Membership | Icahn School of Medicine

The Executive Oversight Committee includes the following members:

Chair	Voting Status	Role
Michelle Francis, MD	Voting	Chair; Training Site Faculty

Faculty Members (11)	Voting Status	Role
Lindsay Dow, MD, MS	Voting	Training Site Faculty
Samuel Seward, MD	Voting	Training Site Faculty
Gali Halevi, PhD	Voting	Academic Informatics and Technology - Ex-Officio
Teddy Holzer, MD	Voting	Clerkship Director - Ex-Officio
Alexandros Polydorides, MD PhD	Voting	Training Site Faculty
Tonia Kim, MD	Voting	Course Director - Ex-Officio
Michael Leitman, MD	Voting	Graduate Medical Education - Ex-Officio
Ann-Gel Palermo, DrPH, MPH	Voting	Office of Diversity and Inclusion - Ex-Officio
Jessica Reid-Adam, M	Voting	Training Site Faculty
David C. Thomas, MD	Voting	Dean of Medical Education
Matthew O'Connell, PhD	Voting	Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences - Ex-Officio
Pending	Voting	Training Site Faculty
Elvera Baron, MD, PhD	Voting	Training Site Faculty

Non-Voting Members (3) - Ex-Officio	Voting Status	Role
Tara Cunningham, EdD, MS	Non-voting	Senior Associate Dean, Student Affairs
Rainier Soriano, MD	Non-voting	Senior Associate Dean, Curricular Affairs (interim)
David Muller, MD	Non-voting	Dean Emeritus of Medical Education

Subcommittee Chairs (7) - Ex-Officio	Voting Status	Role
Shashi Anand, MEd	Voting	Chair, Curriculum and Policy Subcommittee
David Bechhofer, PhD	Voting	Chair, Course Directors Subcommittee
Robert Fallar, PhD	Voting	Chair, Assessment and Evaluation Subcommittee
Beverly Forsyth, MD	Voting	Chair, Electives Subcommittee
Alicia Hurtado, MD	Voting	Chair, Student Affairs Subcommittee
Mary Rojas, PhD	Voting	Chair, Research Subcommittee
Pending	Voting	Chair, Clinical Curriculum Subcommittee

Students (4)	Voting Status	Role
Pending	Voting	Student Representative, MS1
Justin Tiao	Voting	Student Representative, MS2
James Johnson	Voting	Student Representative, MS3
Ogechukwu Onuh	Voting	Student Representative, Scholarly Year
Melissa Hill	Voting	Student Representative, MS4

The appointment and terms of members are as follows:

The Chair of the EOC is nominated by the Senior Associate Dean of Curricular Affairs and appointed by the ISMMS Dean for a three-year renewable term.
The Faculty Council sends out an annual call for faculty member applications to the Health System. Faculty may be self or peer-nominated. Applicants must submit a CV and a brief statement (no more than 150 words) describing their interest in joining the EOC. The Executive Committee of the Faculty Council will oversee the review of all applicants and selection of nominees to the EOC.
Faculty members will be nominated under the authority of the Executive Committee of the Faculty Council and appointed by the ISMMS Dean. Each shall serve a three-year renewable term and will represent different departments, clinical training sites, and research initiatives.
One MD or MD/PhD student from each class will be elected by the student body to serve a four-year term.

Ex-officio members and subcommittee chairs do not have a restriction on their terms of service.