UMEC Current Members

Undergraduate Medical Education Committee (UMEC) - Members

The committee facilitates the improvement of undergraduate medical education through a focus on faculty development and innovative teaching methods for medical education. UMEC produces faculty motivational and developmental programs, proposes minimum knowledge and skill requirements for undergraduates, identifies, develops, and evaluates content of learning materials and testing instruments, and promotes production of quality instructional materials.

Chair

Shireen Madani Sims, MD

University of Florida, Gainesville

Members

Laura Baecher-Lind, MD, MPH

Tufts University Medical Center

Katherine Chen, MD, MPH

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Christine Kim, MD

University of California, Irvine

Silka Patel, MD, MPH

Johns Hopkins University

Hedwige Saint Louis, MD, MPH

Morehouse

Jonathan Schaffir, MD

The Ohio State University College of Medicine

Tammy Sonn, MD

Washington University, St. Louis School of Medicine

Alyssa Stephenson-Famy, MD

University of Washington

Jill Sutton, MD

East Carolina University, Brody School of Medicine

VACANT

Ex-Officio Members

Carrie Champine, DO

American College of Osteopathic Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOOG)

Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine

APGO Staff

Marianne Poe

UMEC Liaison

Deputy Director, Development