Please join us in congratulating Rashmi Vyas, M.B.B.S., M.D., M.H.P.E., on her promotion to Assistant Vice President (AVP) for Education at FAIMER. Dr. Vyas is a graduate of Christian Medical College at Ludhiana, India, and BJ Medical College in Ahmedabad, India (M.D. in Physiology), who became a FAIMER Fellow in 2003. After her Fellowship, her responsibilities in medical education as a faculty member at Christian Medical College at Vellore grew. She also became a regular faculty member at three of the FAIMER Regional Institutes in India, as well as at the FAIMER Institute in Philadelphia. During this period, Dr. Vyas matriculated at the University of Illinois at Chicago and completed her Masters in Health Professions Education. Her Masters thesis led to five publications in medical education. In 2014, Dr. Vyas joined FAIMER as Cross Cultural Communications Specialist, was later promoted to Associate Director for Regional Faculty Development, and recently to Co-Director of the FAIMER Institute. She would like to acknowledge the FAIMER Education team for their support, as well as the contributions of Page Morahan, Founding Co-Director Emerita of the FAIMER Institute, and Memoona Hasnain, past AVP for Education, whose work she will be building upon. As AVP, Dr. Vyas will be involved with every aspect of FAIMER Education, with a particular focus on FAIMER Fellowships.
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