Speaker Introduction

Dr. Joel Lanphear is the Senior Associate Dean West Campus and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Medical Education and Professor of Medical Education at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, the first new medical school in Canada in over 30 years. Dr. Lanphear received a Masters Degree in Educational Communications from the University of Hawaii and a Ph.D. from Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. He has extensive experience in curriculum development and student assessment and international experience having served on the Island of Guam in the late 1960s and early 1970s prior to beginning his career in medical education. He has participated at all levels of teaching leadership and administration. The Northern Ontario School of Medicine is Dr. Lanphear's third start-up medical school having worked in Wyoming to create a medical school in the late 1970s and establishing a medical school in the United Arab Emirates from 1988 to 1997. He has held a number of posts including Associate Dean for Academic and Curricular Affairs and Associate Professor at the University of Nevada School of Medicine, Acting Director of the Office of Curricular Implementation at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, Provost and Professor of Medical Education at the Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine and Health Sciences, Chair of the Department of Medical Education, and Director of Biomedical Communications at the University of North Texas Health Science Centre and served as Director of Surgical Education at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. In the United Arab Emirates he was Associate Dean for Undergraduate Medical Education and Director of the Department of Medical Education. Dr. Lanphear has consulting and training background that spans over 30 years.