Diane M. Magrane, M.D.

Diane M. Magrane, M.D. is Associate Vice President for Faculty Development and Leadership Programs at the Association of American Medical Colleges.  She is responsible for a variety of faculty development programs, including Women in Medicine, Faculty Affairs, and the Executive Development Seminars for Chairs, Associate Deans and Deans.  Prior to this she was Associate Dean for Medical Education and Professor in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Vermont College of Medicine.  She received her M.D. degree from the Universiy of Iowa in 1978 and completed residency training in Ob/Gyn at St. Louis University Hospitals in St. Louis, Missouri in 1982.  She has been actively involved in improving instruction, evaluation, and faculty development in medical education at UVM and in national educational organizations.  Her 12 years as a clerkship director ended in July 1994 when she was appointed to the position of Associate Dean at UVM.

Her educational scholarship lies in interdisciplinary activites in women’s health education, understanding the student-physician-patient relationship, and in applying systems of educational psychology, complexity theories, and classic curriculum design to changing academic medicine.  She is a founding member of the Alliance for Clinical education, past chair of the APGO undergraduate medical education committee and of the examination committee of the Council for Resident Education in Obstetrics and Gynecology, and past president of the Association for Professors in Gynecology and Obstetrics.  In recognition of her national leadership in medical education, she was honored as a distinguished alumnus of the University of Iowa College of Medicine in 2002 and with an APGO-Wyeth Career Achievement Award in 2006.  Also, she currently serves on the Advisory Board of ELAM.

She has benefited from leadership training in a variety of venues, including the AAMC Women in Medicine Programs, Harvard-Macy Programs for educational leaders, and Executive Leaders in Academic Medicine (ELAM ’03).  Her position at the AAMC brings her full circle to support professional development and leadership skills training for all medical school faculty in North America.