The NACST Executive Committee is composed of elected officers, program director and administrator committee members, and an ex officio representative from the AAMC GREAT Group. All officer and committee terms marked 9/27 expire at the September 2027 annual meeting.

Elected Officers

President
Christopher S. Williams
MD, PhD
Associate Dean for Physician Scientist Education Director, Medical Scientist Training Program Professor of Medicine Vanderbilt University
Voting Term expires 9/27
Immediate Past President
Andrew Zinn
MD, PhD
Program Director, Perot Family Scholars Medical Scientist Training Program Dean, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Voting Term expires 9/27
President-Elect
Vacant
Position open
Secretary-Treasurer
Randy Seay
MA, MPA, MPH
Program Director, Health System Science Unit Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Voting Term expires 9/27 · Renewable

Committee Members

PD = Program Director  ·  PA = Program Administrator  ·  PSTP = Physician-Scientist Training Program Director (preferred)  ·  All terms expire 9/27

PD
Marshall S. Horwitz
MD, PhD
Associate Dean, Physician-Scientist Education Director, Medical Scientist Training Program Professor, Dept. of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology University of Washington School of Medicine
Term expires 9/27
PD
Justin T. Baca
MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine Director, MD-PhD Program University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center
Term expires 9/27
PD
Mary-Claire Roghmann
MD, MS
Director, Medical Scientist Training Program Professor, Epidemiology and Public Health Associate Dean for Physician-Scientist Training University of Maryland School of Medicine
Term expires 9/27
PA
Alison Slominski
Affiliation on file with NACST
Term expires 9/27
PA
Linda Varvel
Affiliation on file with NACST
Term expires 9/27
PSTP Director
Kyu Rhee
Affiliation on file with NACST
Term expires 9/27
Ex Officio · Non-voting
Talia H. Swartz
MD, PhD
Director, Medical Scientist Training Program Senior Associate Dean for MD-PhD Education Associate Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
AAMC GREAT Group MD-PhD Section Chair · Term expires 9/27 or end of GREAT Chair term

Former Presidents

Listed alphabetically; not in chronological order of service.

Jose Cavazos
Joe Barbieri
Diana Milewicz
Barbara Kazmierczak
Myles Akabas
Paul Insel
Kerry O'Banion
Skip Brass
Alan Goldin
Olaf Andersen Ret.