Consultant Backgrounds
DJW Associates was established in 2004 by three senior medical education
leaders whose combined experience represents nearly 50 years as medical
school deans and more than 25 years directing or serving the Liaison
Committee on Medical Education, the body responsible for accreditation
of 125 US and 17 Canadian medical schools.
Each partner has a passion for excellence and is committed to the
continued enhancement of medical schools and academic medical centers
through leadership development, quality improvement through the
accreditation process, strategic institutional planning, educational
innovations, and community engagement.
The experience and expertise of the principals is deep and broad,
spanning four decades of participation and leadership in US medical
education. In their national and local leadership roles, each of
the principals has been involved with strategic program planning and
execution; educational model development; accreditation; recruiting,
developing and retaining skilled faculty and staff; medical education
and ambulatory clinical facility planning and development; resource
development and management; financial forecasting; quality improvement;
and community relationship building.
DJW Associates combines the experience of the partners with the talents
of associates, who are recognized experts in specific areas of medical
education, organizational development, hospital administration, health
care financing and other fields, as needed.
Larned & Weinberg
Both Drs. Larned and Weinberg have broad management experience in
academic health centers. Each has also served as a member of both the
Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and the
ACGME Institutional Review Committee. Drs. Weinberg and Larned led the
development of and served as the first two presidents of the Alliance of
Independent Academic Medical Centers.
Dr. Larned is the former Vice President for Medical Affairs at Maine
Medical Center and Associate Dean for Maine Affairs for the University
of Vermont School of Medicine. Dr. Larned served as an ACGME faculty
member in several national educational programs on institutional
accreditation and as an occasional ACGME special site visitor.
Dr. Larned was a member of the AAMC’s betterhealth@here.now advisory
board, exploring information management needs of medical schools and
teaching hospitals; the AAMC Task force on Medical School Financing; and
the VHA Leadership Task Force on Complexity Science and Health Care. He
is a member of the Plexus Institute and a former member of the AHA
Committee on Health Professions and the Board of the Association for
Hospital Medical Education.
Ethel Weinberg, M.D.
Dr. Weinberg was the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at
Baystate Health Systems where she was also the Dean for Baystate Medical
Center of the Tufts University School of Medicine. Prior to that she
served as the Senior Associate Dean at the Temple University School of
Medicine and the Associate Director of the Department of Undergraduate
Medical Education at the National Board of Medical Examiners.
Dr. Weinberg chaired the American Hospital Association (AHA)
Coordinating Committee on Medical Education. She was active in the
Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), serving as a member of
the Executive Committees of the Group on Medical Education and the Group
on Student Affairs and the Organizing and Steering Committees of the
Group on Resident Affairs.