CFAS Business Meeting Scott Gitlin, MD, presenting for Vincent D. Pellegrini Jr., MD Nov. 11, 2016

New CFAS Ad Board Members Robin McGoey, MD, LSU Health Rich Eckert, PhD, University of Maryland School of Medicine Alan Dow, MD, VCU School of Medicine Carolyn Meltzer, MD, Emory School of Medicine Also, welcome Maureen Connelly, MD, Harvard Medical School, GFA Chair Elect

Thank You to Outgoing Ad Board Members Mike Levitzky, PhD, LSU Health Adi Haramati, PhD, Georgetown University School of Medicine Andrej Rotter, PhD, The Ohio State University College of Medicine Lee Fleisher, MD, Penn Medicine Darshana Shah, PhD Marshall University School of Medicine – outgoing GFA member

And on the AAMC Side… Welcome Ross McKinney, MD, Chief Scientific Officer of the AAMC

CFAS Membership Update Since fall 2015, the number of total CFAS representatives has increased from 294 to 379 Medical schools have appointed 22 representatives to CFAS since fall 2015 In 2016, there were a total of 82 CFAS representatives with PhD or MD-PhD degrees New member societies added since 2014: American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry American Association of Genitourinary Surgeons American College of Cardiology American College of Physicians American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology Association of Pediatric Program Directors Center for Medicine after the Holocaust

CFAS Membership Update, cont’d.

And Speaking of Chairs… Three CFAS reps presented at the 2016 “Executive Development Seminar for New Associate Deans and Department Chairs” (including the CFAS Chair) Vin Pellegrini, Cathy Pipas, and Amy Young Highlighted a unique opportunity for CFAS to address issues critical to chairs of all stripe Looking into ways to invite interested parties, such as chairs, to participate in CFAS activities Open to your ideas on being effective

And Speaking of Expanding Our Base… CFAS Affiliates system is ready to role Allows past CAS representatives as well as past CFAS reps to enroll in CFAS meetings and activities They may not serve on the ad board or vote in our elections for leadership, but they may network, share their knowledge, enjoy our meetings, present in our sessions, and otherwise participate in the CFAS community

Making a Difference at Learn Serve Lead Of 103 concurrent sessions at LSL, CFAS reps or Ad Board members are panelists or moderators for 7 sessions. 8 Learn Serve Lead speakers are affiliated with CFAS In case you want to visit those sessions (consult the program for details): Exploring Resilience: What We Know and What We Can Do Mergers and Acquisitions: Critical Issues to Consider Exploring Resilience: An Evidence-Based Institutional Response Innovative Tools and Approaches to Simplify the Lives of Program Directors Who Is Faculty, Anyway? An Update from the Defining Faculty Working Group Leveraging the Power of Intergenerational Differences Enhancing Support for the Academic Mission

CFAS 2017 Spring Meeting in Orlando

Committee and Work Group Progress Program Committee Put together a preview of the Spring meeting earlier than ever Nominating and Engagement Committee Identified four new CFAS Ad Board members from a deep field of ~20 nominees Getting ready to select a new CFAS Chair Elect; selection will take place in Orlando this March

Committee and Work Group Progress CFAS Resilience Workgroup Continued to keep this issue front and center not only for CFAS but the AAMC overall Played a role in the June AAMC Leadership Forum, which was focused on wellbeing in academic medicine Launched an AAMC-wide website that is managed by CFAS

www.aamc.org/wellbeing

Committee and Work Group Progress Evaluation Committee New chair Carolyn Meltzer, MD. Launched and completed a survey on “critical issues” 160 respondents Top two “critical issues” survey responses: The imbalance between required clinical productivity and loss of protected time for research and/or teaching” The impact of health system and hospital aggregation on medical schools and academic faculty 1 2

Committee and Work Group Progress Communication Committee Continued to add newsletter content Launched its first podcasts Diversity Committee Held its first meeting at LSL this year

Committee and Work Group Progress Basic Science Workgroup New chair Gabriela Popescu, PhD Have discussed a number of issues around basic science/discovery science faculty, including decreasing role in curricula; adjusting to declining research funding; effects of mergers and acquisitions; importance of GME to basic scientists Looked a creating statements on research growth vs. sustainability and ideas on a systematic, sustained effort to educate the public about the role of the academic health center

Committee and Work Group Progress Value of Faculty as Educators Working Group Working on defining teaching activities and providing a framework to value them CFAS Advocacy Committee Working on creating ways to communicate advocacy messages to CFAS reps (a new web resource has just gone live on the CFAS site; additionally working on ways to engage societies more closely with CFAS activity and ensuring that CFAS meetings regularly have an advocacy component in at least one plenary session

New Features on CFAS Website List of active societies CFAS News “hub” People of academic medicine New advocacy page resource CFAS Member Rep Newsletter archive www.aamc.org/wellbeing As always, resources on our recent meetings that you can download and turn into your own presentations

Definition of Faculty Working Group Update AAMC multi-disciplinary working group met this past spring First “Umbrella” publication in draft form Overall content plan in place for subsequent work Session exploring next steps and seeking participant input happening at LSL