| Malcolm Cox, M.D. is the Chief Academic Affiliations Officer for the Veterans Health Administration, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, in Washington DC.
Dr. Cox received his undergraduate education at the University of the Witwatersrand and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School. After completing postgraduate training in internal medicine and nephrology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, he rose through the ranks to serve as Associate Chief of Staff for Research and Chief of the Medical Service at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center; and Vice Chair of the Department of Medicine, Associate Dean for Network & Primary Care Education and Associate Dean for Clinical Education at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, where he was one of the principal architects of the medical school’s new undergraduate curriculum. In 2003, Dr. Cox returned to Harvard Medical School as Dean for Medical Education, where he was instrumental in launching a comprehensive review of undergraduate medical education, joint degree programs with the Harvard Business School and Harvard College, and Harvard’s new integrated 3rd-year clinical clerkships. Upon leaving the Dean’s Office in January 2005, he was appointed the Carl W. Walter Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. In February 2006, Dr. Cox returned to the Department of Veterans Affairs where he oversees academic affiliations with the Nation’s health professions’ schools, colleges and universities. Over the past two years, Dr. Cox has led a major expansion of VA’s medical, nursing and psychology training programs and an intensive re-evaluation of VA’s educational infrastructure and affiliation relationships.
Dr. Cox is a graduate of the Wyeth-Ayerst APM Executive Management Program for Chairs of Departments of Medicine, Aresty Institute of Executive Education, The Wharton School, and was the first Robert G. Petersdorf Scholar in Residence at the Association of American Medical Colleges in 1994-95. He has served as a consultant to the Council of Graduate Medical Education for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the American Psychiatric Association and the National Aeronautics & Space Administration. Dr. Cox has served on the Board of Directors of the Philadelphia Professional Standards Review Organization, the American College of Physicians Governor’s Council for Eastern Pennsylvania, the Academic Medicine and Managed Care Forum, the Sayre Beacon School: School-Based School and Community Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Program, the Carl J. Shapiro Institute for Education and Research, the Louis E. Wolfson Foundation Medical Student Loan Fund and the Karin Grunebaum Cancer Research Foundation. Currently, he serves on the National Leadership Board of the Veterans Health Administration, the National Board of Medical Examiners, and the National Advisory Committee of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program.
Dr. Cox is a member of many professional and scientific societies and is the recipient of numerous honors and teaching awards at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Medical School. He has been the Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator of grants from the American Heart Association, the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Pharmaceutical Industry, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation. Dr. Cox’s scholarly interests include diseases of the kidney, medical education and health policy. He has lectured extensively on clinical disorders of fluid and electrolyte homeostasis, the governance and financing of medical education, and medical education reform.
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