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Dr. Joan Cangiarella, MD is the Senior Associate Dean for Education, Faculty and Academic Affairs at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, Director of the Accelerated Three-Year MD Pathway, Vice-Chair for Clinical Operations and Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology. As Senior Associate Dean for Education, Faculty and Academic Affairs, Dr. Cangiarella oversees faculty appointments, promotions, and tenure at NYU Grossman School of Medicine.

Dr. Cangiarella leads the Accelerated Three-Year MD Pathway and was a co-Principal Investigator for the Josiah Macy Foundation grant that created the Consortium of Medical Schools with Accelerated Pathway Programs (CAMPP). In this role, she leads a group of now 30 medical schools with three-year MD programs to establish best practices, assess outcomes of accelerated pathway programs and provide guidance to institutions considering the development of an accelerated pathway program. She has lectured nationally at the American Association of Medical Colleges meeting and at the Beyond Flexner Conference on Three-Year MD programs. She has also served as a content expert to medical schools considering the development of an accelerated medical pathway program. She was lead author on several recently published articles in Academic Medicine related to Accelerated Three Year MD Pathway programs.

In her Vice-Chair of Clinical Operations in the Department of Pathology she manages the anatomic and clinical laboratories at NYU-Langone Health. She has research interests in breast pathology and cytopathology and has authored over 120 papers, 17 book chapters and edited the book “Breast Cytohistology”.

Dr. Coe is an Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at the University of North Carolina. She serves as the Director of the Fully Integrated Readiness for Service Training (FIRST) Program. The FIRST Program is an accelerated three-year medical school curriculum, linked to direct progression into a UNC-affiliated residency program, followed by three years of service to the state of North Carolina. Dr. Coe is also the Co-Director of the Patient Centered Care (PCC) Course, the introduction to clinical medicine for first- and second-year medical students. She also serves as the Associate Medical Director to the University Employee Occupational Health Clinic and is the Principal Investigator on several medical education grants.

Dr. Coe received her medical degree from the University of Washington and trained as a resident and Chief Resident at the University of North Carolina Family Medicine Residency Program. Her scholarly interests include workforce development, Undergraduate Medical Education (UME) to Graduate Medical Education (GME) continuum/ transition, competency-based assessments, and work-place assessments. Dr. Coe is a member of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Board of Directors and also active in the American Medical Association (AMA) Accelerating Change in Medical Education Consortium.

Dr. Bray is the Campus Dean of the OSU College of Osteopathic Medicine at the Cherokee Nation in Tahlequah. She previously served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at OSU COM at the Cherokee Nation since 2018. Bray also serves as Associate Dean for Accreditation for OSU Center for Health Sciences.

Board certified in Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine, Bray earned her Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree from OSU-COM and went on to the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed her internship as the Chief Intern Physician, then completed her residency at Cambridge Health Alliance/Harvard Affiliated Hospital.

Bray has extensive experience in the development, accreditation, and delivery of educational programs for both undergraduate and graduate medical education. Bray serves on several national committees and has dedicated her career to medical education as a vehicle to serve vulnerable populations and improve access to quality health care.

Machelle Linsenmeyer, Ed.D. is currently the Associate Dean for Assessment and Educational Development and Professor at the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine. In this capacity, she oversees many activities including testing/assessment/surveying, curriculum mapping, competency tracking, academic technology, faculty development, program evaluation and educational research. Dr. Linsenmeyer’s initiatives encompass the entire span of medical education from undergraduate to graduate medical education. She has over a decade of experience in the medical education profession serving nationally as a fellow in the National Association of Osteopathic Medical Educators (secretary), AACOM EPA Steering Committee (Chair), NBOME Portfolio and Special Assessment Taskforce (member), and previous program planning committee member for both The Generalists in Medical Education and the International Association of Medical Science Educators. She is an associate editor, an author, and both national and international speaker discussing various medical education topics also spanning her broad background.

Stephen Schneid is the Director for Educational Development and Scholarship at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. Schneid has over 20 years teaching biomedical sciences to medical and pharmacy students and in the summer pre-matriculation course offered to incoming students. He has also been the lead instructor for the postbaccalaureate premedical program for the past 10 years. His research interests include assessment, team-based learning, and outcomes of pre-matriculation and postbaccalaureate programs.

Dr. Amiri joined the Robert Larner COM at the University of Vermont in June 2022 as associate dean for admissions and assistant professor in Psychiatry. As dean of admissions, she oversees admissions and recruitment for both campuses of the college of medicine. She is a passionate advocate for holistic review in admissions and a strong supporter for students in helping them achieve their academic and professional goals.

Dr. Amiri has spent her career in higher education starting as a peer advisor in the biology department. Over this time she has worked with a variety of students at 7 different institutions as an advisor, faculty member, administrator, and mentor.

In the medical education arena, she has engaged in leadership at the national level the liaison for the Committee on Admissions (COA) for the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), member of the AMCAS Advisory Committee, member of the Advancing Holistic Review Initiative, and as an AAMC Holistic Review facilitator working with other medical schools’ admissions committees on how to include holistic review in their process. She just completed a two-year term as Chair of the Combined Bachelor-MD affiliate group and is currently National Chair of the GSA Professional Development Initiative.

Dr. Amiri’s specific research interests focus on the process of student learning with an emphasis in medical education and at transitional times in a student’s academic journey. Her broader area of interest is in human cognition and reasoning.