Congratulations to Neil Osheroff on his Fellowship with ANZAHPE.

Neil Osheroff is Professor of Biochemistry and Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, and holds the John G. Coniglio Chair in Biochemistry. He received his PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Northwestern University and was a Helen Hay Whitney postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University School of Medicine. Beyond his research laboratory, he is the longest standing course director in the School of Medicine and co-directs the Foundations of Medical Knowledge pre-clerkship phase and the Human Blueprint and Architecture foundational science course. He is a Past-Director of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Academy for Excellence in Education and is also a Past-President of the Association of Biochemistry Educators and the International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE). In addition to his recognition as Fellow of ANZAHPE, Neil has received awards for mentoring, teaching, curricular design, educational leadership and service, and diversity and inclusion, including the “Distinguished Career Award for Excellence in Teaching and Educational Scholarship” from IASME and the “Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award” from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). He is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE).

My scholarly interests in health professions education include curricular design and integration, basic science medical education, competency-based assessment and feedback, programmatic evaluation, faculty development and professional identity formation, mentoring, and leadership and change management.

I have been involved with ANZHPE for several years, ever since I attended my first annual conference in Newcastle in 2015. I really enjoyed the conference and the people who I met there. Subsequently, I have attended a number of annual meetings and worked closely with the leaders of ANZAHPE while I was an officer of IAMSE, to strengthen relationships between the two Associations. As a result, I have developed a number of close friendships with colleagues in ANZAHPE. I applied for the ANZAHPE Fellowship because I felt that it would provide me with a platform to become more involved with the Association, especially with regard to mentoring and helping to develop younger educators. I am humbled and honored to have been elected as a Fellow of ANZAHPE, especially being the first Fellow from a country outside of Australia or New Zealand. I look forward to becoming even more involved in the Association in my new capacity.