Margaret O. Uthman, MD
Professor & Vice Chair For Education, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Associate Dean For Educational Programs, UTHealth McGovern Medical School
ACGME Designated Institutional Official
Biography
Since joining the faculty in 1988, medical education has been the focus of my career. Within two months of joining the Medical School, I became the residency program director for my department, a position I held for seventeen years. I have served on the Graduate Medical Education Committee since that time, initiated the first Internal Review Subcommittee, and in January 2013 became Associate Dean for Educational Programs with primary responsibility in GME. As the ACGME Designated Institutional Official (DIO), I am responsible for the nearly 1000 residents and fellows and the 90 residency and fellowship training programs.
I became course director for the MSII Pathology course in 1991 and continue in this role. Working with other course directors and faculty, we introduced the MSII Problem-Based Learning course in 1994; and in 2007, I became course director for PBL. In 2006, I proposed the idea of a Transition to Residency course for fourth year medical students and implemented the course in 2007 and continue as course director. This required course is held in March of each year and has an overall goal of better preparing our senior students for residency training. The course involves nearly 100 faculty and offers a wide variety of workshops and skills sessions from which the students select.
Nationally, I have served on the National Board of Medical Examiners USMLE Step 1 test-writing committee, served on accreditation site visit teams for the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, and was a founding member of both the Program Directors Section and Undergraduate Medical Education Directors Section of the Association of Pathology.
I have received the John G. Freeman Award for Outstanding Faculty Teaching from graduating medical school classes six times, received the peer-selected President Scholar’s Award for Teaching in 2003, and was elected to the University of Texas System Academy of Health Science Education in 2007, serving as President in 2013-2014.
Education
Fellowship
Hematopathology , MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1988
Residency
AP/CP, University of Arkansas Health Science Center, Little Rock, AR, 1986
MD
University of Arkansas College of Medicine, 1982
MS
University of Central Arkansas, 1975
Area Expertise and Interests
Medical education
Hematologic malignancies
Certifications
1988 AP/CP
1989 Hematopathology
Publications