CHICAGO, Aug. 12, 2005 – Cynthia A. Taradejna, MEd, associate director of ACGME activities, has been named co-director of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education’s new Division of Organizational Assessment and Advancement (OAA). Ms. Taradejna will lead projects to measure and improve the ACGME’s performance, streamline the accreditation process, and implement the ACGME’s strategic priorities. She will closely work with OAA co-directors David C. Leach, MD, ACGME executive director, and Ingrid Philibert, MHA, ACGME director of field activities. She will continue her activities as staff liaison for the ACGME Executive Committee as well.
“The work is such that it requires dedicated focus, and dedicated depth and breadth of knowledge that only Ms. Taradejna can provide,” said Dr. Leach. “Her depth of knowledge, combined with the capabilities of the other staff, will add real strength to a division that has a key role in the implementation of the ACGME’s first true strategic plan.”
Ms. Taradejna has been part of the ACGME staff since the Council was founded in 1981, and has worked in the field of graduate medical education since 1972. She previously served as executive director of the Institutional Review Committee, and was a widely-recognized expert on the institutional review process. Patricia M. Surdyk, PhD, has been named as the new executive director of the IRC.
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The ACGME is a private, non-profit council that accredits 7,800 residency programs
in 27 specialties affecting 100,000 residents. Its mission is to improve the quality
of health care in the United States by ensuring and improving the quality of graduate
medical education for physicians in training.
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