Clinical Skills Committee

Reports to:

Senior Vice President, Medical Education

Charge

To provide advice and guidance to staff for interactive education in areas of communication, physical examination, procedural, and interpretive skills, promotion of physician wellness, and enhancing systems based practice.

Composition (9)

Chair, who is an ACP member physician; Vice Chair, who is a Governor; seven members, one of which is designated for a recipient of the Herbert S. Waxman Chief Resident Teaching Scholarship. The Vice Chair position may be filled by a non-Governor if the Chair is a Governor.

Terms

Chair, Vice Chair, and members serve one-year terms renewable up to three times for a total of four years, unless extended by the Chair, Board of Regents. The position held by the recipient of the Herbert S. Waxman Chief Resident Teaching Scholarship serves one, non-renewable, two-year term.

2024-25 Members

Andrea M. Labus, MD, Chair
Assistant Professor & Associate Program Director, MSIII Clerkship
West Virgina University
Morgantown, WV
Specialty: Internal Medicine

Marion M. McCrary, MD, FACP, Vice Chair (Governor)
Clinical Associate, Department of Medicine
Duke University
Chapel Hill, NC
Specialty: Internal Medicine

Jacqueline Fairchild, MD, FACP (Governor)
Academic Hospitalist/Clinical Instructor
VA Medical Center
Saint Louis, MO
Specialty: Internal Medicine

Sonali L. Iyer, MD, FACP
Associate Clinical Professor
University of California Irvine
Diamond Bar, CA
Specialty: Internal Medicine

Robert S. Jablonover, MD
Primary Care Physician
George Washington University
Potomac, MD
Specialty: Internal Medicine

Isaac O. Opole, MBChB, PhD, FACP (President)
Professor of Medicine
Associate Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs
The University of Kansas Medical Center
Overland Park, KS
Specialty: Internal Medicine

Gregory Barr Summerville
Assistant Professor of Orthopedics
Division of Non-operative Musculoskeletal and Sports Medicine
The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
Specialties: Internal Medicine, Orthopedics

William J. Wadzinski, MD, FACP
Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency
Staff Pulmonary / Critical Care Physician, Department of Medicine
Alpha Company, Tripler Army Medical Center
Honolulu, HI
Specialty: Internal Medicine

Steffi Hu (Waxman Scholar)
Aurora, CO

Staff Liaison:

Miguel Paniagua, mpaniagua@acponline.org
Colleen Poole, cpoole@acponline.org

To contact any of these individuals, please consult the Member Directory (members only) or request assistance from acpgovernance@acponline.org.