May
21
2019
0
By AAMC
Johmarx Patton will join the medical education team at the Association of American Medical Colleges as the Director of Educational Technology and Standards.
This role will guide MedBiquitous into its next chapter (in December 2018, the AAMC assumed ownership and management of MedBiquitous). As director, Johmarx will be setting the vision and roadmap for the program.
Johmarx is a scholar and strategist at the intersection of medical education, healthcare, and information technology. Dr. Patton earned his medical and master of health informatics degrees from the University of Michigan. He then went on to hold a number of roles with the university; most recently, he held the title of Director of Education Informatics and Technologies. During his time at the university, Johmarx led efforts to integrate technology into the medical student curriculum; engaged in scholarly work on advances in the delivery of medical education; and taught health system science topics, in particular, safe and ethical use of the electronic health record.