Senior Associate Dean of Medical Education and Student Affairs
Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia, United States
Luan E. Lawson serves as the Senior Associate Dean of Medical Education and Student Affairs at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine. Her academic interests have focused on undergraduate education, with expertise in curriculum development, assessment, and team training. During Dr. Lawson’s tenure as Director of Undergraduate Medical Education in Emergency Medicine, she developed and instituted a required Emergency Medicine clerkship with a simulation-based curriculum for fourth-year medical students. She collaborated in the development of the National Clinical Assessment Tool in Emergency Medicine, a standardized assessment tool utilized in clerkships across the country. Dr. Lawson serves on the National Board of Medical Examiners Emergency Medicine Advanced Clinical Exam Task Force and has collaborated with the AMA and the NBME to develop a new HSS exam designed to assess knowledge and application of HSS. She serves on SAEM’s education committee and is a past-president of the Clerkship Directors of Emergency Medicine.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.