The Georgetown University Medical Center tapped Jamie Padmore to become the associate dean for Graduate Medical Education and Educational Scholarship Monday.

Padmore, previously a School of Medicine administrator, was also promoted to vice president for academic affairs with MedStar, the healthcare provider and clinical partner for the Medical Center, as well as an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Surgery.

Padmore, who holds a masters of science in health administration, has worked with GUSM’s graduate medical education program for the past 17 years, working nine of those years as assistant vice principal for academic affairs.

Padmore wrote in an email that her experience at Georgetown has afforded her the opportunities to advance and innovate GUSM’s educational curriculum.

“I’ve had the privilege of working in medical education for the past seventeen years, with world-renowned faculty and leaders in GME. This experience has provided me with opportunities to lead efforts to create innovative programs in medical education,” she said.

Padmore said that she hopes to update teaching methods to continue to make GUSM a more prominent institution for medical education.

She also aims to establish a new research program called the Office of Educational Scholarship, which would encourage students, residents and faculty to publish their research and increase Georgetown’s level of medical scholarship.

Padmore said that she looks forward to collaborating with the faculty at both GUSM and MedStar Health in accomplishing these goals.

“I feel very privileged that the university has demonstrated [its] trust in me to lead these important initiatives in medical education, and I am excited to be part of the Hoya family,” she wrote.