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Project Manager and Board Member

​Leigh Anne Butler, EMT-B
Secretary and Treasurer to the Beyond Flexner Alliance Board of Directors
Manager, Sponsored Projects, Milken Institute School of Public Health

​With over 30 years of experience in graduate and postgraduate medical education at the George Washington University, Leigh Anne Butler currently works on domestic programs in the Department of Health Policy and Management primarily in the areas of health workforce equity and social mission. Her current projects include coordinating all three arms of the Atlantic Philanthropies award, and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant on social mission metrics. She has contributed to proposals and projects totaling over $50M in grants and gifts in the past 10 years. She has published articles in Academic Medicine and Academic Emergency Medicine.

Ms. Butler is the founding Secretary and Treasurer to the Beyond Flexner Alliance Board of Directors. She has had event management and leadership roles on committees as part of the Beyond Flexner – Social Mission in Health Professions Education conferences. This work includes participation on Steering, Program, Budget, Fundraising and Planning Committees, and lead of the Events, Logistics and Scholarship Committees. She is a member of the Macy Awards sub-committee of the BFA Board where she was responsible for coordination of the grant from the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation to work with a committee to review and select candidates for
the inaugural and subsequent awards for the Rising Star award as well as awards for Individual Excellence, Program Excellence, Institutional Excellence and Lifetime Achievement in Social Mission. As a board officer, she serves on the Governance sub-committee working to develop the organization’s bylaws and in board member recruitment.

Ms. Butler’s previous roles include grants management for the Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) Coordinating Center. MEPI was a five year, $130M project to increase the quantity of African medical school graduates, improve the quality of African medical education, retain physicians in their home countries, and promote regionally relevant research. GW was the Coordinating Center for this grant with an African counterpart in Kampala, Uganda. Ms.Butler’s role in this project was as the Grants Management Coordinator with programmatic, administrative and finance responsibilities under the two Principle Investigators. Prior to MEPI, Ms. Butler served as Executive Associate to the Dean of the School of Medicine and Health Sciences and reported to the Dean on all aspects of administration of the medical school. She has also had previous coordination roles for graduate and post-graduate education in the
Department of Medicine and the Department of Emergency Medicine at The George
Washington University.

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  • Home
  • About Us
    • History of BFA
    • Vision and Mission
    • Board of Directors
    • BFA Team
    • Remembering Fitz
  • Our Initiatives
    • Health Workforce Diversity Initiative
    • Social Mission Metrics Initiative
    • BFA Allies
    • Student Assembly >
      • Social Mission Scholarship
    • Health Justice Fellowship
  • Events
    • Beyond Flexner Conference 2022
    • Beyond Flexner Conference 2021 (Virtual)
    • Beyond Flexner Conference 2018
    • Beyond Flexner Conference 2016
    • Beyond Flexner Conference 2015
    • Beyond Flexner Conference 2012
    • Macy Awards
  • Newsroom
    • Annual Report
    • News and Media
    • Newsletters
    • Webinars
    • Videos
  • Resources
    • Social Mission Resources
    • Structural Racism Resources
  • Contact Us