The Graduate Medical Education Committee

The Committe Charge

The purpose of this committee shall be to oversee all programs in graduate medical education sponsored by the Medical School. The committee shall examine adequacy of the clinical environments and structure according to the guidelines for General Requirements of the ACGME. The committee shall perform relevant internal reviews of each training program to assess its compliance with both the institutional requirements and relevant program requirements of the ACGME. The committee shall serve as a forum for discussion of graduate medical education issues to include not only clinical environments but resident quality of life, recruitment, specialty choice and outcome. The membership of the Committee on Graduate Medical Education shall be recommended from among the Faculty members who are program directors of an approved residency or fellowship, other members of the Faculty and members of the house staff chosen by the President and Vice President of the House Staff Association. The Associate Dean for Educational Programs shall be a member with voting privilege. The Graduate Education Committee on Quality Assessment shall be a subcommittee of the GME Committee and shall function to receive and review reports and cases in which the patient care rendered by UTHSC-H Medical School resident physicians is called into question to the extent that the resident physician's residency program should be notified and remedial action taken. This subcommittee is a peer-review committee established pursuant to Texas law and shall function under its own bylaws, which are approved by the Senate. The Associate Dean for Educational Programs shall be a member with voting privilege.

Eugene Boisaubin, M.D.; Internal Medicine/General
Steven Brown, M.D.; Chief of Staff, LBJ Hospital
Patricia Butler, M.D.; Associate Dean, Educational Programs and DIO
Sharon Crandell, M.D.; Pediatrics
Samer Fakhri, M.D.; Otolaryngology
Mark Farnie, M.D.; Internal Medicine/Pediatrics
Gerard Francisco, M.D.; Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Rhonda Ghorbani, M.D.; Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Lisa Hollier, M.D.; Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences (LBJ)
Jeffrey Katz, M.D.; Chief Academic Officer, Memorial Hermann Hospital
Judianne Kellaway, M.D.; Opthalmology & Visual Science
Christine Koerner, M.D., Transitional Year
David Kusnerik, Director, Graduate Medical Education
Pamela Promecene, M.D., Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Services (MHH)
Allison Ownby, Ph.D., Assistant Director, Educational Programs
Bela Patel, M.D., Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
Ronald Rapini, M.D.; Dermatology
Eric Reichman, M.D.; Emergency Medicine
Margaret Uthman, M.D.; Assistant Dean, Educational Program

Term Expires - 2009
Laura Ferguson, M.D.; Pediatrics

Term Expires – 2010
Shahla Nader-Eftekhari, M.D.; Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences

Patrick Burke, M.D., Internal Medicine/Pediatrics

L. Maximilian Buja, M.D.; President, UT System Medical Foundation
Michael Bungo, M.D.; Internal Medicine
Jose Garcia, M.D.; LBJ. General Director AMS
R. Andrew Harper, M.D.; Medical Director - HCPC; Assistant Dean, UT Educational Programs
David Jenkins, Senior Legal Officer, Legal Affairs and Institutional Compliance
Judy Paukert, Ph.D.; Director, Graduate Medical Education, The Methodist Hospital