

(Term ended January 31, 2015)

Indiana University School of Medicine

Indianapolis, Indiana

Lawrence M. Opas, MD—Chair

University of Southern California/LAC+USC

Medical Center

Los Angeles, California

Rita M. Patel, MD

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

James R. Zaidan, MD, MBA —Vice Chair

Emory University School of Medicine

Atlanta, Georgia

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Internal Medicine

Patrick Alguire, MD, FACP—Ex-Officio

American College of Physicians

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

James A. Arrighi, MD—Chair

Rhode Island Hospital, Brown Medical School

Providence, Rhode Island

Robert L. Benz, MD

Lankenau Medical Center

Wynnewood, Pennsylvania

Christian T. Cable, MD, MHPE

Texas A&M University Health Science Center

Temple, Texas

E. Benjamin Clyburn, MD—Vice Chair

Medical University of South Carolina

Charleston, South Carolina

Ricardo Correa, MD—Resident

National Institute of Health

Rockville, Maryland

Alan C. Dalkin, MD

University of Virginia

Charlottesville, Virginia

Andrew N. Dentino, MD

University of Oklahoma Health Science Center

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Sima S. Desai, MD

Oregon Health & Science University

Portland, Oregon

John D. Fisher, MD

Montefiore Medical Center/

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Bronx, New York

Andrew S. Gersoff, MD

Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital

Santa Barbara, California

Kristin Jacob, MD—Resident

Grand Rapids Medical Education Partners

Grand Rapids, Michigan

Betty Lo, MD

Louisiana State University

Health Sciences Center

New Orleans, Louisiana

Monica L. Lypson, MD

University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Brian F. Mandell, MD

Cleveland Clinic

Cleveland, Ohio

Furman S. McDonald, MD—Ex-Officio

American Board of Internal Medicine

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Elaine A. Muchmore, MD

University of California, San Diego

San Diego, California

Susan Murin, MD

University of California, Davis

School of Medicine

Sacramento, California

Victor J. Navarro, MD

Einstein Medical Center/

Einstein Healthcare Network

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Andrea Reid, MD

Washington Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Washington, District of Columbia

Ilene M. Rosen, MD, MSCE

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Jacqueline Stocking, RN, MSN, MBA

—Public Member

University of California Davis Health System

Sacramento, California

Jennifer C. Thompson, MD, FACP, FIDSA

Orlando VA Medical Center

Orlando, Florida

Medical Genetics

Hans Christoph Andersson, MD

Tulane University Medical School

New Orleans, Louisiana

Mimi G. Blitzer, PhD, FACMG—Ex-Officio

American Board of Medical Genetics

Bethesda, Maryland

Laurie A. Demmer, MD, MA

Carolinas Medical Center

Charlotte, North Carolina

Katrina M. Dipple, MD

David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA

Los Angeles, California

Susan D. Klugman, MD

Montefiore Medical Center/

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Bronx, New York

Austin Larson, MD—Resident

Children’s Hospital Colorado

Aurora, Colorado

Shawn E. McCandless, MD—Vice Chair

University Hospitals Case Medical Center

Cleveland, Ohio

V. Reid Sutton, MD—Chair

Baylor College of Medicine

Houston, Texas

Neurological Surgery

Nicholas M. Barbaro, MD—Vice Chair

Indiana University School of Medicine

Indianapolis, Indiana

H. Hunt Batjer, MD, FACS

UT Southwestern Medical Center

Dallas, Texas

Patrice Blair, MPH—Ex-Officio

American College of Surgeons

Chicago, Illinois

Jeffrey N. Bruce, MD—Ex-Officio

American Board of Neurological Surgery

New York, New York

Kim J. Burchiel, MD, FACS—Chair

Oregon Health & Science University

Portland, Oregon

M. Sean Grady, MD

The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Griffith R. Harsh IV, MD

Stanford University

Stanford, California

Benjamin C. Kennedy, MD—Resident

Columbia University/

New York Presbyterian Hospital

New York, New York

Nelson M. Oyesiku, MD, PhD

Emory University School of Medicine

Atlanta, Georgia

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Neurology

Imran I. Ali, MD

University of Toledo Health Science Campus

Toledo, Ohio

Eric R. Anderson, MD—Resident

Emory University

Atlanta, Georgia

David J. Capobianco, MD, FAAN

Mayo Clinic Florida

Jacksonville, Florida

Larry Faulkner, MD—Ex-Officio

American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

Buffalo Grove, Illinois

Laurie Gutmann, MD

University of Iowa

Iowa City, Iowa

Ralph F. Józefowicz, MD

University of Rochester School of

Medicine and Dentistry

Rochester, New York

Shannon M. Kilgore, MD—Vice Chair

VA Palo Alto Health Care System

Palo Alto, California

Steven L. Lewis, MD—Chair

Rush University Medical Center

Chicago, Illinois

Phillip L. Pearl, MD

Boston Children’s Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts

Catherine M. Rydell, CAE—Ex-Officio

American Academy of Neurology

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Lori A. Schuh, MD, FAAN

Spectrum Health

Grand Rapids, Michigan

Barney J. Stern, MD

University of Maryland School of Medicine

Baltimore, Maryland

Nuclear Medicine

Jon Baldwin, DO—Chair

University of Alabama Birmingham

Medical Center

Hoover, Alabama

Helena Balon, MD

William Beaumont Hospital

Royal Oak, Michigan

Erica Cohen, DO—Resident

Loyola University Medical Center

Maywood, Illinois

Kirk A. Frey, MD

The University of Michigan Hospitals

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Frederick Grant, MD

Children’s Hospital Boston

Boston, Massachusetts

David Lewis, MD—Vice Chair

University of Washington

Seattle, Washington

J. Anthony Parker, MD—Ex-Officio

American Board of Nuclear Medicine

Boston, Massachusetts

George Segall, MD—Ex-Officio

American Board of Nuclear Medicine

St. Louis, Missouri

Barry L. Shulkin, MD, MBA

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Memphis, Tennessee

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Karen E. Adams, MD

Oregon Health & Science University

Portland, Oregon

Jessica L. Bienstock, MD, MPH—Vice Chair

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Baltimore, Maryland

Mary C. Ciotti, MD—Chair

University of Southern California

Los Angeles, California

AnnaMarie Connolly, MD

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Amber R. Crowder, MD—Resident

Tripler Army Medical Center

Tripler AMC, Hawaii

Gary N. Frishman, MD

Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island

Providence, Rhode Island

Larry C. Gilstrap III, MD—Ex-Officio

American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Dallas, Texas

Robert V. Higgins, MD

Carolinas Medical Center

Charlotte, North Carolina

Kimberly S. Kenton, MD

Northwestern University Feinberg

School of Medicine

Chicago, Illinois

Hal Lawrence, MD—Ex-Officio

American College of

Obstetricians and Gynecologists

Washington, District of Columbia

Lee A. Learman, MD, PhD

Indiana University School of Medicine

Indianapolis, Indiana

Robert S. Schenken, MD

University of Texas Health Science Center at

San Antonio

San Antonio, Texas

Patrice M. Weiss, MD

Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital

Roanoke, Virginia

Christopher Zahn, MD

(Term ended April 1, 2015)

Uniformed Services University of the

Health Sciences

Bethesda, Maryland

Ophthalmology

Anthony C. Arnold, MD—Chair

UCLA Medical Center

Los Angeles, California

John G. Clarkson, MD—Ex-Officio

American Board of Ophthalmology

Miami, Florida

Claude L. Cowan Jr., MD

Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Washington, District of Columbia

Andreas K. Lauer, MD

Oregon Health & Science University

Portland, Oregon

Assumpta A. Madu, MD, MBA, PharmD, CPE

Montefiore Medical Center

Bronx, New York

Shahzad Mian, MD

University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Howard D. Pomeranz, MD, PhD

North Shore Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Great Neck, New York

Joel S. Schuman, MD

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Raymond M. Siatkowski, MD—Vice Chair

University of Oklahoma

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Brian C. Stagg, MD—Resident

University Health Care

Salt Lake City, Utah

Laura L. Wayman, MD

Vanderbilt Eye Institute

Nashville, Tennessee

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Orthopaedic Surgery

R. Dale Blasier, MD, FRCS

Arkansas Children’s Hospital

Little Rock, Arkansas

Lynn A. Crosby, MD

Georgia Regents University

Augusta, Georgia

Jeanne M. Franzone, MD—Resident

Columbia University Medical Center

New York, New York

Shepard R. Hurwitz, MD—Ex-Officio

American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Paul J. Juliano, MD

The Penn State Milton S. Hershey

Medical Center

Hershey, Pennsylvania

Dawn M. LaPorte, MD

Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, Maryland

Terry R. Light, MD

Loyola University, Stritch School of Medicine

Maywood, Illinois

J. Lawrence Marsh, MD—Chair

University of Iowa Hospitals

Iowa City, Iowa

Peter M. Murray, MD

Mayo Clinic

Jacksonville, Florida

Theodore W. Parsons III, MD, FACS

Henry Ford Health System

Detroit, Michigan

Terry L. Thompson, MD—Vice Chair

Howard University Hospital

Washington, District of Columbia

Osteopathic

Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine

William Thomas Crow, DO, FAAO

University of North Texas Health Science Center

Fort Worth, Texas

Guy DeFeo, DO

University of New England

Biddeford, Maine

Lisa DeStephano, DO—Chair

Michigan State University College of

Osteopathic Medicine

East Lansing, Michigan

John Leuenberger, DO—Resident

Eastern Maine Medical Center

Bangor, Maine

James Martin, MD

CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Health Care

San Antonio, Texas

Natalie A. Nevins, DO, MSHPE

Western University of Health Sciences/COMP

Pomona, California

Eric Hunter Sharp, DO—Vice Chair

Central Maine Medical Center

Lewiston, Maine

Jim Swartwout, MA—Ex-Officio

American Osteopathic Association

Chicago, Illinois

Osteopathic Principles

Committee

Juan F. Acosta, DO, MS, FACOEP-D, FACEP

OPTI-West/Pacific Northwest University of

Health Sciences

Yakima, Washington

Natasha N. Bray, DO, MSEd, FACOI, FACP

—Vice Chair

Proposed Arkansas College of

Osteopathic Medicine

Fort Smith, Arkansas

Robert A. Cain, DO—Chair

Ohio University Heritage College of

Osteopathic Medicine

Powell, Ohio

Jane Carreiro, DO

University of New England

Kennebunkport, Maine

Millicent Channell, DO, FAAO

Rowan University – School of

Osteopathic Medicine

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Alissa Craft, DO, MBA

NYIT – College of Osteopathic Medicine

Old Westbury, New York

John Dougherty, DO, FACOFP, FAOASM,

FAODME, FILM

Kansas City University of Medicine and

Biosciences – College of Osteopathic Medicine

Kansas City, Missouri

Robert Hasty, DO, FACOI, FACP

Campbell University

Buies Creek, North Carolina

Kenneth A. Heiles, DO, FACOFP dist

Proposed Arkansas College of

Osteopathic Medicine

Fort Smith, Arkansas

Bridget McIlwee, DO—Resident

University of North Texas Health Science Center

Fort Worth, Texas

Anthony N. Ottaviani, DO, MPH, MACOI, FCCP

Largo Medical Center-Nova Southeastern

University College of Osteopathic Medicine

Largo, Florida

George Pasquarello, DO, FAAO

East Greenwich Spine & Sport

East Greenwich, Rhode Island

Michael P. Rowane, DO, MS, FAAFP, FAAO

University Hospitals Regional Hospitals

Willoughby Hills, Ohio

Barry Smith, MD

Baylor College of Medicine

Houston, Texas

Karen T. Snider, DO, MS, FAAO

ATSU-KCOM

Kirksville, Missouri

Jim Swartwout, MA—Ex-Officio

American Osteopathic Association

Chicago, Illinois

Penelope Tippy, MD

Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Family Medicine Residency

West Frankfort, Illinois

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Otolaryngology

Iram Ahmad, MD—Resident

University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

Iowa City, Iowa

Patrice Gabler Blair, MPH —Ex-Officio

American College of Surgeons

Chicago, Illinois

Sukgi S. Choi, MD—Chair

Children’s Hospital Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Michael Cunningham, MD, FACS—Vice Chair

Children’s Hospital Boston

Boston, Massachusetts

David Brian Hom, MD

University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

Cincinnati, Ohio

Robert H. Miller, MD, MBA—Ex-Officio

American Board of Otolaryngology

Houston, Texas

Lloyd B. Minor, MD

Stanford University School of Medicine

Stanford, California

John Rhee, MD, MPH, FACS

Medical College of Wisconsin

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

David J. Terris, MD, FACS

Georgia Regents University

Augusta, Georgia

Terance T. Tsue, MD

University of Kansas School of Medicine

Kansas City, Kansas

Randal S. Weber, MD

University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Houston, Texas

D. Bradley Welling, MD, PhD, FACS

Harvard Medical School

Boston, Massachusetts

Pathology

Melissa Austin, MD, MBS—Resident

Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

Bethesda, Maryland

Susan Adela Fuhrman, MD

Riverside Methodist Hospital

Columbus, Ohio

Michael N. Hart, MD

(Term ended January 27, 2015)

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Madison, Wisconsin

Julia C. Iezzoni, MD—Chair

University of Virginia Health System

Charlottesville, Virginia

Rebecca Johnson, MD—Ex-Officio

American Board of Pathology

Tampa, Florida

Karen L. Kaul, MD, PhD

NorthShore University Health System,

Evanston Hospital

Evanston, Illinois

Barbara Sampson, MD—Vice Chair

Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of the

City of New York

New York, New York

James R. Stubbs, MD

Mayo Clinic

Rochester, Minnesota

Steven Swerdlow, MD

UPMC Presbyterian Hospital

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Charles F. Timmons Jr., MD, PhD

University of Texas Southwestern

Dallas, Texas

Pediatrics

Ann E. Burke, MD

Dayton Children’s Medical Center

Dayton, Ohio

Dalya Leviant Chefitz, MD

UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

New Brunswick, New Jersey

Jerri Curtis, MD

Uniformed Services University of the

Health Sciences

Bethesda, Maryland

Alan H. Friedman, MD

Yale University Department of Pediatrics

Madison, Connecticut

Rani Gereige, MD, MPH, FAAP

(Term began January 1, 2015)

Miami Children’s Hospital

Miami, Florida

Joseph Gilhooly, MD—Chair

Oregon Health & Science University

Portland, Oregon

Maryellen Gusic, MD

(Term ended July 17, 2014)

Indiana University School of Medicine

Indianapolis, Indiana

Richard Hawkins, MD—Ex-Officio

American Medical Association

Chicago, Illinois

David Jaffe, MD

University of California, San Francisco

San Francisco, California

Deepak M. Kamat, MD, PhD, FAAP

Children’s Hospital of Michigan

Detroit, Michigan

Cathy A. Lee-Miller, MD—Resident

University of Colorado

Aurora, Colorado

Gail A. McGuinness, MD—Ex-Officio

American Board of Pediatrics

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Holly Mulvey, MA—Ex-Officio

American Academy of Pediatrics

Elk Grove Village, Illinois

Victoria Fay Norwood, MD

University of Virginia Health System

Charlottesville, Virginia

Carrie Radabough, MPP—Ex-Officio

American Academy of Pediatrics

Elk Grove Village, Illinois

R. Franklin Trimm, MD—Vice Chair

University of South Alabama Children’s and

Women’s Hospital

Mobile, Alabama

Daniel C. West, MD

University of California, San Francisco

San Francisco, California

Suzanne K. Woods, MD

Duke University Medical Center

Durham, North Carolina

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Physical Medicine and

Rehabilitation

Anthony E. Chiodo, MD—Vice Chair

University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Salar Deldar, MD—Resident

Monterey Spine & Joint

Monterey, California

Gerard E. Francisco, MD, FAAPMR—Chair

University of Texas

Health Science Center at Houston

Houston, Texas

Susan V. Garstang, MD

VA New Jersey Healthcare System

East Orange, New Jersey

William F. Micheo, MD

University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine

San Juan, Puerto Rico

David W. Pruitt, MD

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

Cincinnati, Ohio

Tom Stautzenbach—Ex-Officio

American Academy of

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Rosemont, Illinois

Anthony M. Tarvestad, JD—Ex-Officio

(Term ended February 1, 2015)

American Board of

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Rochester, Minnesota

Carol Vandenakker-Albanese, MD

UC Davis Health System

Sacramento, California

Plastic Surgery

Michael L. Bentz, MD

University of Wisconsin

Madison, Wisconsin

Patrice Blair, MPH—Ex-Officio

American College of Surgeons

Chicago, Illinois

James Chang, MD—Vice Chair

Stanford University

Stanford, California

Kevin C. Chung, MD

University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Arun K. Gosain, MD

Lurie Children’s Hospital

Chicago, Illinois

Juliana E. Hansen, MD

Oregon Health & Science University

Portland, Oregon

Donald R. Mackay, MD—Chair

Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

Hershey, Pennsylvania

Aaron Mull, MD—Resident

Washington University

St. Louis, Missouri

R. Barrett Noone, MD—Ex-Officio

American Board of Plastic Surgery

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Robert A. Weber Jr., MD

Texas A&M University Health Science Center

Temple, Texas

James E. Zins, MD

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

Preventive Medicine

Beth A. Baker, MD—Chair

Canadian Pacific Railway

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Tina C. Foster, MD, MPH, MS

Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center

Lebanon, New Hampshire

William Greaves, MD, MPH—Ex-Officio

American Board of Preventive Medicine

Chicago, Illinois

Kurt Timothy Hegmann, MD, MPH

University of Utah

Salt Lake City, Utah

Robert Johnson, MD, MPH, MBA

Humana Military Healthcare Services

Boerne, Texas

Denece Odland Kesler, MD, MPH, FACOEM

—Vice Chair

University of New Mexico

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Ana E. Nobis, MD, MSPH—Resident

University of Illinois at Chicago

Chicago, Illinois

Col. Samual W. Sauer, MD, MPH

USASAM/NAMI

Pensacola, Florida

Psychiatry

Iqbal Ahmed, MD

Tripler Army Medical Center

Honolulu, Hawaii

Robert J. Boland, MD

Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts

Carlyle H. Chan, MD

Medical College of Wisconsin

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Josepha A. Cheong, MD

Malcom Randall VA Medical Center

Gainesville, Florida

Steven P. Cuffe, MD

University of Florida College of Medicine

Jacksonville, Florida

Mina Dulcan, MD

Lurie Children’s Hospital

Chicago, Illinois

Larry Faulkner, MD—Ex-Officio

American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

Buffalo Grove, Illinois

Anne L. Glowinski, MD, MPE

Washington University School of Medicine

St. Louis, Missouri

George A. Keepers, MD—Chair

Oregon Health & Science University

Portland, Oregon

M. Philip Luber, MD

University of Texas Health Science Center

San Antonio, Texas

Gerald A. Maguire, MD

UC Riverside School of Medicine

Riverside, California

Annelle Primm, MD—Ex-Officio

American Psychiatric Association

Arlington, Virginia

Robert J. Ronis, MD

University Hospitals Case Medical Center

Cleveland, Ohio

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Psychiatry (continued)

Heather E. W. Schultz, MD—Resident

University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Mark Servis, MD—Vice Chair

University of California, Davis

School of Medicine

Sacramento, California

Andrea Stolar, MD

Baylor College of Medicine

Houston, Texas

Dorothy E. Stubbe, MD

Yale University Child Study Center

New Haven, Connecticut

Richard F. Summers, MD

Perelman School of Medicine,

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Radiation Oncology

Robert J. Amdur, MD—Chair

University of Florida

Gainesville, Florida

Katherine L. Griem, MD—Vice Chair

Rush University Medical Center

Chicago, Illinois

Miranda Kim, MD—Resident

Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts

William Regine, MD

University of Maryland

Baltimore, Maryland

Dennis C. Shrieve, MD, PhD

Huntsman Cancer Hospital

Salt Lake City, Utah

Ann E. Spangler, MD, MACM

University of Texas Southwestern

Dallas, Texas

Paul E. Wallner, DO—Ex-Officio

American Board of Radiology

Bethesda, Maryland

Lynn D. Wilson, MD, MPH

Yale University School of Medicine

New Haven, Connecticut

Surgery

John Armstrong, MD

University of South Florida

Morsani College of Medicine

Tallahassee, Florida

Patrice Blair, MPH—Ex-Officio

American College of Surgeons

Chicago, Illinois

Ronald Dalman, MD

Stanford University School of Medicine

Stanford, California

George M. Fuhrman, MD

Ochsner Clinic Foundation

New Orleans, Louisiana

David N. Herndon, MD

University of Texas Medical Branch

Galveston, Texas

Mark Malangoni, MD—Ex-Officio

The American Board of Surgery

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Jeffrey B. Matthews, MD

University of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois

Joseph Mills, MD

Baylor College of Medicine

Houston, Texas

John J. Ricotta, MD

Georgetown University

Washington, District of Columbia

Marshall Z. Schwartz, MD

Drexel University

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Steven C. Stain, MD—Chair

Albany Medical College

Albany, New York

Danny M. Takanishi, MD—Vice Chair

University of Hawaii John A. Burns

School of Medicine

Honolulu, Hawaii

Paula M. Termuhlen, MD

University of Minnesota

Duluth, Minnesota

Richard Thirlby, MD

Virginia Mason Medical Center

Seattle, Washington

Thomas F. Tracy, MD

Alpert Medical School, Brown University

Providence, Rhode Island

Jennifer Tseng, MD—Resident

Oregon Health & Science University

Portland, Oregon

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Thoracic Surgery

Carl L. Backer, MD—Vice Chair

Northwestern University

Feinberg School of Medicine

Chicago, Illinois

William A. Baumgartner, MD—Ex-Officio

American Board of Thoracic Surgery

Chicago, Illinois

Patrice Blair, MPH—Ex-Officio

American College of Surgeons

Chicago, Illinois

Thomas A. D’Amico, MD

Duke University Medical Center

Durham, North Carolina

Robert S. D. Higgins, MD

Ohio State University

Columbus, Ohio

Jennifer Lawton, MD

Washington University

St. Louis, Missouri

Walter H. Merrill, MD—Chair

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Nashville, Tennessee

Helen Merritt, DO—Resident

University of Texas Health Science Center

San Antonio, Texas

Ara Vaporciyan, MD

University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Houston, Texas

Transitional Year

Brian M. Aboff, MD—Chair

Christiana Care Health System

Newark, Delaware

Gerard T. Costello, MD

Ball Memorial Hospital

Muncie, Indiana

Steven R. Craig, MD

Unity Point Health

Des Moines, Iowa

Andrew S. Flotten, MD—Resident

Chesapeake, Virginia

Susan Guralnick, MD

Winthrop University Hospital

Mineola, New York

Julie B. McCausland, MD, MS—Vice Chair

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Paul M. Sherman, MD

Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center

Lackland Air Force Base, Texas

Robert P. Sticca, MD

University of North Dakota School of

Medicine and Health Sciences

Grand Forks, North Dakota

Matthew Short, MD

Madigan Healthcare System

Tacoma, Washington

Urology

Laurence S. Baskin, MD

University of California, San Francisco

San Francisco, California

Patrice Blair, MPH—Ex-Officio

American College of Surgeons

Chicago, Illinois

Jessica Tooredman Casey, MD

Northwestern University

Indianapolis, Indiana

Elizabeth Ann Gormley, MD—Vice Chair

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Lebanon, New Hampshire

Gerald H. Jordan, MD—Ex-Officio

American Board of Urology

Charlottesville, Virginia

Byron D. Joyner, MD

Seattle Children’s Hospital

Seattle, Washington

Barry A. Kogan, MD

Urologic Institute of Northeastern New York

Albany, New York

Randall B. Meacham, MD—Chair

University of Colorado School of Medicine

Aurora, Colorado

Stephen Y. Nakada, MD, FACS

University of Wisconsin School of

Medicine and Public Health

Madison, Wisconsin

Margaret S. Pearle, MD

University of Texas Southwestern

Dallas, Texas

Chad W. M. Ritenour, MD

Emory University

Atlanta, Georgia

James Brantley Thrasher, MD

University of Kansas Medical Center

Kansas City, Kansas

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ACGME Staff Listing

Ofﬁce of the

Chief Executive Ofﬁcer

Thomas J. Nasca, MD, MACP

Chief Executive Officer

Douglas Carlson, Esq.

Bethanie Clausen

Melissa Lynn

Tami Walters

Ofﬁce of the

Chief Executive Ofﬁcer/

Accreditation Standards

Kathy Malloy

Vice President, Accreditation Standards

Timothy Stephansen

Brenda Treviño

Ofﬁce of the Chief of Staff/

Department of Education

Timothy P. Brigham, MDiv, PhD

Chief of Staff;

Senior Vice President, Department of Education

DeWitt C. Baldwin Jr., MD

Laura Barbo

Amy Beane

Debra Dooley

Robert A. Doughty, MD, PhD

DeLonda Y. Dowling

Ann Riley

Andrea Rio, MA

Paul H. Rockey, MD, MPH

Joanne G. Schwartzberg, MD

Victoria Shaffer

Jessalynn Watanabe

Lauren Wojnarowski, MA

Nicholas Yaghmour, MPP

Department of Finance and

Operations

John Ogunkeye, MS

Chief Financial Officer;

Senior Vice President, Operations

Juan Aguirre

Sheri Bellar

Patricia Desmond

Soukvilai Grenier

Coralie Janssen

Steven Jarvis

Tom Jurczak, MBA

Annie Leong, CPA

Jose Munoz

Bryan Naraky

Patrick Nasca

Javier Nuno

Daniel Parra

Lauren Reali, MA

Teri Robins, JD, MBA

Josiah Robinson

Patricia Trojnar

Sharon Walker

Department of Applications and

Data Analysis

Rebecca S. Miller, MS

Senior Vice President, Applications and

Data Analysis

Samantha Alvarado

Lauren Byrne, MPH

Raquel Eng

Erle Fajardo

Sidney Fox

Jason Goertz

Tom Hackett

Christine Jessup

Christopher Jordan

Kirsten Kolar

Sudarshan Kondur

Sudhir Kumar

Jean Minick

Stephen Moore

Michael Mroz

Steven Nash

David Pott

Thomas Richter, MA

Raquel Running

Hina Shah

Heidi Sowl

Andrew Turkington

Noelle Volovic

Bassam Wassouf

Quinn White

Department of Communications

Paige Amidon, MBA, MPH

Senior Vice President, Communications

Beata Risner, MA

Maayan S. Schwab, MA

Emily Vasiliou, MA

Rayda D. Young

CLER Program

Kevin B. Weiss, MD

Senior Vice President, Institutional Accreditation

Mark Bixby, MD

Jennifer Buescher, MD, MSPH

Ericka Cannaday

Baretta Casey, MD, MPH, FAAFP

Mary Cleveland

Robin Dibner, MD

Anne Down

Staci Fischer, MD

Constance Haan, MD, MS

Joshual Heller, MA

Scott Holliday, MD

John Hopper, MD

Betsy Kimball, MA

Nancy Koh, PhD

Robin Newton, MD

Morgan Passiment, MS

Carl Patow, MD

Mark Pian, MD

Dale Ray, MD, MMM

Melissa Schori, MD, FACP, MBA

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Stephen Smith, MD

Hongling Sun, PhD

Marie Trontell, MD

Robin Wagner, RN, MHSA

Elizabeth Wedemeyer, MD

Milestones Department

Eric Holmboe, MD, MACP, FRCP

Senior Vice President,

Milestone Development and Evaluation

Megan Bluth

Lisa Conforti, MPH

Laura Edgar, EdD, CAE

Stanley Hamstra, PhD

Sydney Roberts

Nicholas Yaghmour, MPP

Kenji Yamazaki, PhD

Department of Field Activities

Ingrid Philibert, PhD, MBA

Senior Vice President, Field Activities

Mark Arner, MD

John H. Beernink, MD

Barbara H. Bush, PhD

Joseph F. Campisano, PhD

Donna A. Caniano, MD

Jim Cichon, MSW

John R. Caughron, MD

John J. Coyle, MD

Sterling M. Ellsworth, MD

Andrea Galla, MA

Joseph Gilhooly, MD

Barbara Heywood, MD

Penny Iverson-Lawrence

Nalini Juthani, MD

Donald E. Kraybill, PhD

David L. Larson, MD

Serge A. Martinez, MD, JD

William T. McKinney, MD

John Musich, MD, MBA

Cathy Nace, MD

Christopher A. Pack, PhD

Margarita Perez

Amanda Plashal

Kristen B. Raines, MD

William Robertson, MD, MBA

Judith D. Rubin, MD, MPH

Laurence M. Russell Jr., MD

Theodore Sanford, MD

Carl L. Stanitski, MD

Li Tang, EdD, MPH

Kenneth G. Torrington, MD

Michael R. Valdez, MD, MPH&TM

John A. Zapp, MD

Department of Accreditation

Services/Institutional

Accreditation

Kevin B. Weiss, MD

Senior Vice President, Institutional Accreditation

Ericka Cannaday

Anne Down

Paul Foster Johnson, MFA

Department of Accreditation

Services/Hospital-Based

Accreditation

Louis Ling, MD

Senior Vice President, Hospital-Based

Accreditation

Erin Berryhill

Kelli Cousins, MFA

Felicia Davis, MHA

Laura Edgar, EdD, CAE

Anne Gravel Sullivan, PhD

Cheryl Gross, MA, CAE

Kate Hatlak, MSEd

Sonia Sangha, MPH

Sara Thomas

Nicole Wright

Department of Accreditation

Services/Medical Accreditation

Mary Lieh-Lai, MD

Senior Vice President, Medical Accreditation

Eileen Anthony, MJ

Luz Barrera

Sandra Benitez

Denise Braun-Hart

Bertha Cervantes

Caroline Fischer, MBA

William Hart

Tiffany Hewitt

Lauren Johnson, MNA

Louise King, MS

Karen Lambert

Kimberly Rucker, MPH

Jerry Vasilias, PhD

Department of Accreditation

Services/Osteopathic

Accreditation

Lorenzo Pence, DO

Senior Vice President, Osteopathic Accreditation

Tiffany Moss, MBA

Julia Weigle

Department of Accreditation

Services/Surgical Accreditation

John R. Potts III, MD

Senior Vice President, Surgical Accreditation

Jenny Campbell, MA

Ericka Cannaday

Pamela Derstine, PhD, MHPE

Jordan Elvord

Donna Lamb, MBA

Jennifer Luna

Susan Mansker

Olivia Orndorff

Catherine Ruiz, MA

June Thiele

Mary Joyce Turner, RHIA, MJ

Deidre Williams

Department of Human Resources

Richard Murphy

Vice President, Human Resources

Lynn Cusack

Colleen Murray

Meredith Weil, MS

Ofﬁce of the Journal of Graduate

Medical Education

Ingrid Philibert, PhD, MBA

Executive Managing Editor, JGME

Andrea Galla, MA

Jean Mattes, MA

Sarah Moran, MA, MM

Amanda Plashal

ACGME International, LLC

John Ogunkeye, MS

Executive Vice President, ACGME International

Susan Day, MD

Senior Vice President for Medical Affairs,

ACGME International

Lorraine Lewis, EdD, RD

Teri Robins, JD, MBA

Kristin Rohn, JD

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“Interest in excellence in educational outcomes

and effective evaluation has been energized.

This concentration on effective achievement of

outcomes in our graduates has re-invigorated the

GME effort in the United States.”

Thomas J. Nasca, MD, MACP, Chief Executive Ofﬁcer, ACGME

515 North State Street, Suite 2000

Chicago, IL 60654

Telephone: 312.755.5000

Fax: 312.755.7498

www.acgme.org

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