The AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) has announced its new board of directors.  The board’s term will run until November 2013.

2012–2013 AAMC Board of Directors:

Chair:
Valerie N. Williams, Ph.D., M.P.A., vice provost for academic affairs and faculty development, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

Chair-elect:
A. Lorris Betz, M.D., Ph.D., senior vice president emeritus of health sciences at the University of Utah

Immediate Past Chair:
Mark R. Laret, chief executive officer, University of California, San Francisco Medical Center

President and CEO:
Darrell G. Kirch, M.D., AAMC

Members:
Marna P. Borgstrom, M.P.H., president and CEO, Yale-New Haven Hospital

Sheila P. Burke, R.N., M.P.A., adjunct lecturer in public policy, Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government

Ruth-Marie (Rhee) E. Fincher, M.D., vice dean emerita, Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Health Sciences University

Rosemarie L. Fisher, M.D., professor of medicine, director, and associate dean of graduate medical education, Yale University School of Medicine

Robert J. Laskowski, M.D., M.B.A., president and CEO, Christiana Care Health System

Brenessa M. Lindeman, M.D., resident, Johns Hopkins University

J. Lloyd Michener, M.D., chair, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University Medical Center

Kathleen G. Nelson, M.D., clinical professor of pediatrics, University of Southern California and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

Harold L. Paz, M.D., dean, Penn State College of Medicine; CEO, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center; and senior vice president for health affairs, Penn State University

Marsha D. Rappley, M.D., dean, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine

Benjamin P. Sachs, M.B.B.S., D.P.H., senior vice president, Tulane University; dean, School of Medicine; James R. Doty Distinguished Professor and Chair

David J. Skorton, M.D., president, Cornell University

Catherine Spina, student, Boston University School of Medicine