Core Faculty
Stewart P. Mennin, Ph.D.
Stewart Mennin has been contributing to innovation in health professions education for more than 25 years. He is Professor Emeritus of Cell Biology and Physiology and former Assistant Dean for Educational Development and Research at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. He began his professional career as a basic scientist studying reproductive neuroendocrinology and teaching human anatomy. In 1978, he changed the focus of his research to medical education and became a co-director of New Mexico’s Primary Care Curriculum, an innovative community-oriented, problem-based parallel, track at the School of Medicine in New Mexico. Dr. Mennin has published widely and served as an invited consultant in medical education at more than 60 medical schools and heath institutions worldwide. He is a member of the editorial board of Medical Teacher and Medical Education. He serves as a consultant to the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education in Brazil; and the Ministry of Health in Kazakhstan. Dr. Mennin is co-originator and director of the Essential Skills in Medical Education Course (ESME) for the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE).
Dr. Mennin’s current interests include the application of principles and concepts from complexity science to learning, education, the change process, curriculum development, and the organization, interaction, and development of people working in the health professions. “I believe that schools are best understood as living systems in which learning emerges from the open and free exchange of differences and where the interactions and relationships between things are more important than the things themselves.”
