The Future of Medical Education
Session Type
Message
Topic
Consumer Health Technology Education and Training
Location
Auditorium
Start Date
31-10-2015 8:10 AM
End Date
31-10-2015 8:30 AM
Abstract
Bio: Hal Jenson, M.D., MBA, is the founding dean of Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, a new private medical school that offers the full continuum of undergraduate, graduate, and continuing medical education in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The medical school’s mission is to educate and inspire lifelong learners to be exceptional clinicians, leaders, educators, advocates, and researchers of tomorrow. Dr. Jenson is a professor in the Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine specializing in clinical infectious diseases and virology. He received his medical degree from George Washington University School of Medicine and completed a pediatric residency at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital at Case Western Reserve University and a fellowship in pediatric infectious diseases at Yale University School of Medicine. He was a visiting fellow in molecular biology in 1984 at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in Cambridge, U.K. In 2003, he graduated with an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Jenson has been professor of pediatrics and microbiology and chief of pediatric infectious diseases at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Texas; professor and chair of the Department of Pediatrics and director of the Center for Pediatric Research at Eastern Virginia Medical School and Children’s Hospital of The King's Daughters in Norfolk, Virginia; and professor of pediatrics and dean of the Western Campus of Tufts University School of Medicine.
The Future of Medical Education
Auditorium
Bio: Hal Jenson, M.D., MBA, is the founding dean of Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, a new private medical school that offers the full continuum of undergraduate, graduate, and continuing medical education in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The medical school’s mission is to educate and inspire lifelong learners to be exceptional clinicians, leaders, educators, advocates, and researchers of tomorrow. Dr. Jenson is a professor in the Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine specializing in clinical infectious diseases and virology. He received his medical degree from George Washington University School of Medicine and completed a pediatric residency at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital at Case Western Reserve University and a fellowship in pediatric infectious diseases at Yale University School of Medicine. He was a visiting fellow in molecular biology in 1984 at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in Cambridge, U.K. In 2003, he graduated with an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Jenson has been professor of pediatrics and microbiology and chief of pediatric infectious diseases at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Texas; professor and chair of the Department of Pediatrics and director of the Center for Pediatric Research at Eastern Virginia Medical School and Children’s Hospital of The King's Daughters in Norfolk, Virginia; and professor of pediatrics and dean of the Western Campus of Tufts University School of Medicine.