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Malcolm Cox, MD |
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Malcolm Cox, M.D. is the Chief Academic Affiliations Officer for the Veterans Health Administration, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, in Washington DC. Dr. Cox received his undergraduate education at the University of the Witwatersrand and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School. After completing postgraduate training in internal medicine and nephrology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, he rose through the ranks to serve as Associate Chief of Staff for Research and Chief of the Medical Service at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center; and Vice Chair of the Department of Medicine, Associate Dean for Network & Primary Care Education and Associate Dean for Clinical Education at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, where he was one of the principal architects of the medical school’s new undergraduate curriculum. |
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In 2003, Dr. Cox returned to Harvard Medical School as Dean for Medical Education, where he was instrumental in launching a comprehensive review of undergraduate medical education, joint degree programs with the Harvard Business School and Harvard College, and Harvard’s new integrated 3rd-year clinical clerkships. Upon leaving the Dean’s Office in January 2005, he was appointed the Carl W. Walter Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. In February 2006, Dr. Cox returned to the Department of Veterans Affairs where he oversees academic affiliations with the Nation’s health professions’ schools, colleges and universities. Over the past three years, Dr. Cox has led a major expansion of VA’s medical, nursing and psychology training programs and an intensive re-evaluation of VA’s educational infrastructure and affiliation relationships. At the same time, Dr. Cox has repositioned the Office of Academic Affiliations as a major voice in health professions workforce reform, educational innovation and research, leadership development and organizational transformation. |
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