Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Medical Education, Chairperson at the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut
Ramzi Sabra is Professor and Chairperson, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Medical Education, and Director of the Program for Research and Innovation in Medical Education at the Faculty of Medicine of the American University of Beirut (AUBFM). He graduated with an MD from AUBFM and pursued post-doctoral training in pharmacology at Vanderbilt University. More recently, he obtained the Master in Health Professions Education from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He served as Assistant Dean for Research at AUBFM from 2001-2006 and since 2006 has been the Assistant Dean for Medical Education. Dr. Sabra conceived and led the curricular reform at AUBFM which gave rise to the “Impact Curriculum”, which started implementation in 2013 and continues today, and aims to create a student-centered, integrated, competency-based curriculum, the goal of which is to graduate “healers, scholars, educators and advocates”. In addition to his research in pharmacology and the biomedical sciences, Dr. Sabra has been interested in exploring the effectiveness of team based learning in enhancing students’ cognitive, collaborative and professional development. In 2012, Dr. Sabra founded PRIME at AUBFM, a program that aims to foster excellence, scholarship, research and innovation in medical education, and to support the careers of faculty educators. PRIME has designed and implemented many innovations and activities at AUBFM, including the introduction of new teaching and assessment approaches, the development of the AUBFM competencies, evaluation of the curriculum, development of the Standardized Patient Program, and delivery of faculty development programs.