GW’s School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) has promoted four assistant and associate deans by removing their “interim” title.
Clockwise from top left: Raymond H. Lucas, M.D., associate dean for faculty affairs and professional development; Lorenzo Norris, M.D., assistant dean for student affairs; Matthew L. Mintz, M.D. ’94, RESD ’97, FACP, assistant dean for preclinical education; and Jeffrey Berger, M.D., associate dean for graduate medical education.[/caption] Raymond H. Lucas, M.D., associate professor of emergency medicine, has held the position of interim associate dean for faculty affairs and professional development since April 2013. He “has provided outstanding leadership and vision for the Office of Faculty Affairs,” wrote Jeffrey S. Akman, M.D. ’81, RESD ’85, Walter A. Bloedorn Professor of Administrative Medicine, vice president for health affairs at GW, and dean of SMHS, in an announcement. Lucas, who has been a member of the SMHS faculty since 1994, has earned four Teaching Excellence Awards and has spearheaded several new programs, including a faculty development workshop series. Lorenzo Norris, M.D., assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, took on his role of interim assistant dean for student affairs in February 2014. Norris, who was recently named “Top Doctor in Psychiatry” by Washingtonian Magazine, acts as a resource for SMHS students and assists with the development and implementation of career counseling programs. Jeffrey Berger, M.D., associate professor of anesthesiology, is now the associate dean for graduate medical education (GME). “He has done an extremely effective job as interim associate dean,” Akman wrote. In addition to working in both the hospital and the classroom, Berger serves as the chair of the GME Committee and is the designated institutional official for the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. Matthew L. Mintz, M.D. ’94, RESD ’97, FACP, associate professor of medicine and former interim assistant dean for preclinical education, has led the charge on the newly revised and integrated M.D. program curriculum. Mintz, Akman wrote, “has also overseen the incorporation of active learning approaches into the classroom and the restructuring of the Office of Medical Education.”
