Graduate Medical Education Transformation

We strive to transform medical education by improving Graduate Medical Education (GME) funding, accreditation, and governance.

Our Mission

Advancing the social mission of GME with expertise in GME funding, accreditation, and governance to build a sustainable physician workforce meeting patient and community needs at local, state and national levels.

GME/T Board

Meet the GME/T Board—a diverse group of GME professionals who bring unique perspectives and collaborate to shape the future of graduate medical education

GME/T President

Lori Rodefeld

Director of Rural GME Development & Support

Wisconsin Collaborative for Rural Graduate Medical Education, Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative

GME/T Board Treasurer

Sarah Hemeida, M.D., M.P.H

Assistant Professor

Department of Family and Community Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

GME/T Secretary

Kyle Leggott, MD

Assistant Professor

Family Medicine in the University of Colorado Department of Family Medicine

Kyle Leggott, MD, is a family physician with health policy experience who seeks progressive and innovative approaches to address health inequities by promoting systems based and policy level interventions. Dr. Leggott is an Assistant Professor of Family Medicine in the University of Colorado Department of Family Medicine, where he completed a fellowship in health policy and politics. Dr. Leggott serves as a Scholar at the Eugene S. Farley, Jr. Health Policy Center focusing on legislative policy, payment reform, and health policy education. Dr. Leggott has been a member of the GME/T (formerly GMEI) since 2017, working on physician workforce and graduate medical education reform. He provides both outpatient and inpatient care and teaches family medicine residents and medical students at the University of Colorado.

David Evans, MD

Professor

Family Medicine and Rosenblatt Family Endowed Professor in Rural Health

University of Washington School of Medicine

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Randall Longenecker, MD

Assistant Dean Emeritus Rural and Underserved Programs and Professor of Family Medicine

Ohio University Heritage COM

Randall Longenecker, MD, is a family physician who has dedicated his career to caring for rural communities and growing a community of practice in rural health professions education and training. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the University of Wisconsin Family Practice Residency, Madison, Wisconsin, he practiced comprehensive family medicine, including maternity care, for 30 years in west-central Ohio; 15 of those years as Program Director of a rural training track in family medicine. Then for 10 years he served as Assistant Dean for Rural and Underserved Programs at Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine. He has published nationally and internationally and is widely recognized for his expertise and research in rural graduate medical education. Having founded The RTT Collaborative in 2012 and served as executive director for 10 years, he remains a consultant for the organization, newly named The Rural Medical Training Collaborative, a national non-profit board-directed cooperative of rural programs devoted to sustaining health professions education in rural places. In retirement he and his wife now live in Bridgewater, Virginia, where he continues to advise, write, research and advocate for place-based education in rural communities. Email: longenec@ohio.edu Websites: https://ruralmtc.org https://ruralgme.org https://ruralprep.org

Rance McClain, DO

Senior Vice President of Medical Education

AACOM

Abraham Nussbaum, MD

Professor of Psychiatry and Chief Education Officer

University of Colorado School of Medicine

Meaghan Ruddy, PhD

Senior Vice President Enterprise Wellness and Resiliency, Assessment and Advancement, Chief Strategic Research & Development Officer

Dr. Meaghan Ruddy, PhD, holds degrees in Theology (MA) and Human Development (PhD). She began teaching at the college-level in 2004 and began her journey in health care by teaching ethics and human development at the medical school level in 2011. During this time, she worked cross-departmentally in faculty and curriculum development, supporting cross-course, multiyear curricular framing. Dr. Ruddy’s work in community and teaching health centers began in 2014 with The Wright Center for GME’s (TWCGME) completely HRSA-funded National Family Medicine Residency program, building clinical learning environments in FQHCs. Dr. Ruddy ran TWCGME programmatic budgeting between 2016 and 2023, overseeing growth to more than 240 residents and fellows across 8 programs. In 2018 she began leading a value analysis of creating GME programming in FQHCs and medically underserved areas of varying geographies. This project allowed her to work closely with executive, financial, and medical leaders across the country to deeply understand how multi-stream GME funding (CMS/HRSA/VA) works together with clinical revenues to fund and grow GME programming in primary care medical specialties. Dr. Ruddy earned a certificate in nonprofit finance in July 2020 and has been an IHI Leadership and Organizing for Change Coaching fellow. As a member of the Society for Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM) Faculty for Tomorrow Taskforce (June 2015 to June 2017), Dr. Ruddy was, with her Taskforce colleagues, honored with the STFM President's Award in May 2017. She co-wrote a Residents as Educators curriculum for STFM and is an associate editor for the journal Family Medicine. Dr. Ruddy is the SVP Enterprise Wellness, Resiliency, Assessment and Advancement, and Chief strategic Research and Development Officer for The Wright Centers for GME and Community Health.

Mary Alice Scott, PhD

Deputy Director of the North Carolina GME Technical Assistance Center.

Dr. Scott is Director of GME Development for the North Carolina GME Technical Assistance Center and Senior Advisor for the RRPD and THCGME Technical Assistance Centers at the UNC Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research. She is also adjunct professor of family medicine a the UNC School of Medicine. She previously served as Executive Director of the New Mexico Primary Care Training Consortium and as Associate Program Director at the Southern New Mexico Family Medicine Residency Program. She was trained as a medical anthropologist, earning her PhD from the University of Kentucky. Her applied research has focused on cultures of medical education, residency training in social and structural determinants of health, and most recently best practices in rural and underserved GME development.