JOHN A. ENCANDELA, PH.D., APPOINTED AS DEAN OF ACADEMIC AFFAIRS AND DESIGNATED INSTITUTIONAL OFFICIAL AT NASSAU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER, TO HELP STRENGTHEN EDUCATIONAL AND QUALITY PROGRAMS AT MAJOR ACADEMIC CAMPUS
July 7, 2008
Contact: Shelley Lotenberg
(516) 572-6055
shelley@numc.edu
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
JOHN A. ENCANDELA, PH.D., APPOINTED AS DEAN OF ACADEMIC AFFAIRS AND DESIGNATED INSTITUTIONAL OFFICIAL AT NASSAU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER, TO HELP STRENGTHEN EDUCATIONAL AND QUALITY PROGRAMS AT MAJOR ACADEMIC CAMPUS
DR. ENCANDELA PLAYS A PROMINENT ROLE IN GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION IN THE US AND WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR PROVIDING CURRICULA AND EVALUATION TOOLS AS WELL AS ONGOING SUPPORT AND TRAINING FOR FACULTY AND RESIDENTS AT NUMC
East Meadow, New York…..Arthur A. Gianelli, President/CEO of the Nassau Health Care Corporation, announced the appointment of John A. Encandela, Ph.D., as Dean of Academic Affairs and Designated Institutional Official at the Nassau University Medical Center to help support educational and quality programs at the Level I Trauma Center and teaching hospital. Dr. Encandela will be responsible for providing curricula and evaluation tools as well as ongoing support and training for faculty and residents at NUMC. Most recently, Dr. Encandela served as the Director of Graduate Medical Education Outcomes Project at the New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center in New York and Assistant Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at Columbia University.
“We are fortunate to have been successful in recruiting Dr. Encandela, an outstanding academician and administrator, who has played a prominent role in Graduate Medical Education on the national scene and who comes very highly recommended to help strengthen our educational and quality programs,” said Mr. Gianelli. “Dr. Encandela, who has published and presented on topics relevant to NUMC’s training programs, including the core clinical competencies and house staff evaluation, will be an asset to our residency program directors in ensuring a high quality residency training program.”
At New York Presbyterian Hospital, Dr. Encandela directed the Graduate Medical Education (GME) Outcomes Project for both the Columbia University Medical Center and New York Weill Cornell Medical Center. In this capacity, he consulted with the directors of over 40 clinical residency programs and additional directors of sub-specialty fellowship programs.
Specifically, he assisted these directors in addressing training in and evaluation of residents’ and fellows’ competencies in areas such as patient care, systems-based practice, professionalism, and communication skills. He was responsible for providing curricula and evaluation tools that assist program directors in their positions, as well as providing ongoing training for faculty and residents in 6 competency domains. Dr. Encandela is active on GME committees and committees that serve to integrate undergraduate medical education with GME concerns. Dr. Encandela is Assistant Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health, and teaches a course in program evaluation at Columbia’s Teachers College.
From 2002 to 2005, while he was a technical director at ORC Macro in Atlanta, Georgia, Dr. Encandela managed the development and delivery of training in HIV/AIDS program monitoring and evaluation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Global AIDS Program. In 1998, in his position as assistant professor of public health and sociology at the University of Pittsburgh, he was the principal investigator on a project for the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), a study of organizational influences on the delivery of HIV prevention services to people with severe mental illnesses.
As a consultant in research and strategic planning, Dr. Encandela advised nonprofit agencies, gathering and processing information they needed to perfect their delivery of services. For The Pew Charitable Trusts, Dr. Encandela managed evaluations of grantees in six program areas, including Health and Human Services and Education. Many of the grant programs in Health and Human Services and Education involved providing education and ongoing training of physicians, other health professionals, and educators. Dr. Encandela has served as a reviewer for several refereed journals. He was elected to Delta Omega, the National Honor Society for Schools of Public Health in 2000, and received the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching at the University of Pennsylvania in 1988.
Steven Walerstein, MD, Senior Vice President for Medical Affairs and Medical Director at the Nassau Health Care Corporation was delighted to welcome Dr. Encandela as the Dean of Academic Affairs and DIO: “The appointment of Dr. Encandela reflects the renewed commitment to GME by a major academic campus that is a training site for over 280 residents, several hundred medical students and a clinical campus for three medical schools Under Dr. Encandela’s leadership, we look forward to continued growth and development of medical education.”
Dr. Encandela resides in Sea Cliff.
