Lomis leaving Vanderbilt for vice president role at AMA

Kimberly Lomis, MD, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Medical Education, will leave Vanderbilt at the end of July 2018, to take the position of Vice President of Undergraduate Medical Education Innovations at the American Medical Association. In this role she will lead the AMA’s transformation efforts for UME and will have the opportunity to influence the future of medical education on the national and international levels. She has been Associate Dean for Undergraduate Medical Education since 2010. 

“Kim’s exemplary contributions to VUSM have been capped by her leadership of the transition to Curriculum 2.0 and her work with our AMA Accelerating Change in Medical Education grant,” said Bonnie Miller, MD, MMHC, Senior Associate Dean for Health Sciences Education at VUSM. “In these capacities she built an international reputation for leadership in competency-based assessment.”  

Lomis has served as the lead of a VUSM team working with the Association of American Medical Colleges on Core Entrustable Professional Activities for Entering Residency (CEPEAR), and has led the AAMC’s CEPAER effort at a national level since 2016.

Lomis joined the VUSM faculty in 1997 after completing her residency in general surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.  After five years as an attending surgeon at St. Thomas Hospital, she joined the full-time faculty at Vanderbilt in 2002, initially serving as the General Surgery Clerkship director. In 2006, she developed and implemented third year MD student intersessions, which were designed to cover important health systems topics and to advance specialty-specific basic science knowledge. Among her many honors, she received the 2017 Gerald S. Gotterer Award for Innovation in Education Programming, an award bestowed by her faculty peers.

A transition process is underway to identify Lomis’s successor in the role of Associate Dean for Undergraduate Medical Education.