Dr. Chhavi Chauhan is Director of Scientific Outreach at the American Society for Investigative Pathology, a Program Manager for the Women in AI Accelerate & Raise Program, and serves on the boards for various mission-driven organizations in the spheres of scholarly publishing, digital pathology, AI ethics, & youth education. She is a former biomedical researcher, expert scholarly communicator, and a sought-after mentor in the fields of scientific research, scholarly publishing, and AI ethics, especially for women and those from underrepresented groups. She has gathered several awards and accolades in each of these domains. She is a thought leader, a renowned international speaker, and a strong advocate for equitable and accessible health care.

Tom Ciavarella is the head of Public Affairs and Advocacy in North America for Frontiers, a Gold Open Access publisher working to make science open so that researchers can collaborate better and innovate faster. Tom oversees government relations in the United States and Canada and works with key stakeholders on improving science and technology policy. He is formerly manager of Publisher Relations for the Web of Science Group (part of Clarivate) and runs a consultancy that works with startups and STM publishers. He lives in Chicago.

Dr. Patino received his MD and was a neurology resident in his home country of Colombia, after which he pursued doctoral and postdoctoral training in neuroscience at the University of Michigan. He has been a medical educator for the past 14 years and currently is an associate professor in the Department of Medical Education and the associate dean for undergraduate medical education at the Western Michigan University homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He serves as an assistant editor of the journal Academic Medicine and is a certified TBL consultant through the TBL-Collaborative. His research interests include neuroscience education, assessment, and the application of quantitative methods (including artificial intelligence) in research.

Vice Dean for Admissions, Student Affairs, and Alumni Engagement
Washington State University Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine

Dr. Leila Harrison is the Vice Dean for Admissions, Student Affairs, and Alumni Engagement and Assistant Professor at the Washington State University Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine. She oversees efforts in these areas as well as pathways related to admissions into the College. She has held leadership roles at the regional and national levels for the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) in both the Southern and Western regions through the Committee on Admissions, Enrollment Management Workgroup, and as a Holistic Review Facilitator within the Group on Student Affairs. Overall, Dr. Harrison has been involved in medical education since 2002, mostly within admissions across three public medical schools. Dr. Harrison is Latina and a first-generation college graduate and the first in her extended family to earn a PhD. Throughout her career, she has advocated tirelessly for representation and inclusion within medical education and the healthcare workforce.

Associate Dean of MD Admissions
Co-Director, MD Program Clinical and Translational Research Scholarly Concentration
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Emergency Medicine, Genomics and Precision Medicine
George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences

Ioannis Koutroulis, MD, PhD, MBA, is the associate dean of MD admissions at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences providing overall leadership in medical student admissions and strategic direction and priorities for the admissions program. Additionally, he is the co-Director of the Clinical and Translational Research Scholarly Concentration for the MD program, an Associate Professor of pediatrics, emergency medicine, genomics and precision medicine and a practicing pediatric emergency medicine physician and an NIH-funded principal investigator. He is a widely published scientist, publishing work on sepsis, obesity, and encephalopathy in many high-impact, peer reviewed journals. His research focuses on the use of AI/ML and Natural Language Processing for early identification and treatment of pediatric sepsis. He aims to use the same technology in MD admissions for a fair and efficient selection process. He is the recipient of several research and teaching awards and a member of numerous national committees on research and medical education.

John P. Campbell Distinguished Professor of Industrial and Organizational Psychology
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Richard N. Landers, PhD, is the John P. Campbell Distinguished Professor of Industrial-Organizational Psychology at the University of Minnesota and Principal Investigator of TNTLAB (Testing New Technologies in Learning, Assessment and Behavior). His academic research concerns the use of innovative technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, games, gamification, and virtual reality, to improve psychometric assessment, employee selection, adult learning, and research methods. He is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, American Psychological Association, and Association for Psychological Science. His work appears primarily in psychology and interdisciplinary human-computer interaction journals. He is the incoming editor of the American Psychological Association’s Technology, Mind, and Behavior, an interdisciplinary journal at the intersection of psychology and computer science. He is author of two textbooks and has developed two edited scholarly volumes. He has been featured in the popular press, including Forbes, Business Insider, and Popular Science.

Associate Dean of Artificial Intelligence and Educational Informatics
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

Dr. Laurah Turner is an Assistant Dean of Assessment and Evaluation in the Office of Medical Education and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Education at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Her research focuses on leveraging artificial intelligence (AI), to advance medical education assessment, personalize learning experiences, and address disparities in training. Dr. Turner's work aims to develop assessment tools and systems that provide insights into students' readiness for residency. She is dedicated to advancing and actualizing precision medical education by tailoring learning experiences to individual needs and styles. In her AI system development, Dr. Turner emphasizes interpretability, robustness, and scalable oversight to ensure the trustworthiness and adaptability of these tools.

Executive Director of Telemedicine
Johns Hopkins Health System

IT Associate Director
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine

John Morgan is an Associate Director of Information Technology at the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, leading SIU’s Systems Administration team, Service Desk, and distributed technical support team.  John is a 2020 graduate of the GIR Leadership Institute, a current member of the GIR Steering Committee, and hosts the GIR’s IT Operations quarterly call series.

Executive Vice Dean, School of Medicine
Vice President, UT Health RGV

Manager, Network Engineering
Stanford Health Care

I am currently the Manager of Network Engineering at Stanford Healthcare, where I've spent over twelve years driving innovation in the IT sector. Over the past three years, I have developed KleverNet, an IT tool designed to enhance and streamline complex IT tasks. Additionally, I've spearheaded the creation of a multi-tenant Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) application, utilizing both OpenAI's large language models and other local models, to facilitate document search across the organization. My work also extends to developing other AI-related applications that significantly boost the efficiency of various teams' day-to-day operations.

Associate Professor, Neuroradiology
Vice Chair of Informatics
University of Washington

Associate Professor of Physiology
Department of Medical Education
University of Texas at Tyler School of Medicine

Diego F. Niño, MD, PhD is an Associate Professor of Physiology in the Department of Medical Education at The University of Texas at Tyler School of Medicine in Tyler, TX. In addition to his faculty role, he serves on the USMLE Physiology and Cell Biology Test Material Development Committee for the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME). Dr. Niño is a scholar and faculty of the Harvard Macy Institute Transforming your Teaching using Technology Course and a founding member of the International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE) Artificial Intelligence subcommittee. His academic and research interests are focused on developing and implementing innovative strategies to deliver technology-enhanced educational experiences within the medical education curriculum. He focuses on advancing medical education through implementing active learning strategies, creating interactive tools that enhance student learning, incorporating educational technology and artificial intelligence.

Assistant Dean, Mentoring and Faculty Retention
Interim Director, Faculty Academic Affairs
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.  

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 is a national expert on faculty development and retention, with presentations 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, and innovative mentor development 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)”.

Senior Director, Faculty and Academic Society Engagement
AAMC

Eric serves as senior director of faculty and academic society engagement for the Washington-based Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). In this role, Eric manages the day-to-day operations of the Council of Faculty and Academic Societies, or CFAS, one of the AAMC’s three governing bodies. CFAS represents the interests of medical school faculty and academic societies within the AAMC’s membership. Among key issues covered are faculty wellbeing and resilience, sexual and gender harassment, diversity in academic medicine, advancement of science and research within academic medicine, graduate medical education, faculty definition and identity, and the role and impact of medical school faculty within clinical, research, and educational settings.

Eric is also the principal writer and editor of the weekly “CFAS News” publication, which goes to more than 5,000 subscribers representing leaders in academic medicine, media, health policy.

Eric previously served for a decade as senior director of publishing services in the Communication cluster at the AAMC, overseeing the AAMC website, its creative and editorial services division, and its publishing efforts. Eric additionally has a long history in science and medical communications, having held an array of leadership positions at organizations such as Stanford School of Medicine, Veterinary Centers of America, WebMD, and other organizations focused on consumer health, medicine, and science. Eric also has worked as a writer and editor for Congressional Quarterly and Time Life Books.

Assistant Dean, Digital Technology
Morehouse School of Medicine

Dr. Jinjie Zheng is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medical Education and serves as the Assistant Dean for Digital Technology at Morehouse School of Medicine. She is dedicated to advancing health equity through digital learning and has been pivotal in creating innovative and effective digital learning solutions for both students and faculty. Dr. Zheng's research interests include educational technology in academic medicine, digital dissemination of health equity, and the development of medical faculty technology. Currently, she is leading the Digital Health Educator initiative at the institution, funded by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA).

Executive Dean for Education and Policy Founding Chair, Department of Medical Education, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

Dr. Latha Chandran is the Executive Dean and the Founding Chair of the Department of Medical Education at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Nationally, she served as past President of the Academic Pediatric Association and as past Vice Chair of the National Board of Medical Examiners. 

Dr. Chandran received her medical degree from Trivandrum Medical College in India, her MPH from Johns Hopkins University, and her MBA from the University of Miami. She served in various leadership roles at Renaissance School of Medicine Stony Brook University, most recently as the Vice Dean for Academic and Faculty Affairs and the Miriam and David Donoho Distinguished Teaching Professor.  In addition to educational scholarship, her writings have focused on Professional Identity Formation among medical students and Humanism in Medicine.  A tenured educator scholar who has received numerous teaching awards, Dr Chandran is the founding co-director of a national award-winning three-year faculty development program- the Educational Scholars Program- for junior pediatric educators. Dr Chandran’s additional areas of interest include technology and artificial intelligence in education.

Senior Medical Educator, Office of Educational Development Adjunct, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) Health

Kathleen M. Everling, PhD, is an educator with experience at all levels of education, having worked in K-12 and higher education as a faculty member and administrator before transitioning to medical education. Dr. Everling received her MA in Cross-Cultural Communications from the University of Houston-Clear Lake, MEd in Educational Psychology, and PhD in Education Curriculum and Instruction from Texas A&M University. She is the medical educator responsible for the course and program evaluations for the John Sealy School of Medicine. She is the co-director of the TechTime faculty development series on technology utilization in education for the school of medicine. Dr. Everling also serves as a faculty member in UTMB’s Scholars in Education program, an 18-month faculty development program. In addition, Dr. Everling has conducted workshops and presentations at local, regional, national, and international conferences and meetings on a variety of educational topics, including incorporating AI into health professions education.

Professor, Henry B. & Edna S. Dielmann Memorial Professor of Urologic Science, UT Health San Antonio

Dr. Ronald Rodriguez received his BS degree in Life Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1984. He obtained his Ph.D. in Cell Biology from Baylor College of Medicine in 1990, and his MD from Baylor College of Medicine in 1992 as part of the Medical Scientist Training Program. After medical school, Dr. Rodriguez entered Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1992 and completed his residency and fellowship training in 1998. He subsequently stayed on faculty at Johns Hopkins from 1999-2012. During his last seven years at Johns Hopkins, he was the program director for urology training. In January 2013, he left Johns Hopkins to become the Henry B. and Edna Smith Dielmann Memorial Professor of Urologic Science at the UTHSCSA and Chair of the Department of Urology. In 2017 he became the interim Dean for the UTHSA School of Medicine. In 2018, he developed end stage renal disease, and step down from leadership positions for health reasons. He subusequently limited his clinical duties and focused on medical education. He joined the Department of Medical Education, and initiated a program in Artificial Intelligence, culminating in the nations first dual degree program MD/MSAI. Dr. Rodriguez is a highly experienced urologic surgeon with expertise in urologic oncology, particularly focusing on prostate and kidney cancer. He is a world expert in the use of cryoablative technologies for kidney and recurrent prostate cancer. He is also an expert in the care of urologic cancer patients, including kidney, prostate, bladder, testes and adrenal cancers. He currently has limited clinical duties in urologic oncology, general office urology, hypogonadism (low testosterone), sexual dysfunction and urinary difficulties. In addition to his clinical practice, he maintains an active research laboratory with interests in the role of oxidative damage in the development of aggressive kidney cancer, immune regulation of kidney cancer, health disparities research, community outreach particularly with education of underserved students, and the use of AI as a means of augmenting medical education, medical research and clinical support.

National President, The American Medical Student Association

Annelise M. Silva is the National President of the American Medical Student Association (AMSA). She is a recent graduate of the Boonshoft School of Medicine at Wright State University and obtained her Master of Education in Curriculum and Teaching with an emphasis in general science education from the Wheelock College of Education and Human Development at Boston University. She is an alumna of the Teach for America corps in Massachusetts, a former PIER scholar of the American College of Radiology, and was the founding Vice Chair of the Young and Empowered Women’s Association. In addition to her role at AMSA, she serves on the visual abstract editorial team of RadioGraphics and is the student co-lead of the Society of Abdominal Radiology Medical Student Outreach Committee (SARMO). Annelise’s research has mostly focused on the assessment of bioimaging markers for personalized radiogenomics and the design/implementation of various radiology education pathway initiatives for medical students.

Senior Director, Clinical Transformation, AAMC

Keith A. Horvath is Sr. Director, Clinical Transformation in Health Care Affairs at the Association of American Medical Colleges. Most recently he was Director of the Cardiothoracic Surgery Research Program for the National Heart, Lung, Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health and Chief, Cardiothoracic Surgery at Suburban Hospital, an affiliate of Johns Hopkins Medical Center. Prior to this position he was an Associate Professor of Surgery and a Program Director at Northwestern University, Chicago Illinois. Trained in general and cardiothoracic surgery at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dr. Horvath is a graduate of the University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine. 

As Sr. Director, Clinical Transformation he works with a team dedicated to improving outcomes at academic medical centers and their affiliates across the US. This includes assisting institutions shifting to value-based care as directed via CMS/CMMI alternative payment models and bundling initiatives. He has a longstanding interest in clinical care improvement with over 20 years’ service on the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Database; Coding & Nomenclature; and Health Policy Committees. This interest extends to clinical training as he serves as the AAMC Representative to the ACGME and co-leads the AAMC Group on Resident Affairs.

Professionally, Dr. Horvath has represented the Society of Thoracic Surgeons and the American Association of Thoracic Surgeons to CMS, FDA, RUC, PEAC and Congress. A founding member of the Maryland Cardiac Surgery Quality Initiative, he has also served the Maryland Health Care Commission as a member of its Clinical Advisory Group that rewrote the legislation that governs cardiac care for the State. Additionally he has served on over 20 national committees, 10 editorial boards, and garnered over 25 million dollars in research funding.

Finally, Dr. Horvath has performed over 6,000 cardiac operations, has authored and coauthored over 280 publications and logged over 89,000 miles watching, playing and coaching soccer games

Dr. Mahmud serves as a preventive medicine resident at Stony Brook University, following the completion of his family medicine residency at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC). He obtained his medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and his Master of Public Health from Columbia University, with a specialization in Health Policy and Management. Dr. Mahmud played a central role in establishing the Health Justice Track at the UMMC Family & Community Medicine residency program, aimed at educating residents on health disparities, and received the Resident Teacher of the Year award in recognition of his contributions. Dr. Mahmud served as Co-chair of Communications at SAPHA, a nonprofit organization dedicated to addressing public health issues impacting the South Asian community in the US and was responsible for multi-channel media campaigns highlighting relevant public health issues.  He has been appointed as an Associate Editor for AJPM Focus where he oversees clinical preventive medicine, integrative medicine, and lifestyle medicine submissions. Currently, he is pursuing a graduate certificate in clinical informatics at Stony Brook University and engaged in projects that explore the utilization of natural language processing in primary care.

Dr. Rehman is the Chief of Education & Founding Director of Academic Practice at the Phoenix VA Healthcare Systems. He also serves as the Chair/Professor of Department of Informatics, Professor of Humanism & Internal Medicine, Chair of Admissions Committee & Graduate Medical Education Committee at the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix. He helped founded the Informatics fellowship and is a frequent speaker at the Informatics association’s meetings. He is also serving in the GRA Steering committee and the Chair of Policy & Advocacy Committee of International Association on Communication in Healthcare (EACH) and American College of Physicians (ACP) AZ Chapter. He has served as the President of the Society of General Internal Medicine Mountain Region; Vice-President of the Academy on Communications in Healthcare (ACH); & Conference Chair for the International Conference on Communication in Healthcare (ICCH). He has been awarded the Master of the American College of Physicians, Fellow of EACH, AMIA And ACH, the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society best teacher award and Gold Humanism Honor Society award. He has received >100 teaching/mentoring awards & published hundreds of articles/book chapters.

Executive Director of Clinical Data and Analytics, UChicago Medicine

Mary Kate Selling, MHA, is the Executive Director of Clinical Data and Analytics. Reporting to the System CMO, her focus is on turning data into action. Her portfolio includes Data Science, Clinical Analytics & Visualization, Regulatory Reporting, Health Information Management (HIM) and Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI). In addition, she oversees the Data and Analytics Steering Committee focused on Data Strategy and Governance. She also serves as co-chair of the Analytics Intervention Unit which provides strategic direction and operational support for all predictive and interventional models that impact patient care. In particular, the AIU has served to set standards around validation and evaluation for model bias as part of the critical process when turning on AI within the clinical setting. She has her B.S. in Clinical Laboratory Science from Marquette University and MHA from the University of Minnesota.

Dr. Lynn Cleary is Professor of Medicine at SUNY Upstate Medical University, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor, Upstate’s Vice President for Academic Affairs, and a member of the University Executive Committee. In addition to seeing patients and teaching, she collaborates with deans and faculty on educational program planning, learner assessment, program evaluation, university accreditation, institutional effectiveness, interprofessional education, and the university simulation center. Dr. Cleary is a Master of the American College of Physicians, past President of the New York chapter of the American College of Physicians, Honorary Member for Life of the National Board of Medical Examiners, and Past President of the Board of Directors of Alpha Omega Alpha.

Cecilia Barry, JD, is Senior Corporate Counsel at the AAMC where she provides in-house legal counsel to the AAMC’s programs and staff, focusing on data privacy and security, technology, transactional, global, and research issues. Cecilia manages the AAMC’s privacy program where she drafts and implements policies, trains staff, prepares for and responds to data incidents, and consults with new business, research, and data initiatives. Cecilia is a graduate of the University of Washington School of Law and Boston College.

Ernie currently serves as the Associate Provost and Executive Director of Boston University Medical Campus Information Technology. He leads the Boston University Medical Campus (BUMC) information technology team, including network infrastructure, systems, desktop support and service desk, application development and support, teaching and learning technologies, and research computing. The Medical Campus includes the Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Graduate Medical Sciences, School of Public Health, and the Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine.

Katherine Chretien is Associate Dean for Medical Student Affairs and Director of Medical Student Wellness at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Katherine graduated from Brown University before attending the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where she graduated with Alpha Omega Alpha honors. She completed an internal medicine residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital.  Her academic focus has been on social media in medicine, medical education, narrative medicine, and well-being.  Prior roles include President of Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine (CDIM), Co-Chair of the AAMC Medical Student Civic Advocacy Workgroup, Chair of the Northeast Group on Student Affairs (NEGSA), and she is currently the NEGSA representative to the AAMC Committee on Student Affairs. She is the recipient of the Charles H. Griffith III Educational Research Award from CDIM and the Women Leaders in Medicine Award from the American Medical Students Association. Katherine is the author of the book "I Wish I Read This Book Before Medical School," that is focused on helping medical students thrive.