Joyce M. Fried FSACME

Consultant

Joyce M. Fried, BA, FSACME recently retired as Assistant Dean in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and Co-Director of the UCLA Office of Continuing Medical Education. In her dual roles she touched upon all aspects of the medical education continuum including planning, overseeing, and implementing large complex initiatives including LCME accreditation, strategic planning, and industry relations. She taught second-year medical students as a Doctoring instructor. She spearheaded initiatives aimed at creating a respectful culture in medicine and published a seminal paper in this domain in 2012 in Academic Medicine. In her CME role she was responsible for all administrative aspects of the CME office and shared responsibility for developing courses, content, and innovation. She served three terms on the Accreditation Review Committee of the ACCME (2010 to 2016). She chaired the Program Committee for the 2016 CME World Congress.

She is currently Chair of the Strategic Affairs Committee of the Society for Academic Continuing Medical Education and is a member of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee. She is a reviewer for Academic Medicine, Journal of Education in the Health Professions, and the Canadian Medical Education Journal. In addition to her volunteer work for SACME she is a consultant and leadership coach for the Executive Service Corps of Southern California and a consultant to new medical schools on LCME accreditation.

Awards she has received include Best Research Presentation Award in 2007 from the Western Group on Educational Affairs; Exceptional Commitment Award for Teaching in Doctoring 2; and Distinguished Service in Continuing Medical Education Award in 2020 from the Society for Academic Continuing Medical Education. In 2021 she was elected to membership in the SACME Academy of Fellows.