Sandy Cook, PhD is the
Associate Dean for Curriculum Development at
the Duke - NUS Graduate Medical School in
Singapore. She received her PhD from Cornell
University in Adult and Continuing
Education. Her Master's is in Research
Methodology and her Bachelor's in
Experimental Psychology, both from Ohio
State University. Her previous position was
the Associate Dean for Curricular Affairs,
Senior Research Professional at The
University of Chicago Pritzker School of
Medicine from 2001-2006. Dr. Cook went to
Chicago in 1985 to work as an education
specialist for the Diabetes Research and
Training Center (DRTC), a major NIH grant
that was awarded to the University of
Chicago in 1976 and continues to be funded.
One of the major focuses on that grant has
been the translation of diabetes research to
the community, patients, and physicians. She
continued on that grant and other diabetes
related grants until 2003, when she needed
to focus more of her time with University of
Chicago Pritzker School of Medical and
working with faculty to develop scholarly
medical education research projects.
Dr. Cook's overall
research focused on developing and
evaluating educational programs throughout
the Division of Biological Sciences; health
outcomes research in the area of diabetes,
sleep medicine disorders, asthma, and
geriatrics; and faculty development efforts
in the area of the Scholarship of Education.
Her work in the area of simulation and
clinical assessment grew with the
development of Clinical Performance Center
at the University of Chicago for use in
teaching and assessing the clinical skills
of our medical students. As of 2008, she has
34 journal publications, 19 published
abstracts, and one book chapter.
She was appointed to
the Board of the Society of Directors in
Research in Medical Education in 2002 (first
as member-at large, secretary, treasurer,
and after moving to Singapore as Financial
Liaison). She spent 8 years on the board of
the Chicago Asthma Consortium, and served as
President from 2003-2006. She also was the
chair of the Curriculum and Evaluation
committee of the 13-Schools Consortium from
2001-2006.
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