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William E. Rodak, PhD, named vice president for accreditation services, ACGME International
Dr. Rodak will lead new Department of Accreditation at ACGME International
CHICAGO, Nov 16, 2009 - William E. Rodak, PhD, has been named vice president for accreditation services, ACGME International, which is a new subsidiary organization that will accredit residency programs in other countries. Dr. Rodak will head the Department of Accreditation at ACGME International, serve as the expert on accreditation matters for sponsoring institutions in other countries, assist in the development of international accreditation standards, and lead the staff team that will support the ACGME International Committee on Accreditation. Dr. Rodak will report to Thomas J. Nasca, MD, MACP, chief executive officer of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and president of ACGME International.
Dr. Rodak’s first project will be to work with the Singapore Ministry of Health, with which ACGME International has signed an agreement to accredit residency programs in that country, to establish accreditation standards and processes for residency programs there.
Said Dr. Nasca, “Dr. Rodak is uniquely qualified to launch ACGME International with his thorough understanding of graduate medical education and accreditation standards and his initial involvement in the discussions around international accreditation efforts and accreditation standards in Singapore.”
Dr. Rodak joined the ACGME in 1991 as executive director of the Residency Review Committee for Internal Medicine. He was promoted to senior executive director, Group 1 Review Committees, in 2006. He has a doctorate in the social psychology of aging from the University of Chicago.
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The ACGME is a private, non-profit council that accredits approximately 8,700 residency programs in 130 specialties and subspecialties educating 108,000 residents. Its mission is to improve health care by assessing and advancing the quality of resident physicians’ education through accreditation. |
