The AAMC published the 2018 Health Equity Research Snapshot in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Prevention Research Centers, a network of academic research centers that study how individuals and their communities can avoid or counter the risks for chronic illnesses. The snapshot includes seven videos featuring innovative community-partnered research projects within preventative medicine residency programs at AAMC member medical schools.

First-year enrollment at U.S. medical schools has increased by 29% since 2002 and is expected to continue to grow, according to Results of the 2017 Medical School Enrollment Survey, an annual AAMC report based on a survey of medical school deans.

The AAMC will host a webinar on May 29 featuring Joe V. Selby, MD, MPH, executive director of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). Selby will present highlights from PCORI’s comparative clinical effectiveness research portfolio as well as recently released and upcoming funding programs, followed by a Q&A session.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has published An American Crisis: The Growing Absence of Black Men in Medicine and Science, a summary of a November 2017 workshop intended to facilitate dialogue and encourage action to increase the number of black men in medicine and science. Workshop presenters, including Darrell G. Kirch, MD, AAMC president and CEO, and David A. Acosta, MD, AAMC chief diversity and inclusion officer, focused on challenges black men encountered in the transition to becoming successful physicians and scientists.

Holly J. Humphrey, MD, has been named president of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, effective July 1. Humphrey is currently dean for medical education at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. She will succeed George Thibault, MD.

David F. Lewis, MD, has been named dean of the Louisiana State University School of Medicine in Shreveport, effective June 1. He currently serves as vice chancellor for clinical affairs and will be succeeded by Charles Fox, MD.

David A. Lubarsky, MD, has been named vice chancellor of human health sciences and chief executive officer of UC Davis Health, effective July 2. He currently serves as chief medical and systems integration officer at the University of Miami Health System.