Core Faculty
Stewart P. Mennin, Ph.D.
Stewart Mennin has been contributing to innovation in health professions education for more than 30 years. He is Assistant Dean Emeritus for Educational Development and Research and Professor Emeritus of Cell Biology and Physiology at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. He works now as President, Mennin Consulting & Associates, Inc., and Mennin Consultoria em Saúde Ltda.
Professor Mennin began his professional career at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine in 1977 as a scientist and teacher. His area of research focused on the neural substrate for pituitary regulation related to ovulation. His teaching responsibilities included human anatomy for medical students and introduction to clinical skills. From 1979 to 1993, Professor Mennin codeveloped and codirected New Mexico’s innovative community-oriented, problem-based Primary Care Curriculum, an experience that refocused his career toward health professions education.
Professor Mennin has published widely and has served as an invited consultant and speaker at more than 60 medical schools, health institutions, and organizations worldwide. His areas of expertise include curriculum development, the change process in health professions education, program and curriculum evaluation, problem-based learning, faculty development, and education for the health professions related to complex adaptive systems. He is currently a member of the editorial boards of Medical Education and Medical Teacher. In 2004, Professor Mennin retired from the University of New Mexico and moved to Brazil to work as an invited consultant to the Ministry of Health (2004-2006). He currently serves as: consultant in health professions education to several Brazilian universities, director and co-originator of the Essential Skills in Medical Education course (ESME) for the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE) and the Brazilian Association for Medical Education (ABEM), consultant to the Ministry of Health in Kazakhstan, and consultant to the Brazilian Society for Cancerology and Oncology. Professor Mennin was editor of a special supplement in the Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice (2010) on Complexity Science and Education for the Health Professions.
Current special interests include the application of principles and concepts of complexity science to health professions education, including the organization, interaction, and development of people working and learning together in the health professions. Professor Mennin believes that schools and other organizations and groups are best understood as living systems in which learning emerges from the open and free exchange of differences.
Professor Mennin is a member of the Plexus Institute, the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and Life Sciences, and the American Educational Research Association. His other passions include playing klezmer as well as folk music from the Balkans, the Rom people, Greece, Turkey, and the Middle East on clarinet and saxophone.
