Podolsky serving on AAMC board
By Russell Rian
Dr. Daniel K. Podolsky, President of UT Southwestern Medical Center, has been appointed to the 2015-16 Board of Directors for the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC).
“I am pleased to support the important efforts of the Association of American Medical Colleges to transform health care through innovative medical education, cutting-edge patient care, and groundbreaking medical research,” Dr. Podolsky said.
The Washington, D.C.-based AAMC is a not-for-profit association founded in 1876. Its members comprise all 145 accredited U.S. and 17 accredited Canadian medical schools, including UT Southwestern. The AAMC includes nearly 400 major teaching hospitals and health systems, including 51 Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers, and more than 80 academic societies. Through those organizations, the Association supports 148,000 faculty members, 83,000 medical students, and 115,000 resident physicians.
Dr. Podolsky, Professor of Internal Medicine, is an internationally renowned gastroenterologist, past President of the American Gastroenterological Association, and member of the National Academy of Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine) of the National Academy of Sciences.
At UT Southwestern, Dr. Podolsky has focused on enhancing its faculty and activities in basic, translational, and clinical research, driving innovative educational curriculum and programs, and on promoting clinical transformation through a commitment to excellence and innovation in patient care. He led efforts to build UT Southwestern’s William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital, which opened in late 2014, and has been recognized for meeting national safety and quality standards; institutional affiliations with medical centers in China, Israel, Peru, and South Africa; and several new centers and institutes, including the Texas Institute for Brain Injury and Repair, the Hamon Center for Regenerative Science and Medicine, and the Peter O’Donnell Jr. Brain Institute. Dr. Podolsky also has facilitated expansion of the UT Southwestern Health System, including the creation of the UT Southwestern Clinically Affiliated Physicians program, new community clinics in Plano/Richardson, Park Cities, Las Colinas, and a satellite of the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center in the UT Southwestern Moncrief Cancer Institute in Fort Worth. He recently announced a multispecialty facility as the first phase of development of the UT Southwestern Monty and Tex Moncrief Medical Center at Fort Worth.
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Dr. Podolsky holds the Philip O'Bryan Montgomery, Jr., M.D. Distinguished Presidential Chair in Academic Administration, and the Doris and Bryan Wildenthal Distinguished Chair in Medical Science.
