Greenville, North Carolina – Michael Waldrum, MD, MBA, CEO of ECU Health and dean of the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, has been appointed the next chair of the AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) Board of Governors for the 2024-25 fiscal year. The new board term will run from Nov. 12, 2024, to November 2025, when Dr. Waldrum will assume the role of chair.
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Dr. Michael Waldrum
Dr. Waldrum was appointed CEO of ECU Health in 2015 and Dean of Brody in 2021. Previously, he served as President and CEO of the University of Arizona Health Network and CEO of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital. Dr. Waldrum is a specialist in Critical Care Medicine and Pulmonology and is trained in Internal Medicine. He received his MD from the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine and completed his residency at Mayo Clinic in Minnesota.
Dr. Waldrum has served as chair of the AAMC’s Council of Teaching Hospitals and Health Systems (now called the Council of Academic Health System Executives) since 2022, and his unique rural health perspective has helped shape the discussion about the complex issues facing rural communities across the country and how academic medicine can help solve those challenges.
“I am honored to serve as the next chair of the prestigious AAMC Board of Governors, which has long been a powerful voice in academic medicine,” said Dr. Waldrum. “I look forward to continuing to work closely with highly respected academic medical leaders from across the country who are dedicated to ensuring that quality health care is available to everyone, including those who live in rural communities. The challenges facing health care nationwide are certainly complex, but the AAMC’s collective expertise will help us chart new paths to improving the lives of many people, and I am honored to be a part of this important work.”
The AAMC is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the health of people worldwide through medical education, care, medical research, and community engagement. AAMC members are 158 U.S. medical schools accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, 13 accredited Canadian medical schools, nearly 400 teaching hospitals and health systems, including Veterans Affairs medical centers, and more than 70 learned societies. Through these institutions and organizations, AAMC mentors and supports U.S. medical schools and teaching hospitals, and millions of people in academic medicine, including more than 193,000 full-time faculty, 96,000 medical students, 153,000 residents, and 60,000 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in biomedical sciences. Through their merger in 2022, the Alliance of Academic Health Centers and Alliance of Academic Health Centers International expanded AAMC’s U.S. membership and reach to academic medical centers internationally.