Geoffrey leads the new Transforming the Health Care Workforce unit, an extension of his responsibility leading the AAMC’s Strategic Action Plan 4 which aims to significantly increase the number of underrepresented medical school applicants and matriculants.

His unit’s work is focused on the education, professional development, and wellness of future health care workers along with creating viable pathways for historically excluded groups to enter the health care profession. Focus areas include disseminating research and data that provide insights on trends, structural inequities, and institutional culture that impact the diversity of the healthcare workforce and scanning the full medical education continuum to highlight promising practices, leverage points of intersection, and inform resource development that support innovations to UME and GME. His team is also recognized as a leader in holistic review in selection and pre-medical and applicant resources, providing inspiration, resources, data, and tools so that anyone can aspire to a career in medicine.

A consistent thread throughout Geoffrey’s career is the intentional integration of diversity, equity, access, and inclusion principles and practices into policies, services, and programs across the medical education continuum. He brings deep expertise in undergraduate medical education services and continues to serve as a content expert in that area.

Before joining the AAMC in 2011, Geoffrey served in leadership positions in medical school admissions and student affairs at Rutgers University-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, and the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University.  Dr. Young earned his B.A. from Hampton University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the Ohio State University.