| Elizabeth G. Armstrong
is Director for Education Programs, Harvard Medical
International; Director of the Harvard-Macy Institute,
Harvard Medical International; and Professor
in Pediatrics (Medical Education), Harvard Medical
School.
Dr. Armstrong has held positions at Harvard Medical
School since 1984, including Director of Curriculum
1988 - 1992 and Director of Medical Education
1992 – 2001. She has played a leadership
role in designing, implementing and expanding
Harvard’s New Pathway curriculum. In 1994
with funding from the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation,
she created and continues to direct the Harvard-Macy
Institute. The Institute offers professional development
programs for physician-educators and leaders of
reform in medical education worldwide. These programs
draw on faculty and teaching paradigms from multiple
colleges at Harvard, particularly the Graduate
Schools of Business, Education, Medicine, and
Public Health. The global impact of the Harvard-Macy
Institute’s programs expanded in 2001 when
Dr. Armstrong joined Harvard Medical International
as Director for Education Programs.
She has served on and chaired many Harvard Medical
School committees and was a member of Cornell
University’s Board of Trustees and Cornell’s
Medical School Board of Overseers assisting in
the major curricular reforms undertaken at their
Medical College and School of Veterinary Medicine.
Dr. Armstrong is currently a member of the Editorial
Board for Academic Medicine and is a Co-Director
of the United States Europe Medical Education
Exchange program. As a member of China Medical
Board’s Institute for International Education,
she has been instrumental in developing global
minimum essential requirements in medical education.
Recognized worldwide as an expert in medical education,
she has lectured and written on this subject and
received an honorary doctor of medicine degree
from the University of Lund Medical Faculty in
recognition of her international contributions
to medical education.
Dr. Armstrong received her Bachelor of Science
degree from Cornell University; Master of Arts
degree in Teaching from Harvard University; Ph.D.
in Curriculum Design and Instruction from Boston
College.
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