Credentials
Principal
Bernard 'Buz' Salafsky
Ph.D., University of Washington

Dean:
University of Illinois, College of Medicine at Rockford, 1983-2004
American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine, School of Medicine, Dean of Basic Medical Sciences, 2005-2008

Professorships:
University of Illinois, College of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine
World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Visiting Professorships:
Pahlavi University Medical School, Shiraz, Iran
University of Bristol, Medical School, Bristol, UK

Lectureships:
University of California, Berkeley
School of Public Health, University of Illinois
Fulbright, University of Malaya

Consultantships:
WHO, Geneva
PAHO, Washington, D.C.
SEAR0, New Delhi, India
and multiple countries in the Americas and Asia

 

Expertise
Implementing, reforming, and evaluating curriculum, particularly in medical education

Programmatic design of educational tracks intended to train health professionals for underserved rural and urban communities

Fostering the research enterprise

Strengthening primary care programs for education and service

Budgeting

Programmatic evaluation

Strategic planning and needs assessment

Creation and implementation of community consortia for health building relationships between medical schools and hospitals

 
Experience
Twenty consecutive years as the Dean of a community-based College of Medicine with oversight/responsibility for the curriculum, budget, personnel, research, and programmatic initiatives.

Over twenty-five years as a tenured professor with 60 peer reviewed articles.

Seven years experience living/working overseas assisting in the development of medical schools in partnership with major U.S. universities, and the WHO.

Fifteen years of consultation through short-term assignments with the WHO
in numerous developing countries.

Organized numerous national and international conferences, particularly for the WHO while serving as the Head of a WHO Collaborating Center.

Provided leadership in strategic planning for the College of Medicine and a number of programmatic initiatives.

Principal Investigator and Collaborating Investigator in numerous research awards.

Inventor-patents in Biotechnology
 

Administrative
Providing academic leadership (team-building, standard setting, achieving goals) in interdisciplinary settings involving biomedical scientists, clinicians, nurses, pharmacists, public health, social work, health economists and other faculty.

Coalition building with broad-based community, regional and international constituencies.

Developing sustainable programs in multi-professional training.

Support of academic mentoring and faculty development.

Chairmanship and service on numerous academic, governmental and NGO committees.

Representation of the College of Medicine to multiple constituencies; governmental, business, academic, and international agencies.
 
Examples of Recent Reports & Publications
Salafsky, et al., Integration of Medical Education and Delivery of Health Services in Islamic Republic of Iran, WHO Report, June 2006.

Salafsky, B., Boelen, C., Planning a Community-oriented, Cost-effective Medical School. Edu. Health 9 (3) 307-318, 1996

Salafsky, B, Cowen, J., Bunyer, M., Developing a Community Consortium for Health. Meducator, 1,2 (online) 2001

Salafsky, B., Should Medical Students be Required to Participate in Community Service Activity
AAMC Reporter, August, 1999

Glasser, M., Peters, K., Salafsky, B., Towards Access and Equity in Health Professions Education and Health Care Delivery. The Network: TUFH, Newcastle, Australia, October 2003

B. Salafsky, Glasser, M., Towards a National Center for Rural Health Professions. The Network: TUFH, Newcastle, Australia, 2003

Towards Unity for Health, "Managing a Successful Field Project". A minisymposium at Rockford, 2001 Ed. J. Bryant, C. Boelen, B. Salafsky. WHO, Geneva

Towards Quality in Medical Education: "Partnership for Action" WHO Conference Report, Kandy, Sri Lanka, December 1998

First Meeting of WHO Collaborating Centers in the Americas. Report, PAHO, Washington, October 1998

Report: Workshops on Curricular Reform in the Medical Faculty. University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica, July 1998

Report: Review of Medical Education in the Islamic Republic of Iran. EMRO/WHO, January 1997

Report: A Broader Vision of Medical Education in Health: Changing Medical Education and Medical Practice. WHO, December 1996

Earlier reports and a complete CV are available upon request.


 
 

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