Bankston Appointed NW Center Director
Patrick Bankston, PhD, has been named assistant dean and director of the Northwest Center for Medical Education following a five-month search to fill the vacancy left with the retirement of William Baldwin, PhD, who had served in that position since 1998.
In announcing the selection, IUSM Dean D. Craig Brater, MD, cited Dr. Bankston’s distinguished service at the Northwest Center and his leadership in the school’s education mission.
Dr. Bankston has been a leader in medical education curricular innovation, including the development of a problem-based learning curriculum at the Northwest Center in 1990. In his capacity as statewide competency director for problem solving, Dr. Bankston was one of the architects of IUSM’s Competency Enhanced Curriculum.
Dr. Bankston received his doctoral degree in anatomy from the University of Chicago and worked at Hahnemann University School of Medicine before joining IUSM at the Northwest Center in 1978.
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