Amy Addams Email Address

Director, Student Affairs Strategy and Alignment

The Association of American Medical Colleges represents the 125 accredited U.S. medical schools| the 16 accredited Canadian medical schools| some 400 major teaching hospitals, including Veterans Administration medical centers| more than 105,000 faculty in 98 academic and scientific societies| and the nation's 66,000 medical students and 97,000 residents.

The focus of Amy Addams's professional and academic career has been diversity, inclusion, and identity in higher education. Her work spans the medical education continuum from admissions through the transition to residency, with a focus on creating and sustaining equitable and inclusive systems, policies, and processes that are particularly mindful of applicants and learners from historically underrepresented and/or marginalized backgrounds. She was the developmental editor of Accessibility, Inclusion, and Action in Medical Education: Lived Experiences of Learners and Physicians with Disabilities and a co-author of Best Practices for Conducting Residency Program Interviews. Prior to this position, Amy was a principle architect and author of the Roadmap to Diversity: Integrating Holistic Review Practices into Medical School Admission Processes, the developmental editor for the Roadmap to Excellence: Key Concepts for Evaluating the Impact of Medical School Holistic Admissions, and a significant contributor to the Challenging Conventional Thinking and Practice: Holistic Review in Admissions workshop. Previously, she was responsible for developing and implementing a comprehensive outreach and pilot site strategy for the AAMC AspiringDocs.org campaign. Before joining the AAMC, she worked at the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) on gender, diversity, student activism and leadership, and health initiatives. She began her career as a counselor for the University of Wisconsin-Madison McNair Scholars Program and assistant director of an NSF Summer Research Program in Biology. Amy earned her undergraduate degree in Russian Language and Literature from Boston University and pursued graduate work in Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.