The Association of American Medical Colleges President and CEO Darrell Kirch, MD, will step down June 30, 2019.
Dr. Kirch has held his leadership position at AAMC since July 2006.
In the upcoming months, the AAMC Board of Directors will lead a nationwide search for his successor.
"Finding someone with an equally vibrant vision for academic medicine, a passion for improving medical education and health care, and a strong, collaborative voice to succeed a transformative leader like Darrell Kirch is the challenge now ahead of us," said M. Roy Wilson, MD, chair of the AAMC Board of Directors.