Committee News

Committee & Task Force News

AAIM committees and task forces support the strategic plan and critical initiatives that impact the organization and profession. This section provides quarterly updates about Alliance-level “working” committees. To learn more about charges for these committees and task forces, AAIM governance-oriented committees, or individual association program planning and survey committees, please visit the About AAIM section.

For more information about committee service, please contact the AAIM office at (703) 341-4540 or governance@im.org.

Alliance Committees & Task Forces 

AAIM DEI Advisory Group

Charge:

A brand new, two-year entity, the AAIM DEI Advisory Group, is charged to serve in an oversight role to provide recommendations and guidance to the AAIM Board of Directors on strategy, projects, initiatives, and tools developed to ensure the DEI overlay (approved as part the current AAIM Strategic Plan) is used as a focal point for professional development and educational resources created by member councils, committees, and task forces, which may be offered through in-person and virtual programming, publications, surveys, etc. The group will present two deliverables: a year one report about the the current status, milestones and anticipated outcomes of AAIM’s DEI efforts; and a final report outlining recommendations for AAIM’s long-term strategy, priorities, next steps, resourcing, and programmatic focus, and outcomes as well as key performance indicators and metrics for success.

Chair: Chavon M. Onumah, MD, MPH, MEd, FACP

AAIM DEI Advisory Group Roster

AAIM Innovation Grants Committee

Charge:

The AAIM Innovation Grants Committee is charged with overseeing the AAIM Innovation Grants Program. The committee is responsible for providing guidance on the annual grant’s timeline and process, determining future grant program themes, reviewing submitted letters of interest and grant applications, and selecting grant recipients.

Chair:  Amy Zelenski, PhD
Vice Chair:  Thurayya Arayssi, MD

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Committee Update (as of June 2023)

  • Committee members are serving as reviewers for the Building Trust through Diversity, Health Care Equity, Inclusion and Diagnostic Excellence in Internal Medicine Training grants program, and the program committee chair serves on the Steering Committee.
Chavon M. Onumah, MD, MPH, MEd, FACP, Chair
Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program
Department of Internal Medicine Division of General Internal Medicine
George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences

Sarah C. Alba-Nguyen, MD, MPH
Associate Professor; Assistant Program Directors; Director of GME Diversity
Department of Medicine Division of Hospitalist Medicine
University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine

John M. Carethers, MD
Professor and Chair
Department of Internal Medicine Administration and Financial Affairs
University of Michigan Medical School

Catherine E. Garzio, MBA
Vice Chair and Director of Finance and Administration
Department of Medicine
Administration and Financial Affairs
Stanford University School of Medicine

Tamara Goldberg, MD
Associate Program Director, Director Primary Care Track Department of Internal Medicine
Division of General Medicine
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center

Melissa Hagman, MD
Program Director
Department of Internal Medicine
University of Washington (Boise)

Olga Karasik, MD
Associate Program Director
Department of Internal Medicine
University of Central Florida College of Medicine

Rachel B. Levine, MD, MPH
Associate Dean for Faculty Educational Development
Department of Internal Medicine Division of General Internal Medicine
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Kimberly D. Manning, MD, FACP, FAAP
Professor
Department of Internal Medicine Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics
Emory University School of Medicine

Nora Y. Osman, MD
Clerkship Director
Department of Medicine
Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care
Harvard Medical School Brigham and Women's Hospital

Joseph P. Smith, MD
Sub-Internship Course Director
Department of Medicine
Division of Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine
Indiana University School of Medicine

Valerie E. Stone, MD
Vice Chair for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Department of Medicine
Division of General Internal Medicine
Harvard Medical School Brigham and Women's Hospital

AAIM Innovation Grants Committee Roster

Thurayya Arayssi, MD, FACP, FACR, FRCP (Vice Chair)
Professor
Weill Cornell Medicine

Pramil Cheriyath, MD, MS, FACP
Professor of Medicine
Ocean Medical Center Program Director

Maria De Miguel, MD
Associate Program Director
Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

Kirsten Jones, MPPA
Administrator
Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine

Rachel Perlman, MD
Assistant Program Director
University of Michigan Medical School

Tiffany Schwasinger-Schmidt, MD, PhD
Clerkship Director
University of Kansas (Wichita)

Richard M. Wardrop, III, MD, PhD, FAAP, FACP
Program Director
Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Laura Workman, MD
Program Director
University of Louisville School of Medicine

Jillian Zavodnick, MD
Clerkship Director, Associate Residency Program Director
Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University

Amy Zelenski, PhD (Chair)
Director of Education, Associate Program Director
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

AAIM Medical Education Research Committee

Charge:

The AAIM Medical Education Research Committee is charged with developing or facilitating resources/tools that would support the AAIM membership in conducting medical education research as directly related to the strategic plan. Some examples include:

  • Tutorials on how to conduct medical education research.
  • Serve as consultants/resource for workgroups/taskforces/councils as they are implementing Alliance projects to ensure appropriate process and outcome metrics are being considered during early work.
  • Identifying data/metrics that need to be captured to assess the impact of any implemented Alliance projects as related to the strategic plan, including those related to the UME/GME interface work. 

Chair: Chayan Chakraborti, MD

Vice Chair: Margaret Baker, MD

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Committee Update (as of June 2023)

  • With the revised committee charge to focus on developing resources/tools to support the AAIM membership in conducting medical education research, the committee staffed a booth at Academic Internal Medicine Week 2023.
    • Committee members met early career faculty who presented challenges in their research endeavors, triaged their efforts, and reached out to these young researchers.
    • The committee provided comprehensive guidance to a program director who had inquiries about his quality improvement project.
    • The committee revised its consultation form based on the experience at AIMW.

AAIM Medical Education Research Committee Roster

Margaret Hayes Baker, MD (Vice Chair)
Internal Medicine Program Director
Magnolia Regional Health Center

Sheena CarlLee, MD
Faculty
University of Arkansas College of Medicine

Oliver Cerqueira, DO, FACP
Assistant Professor and Clerkship Director
University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine (Tulsa)

Chayan Chakraborti, MD, FACP, SFHM (Chair)
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
Tulane University School of Medicine

Anthony Donato Jr., MD, MHPE
Assistant Program Director
Reading Hospital (Tower Health)

Jennifer Foster, MD, MBA
Clerkship Director
Florida Atlantic University Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine

Christopher Henry, MD
Assistant Program Director
Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University

Julie Kanevsky, MD
Program Director
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (NYC Health and Hospitals/Elmhurst)

Joel Katz, MD
Program Director
Harvard Medical School Brigham and Women's Hospital

Amalia Landa-Galindez, MD, FACP
Clerkship Director & Internal Medicine Division Chief
Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine

Suchita Pancholi, MD, FACP
Clinical Assistant Professor & Primary Care Track Director
University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia

Jill Patton, DO, FACP
Program Director
Advocate Health Care (Advocate Lutheran General Hospital)

Carleen Spitzer, MD
Associate Program Director
Ohio State University College of Medicine

Jaini Sutaria, MD
Assistant Professor
University of Texas Southwestern Medical School

AAIM  Research Committee

Charge:

The AAIM Research Committee is charged with promoting and sustaining a community of research program directors to develop and share best practices designed to ensure the survival, growth, and diversity of the physician-scientist workforce. The committee will serve as the central body for data collection, analysis, and the dissemination of research-related outcomes of residency and fellowship research programs.

Chair: Christopher Williams, MD, PhD

Vice Chair: Jatin Vyas, MD, PhD

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Committee Update (as of June 2023)

  • The 2023 Research Pathways Directors Workshop was held on Sunday, April 23, 2023, in Chicago, in conjunction with the Association of American Physicians (AAP), American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), and the American Physician-Scientist Association (APSA) joint meetings.
    • The workshop garnered 73 attendees. Overall, attendees ranked the workshop highly (very satisfied via Likert Scale). The Quick Shots segment, whereby programs shared innovative programming to support and advance residency and fellowship physician-scientists training will be re-evaluated.
  • Committee members are working on a manuscript that guides faculty and medical students in the transition from medical school to internal medicine physician-scientist training programs. A second manuscript is in development to study the evolving landscape of physician-scientist training.
  • The committee is conducting discussions with the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) to develop and disseminate a survey to Research Pathway graduates, registered learners, and those that completed their IM Board Examination to understand the experiences of trainees in the physician-scientist pathway.
  • The May 16, 2023, APM Town Hall centered on discussing and sharing strategies to support physician-scientist careers. The Research Committee co-chairs felt tremendous support from the APM community. Future partnerships are on the horizon.

AAIM  Research Committee Roster

Olujimi Ajijola, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine
David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles

Robert Baiocchi, MD, PhD
Professor
Ohio State University College of Medicine

JoVonnda Chresfield
Senior Program Administrator
Baptist Health South Florida

Paul Conlin, MD
Chief, Medical Service; Maurice Strauss Chair and Professor of Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine

Emily Gallagher, MD, PhD
Associate Program Director for Research for Internal Medicine
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Isabella Grumbach, MD, PhD
Vice Chair for Research
University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine

Carlos Isales, MD
Division Chief
Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University

Barbara Kazmierczak, MD, PhD FIDSA
Program Director
Yale-New Haven Medical Center (Primary Care)

Christopher Kontos, MD, FAHA
Professor of Medicine, Director, Medical Scientist Training Program
Duke University School of Medicine

W. Kimryn Rathmell, MD, PhD
Chair of Department of Medicine
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Kyu Rhee, MD, PhD
Director, Medical Research Track
Weill Cornell Medicine

Don Rockey, MD
Professor
Medical University of South Carolina College of Medicine

Jatin Vyas, MD, PhD FIDSA, FACP (Vice Chair)
Program Director
Harvard Medical School Massachusetts General Hospital

Tammy Wichman, MD
Program Director
University of Nebraska College of Medicine

Christopher Williams, MD, PhD (Chair)
Associate Dean, Physician Scientist Education and Training
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine