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AAMC Leadership Team
Office of the President
President
Darrell G. Kirch, M.D.
Executive Vice President
Carol A. Aschenbrener, M.D.
Chief of Staff
Kathleen S. Turner
Leadership Team
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Carol A. Aschenbrener, M.D.
Executive Vice President
Carol A. Aschenbrener, M.D., has extensive executive experience including nine years in various dean's office positions at the University of Iowa College of Medicine and four years as Chancellor of the University of Nebraska Medical Center. As Chancellor, she was responsible for four health colleges, the school of Allied Health, graduate program, university hospital, and a cancer institute. Before joining the AAMC, she spent seven years as a consultant to academic health centers, focusing on strategic planning, systems redesign, leadership development, and executive coaching. She has served on a variety of professional and civic boards and has held a variety of leadership positions in organized medicine at the state and national levels, including terms as appointed member of the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education, and Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and has served as chair of the National Board of Medical Examiners.
A graduate of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Dr. Aschenbrener completed residency training in anatomic pathology and neuropathology at the University of Iowa. She is a clinical professor of pathology at George Washington University Medical Center. In addition to accreditation issues, her current professional interests include organizational culture, leadership development, and management of change.
Dr. Aschenbrener leads the AAMC efforts to implement its strategic plan. She is responsible for AAMC activities relating to medical education, professional and leadership development, organizational effectiveness, interprofessional education, and international strategy. She oversees programs in diversity and workforce studies. |
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Joanne M. Conroy, M.D.
Chief Health Care Officer
As chief health care officer, Joanne M. Conroy, M.D., focuses on the interface between the health care delivery system and academic medicine, paying particular attention to how health care in academic settings can address quality-of-care and patient-centered care issues. Dr. Conroy represents the interests of approximately 400 major teaching hospitals and health systems, including 64 Veterans Affairs medical centers, through the AAMC Council of Teaching Hospitals and Health Systems, in addition to overseeing the Group on Faculty Practice, Group on Resident Affairs, Chief Medical Officers Group, and the Compliance Officers Forum.
Dr. Conroy comes to the association after serving as executive vice president of Atlantic Health System and chief operating officer of Morristown Memorial Hospital in Morristown, N.J. She was made president of Morristown Memorial in 2008. In those roles, Dr. Conroy gained an understanding of health system operations, hospital-physician relationships, and collaborative partnerships among the various elements of academic health systems. Dr. Conroy earned her B.A. degree in chemistry from Dartmouth College, and was awarded her M.D. degree from the Medical University of South Carolina. |
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Barbara S. Friedman
Chief Financial and Administrative Officer
Barbara S. Friedman received a B.S. from Fairleigh Dickinson University. Prior to joining the AAMC, she worked at the New York Public Library, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz in New York, and Deloitte & Touche, LLP in Washington, D.C., in various positions, including CFO, COO, and executive director. She serves on many not-for-profit boards including Consumer Union in Yonkers, N.Y.
The Office of Administrative Services is responsible for fiscal planning, investment management, accounting, human resources, business services, facilities maintenance and management, and business development. |
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Robert F. Jones, Ph.D.
Chief Mission Support Officer
Robert F. Jones, Ph.D. holds a B.A. in philosophy from St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, an M.S. in counseling from the University of Scranton, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in psychology from The Catholic University of America. He has held various positions within the AAMC during a 30-year career with the organization. He has written and consulted widely on medical school management issues, including faculty appointment and tenure policies, mission-based approaches to management, medical school financing, and the cost of medical education. He also has served on numerous committees and advisory panels dealing with public policy issues in science and education, including those for the National Institutes of Health, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Science Foundation.
As chief mission support officer, Dr. Jones is responsible for the three major application and testing service programs that the AAMC sponsors: the American Medical College Application Service (AMCAS), the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS), and the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT) program; he is also responsible for managing, under contract, the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP). The division is also the steward for AAMC data on medical school applicants, students, and faculty, and the medical schools themselves, their characteristics and policies. It draws on this information base to produce research and data reports that inform policy development in academic medicine, improve medical school management capability, and support the medical school accreditation process. Dr. Jones oversees and coordinates the association's financial, administrative, and information resources processes. |
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Joseph A. Keyes Jr., J.D.
Chief Legal Officer
Joseph A. Keyes Jr., J.D., is a graduate of Marquette University and Georgetown University Law Center, and is a member of the Bar of the Supreme Court of Virginia and the Supreme Court of the United States. Prior to the AAMC he served as an officer in the U.S. Navy, including tours in Vietnam, and was a legislative analyst in the office of the director of the National Institutes of Health. Mr. Keyes joined the AAMC as a senior staff associate in the Division of Institutional Planning and Development with responsibilities for the Council of Deans and the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, and for the initiation of the AAMC Management Advancement Program.
Mr. Keyes has overseen AAMC efforts to assist academic medicine leaders in managing and accomplishing the missions of their institutions by providing specially tailored forums, services and programs for medical school deans and administrators. His work has included supporting the student affairs functions at medical schools; addressing issues of admissions, academic progress and promotion, and financial aid; and providing service programs such as Careers in Medicine and the former MEDLOANS program. Mr. Keyes staffs the Council of Deans and oversees the Group on Student Affairs, the Group on Business Affairs, the Group on Institutional Planning, the Group on Information Resources, Group on Faculty Affairs, the Women in Medicine program, the Group on Faculty Affairs, and the Organization of Student Representatives. |
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Jeanne L. Mella
Chief Information Officer
Jeanne L. Mella has more than 30 years of management and technical experience in information technology (IT). Prior to joining the AAMC in 1999, she was senior program manager at Keane, Inc., where she directed programs supporting federal and state government clients. Previously, she was vice president and program manager at Sterling Software, Inc. and has held positions at the Eloret Institute, Information Systems Consultants, Advanced Technology Systems, and the U.S. Department of Defense. Ms. Mella earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics at the University of Richmond and a master's degree in computer science from the George Washington University.
The Office of Information Resources is responsible for software development and maintenance; the AAMC data warehouse development and maintenance; the internal network and desktop environments; and the server and communications infrastructure used for development, testing, and production operations of AAMC IT services. |
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John E. Prescott, M.D.
Chief Academic Officer
As chief academic officer, John E. Prescott, M.D., and his staff lead the association's efforts to improve the education and training of new physicians, enabling them to meet the changing health care needs of the public. With oversight of medical education and academic affairs, he is responsible for directing AAMC programs related to all stages of the medical education continuum, including preparation for medical school, and undergraduate, graduate, and continuing medical education. Dr. Prescott also leads efforts supporting the Council of Deans, the Organization of Student Representatives, the Group on Regional Medical Campuses, the Group on Educational Affairs, and the Group on Student Affairs. In addition, Dr. Prescott oversees the Careers in Medicine program and MedEdPORTAL®, and he leads the AAMC's collection of medical school financial and operating data.
Prior to joining the AAMC in 2008, Dr. Prescott served as dean of the West Virginia University (WVU) School of Medicine for four years. He also served as president and CEO of University Health Associates, WVU's integrated multi-specialty faculty practice plan, from 1999-2004. As the first chair of the WVU Department of Emergency Medicine from 1993-99, Dr. Prescott founded and was the first director of the WVU Center for Rural Emergency Medicine. Dr. Prescott earned his medical and his bachelor's degrees from Georgetown University. |
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Elisa K. Siegel
Chief Communications Officer
As chief communications officer, Ms. Siegel leads the association's efforts to advance public understanding and support of medical schools and teaching hospitals and their contributions to the nation's health. Her staff in the Office of Communications is responsible for the association's media and public relations activities, national communications advocacy campaigns, public opinion research, Project Medical Education and other opinion-leader education programs, and the AAMC Web site. The peer-reviewed journal Academic Medicine, the association's flagship monthly news publication the Reporter, and the electronic newsletter STAT also are produced by this office, which staffs the Group on Institutional Advancement. Ms. Siegel also serves as the national communications co-chair of the Coalition to Protect America's Health Care, a national coalition of hospitals and health care providers that educates policymakers and the public about the financial challenges facing the nation's hospitals and builds support for hospitals through national advertising campaigns.
Prior to joining the AAMC in 2003, Ms. Siegel was a senior vice president of the public relations and advertising agency Goddard Claussen Porter Novelli, director of public affairs for the American Insurance Association, and government affairs manager for Diamond Shamrock Corporation. She graduated magna cum laude with an A.B. degree from Duke University. |
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Charles Terrell, Ed.D.
Chief Diversity Officer
Charles Terrell holds a B.A. degree in American history from Colby College, an M.A. degree in African-American studies from Boston University, and an Ed.D. degree in higher education from Nova Southeastern University. His work in medical education began at Boston University School of Medicine's Office of Minority Affairs, and he held many positions at Boston University Medical Center: director of student financial management, assistant dean for student affairs, and associate dean for student affairs. He also served as director of the Office of Residency Planning and Practice Management. Dr. Terrell is a nationally recognized authority on higher education access, diversity in higher education and medical education, and student financial assistance. Throughout his career, he has remained committed to education access and health care equity for all Americans, but especially for those who are underrepresented and less advantaged.
Dr. Terrell and his staff help member institutions increase the number of minorities in the health professions, including preparing pre-college students academically (education pipeline programs) and encouraging increased representation of minorities among medical students, residents, and medical school faculty. In addition, their work focuses on eliminating disparities in health care treatment and outcomes. They provide staffing for the Group on Student Affairs Minority Affairs Section. |
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Kathleen S. Turner
Chief of Staff
Kathleen S. Turner received a B.S.F.S. degree from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and an M.P.A. degree from American University. Prior to joining the AAMC, she worked at the Institute of Medicine, the National Medical Association, and the Office of Economic Opportunity, in both congressional relations and health affairs.
Ms. Turner staffs the AAMC Executive Council and Executive Committee and also has responsibility for maintaining the AAMC's membership database, for planning and logistical support for meetings and conferences, for the reference center and Mary H. Littlemeyer Archives, and for publications ordering and fulfillment. |
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