Dr. David P. Stevens
Vice President, Division of Medical School Standards and AssessmentAssociation of American Medical Colleges, Washington, D.C.
UNITED STATES
David P. Stevens is a general internist, board certified in both Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology. He has been in his current roles at the Association of American Medical Colleges and the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME), in Washington, DC, since 1999. The LCME is the accrediting body for medical schools in North America.
From 1996 to 1999, he was Chief, Office of Academic Affiliations, for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in Washington, DC. During his tenure, the VA-which supports 9% of graduate medical education in the US-enhanced training in primary care, increasing the proportion of generalist residency positions in the VA from 36% to 48% while establishing subspecialty residency training that emphasized access and continuity for the care of seriously and chronically ill patients. The Office also launched new training initiatives that included training in healthcare systems improvement, greater emphasis on learning in interdisciplinary care settings, and health professions education for improved care of patients near the end of life.
During the 1995-96 academic year, Dr. Stevens was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow at the Institute of Medicine, Washington, DC. In this capacity he served as health policy advisor to Senator Nancy Landon Kassebaum, Chairman of the Senate Labor Committee.
Prior to moving to Washington, he was Academic Vice Dean and the Scott R. Inkley Professor of General Internal Medicine at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine in Cleveland. In addition to his role as vice dean, he was the architect of the Robert Wood Johnson Generalist Physician Initiative in collaboration with the Henry Ford Health System.
A graduate of Western Reserve School of Medicine, his post-graduate studies included training at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, and the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia.
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