Valerie N. Williams, PhD, MPA, (OK UCEDD) Is the New Chair of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)
November 19, 2012
https://www.aamc.org/newsroom/newsreleases/313842/121109.html
Valerie N. Williams, Ph.D., M.P.A., vice provost for academic affairs and faculty development, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC) is the association's new chair. She succeeds Mark R. Laret, chief executive officer of the University of California, San Francisco, Medical Center. A. Lorris Betz, M.D., Ph.D., senior vice president emeritus of health sciences at the University of Utah, was named chair-elect and will succeed Dr. Williams next year.
Since joining the OUHSC in 1989, Dr. Williams has served in a variety of faculty development and leadership posts, including associate dean for faculty affairs in the OU College of Medicine and interim associate dean for academic programs in the OU College of Nursing. Dr. Williams was a longtime faculty member for the AAMC's Women in Medicine and Science Professional Development Programs and a contributor to the AAMC's Minority Faculty Professional Development Program. She is both the founder and director of the Center for Learning and Leadership/University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Education, Research, and Service, a federally funded interdisciplinary program designed to develop innovations in practice to better serve people with developmental disabilities and their families. Dr. Williams also serves as director of the OUHSC Faculty Leadership Program, a campus-wide interprofessional faculty development and mentoring program sponsored by the OU Health Sciences Center provost and college deans.
