Graduate Medical Education Transformation
We strive to transform medical education by improving Graduate Medical Education (GME) funding, accreditation, and governance.
The GME/T Membership Drive is Now Open!
Become part of a national movement for transformation in graduate medical education.
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
David Evans, MD is a board-certified family physician offering a broad scope of services. For 15 years Dr. Evans practiced in rural Oregon where he was active in his community and with organized medicine. In 2012 Dr. Evans joined the faculty of the University of Washington School of Medicine where he is the Rosenblatt Family Endowed Professor in Rural Health and the past Program Director for the UW Family Medicine Residency. Dr. Evans is currently the Associate Director for Program Development at the WWAMI Family Medicine Residency Network.
Randall Longenecker, MD
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
Alegneta A. Long, MPP
Vice President, Graduate Medical Education Initiatives American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM) Alegneta Long joined AACOM in 2014 and serves as Vice President for Graduate Medical Education Initiatives, leading the association’s national strategy to strengthen osteopathic graduate medical education and the transition from medical school to residency. She has held progressive leadership roles at AACOM, including Executive Director of the Assembly of Osteopathic Graduate Medical Educators, and played a central role in guiding the osteopathic community through the transition to the single accreditation system. She leads AACOM’s UME-GME Task Force and directs national initiatives advancing workforce development, community-based GME expansion, and data-driven policy and research. Prior to AACOM, she managed foundation-funded national research projects at the Institute for Higher Education Policy and worked in philanthropy supporting education and economic security initiatives. She holds a Master of Public Policy from Georgetown University and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Towson University.
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.