2. CFAS Business Meeting Vincent D. Pellegrini Jr., MD
CFAS Chair (for a few days!)
November 3, 2017

3. Agenda CFAS Committee and Work Group Updates
Highlights and Accomplishments from the Past Year
Revisiting the Issues that Matter
A Word from the AAMC Chief Scientific Officer
CFAS Leadership Transitions
Coming Up at LSL 2017 with CFAS

4. CFAS Committees and Working Groups
Most are open to all CFAS representatives
Committees are focused on the infrastructure and operation of CFAS
Working groups are focused on the content and projects CFAS takes on
CFAS also convenes an interdisciplinary "Work Group to Define Faculty,” chaired by Immediate Past Chair Rosemarie Fisher, MD
Full list of committees and working groups available at

5. CFAS Committee & Working Groups 2017
CFAS structure is still relatively new (formed in 2013), and committees and working groups have made progress this year:
Diversity Committee, our newest committee, launched and populated; developing long-range agenda and overarching priorities 
Faculty Resilience Working Group participating in this meeting with sessions; “Well-Being in Academic Medicine” website continues to grow
Advocacy Committee now chaired by Joseph Hill, MD, PhD;
curates advocacy resources for faculty on “CFAS Advocacy” webpage

6. CFAS Committee & Working Groups 2017
Evaluation Committee developing new metrics to advance CFAS’ effectiveness – demographics survey to all CFAS reps soon
Basic Science Working Group now chaired by Rich Eckert, PhD
communicating the message and value of science
Communications Committee curating resources to onboard new reps;
providing periodic updates about events and accomplishments
AAMC’s Working Group on Definition of Faculty, led by Rosemarie Fisher, MD; developing opinion paper for publication

7. CFAS Committee & Working Groups 2017
Mission Alignment Working Group, chaired by Stewart Babbott, MD;
engaged in institutional matters as they affect faculty
Value of Faculty as Educators Working Group, chaired by Lisa Bellini, MD; produced a summary document and informed the definition of faculty group
Nominating & Engagement Committee, reviewing applications for new
organizational membership and recommending the leadership slate
Program Committee, chaired by CFAS Chair-Elect, Gabriela Popescu, PhD and CFAS Chair-Elect (for a few days) Scott Gitlin, MD

8. CFAS Committee & Working Groups 2017 – Chair Updates
Advocacy Committee
Communications Committee
Diversity Committee
Evaluations Committee
Nominating and Engagement Committee
Program Committee
Basic Science Working Group
Faculty Resilience Working Group
Mission Alignment Working Group
Value of Faculty as Educators Working Group

9. CFAS Membership Update
84 CFAS representatives with PhD or MD-PhD degrees
New member societies since 2016:
The Academy for Professionalism in Health Care (APHC)
The Association of Directors of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry (ADMSEP)

10. AAMC Sign-On Letters
Through CFAS, this year AAMC has distributed four advocacy sign-on letters to academic societies. We are seen as an important resource in these efforts.
59 societies added their names to the letters on:
NIH funding
NIH F&A costs
DACA students
Fetal tissue research

11. 2017 CFAS Orlando Spring Meeting Highlights
Included representatives from CFAS and
the Organization of Resident Representatives (ORR)
More engagement than ever before:
200 attendees total, including ORR and CFAS

12. 2017 CFAS Orlando Spring Meeting Highlights
Plenary sessions:
The faculty of tomorrow’s academic health center
Academic health center finance 101
Personal transitions in the lifecycle of academic medicine
Navigating academic health center governance
The opioid dilemma
The place for PhD’s in the medical school of tomorrow
AAMC leadership report and Washington policy update
Meeting feedback was incorporated by Program Committee into
upcoming CFAS Spring Meeting in Chicago

13. CFAS “Critical Issues” Still on Target?
**Faculty matters – wRVU
*Health system aggregation
Faculty voice in governance
Transparent communication
Federal research funding
Education innovation/funding

14. CFAS Influence Growing
Funds flow and Governance topics from 2016 CFAS spring meeting gaining traction in other AAMC meetings and group activity
Governance presentation became an Academic Medicine perspective piece
CFAS reps and leaders made significant contributions to 2017 LSL program, with sessions on:
Well-being and resilience
GME learning environment
Bias in academic medicine
Role of research in academic medicine
Fourth year of med school
Definition of faculty
Communication in basic science

15. CFAS Influence Growing
CFAS provided speakers, planners, and active contributors to:
Executive Seminar for new department chairs & assoc. deans
AAMC Leadership Forum
CENTILE Conference on resilience, empathy, and well-being in health care professions
AAMC’s GRAND meeting for research deans
2016 Council of Deans meeting
Donaghue Foundation conference on EHR and data sharing

16. CFAS Influence Growing
CFAS leaders and reps have presence on other important bodies:
ACGME Board of Directors
"Action Collaborative" on wellbeing in the clinician environment (sponsored by the ACGME, NAM, and the AAMC)
ACOG implementation team

17. A Word from … AAMC’s Chief Scientific Officer
Ross McKinney, MD

18. CFAS Leadership Transitions
16-Member Administrative Board
Convenes several times in person throughout the year and via conference call to shepherd CFAS direction
Chair and Chair-elect serve terms on the AAMC Board of Directors
Represents cross section of all CFAS reps (clinicians, scientists, medical educators, society reps, school reps, junior and senior reps)
Three-year cycle of annual rotation replaces 1/3 of the members each year to add new voices and provide new opportunities
Immediate Past Chair responsible for the Nominating Committee
Incoming Chair-Elect responsible for the Program Committee

19. CFAS Leadership Transitions
16-Member Administrative Board Rotation

20. Outgoing Administrative Board Members Our Sincere Thanks
Rosemarie L. Fisher, MD
Etty “Tika” Benveniste, PhD
Samuel C. Matheny, MD, MPH

21. CFAS Leadership Remaining on the Administrative Board
Gabriela Popescu, PhD
Michael E. Engel, MD, PhD
Amy Hildreth, MD
Alan W. Dow, III, MD
Vincent D. Pellegrini, MD, Chair
Scott Gitlin, MD, Chair-Elect
Maureen T. Connelly, MD, MPH (GFA Chair Elect)
Joseph Hill, MD, PhD
VJ Periyakoil, MD
Mona Abaza, MD
Richard L. Eckert, PhD
Robin McGoey, MD
Carolyn Meltzer, MD
For more information, visit

22. New Administrative Board Members Welcome
Nita Ahuja, MD, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
J. David Warren, PhD, Weill Cornell Medicine
Arthur Derse, MD, JD, Association of Bioethics Program Directors

23. CFAS Leadership Transitions
Scott Gitlin, MD, Professor of Hematology/Oncology, University of Michigan Medical School, Representing the American Society of Hematology, becomes Chair
Gabriela Popescu, PhD, Professor of Biochemistry, Anesthesiology, Neuroscience, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University of Buffalo becomes Chair-Elect and Program Committee Chair
Vincent D. Pellegrini, Jr., MD, Professor and Chair of Orthopaedics, MUSC, and Senior Rep from the American Orthopaedic Association, becomes Immediate Past Chair

24. CFAS Leadership Transition
Our heart-felt thanks to Rosemarie Fisher, MD, former CFAS Immediate Past Chair, for her years of service and dedication to CFAS. We wish her the best in all her future endeavors.

25. New CFAS Leadership Slate Vote
Gabriela Popescu, PhD, Chair-Elect
Vincent D. Pellegrini, MD, Immediate Past Chair
Michael E. Engel, MD, PhD
Amy Hildreth, MD
Alan W. Dow, III, MD
Maureen T. Connelly, MD, MPH (GFA Chair Elect)
Scott Gitlin, MD, Chair
Arthur Derse, MD, JD
Joseph Hill, MD, PhD
VJ Periyakoil, MD
Mona Abaza, MD
Richard L. Eckert, PhD
Carolyn Meltzer, MD
Robin McGoey, MD
Nita Ahuja, MD
J. David Warren, PhD

26. 2018 CFAS Spring Meeting Chicago
Brochure of preview now available with current list of plenaries
Call for proposals open ahead of schedule to allow longer
submission and registration period
Meeting Program Committee responsibilities passed from
Scott Gitlin, MD to Program Chair Gabriela Popescu, PhD

27. Coming up at the LSL 2017… Full program after Friday:
New rep orientation (everyone invited, especially new reps)
Joint Reception on Saturday night with GFA
Awards Dinner on Sunday night
CFAS Knowledge Sharing Session on Monday - come with your ideas and input
Several concurrent sessions with CFAS speakers/topics – All of you were ed suggested sessions; Speak with Eric if you have any questions. 

28. For More Details… Learn more about CFAS Membership Issues Leadership
Learn more about our upcoming spring meeting: