Changes to the Membership of the ACGME International Board of Directors

In September 2024, new members of the ACGME International Board of Directors were approved and outgoing members took part in their final Board meeting. Five new members joined the Board, five members departed, and one member returned in a different capacity.

ACGME-I welcomed five new members to its Board:

Debra Weinstein, MD, Chair
Dr. Weinstein is the incoming president and chief executive officer of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). She previously served as Executive Vice Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Learning Health Sciences and Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School, and Chief Academic Officer for Michigan Medicine, as well as Vice President for Graduate Medical Education at Mass General Brigham in Boston, associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and the designated institutional official (DIO) for both Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Brigham and Women’s Hospitals.

Abdullatif Mohamed Alkhal, MBBCh
Dr. Alkhal is the DIO and deputy chief medical officer of Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar, and serves as clinical professor at the University of Qatar and adjunct professor at Weill-Cornell Medicine, Qatar. An internist with specialization in infectious disease, Dr. Alkhal was the inaugural recipient of the ACGME International Physician Award in 2018 and previously served on the Review Committee-International.

Josepha A. Cheong, MD, ACGME Board of Directors Representative
Dr. Cheong is a professor of psychiatry and neurology at the University of Florida College of Medicine and a member of the faculty and clinical staff at the Malcom Randall VA Medical Center’s Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center in Gainesville, Florida, US. She also serves as Treasurer of the ACGME Board of Directors.

Stephen Ludwig, MD
Dr. Ludwig is emeritus professor of Pediatrics at University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and a senior physician at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, where he previously served as the DIO and medical director for Global Medical Education. He served on the on the Review Committee-International for seven years, most recently as Vice Chair of the Medicine-Based Committee.

George E. Thibault, MD, ACGME Board of Directors Representative
Dr. Thibault currently serves as Chair of the ACGME Board of Directors. He is the Daniel D. Federman Professor of Medicine and Medical Education, Emeritus at Harvard Medical School, and previously served as president of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation.

Claudia Wyatt-Johnson, MA, remains on the Board in a different capacity, now serving as a public member. Ms. Wyatt-Johnson, the immediate past-Chair of the ACGME Board of Directors, previously served the ACGME-I Board as an ACGME Board representative.

ACGME-I thanks the Board members whose terms concluded in 2024:

Paige Amidon, MBA, MPH, Public Member
Betty Chang, MD, PhD, FACCP, FACP, ACGME Board of Directors Representative
Candice Chen, MD, MPH
Jordan Cohen, MD
Thomas J. Nasca, MD, MACP, Chair

ACGME-I especially thanks Dr. Nasca, who has guided the organization from its founding in 2009. He served as the Chair of the Board since its inception until September 2024.

“Dr. Nasca’s vision and commitment to the mission of improving graduate medical education and patient care globally was critical to the success of ACGME-I,” said ACGME-I President and CEO James A. Arrighi, MD. “By recognizing that the pursuit of excellence in medical education is a global enterprise, and that innovation and creativity recognizes no borders, he has set the foundation for ACGME-I to be a trusted global partner with our colleagues across the world.”