The Alice L. Walton School of Medicine in Bentonville has added three new members to its leadership team.
Joining AWSOM are Sarah Assem, MD, FACP, assistant dean, clinical education and associate professor, medical education; Carrie Elzie, PhD, MA, assistant dean, accreditation and institutional effectiveness and professor, medical education; and Elisabeth Schlegel, MS, PhD, MBA, MS (HPPL), assistant dean, foundational sciences and professor, medical education.
Assem previously served as assistant professor of internal medicine and program director of Northwest Internal Medicine Residency at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. She received a medical degree at Ross University School of Medicine in Miramar, Florida, and a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville.
Elzie previously served as professor of foundational sciences and director of faculty development at Methodist University Cape Fear Valley Health School of Medicine in Fayetteville, North Carolina. She received a PhD in pathology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and a bachelor’s degree in biology from Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory, North Carolina.
Schlegel previously served as assistant dean for faculty development and professor of medical education at the newly established Western Atlantic University School of Medicine in Freeport, The Bahamas. She earned a master’s degree in genetics and a PhD in microbiology education from the University of Salzburg in Austria, an MBA from Post University in Waterbury, Connecticut, and a master’s degree in health professions pedagogy and leadership from Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York.
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