Dr. James Graham has been elected chair-elect of the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, the national accrediting body for educational programs at medical schools in the United States. Graham is executive associate dean for academic affairs of the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Little Rock. “This is a very prestigious committee, and we at UAMS are honored to have Dr. Graham in one of its top positions,” Dr. Cam Patterson, UAMS chancellor, said. “We know he will serve the committee and the medical education community well.” Graham has served on the committee since 2020, after being nominated by the American Medical Association. In 2023, he was re-elected to a second three-year term.
Graham has held several key educational roles in UAMS’ College of Medicine. He has been the executive dean for academic affairs since February 2020. Before that, he was the associate dean for undergraduate medical education for 10 years. Graham also served as the director of the clinical medicine course for freshmen medical students from 1999 through 2017. After completeing an interdisciplinary training program at the National Center on Child Abuse & Neglect, followed by a pediatric emergency medicine fellowship at UAMS, he joined the faculty in 1991 as an assistant professor. He was promoted to professor in 2005 and became chief of pediatric emergency medicine from 2005-10. Graham has been active in numerous education-focused committees, including the College of Medicine Curriculum Committee and the Undergraduate Medical Education Competencies Committee. His teaching awards include the Gold Sash and Red Sash awards, and he is a three-time winner of the Educator of the Year award from the Department of Pediatrics. From 2008-14, Graham chaired the Governor’s Trauma Advisory Council.
Graham earned his medical degree from UAMS in 1985 and then remained at UAMS for his general pediatrics residency.
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