Committee and Work Group News

Committee and Work Group News

AAIM committees and work groups support the strategic plan and critical initiatives that impact the organization and profession. This section provides quarterly updates about Alliance-level “working” committees and work groups. To learn more about charges for these committees and work groups, 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 & Work Groups

AAIM DEI Advisory Group

Charge: A 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 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

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

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

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

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, reviewing submitted letters of interest and grant applications, and selecting grant recipients.

Chair:  Thurayya Arayssi, MD, FACP

Vice Chair:  Rachel Perlman, MD

Committee Update (as of September 2023)

  • The committee participated in AAIM’s partnership in the Building Trust through DEI Grants program. Twenty programs were awarded grants in FY23, collectively receiving $470,000 in funding.
  • Leaders of AAIM, ABIMF, ACP, and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation will meet in early October to debrief on FY23 grants and to begin discussion on FY24. The program is expected to commence in November 2023; a new platform will be utilized to manage the administration process.
  • The committee is reviewing potential scope expansions for FY24: 1) offering grant coaching and feedback for applicants and 2) studying long-term impacts of past grant recipient projects. 

AAIM Innovation Grants Committee Roster

Thurayya Arayssi, MD, FACP, FACR, FRCP (Chair)
Vice Dean for Academic and Curricular Affairs
Weill Cornell Medicine

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

Mary S. Hedges, MD
Program Director
Mayo College of Medicine and Science (Jacksonville)

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

Jessica E. Murphy, MD, MS
Associate Program Director
Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

Rachel Perlman, MD (Vice Chair)
Assistant Program Director
University of Michigan Medical School

Daniel Ricotta, MD
Associate Program Director
Harvard Medical School Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

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

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

Cevita Webb
Administrative Director for Research
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Laura Chady Workman, MD
Medicine-Pediatrics Program Director
University of Louisville School of Medicine

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:

  • 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

Chair: Margaret Hayes Baker, MD

Vice Chair: Amalia M Landa-Galindez, MD, FACP

Committee Update (as of September 2023)

  • The medical education research domains and sub-components are near final. These will help determine what future webinars should be produced, as well as guide future resource development (ex. tutorials, snippets, etc.).
  • Developing workshop abstract for Academic Internal Medicine Week 2024. 

AAIM Medical Education Research Committee Roster

Sheena W CarlLee, MD
Program Director
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Regional Centers

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

Khushdeep Chahal, MD, ABIM
Program Director
North Alabama Medical Center

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

Jennifer G. Foster, MD, MBA, FACP
Assistant Dean for Clinical Curriculum
Florida Atlantic University Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine

Margaret Hayes Baker, MD (Chair)
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

Joel T. Katz, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School Brigham and Women's Hospital

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

Amalia M. Landa-Galindez, MD, FACP (Vice Chair)
Clerkship Director/IM Division Chief    

Wasique Mirza, MD, FACP    
Program Director
Geisinger Health System

Franco Musio, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
University of Virginia School of Medicine

Alec O'Connor, MD, MPH
Associate Program Director
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry

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

Kacie Jackson Saulters, MD
Program Director
University of Maryland Capital Region Health

AAIM  Research Committee

Charge: The AAIM Research Committee is charged to develop recommendations for Alliance research strategy which should include assessment of existing educational programming; physician-scientist workforce; engaging the underrepresented in science and medicine and business of medicine components, all directly linked to the physician-scientist career pathway and community.

Chair:  Jatin Vyas, MD, PhD

Vice Chair:  Emily Gallagher, MD, PhD

Committee Update (as of September 2023)

  • A manuscript that guides faculty and medical students in the transition from medical school to internal medicine physician-scientist training programs was submitted to eLife. A second manuscript on the duration of post-graduate training of career development awards is near completion and will be submitted to the Journal of Clinical Investigation (JCI).
  • Collaborating with the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) to disseminate a survey to its ABIM Research Pathway and its graduates, registered learners, and those that completed their IM Board Examination to understand the experiences of trainees in the physician-scientist pathway.
  • Developing workshop abstract for Academic Internal Medicine Week 2024.
  • Working to develop additional resources for the physician-scientist, research-in-residency, and medical-scientist communities: webinars, tutorials, educational videos, etc. 

AAIM  Research Committee Roster

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

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

JoVonnda D. Chresfield
Senior Program Administrator
Baptist Health South Florida

Paul R. Conlin, MD
Chief, Medical Service/Maurice Strauss Chair/Professor of Medicine
Boston University School of Medicine

Emily Gallagher, MD, PhD (Vice Chair)
Associate Program Director for Research
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Patrick Hu, MD, PhD
Associate Professor/PSTP Director
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

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

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

Justin Kingery, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine
University of Louisville School of Medicine

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

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

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

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

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

UME – GME Transitions Work Groups

AAIM Away Rotations Work Group

Task Force Update (as of September 2023)

  • Susan Merel, MD, and R. Dobbin Chow, MD, MBA, MACP will lead the work group.
  • A co-chair planning meeting is scheduled for early September. Historical and contextual information was shared to provide background on the workplan. The scaffolding for FY24 activities will be developed to meet the milestones set forth in the workplan. 

AAIM ERAS Integration Work Group

Task Force Update (as of September 2023)

  • Catherine E. Apaloo, MD, FACP and Cindy Lai, MD will lead the work group.
  • The co-chairs will participate in a joint APDIM and CDIM leadership planning meeting to discuss potential topics for quarterly meetings with AAMC-ERAS executives.
  • A co-chair planning meeting is scheduled for mid-September. Historical and contextual information will be shared to provide background on the workplan. Discussions from the APDIM-CDIM leadership planning meeting may impact the work group’s efforts. The scaffolding for FY24 activities will be developed to meet the milestones set forth in the workplan. 

AAIM Individualized Learning Plan (ILP) Work Group

Task Force Update (as of September 2023)

  • Sherine Salib, MD, MRCP, FACP and John H. Choe, MD, MPH will lead the work group.
  • A co-chair planning meeting is scheduled for mid-September. Historical and contextual information will be shared to provide background on the workplan. The scaffolding for FY24 activities will be developed to meet the milestones set forth in the workplan. 

AAIM Post Interview Communications Work Group

Task Force Update (as of September 2023)

  • Srikanth Nagalla, MD and Leila Kia, MD will lead the work group.
  • A co-chair planning meeting is scheduled for mid-September. Historical and contextual information will be shared to provide background on the workplan. The scaffolding for FY24 activities will be developed to meet the milestones set forth in the workplan. 

AAIM Structured Evaluative Letter (SEL) Work Group

Task Force Update (as of September 2023)

  • Wendy M. Simon, MD and Aimee K. Zaas, MD, MHS will lead the work group.
  • A co-chair planning meeting recently took place. IMG perspectives on SEL utilization is key to understanding the full scope of the SEL’s utility.
  • A FY24 workplan itemizing activities that need to be accomplished to meet the milestones articulated in the master workplan will be developed. 

Survey and Data Committees

APDIM Survey and Scholarship Committee

Task Force Update (as of September 2023)

  • The 2023 APDIM Annual Survey of IM Residency Program Directors (PDs) launched on August 10, 2023, with a survey-eligible population of 490 PDs.
  • Manuscript published in AAIM Perspectives: “Internal Medicine Residency Program Director Awareness and Mitigation of Residents’ Experiences of Bias and Discrimination,” based on the 2021 APDIM Annual Survey.
  • Manuscript in review by JGME: “Management of the Electronic Health Record Inbox,” based on the 2021 APDIM Annual Survey.
  • Manuscript in review by AAIM Perspectives: “Do Current Hiring Processes for Residency and Associate Program Directors Foster Diversity in Educational Leadership?” based on the 2021 APDIM Annual Survey.

CDIM Survey and Scholarship Committee

Task Force Update (as of September 2023)

  • The 2023 CDIM Annual Survey of Core Internal Medicine Clerkship Directors (CDs) will launch on September 12, with a survey-eligible population of 147 CDs.
  • Manuscript accepted by Academic Medicine: “Bias reporting in the clinical learning environment: A national survey of internal medicine clerkship directors,” based the on 2021 CDIM Annual Survey.
  • Accepted for publication by JGIM: “IM Residency Program Directors’ Impressions of the Electronic Residency Application Service Supplemental Application,” (research letter) based on the 2021 ACP IM-ITE Program Directors Survey.