Barbara L Schuster
Campus Dean
279 Williams Street
Room 145
Athens, GA 30602
706-369-5911 (Work)
706-369-5901 (Fax)
Academic Appointments
| 2008 - Present | Campus Dean | MCG/UGA Medical Partnership |
| 2008 - Present | Adjunct Professor, Department of Management and Policy | UGA College of Public Health |
| 2008 - Present | Professor, Department of Medicine | Medical College of Georgia |
| 2007 - 2008 | Professor, Department of Geriatrics (Secondary Appointment) | Wright State University |
| 1995 - 2008 | Professor, Department of Internal Medicine | Wright State University |
| 1989 - 1995 | Associate Professor of Medicine | University of Rochester |
Education
| 1972 | BA, Biology | University of Pennsylvania |
| 1972 | MS, Education | University of Pennsylvania |
| 1977 | MD, Medicine | University of Rochester |
Bio
Dr. Schuster has served as professor and chair of the Department of Internal Medicine at Wright State University since 1995, stepping down as chair in 2007 to pursue the AAMC sabbatical and joining the MCG/UGA Medical Partnership as Campus Dean in 2008. Previously she served for 15 years on the faculty at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in New York, where she also completed medical school and an internal medicine residency. She completed a Public Health Service Primary Care Policy Fellowship in Bethesda, Md., in 1994.
She has served as medical director of the University Health Service at the University of Rochester, medical director of the University Medicine-Pediatrics Practice at Wright State University and president of Wright State's faculty practice plan. At both institutions, she worked with graduate medical education programs where residents learned at multiple hospitals. The University of Rochester's internal medicine/pediatric training program she directed has named an award in her honor. She received the 2003 Excellence in Medical Education Award from Wright State and the Teaching Excellence Award from Wright State's class of 2005.
Dr. Schuster chaired the AAMC's Council of Academic Societies from 2003-04, served on the association's Executive Committee from 2002-04 and received the AAMC's 2007 Distinguished Service Award. She participated in the AAMC Roundtable: Educating Doctors for Chronic Disease Care, from 2004-06. She served on the Board of Regents of the American College of Physicians for six years and chaired its Education Committee for four years. She is immediate past president of the Association of Professors of Medicine and a former member of the Board of Directors of the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine. She has been a member of the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine since 1982, including terms as president and chair of the Publications Committee. She received the association's 2004 Dema Daley Founder's Award.
