Dr. Rowen Zetterman Named Chair of National Board on Medical Education Accreditation

A University of Nebraska Medical Center professor, Rowen Zetterman, M.D., has been appointed chair of the governing board of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) (www.acgme.org).

Dr. Zetterman has served as vice chair, chair elect, and a member of the ACGME board’s executive committee. He will serve two additional years as the chair.

The ACGME is a private, 501(c)(3), not-for-profit organization that sets standards for U.S. graduate medical education (residency and fellowship) programs and the institutions that sponsor them, and renders accreditation decisions based on compliance with these standards.

Dr. Zetterman is an internist, gastroenterologist and hepatologist, as well as a professor of internal medicine at UNMC, where he is director of faculty mentorship programs and associate vice chancellor for planning. He is dean emeritus, Creighton University School of Medicine, and a former chief of staff for the Nebraska-Western Iowa VA Health Care System.

He has served in leadership positions as president of the American College of Gastroenterology, chair of both the Board of Governors and the Board of Regents of the American College of Physicians (ACP), president of the Metropolitan Omaha Medical Society, and president of the Nebraska Medical Association.