The Academy of Educators (The Academy) is a University-wide organization of distinguished educators who have demonstrated sustained excellence in educational activities and scholarship within the Georgia Health Sciences University.

Its mission is:

• To recognize faculty who have made outstanding contributions to health sciences education.
• To establish a forum for faculty with recognized accomplishments in health sciences education to facilitate the exchange of ideas, career development, and collaboration institution-wide.
• To improve the quality of health sciences education by fostering faculty development, curricular innovation, creating products that will advance the fields, and developing educational leaders for the future.

Membership in The Academy is open to anyone with a faculty appointment in the Georgia Health Sciences University.  For more information, please refer to Frequently Asked Questions about The Academy.

4th Annual GHSU Academy of Educators Members- 2012 Induction Ceremony

Left to right - Rosalind Jones, Lori Schumacher Anderson, Barbara Russell, Marguerite Murphy, Gayle Bentley, Vincent Robinson, Malorie Novak, Mathhew Lyon, Laura Mulloy, Doug Keskula, Lynn Jaffe, Anna Edmondson, Shilpa Brown, Mariana D'Amico, Christy Berding, Lori Bolgla, Mary Ellen Quinn, Mohammed Elsalanty, Kevin Plummer, Richard Callan

3rd Annual GHSU MCG Academy of Medical Educators Members- 2011 Induction Ceremony

Left to right - Janis Coffin, T. Andrew Albritton, Janet P. Hafler (Invited speaker from Yale School of Medicine), Jack Borders, Dale Sickles

                            2nd Annual MCG SOM Academy of Medical Educators Members- 2010 Induction Ceremony

Left to right - Diane Turnbull, Robert Nesbit, Renuka Mehta, Donna Londino, Rhee Fincher, Chris White, Teresa Coleman

                                     Not pictured: invited speaker, Paul M. Wallach from New York Medical College

 

                               Inaugural MCG SOM Academy of Medical Educators Members - 2008 Induction Ceremony

First row, left to right (M = Academy Member): Molly Cooke (Invited speaker from UCSF Academy of Medical Educators), Andria Thomas(M), Peggy Wagner(M), Carol Nichols(M), Valera Hudson(M), Lisa Leggio(M), Rhee Fincher (Vice Dean for Academic Affairs). Second row: Doug Miller (Dean School of Medicine), John Melligner(M), Scott Lind(M), Ralph Gillies(M), Walter Moore(M), Chris White (Assoc Dean for Faculty Development and Educational Achievement); Not pictured Hartmut Gross (M).