CBME in the AI Era:
Challenges, Opportunities, and Directions

Dr. Fann, former Director of Clinical Informatics in the Intramural Research Program at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), now serves as Director of the Taiwan Digital Health Institute (TDHI) at China Medical University Hospital (CMUH). He brings extensive expertise and leadership experience in shaping clinical informatics strategy and driving digital health innovation, with a focus on building interoperable data infrastructure and advancing AI-enabled solutions to transform healthcare and research.

At NIH, where he led for over two decades, Dr. Fann spearheaded major initiatives in biomedical informatics and digital transformation, including the creation of large-scale, multi-center data platforms with AI-driven research capabilities. His work emphasizes the responsible integration of artificial intelligence prioritizing data quality, ethics, and human-centered design into biomedical research and clinical practice. By streamlining workflows, enhancing knowledge management, and developing trusted decision support systems, he has helped embed advanced digital technologies into the research ecosystem at NIH.

Drawing on his leadership at NIH and collaborations with U.S. and international partners, Dr. Fann offers practical experience at an institutional-level, national perspective on the future of medical education. He advocates for competency-based training that equips physicians to work effectively and safely alongside biomedical AI technologies, ensuring that healthcare evolves responsibly in the digital era.

Jesse Burk-Rafel is an assistant professor of medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Previously, Jesse graduated summa cum laude in Bioengineering from the University of Washington; worked as a deckhand on a salmon gillnetting boat in Bristol Bay Alaska; was a Luce Scholar for a year in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia working in the Biotechnology Institute; completed a master’s degree in translational research at University College London where he researched variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease; attended the University of Michigan Medical School for medical school where he was valedictorian; and completed internal medicine residency at NYU Langone Health training at the historic Bellevue Hospital.

At the NYU Institute for Innovations in Medical Education, Jesse is the assistant director and leads research efforts with the Precision Education Laboratory. In the Division of Hospital Medicine, he is a practicing hospitalist and the inaugural Research Coach. Jesse is conducting multiple grant-funded studies at the intersection of medical education, informatics, and artificial intelligence. His research aims to assess trainees’ clinical performance in the native clinical environment and the outcomes of our medical training programs. By understanding the relationship between training and clinical care, he hopes to develop precision-guided educational interventions that engage learners through efficient personalized training and produce graduates equipped to provide high-quality care to their patients and communities.

Jesse lives with his wife and two exuberant young children in the Lower East Side of New York City.

Yoon Soo Park is Department Head and Ilene B. Harris Endowed Professor of the Department of Medical Education. He holds a Ph.D. in Measurement, Evaluation, and Statistics from Columbia University. Park’s experiences include both academic and industry settings, with research interests and experiences across multiple disciplines in psychometrics, biostatistics, educational psychology, and medicine.

Park’s research agendas have focused on data science and learning analytics methodologies in health professions education. He has also actively engaged in interdisciplinary research in the social sciences, collaborating with diverse researchers and practitioners across disciplines. His work in the health professions education has advanced the preparation of learners in clinical reasoning and measurement of competencies through validity studies.

Park served as Vice President of the American Educational Research Association (AERA; 2018-2021) and Chair of Research in Medical Education for the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC; 2019-2020). Park is active in international collaborations, in both research and teaching, by organizing and leading partnerships with researchers and institutions in North America, Europe, Middle East, and Asia.

Brian Gin, MD, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Medical Education (DME) and Pediatrics at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). Dr. Gin’s research focuses on finding ways to incorporate AI into clinical training, practice, and research, while sustaining educational and professional relationships. To this end, his team builds and evaluates AI platforms aimed to strengthen human-human trust, being cautious of potential interventions that could weaken or replace human interaction. These platforms include: virtual simulation (to deliver workplace-based assessment scenarios to both learners and faculty), research tools (to facilitate both qualitative and quantitative discovery), and psychometrics (to supplement traditional assessments with AI-enabled insights). Dr. Gin received his MD at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where he also completed a residency in Pediatrics and a fellowship in Pediatric Hospital Medicine (learner perspectives of supervisor trust). Dr. Gin received his PhD in Chemistry (computational modeling of protein evolution) from UC Berkeley, and his MA and PhD in Education (item response theory for dyadic measures, learner perspectives of supervisor trust) at UCSF/UC Berkeley and UCSF/Utrecht University. At UCSF he served as associate clerkship director for Pediatrics and associate program director for the Pediatric Hospital Medicine Fellowship.

Dr. Lyuba Konopasek is the Senior Vice President at Intealth and Executive Director of FAIMER, where she leads global programs, research, and initiatives supporting international medical graduates. Her leadership focuses on supporting health professions worldwide through international partnerships and the strategic analysis of medical education data. Her expertise spans the entire continuum from undergraduate medical education (UME) to residency training and continuing medical education (CME).

Prior to joining Intealth in 2024, Dr. Konopasek served as Senior Associate Dean for Education at the Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University. Her extensive background includes serving as Director for Physician Engagement and Well-Being Programs at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, overseeing 150+ programs, and as Associate Dean at Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar (WCMC-Q). A recognized expert in faculty development, she has led international workshops on effective teaching, physician well-being, and assessment strategies. Dr. Konopasek is a graduate of Brown University and the Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, and completed her Pediatrics residency at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Dr. Ming-Jung Ho is the Senior Director of Program Evaluation at FAIMER (a division of Intealth) and a Former Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Georgetown University. She concurrently serves as the Associate Director of the Center for Innovation and Leadership in Education (CENTILE) and the Director of the GUMC Teaching Academy in the Health Sciences.

A native of Taiwan, Dr. Ho’s interdisciplinary expertise is anchored by an undergraduate degree in Biological Anthropology from Harvard University, a medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and a doctorate in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on the application of anthropology to medical education, with a specific emphasis on cross-cultural professionalism and professional identity formation (PIF).

Prior to her current roles in the U.S., Dr. Ho held several leadership positions at the National Taiwan University College of Medicine, including Vice Chair of the School of Medicine and Assistant Dean for International Affairs. She also served as the Assistant Dean for Continuing Professional Education at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar.

Dr. Ho’s scholarly work has been widely published in premier journals such as Academic Medicine, Medical Education, and Medical Teacher. Her contributions to the field have been recognized with prestigious awards from the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE), the Karolinska Institutet, and the ABIM Foundation, which awarded her the 2025 John A. Benson Jr., MD Professionalism Article Prize.

Dr. Eric Holmboe serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Intealth, where he leads the strategic direction for the organization and its divisions, ECFMG and FAIMER. He is responsible for guiding the development of new global opportunities to support outcomes-based health professions education, assess physician qualifications, and inform health workforce policy.

Prior to joining Intealth in January 2024, Dr. Holmboe was the Chief, Research, Milestones Development and Evaluation Officer for the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). His distinguished career also includes serving as the Chief Medical Officer at the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) from 2009 until 2014.

During his tenure at the Yale School of Medicine, Dr. Holmboe served as the Associate Program Director of the Yale Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Program, Director of Student Clinical Assessment, and Assistant Director of the Yale Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars program. Before joining Yale in 2000, he served as Division Chief of General Internal Medicine at the National Naval Medical Center. He retired from the U.S. Naval Reserve in 2005.

His research focuses on factors and interventions affecting healthcare quality, methods in clinical competence assessment, and the link between medical education and health outcomes. He is a Master of the American College of Physicians (ACP) and an honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in London, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and the Academy of Medical Educators.

Dr. Holmboe is a graduate of Franklin and Marshall College and the University of Rochester School of Medicine. He completed his residency and chief residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital and was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Yale University.