AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) President and CEO Darrell G. Kirch, M.D., today applauded the Government Accountability Office (GAO) for choosing Sheldon Retchin, M.D., M.S.P.H., vice president for health sciences at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) and CEO of the VCU...
In an article published in the September issue of Health Affairs, AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) President and CEO Darrell G. Kirch, M.D., says the next generation of physicians will drive a culture of patient safety in health care and that residents are important agents of...
The AAMC announced that Frank R. Trinity, J.D., will become the association's new chief legal officer on September 15. Mr. Trinity currently serves as general counsel for the Corporation for National and Community Service, a $1.15 billion federal agency that oversees the AmeriCorps program and...
AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) President and CEO Darrell G. Kirch, M.D., issued the following comments today on President Obama's recess appointment of Donald M. Berwick, M.D., M.P.P., as the new administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS): "Dr...
The AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges), the Association of American Universities (AAU), and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (Aâ?¢Pâ?¢Lâ?¢U) commended President Obama for his proposal to increase funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to $32 billion...