Dear colleagues,
I am pleased to announce that Khanh-Van Le-Bucklin, MD, MEd has agreed to join the executive leadership team of the Office of Health Affairs as the associate vice chancellor for education.
In this new position, Dr. Le-Bucklin will be responsible for advancing our educational objectives across the Susan and Henry Samueli College of Health Science and the UCI Health system.
Teaching the next generation of health sciences professionals requires that we transcend current boundaries. To this end, Dr. Le-Bucklin will facilitate the development of new undergraduate, graduate and professional curricula across the college, drive the development of interprofessional education, and support the creation of new certificate and degree granting programs within the college, as well as dual degree programs with other UCI schools. A career educator and accreditation expert, Dr. Le-Bucklin will also guide the college in addressing institutional needs for accreditation.
Dr. Le-Bucklin’s new position is effective immediately. At this time, she will continue in her role as the School of Medicine’s vice dean for medical education, where she oversees undergraduate, graduate and continuing medical education programs.
Uniquely qualified for this demanding and integral new role, Dr. Le-Bucklin has spent the last 15 years as a leader in academic medicine. For the last five years, she has served as interim chair for the Department of Pediatrics. Prior to her appointment as vice dean for medical education, she served as the pediatric residency director, associate dean for graduate medical education and associate dean for education compliance and quality.
Dr. Le-Bucklin’s scholarly work and leadership at a national level have propelled UCI’s profile in medical education. An expert in developing compliance and continuous quality improvement systems for educational accreditation, she serves as a survey team member for the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, the accrediting body for allopathic medical schools in the United States and Canada. She is an elected member of the American Medical Association Academic Physician Section Governing Council; and successfully achieved membership for UCI in the prestigious American Medical Association Accelerating Change in Medical Education Consortium, a body of education leaders whose membership is exclusive to grant recipients. Three of the grants she secured allowed the development of an innovative curriculum focused on civility, inclusivity and a positive learning environment. This curriculum has evolved into programs that uncover unconscious biases and stimulate self-reflection, and have been adopted by schools across the country.
Dr. Le-Bucklin earned her Master’s degree in Education from Johns Hopkins University, her MD from the University of California, San Francisco, and her bachelor’s degree in integrative biology from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Le-Bucklin completed her residency in pediatrics at the Lucille Salter Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University, before joining the faculty at UCI in 2003.
Please join me in congratulating Dr. Le-Bucklin on this new role.
Sincerely, |
