AAMC GFA Webinar - Solving Faculty Affairs Challenges with AAMC Data: Three Case Studies - September 16

The GFA Research and Scholarship Committee hosted a webinar in May about AAMC Data Resources available to GFA members. We are now hosting a second webinar featuring GFA members who have used AAMC data resources to address questions that arise through faculty affairs work, including assessing retention, compensation for new faculty hires, and opportunities to improve faculty engagement and satisfaction. Please join us for this exciting webinar to learn how your institution can leverage AAMC resources to make data driven organizational climate interventions.

Judy Tung, MD
Associate Dean of Faculty Development
Weill Cornell Medicine

Judy Tung, MD is Associate Dean of Faculty Development at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City. She also serves as Chief of the Section of Ambulatory Internal Medicine and is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine. Dr. Tung directs a faculty development program called the Leadership in Academic Medicine Program (LAMP) and leads a variety of other faculty development initiatives including the Blackwell Society and the Mentoring Academy Council. Dr. Tung is a member of the Group on Faculty Affairs’ Research and Scholarship Committee.

She obtained her M.D. from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and completed her Internal Medicine Residency training at the University of California, San Francisco. She served as a Chief Resident at Bellevue Hospital/ New York University Medical Center before joining the faculty at Weill Cornell Medicine.

Akshay Sood, MD
Assistant Dean of Mentoring and Faculty Retention Activities
University of New Mexico School of Medicine

Akshay Sood, the interim Director of Faculty Affairs at the UNM HSC, is a tenured Distinguished Professor, Regents Professor, and the founding Miners’ Colfax Medical Center Endowed Chair at the University of New Mexico’s School of Medicine. Dr. Sood received his postdoctoral fellowship in Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Occupational and Environmental Medicine at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.  

Dr. Sood’s research has focused on non-smoking host risk factors for obstructive lung diseases, including inhalational dust exposure. Federally funded since 2006, he has received funding from the NHLBI, NIEHS, NCATS, NIGMS, AHRQ, PCORI and various HRSA-funded and Foundation grants.

Passionate about the role of mentoring junior faculty, he leads the UNM HSC Faculty Mentor Development Program which has been adopted by 13 institutions across seven states. He is the Assistant Dean of Mentoring and Faculty Retention at the UNM School of Medicine Office of Faculty Affairs and Career Development and past Associate Director of the Mentoring Core of the Mountain West-CTR-IN Professional Development Core. He has presented at the UNM Mentoring Conference/AAMC. His current research interest is on the assessment of the institutional mentoring climate, strategies to improve underrepresented faculty retention, innovative mentor development and faculty retention initiatives. He is the P.I. of a multi-institutional U01 grant on the “Effectiveness of Innovative Research Mentor Interventions among Underrepresented Minority Faculty in the Southwest (NIGMS U01GM132175-01)”.

He immigrated to the United States 22 years old from India. Dr. Sood has set up UNM as a regional center of excellence in occupational lung disease. He provides specialist care to diverse undeserved communities through a rural clinic in the Hispanic town of Raton, New Mexico. Author of over 180 publications, he has worked with multidisciplinary and multi-institutional teams studying large cohorts.

Amy S. Gottlieb, MD
Principal and Founder, Grays West Advisors LLC
Chair, AAMC Group on Women in Medicine & Science Steering Committee

A physician and former executive leader in academic medicine, Amy S. Gottlieb, MD is a nationally recognized expert in salary equity.  Dr. Gottlieb has devoted her career to creating strategies and programs that support the success of women in medicine and science through mentorship, sponsorship, and equitable access to professional opportunity. She is currently Chair of the AAMC’s GWIMS Steering Committee and former Chair of the Society of General Internal Medicine’s Women and Medicine Commission. She founded the Society’s Career Advising Program, for which she received the Elnora M. Rhodes Service Award, the highest recognition for contributions to the organization.

Through her publications, speaking engagements, and on-the-ground experience with a diverse array of organizations, Dr. Gottlieb has led the national conversation about how to close the gender pay gap in medicine.  In 2021 she published Closing the Gender Pay Gap in Medicine: A Roadmap for Healthcare Organizations and the Women Physicians Who Work for Them, the first assessment of how cultural expectations of women and traditional compensation methodology in medicine work together to perpetuate the gender pay gap. As Principal and Founder at Grays West Advisors, Dr. Gottlieb works with institutions to uncover how their pay practices inadvertently generate salary inequities and to develop tailored strategies and structures that drive compensation equity. Her prior roles include: USC’s Keck School of Medicine’s inaugural Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs, Advancement, & Inclusion and Professor of Clinical Medicine and Obstetrics & Gynecology; Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Professor of Medicine and Obstetrics & Gynecology at UMass Chan-Baystate; Chief Faculty Development Officer at Baystate Health.

Dr. Gottlieb earned an undergraduate degree in economics from Harvard and her MD from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine.  She completed a General Internal Medicine residency at Brown.

Susan Chubinskaya, PhD
Vice President and Executive Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs
University of Texas Medical Branch

Susan Chubinskaya, PhD, the Peaches and Shrub Kempner Distinguished Professor in Health Disparities, is the Vice President and Executive Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB). She is also a Professor in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation. Susan oversees Faculty Affairs, Faculty Development, Mentoring Programs, Institutional Research and Accreditation, Community Engagement, the Health Education Center, Interprofessional and Continued Education. She served on the GFA steering committee for 3 years and on the program subcommittee for 6 years. At Rush and now at UTMB, she created a holistic approach to P&T processes and policies and contributed to the revision of such policies at other academic institutions. At Rush, she built a faculty management system that aligns P&T processes with faculty annual performance reviews. She has created a Center for Innovative and Lifelong Learning that brings adult learners nationwide. Dr. Chubinskaya has built an Office of Mentoring Programs at Rush focusing on research, education, postdoctoral studies, and for women faculty. Nationally and internationally, she has mentored and coached hundreds of faculty, especially women in faculty, including all women who currently serve on the Boards of Directors of the Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS), Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI), and the International Cartilage Repair and Joint Restoration Society (ICRS), counting four presidents of these societies among her mentees!

Dr. Chubinskaya is an internationally recognized, award-winning leader in the field of orthopedic research, specifically, post-traumatic osteoarthritis and regenerative medicine. She has held leadership and Board positions and served as the President of the ORS in 2020. For the last 3 decades, she has been continuously funded by the NIH, non-for-profit foundations, and industry.

Sarah Hook-Rogers, MS
Manager of Data Operations and Services
Association of American Medical Colleges

Sarah Hook-Rogers is the manager of compensation data at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). She oversees a variety of projects, including the AAMC Faculty Salary Survey, the Survey on the Compensation of Medical School Deans, and the Survey on the Compensation of the Dean’s Office Staff.