LCME Executive Committee

David C. Hess, MD

• Dean, Medical College of Georgia
• Presidential Distinguished Chair
• Professor, Neurology

W. Vaughn McCall, MD, MS

• Committee Co-Chair
• Professor and Case Distinguished University Chair
• Psychiatry and Health Behavior
• Executive Vice Dean, Medical College of Georgia
• Associate Dean, Faculty Affairs at MCG

Michael Brands, PhD

• Vice Dean for Academic Affairs, Medical College of Georgia
• Regents’ Professor and Director of Medical Physiology

Ruchi Patel, PhD

• Assistant Professor, Physiology
• LCME Basic Science Faculty Lead

Shilpa Brown, MD, FACP

• Associate Dean for Curriculum
• Associate Professor of Medicine

Shelley A. Nuss, MD

• AU/UGA Partnership, Athens
• Campus Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education

Nikia D. Erickson, BS

• MCG Coordinator, Strategic Initiatives
• Office of the Dean, Medical College of Georgia

Andy Morris, MD

• AU/UGA Partnership, Athens
• Campus Associate Dean for Curriculum

Ashley Saucier, MD

• Assistant Dean for Evaluation, Accreditation, and CQI
• Director of Medical Student Education and Associate Professor, Family and Community Medicine
• LCME Clinical Faculty Lead

Andria M. Thomas, PhD

• Senior Associate Dean for Evaluation, Accreditation, and CQI
• Professor, Medicine
• Faculty Administrative Lead