The Graduate Medical Education Committee is responsible for the oversight and administration of the ACGME-accredited programs and ensuring compliance with the ACGME Institutional, common and specialty-subspecialty specific program requirements. All residency and fellowship programs at the Quillen College of Medicine are overseen by the Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education/Designated Institutional Official, chair of the GMEC.
Voting members of the GMEC include all program directors, one fellowship program director, four peer selected trainees, one peer selected program coordinator, and a quality improvement officer from the main training site.
Committees
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Graduate Medical Education Committee
Charge:
- Oversight of the accreditation status of the Sponsoring Institution and its ACGME-accredited programs.
- Maintains oversight of the quality of the GME learning and working environment with the Sponsoring Institution, each of its ACGME- accredited programs and the participating sites.
- Oversees quality of educational experiences in each ACGME-accredited program that lead to measurable achievement of educational outcomes as identified in the ACGME Common and specialty/subspecialty specific Program Requirements.
- Provides oversight of the annual program evaluation and improvement plans.
- Oversees all processes related to reductions and closures of individual ACGME-accredited programs, major participating sites and the Sponsoring Institution.
- Develops and reviews all policies and procedures that affect ACGME-accredited training programs and their trainees.
- Review and approve annual recommendation to the administration regarding resident/fellow stipends and benefits.
- Review all applications for ACGME accreditation of new programs and subspecialities.
- Review requests of resident complement modifications.
- Must review and approve of all major changes in program structure or length of training.
- Review and approve any additions or deletions of all programs' training sites.
- Review and approve appointment of all new program directors.
- Oversees progress reports requested by any Review Committee including responses to proposed adverse actions.
- Examines all responses to the Clinical Learning Environment Review (CLER) reports.
- Considers and reviews all requests for exceptions to resident duty hours.
- Review and approve voluntary withdrawals of ACGME-accredited programs.
- Review and approve requests for an appeals of an adverse action and appeal presentations to a Board of Appeal or the ACGME.
Structure:
The Graduate Medical Education Committee is a standing committee of the Quillen College of Medicine. All residency and fellowship programs at Quillen College of Medicine are overseen by the Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education/Designated Institutional Official, Chair of the GMEC.
Voting members of the GMEC include the Assistant Dean/Dean’s of GME, all residency program directors, one fellowship program director, four peer-selected resident/fellows from the Resident Leadership Committee, the Chair of the Resident Leadership Committee, one peer-selected program manager, and a Quality Improvement officer from the main training site.
2025 - 2026 GMEC Committee Members
Member: Program: Term: Comments: Reid Blackwelder, MD, FAAFP Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education and Continuing Education for Health Professionals and Designated Institutional Official ex-officio Chair Max Bayard, MD Program Director - Johnson City Family Medicine appointed Mark Brummel, DO Program Director - Kingsport Family Medicine appointed Shambhavi Chandraiah, MD Program Director - Psychiatry appointed Rhonda Gentry Quality Director - Ballad Health appointed Robert Harris, MD Program Director - Orthopaedic Surgery appointed Tawana Holland GME Coordinator appointed Priya Jain, MD Program Director - Pediatrics appointed Christy Lawson, MD Program Director - Surgery appointed Matthew Loos, MD Chief Education Officer - Ballad Health appointed Renee McNeely Assistant Dean for GME ex-officio Mark Ransom, MD Program Director - Obstetrics and Gynecology appointed Blair Reece, MD Program Director - Internal Medicine appointed Nadia Sabri, MD Assistant Dean for Wellness appointed Salah Shurbaji, MD Program Director - Pathology appointed Sakshi SIngal, MD Program Director, Medical Oncology Fellowship appointed Elizabeth White, DO Program Director - Bristol Family Medicine appointed Zac Forbes, MD Johnson City Family Medicine one-year peer-selected resident Seth Jewett, MD Pediatrics one year peer-selected resident Colin McGuire, MD Cardiology Fellow one year peer-selected resident Sai Kommineni, MD Cardiology Fellow one year peer-selected resident Thomas Snead, MD Resident Leadership Committee - Chair, OB/Gyn one year peer-selected resident -
Resident Leadership Committee
GMEC Subcommittee
The Resident Leadership Committee is a subcommittee of the GMEC and is comprised of peer selected residents from each program at Quillen College of Medicine. The charge of the committee is to provide a unified representation for all residents/fellows to communicate and exchange information regarding their learning and working environment and to offer an open forum where concerns and discussions can occur.
2025 - 2026 Resident Leadership Committee
Members: Program: John Bell, MD (PGY 2)
Shannon Murray-Arnold, MD (PGY 2)Family Medicine Bristol Zac Forbes, MD (PGY 2)
Seth Jewett, MD (PGY 2)Family Medicine Johnson City Megan Skelton, MD (PGY 3)
Lexie Weems, DO (PGY 3)Family Medicine Kingsport Amira Eftaiha, MD (PGY 3)
Michael Medina, MD (PGY 3), SecretaryInternal Medicine Colin McGuire, DO (Cardiology-PGY 5)
Sai Kommineni, MD (Cardiology-PGY 5), Vice-ChairInternal Medicine Fellowships Sanya Dudani, MD (PGY 2)
Thomas Snead, MD (PGY 4), ChairOB/GYN Derek Bass, DO (PGY 5)
Roy Smith, MD (PGY 5)Orthopaedic Surgery Brian Cartwright, MD (PGY 3)
Thomas Wolfe, MD (PGY 2)Pathology Twisha Shukla, MD (PGY 3)
Joe Wilson, MD (PGY 2)Pediatrics Patrick Tuskey, DO (PGY 3)
Caydyn Westwood, MD (PGY 3)Psychiatry Luke Anders, MD (PGY 3)
Tariq Aybui, MD (PGY 4)Surgery -
Graduate Medical Education Policy Committee
GMEC Subcommittee
The Policy Committee is a subcommittee of the GMEC and is comprised of GME leadership, a program director, a program coordinator and peer-selected resident representatives. The chair of this committee is designated by the GMEC Chair and DIO. The charge of this committee is to review and revise policies on an as-needed basis and to develop new policies in response to changing circumstances and accreditation standards. The policy committee will present all modifications to the GMEC Committee for review and approval for implementation. All policies are reviewed at minimum every five years.
2025 - 2026 Resident Policy Committee Members
Member: Program/Role: Max Bayard, MD Chair, Program Director of Johnson City Family Medicine Renee McNeely Assistant Dean for GME Dakotah Phillips Institutional Coordinator Julie Robinette Residency Coordinator, Bristol Family Medicine Michael Medina, MD Internal Mediciine, Peer-Selected Resident, PGY 3 Thomas Snead, MD OB/Gyn, Peer-Selected Resident, PGY 4 -
Resident Sick Bank Committee
Resident Sick Bank Committee
The purpose of the Resident Sick Bank is to provide emergency paid sick leave to members of the residency program who have suffered an unexpected personal illness, surgery, injury or disability with complications beyond their control and who have exhausted their personal sick leave. The Resident Sick Bank is managed by peer-selected representatives from each residency program. The residents will elect a chairperson. They will serve a one year term.
2025 - 2026 Resident Sick Bank Committee Members
Member: Program: Hannah Baker, DO (PGY 2) Family Medicine Bristol Alayna Cameron, MD (PGY 2) Family Medicine Johnson City TBD Family Medicine Kingsport Shahnawaz Notta, DO (PGY 3) Internal Medicine Samantha Bookbinder, MD (PGY 3) OB/GYN Hannah Gustafson, DO (PGY 2) Orthopaedic Surgery Timothy Estrada, DO (PGY 3) Pathology Tyler Stone, DO (PGY 3) Pediatrics Phillip Spurlock, DO (PGY 3) Psychiatry Charlotte Hawkins, MD (PGY 4) Surgery -
Program Manager Committee
The Program Manager Committee consists of GME administration and program managers from all residency programs in the College of Medicine. One member of the committee is selected in the spring to serve as a voting member on the Graduate Medical Education Committee. The committee meets monthly.