Continuing Education for Health Professionals Advisory Committee
Charge
The continuing medical education advisory committee will be charged with:
- Taking an active role in planning and guiding the office of continuing medical education in future program ideas obtained from needs assessment
- Providing new program ideas for possible development based on committee members' experiences in daily practice
- Assessing final evaluations of programs for the possibility of commencing a series of annual programs
- Suggesting and assisting in marketing techniques through societies or membership primarily targeted to physician populations
- Suggesting outside funding opportunities to be explored by the office of continuing medical education
- Suggesting specific research ideas for future development by CME staff relating to innovative teaching methods, assessing the impact of CME programs on physician education, and seeking the best learning methods for physicians
- Assuring that proposed CME programs meet the primary goal of providing high quality educational opportunities for physicians after formal medical school training
- Advising the office of continuing medical education regarding ways that college of medicine faculty could gain regional recognition for their expertise/research topics through inclusion in CME programs
- Informing the office of continuing medical education of ways to promote CME as a "service provider" to faculty and perspective registrants.
Structure
The chair of the continuing medical education committee must hold the medical doctor
degree and be selected from the membership. Full membership shall consist of the following:
- Seven faculty members who hold M.D. degrees
- One faculty member from a basic science department
- One representative from learning resources
- One representative from the college of nursing
- One representative from the college of public and allied health
- One representative from Mountain States Health Alliance
- One community representative
- Three at-large members representing Kingsport, Bristol, and Johnson City
- One resident representative
- One assistant dean for continuing medical education
- One associate dean for academic affairs
2022-2023 Committee Members
| Caroline Abercrombie, MD (Chair) | Associate Professor, Section of Medical Education Senior Director of Experiential Learning OSCE Director - Academic Affairs Director of Community Engagement - IPE Programs |
| David Linville, MD, EdD | Associate Vice President for Clinical Affairs Senior Associate Dean Chief of Staff |
| Atif Atyia, MD | Community Physician |
| Anthony Kiech | Director of Academic Technology Services |
| Elizabeth Wolf, MBA, CPPS, CPHRM, CHCP | Director for Continuing Education for Health Professionals |
| Jeffrey Gray, PharmD, CDE | Associate Professor, Dept. of Pharmacy Practice |
| Ivy Click, EdD |
Assistant Dean for Curriculum |
| Abby Johnson |
MS1 |
| Reid Blackwelder, MD |
Associate Dean, GME & CME Designated Instituational Official |
| Alicia Williams, EdD |
IPE Director of Faculty Development |
| Patty Harnois-Church, MSN, MHA, PhD |
Assistant Professor, College of Nursing |
| Emily Weyant, MSIS, AHIP |
Assistant Professor, Senior Clinical Reference Librarian QCOM Medical Library |
| Kevin Metzger, DO |
Community Physician |
| Nathan Hale, PhD, MPH | Associate Professor, Dept. of Health Sciences, Management & Policy |
| Ali Khan, MD | PGY-2, Resident Representative, Dept. of Psychiatry |
| Michaela Short | MS1 |