Dr. Samara B. Ginzburg is the vice dean and dean for education at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell.
In this role, she is responsible for strategic oversight for all matters relating to the planning, design, budgeting, implementation, and continual improvement of an innovative curriculum and the school’s accreditation compliance.
Dr. Ginzburg works closely with deans, department chairs, course/clerkship directors, graduate and continuing medical education colleagues, and faculty members to facilitate the undergraduate medical education program.
Students consistently rank the Zucker School of Medicine in the top 10% of medical schools nationally for their overall satisfaction with the educational program.
Dr. Ginzburg’s career in medical education focuses on leading teams to pioneer education innovations. Previously, she directed an Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Innovation Project to integrate competency-based education into an Internal Medicine Residency Program. Subsequently, she was recruited as the director of undergraduate medical education for Northwell Health and joined the leadership team to start a new medical school as the assistant dean for medical education.
In this role, Dr. Ginzburg led the team that created and implemented the PEARLS (Patient-centered Explorations in Active Reasoning, Learning and Synthesis) program, which became an exemplar in Undergraduate Medical Education and received the Northeast Group on Educational Affairs Innovations in Medical Education Award.
As associate and, subsequently, senior associate dean, Dr. Ginzburg worked to integrate and align the four-year educational program.
Presently, Dr. Ginzburg is leading the school’s curriculum renewal efforts to reimagine a novel curriculum for physicians beginning independent practice in 2035+.
Dr. Ginzburg completed the highly competitive and prestigious Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine program at Drexel University College of Medicine. She teaches as invited faculty both in the ELAM program and the Harvard Macy program.
Dr. Ginzburg has served as the principal investigator on education innovation grants, which include the American Medical Association Accelerating Change in Medical Education Grant: Coaching the Master Adaptive Learner and the Association of American Medical Colleges/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Health Professions Education Curricular Innovations Grant: Kickstarting Strategies for Addressing Health Misinformation.
Dr. Ginzburg co-chairs national task forces addressing pressing issues in medicine. Presently, she co-chairs the AAMC Women’s Reproductive Health Taskforce, assembled in the wake of the Dobbs decision restricting access to abortions.
The task force is involved in advocacy, developing curricular resources, and training opportunities for medical school and residency programs to ensure trainees learn to provide high-quality care for women.
Previously, Dr. Ginzburg co-chaired the AAMC-Beth Israel Millennium Group on Aligning Undergraduate and Graduate Medical Education.
Dr. Ginzburg’s passion for and knowledge of self-regulated learning methodologies has made her a sought-after guest and speaker at national conferences, including the Liaison Committee on Medical Education and the AAMC, where she has shared her insights with hundreds of medical educators.
Dr. Ginzburg has extensive experience working nationally with medical schools and has advised over 10% of US medical schools on their curricular design. She serves on national medical education committees, including the AAMC’s Medical Education Senior Leaders group and Curriculum Committee.
As a board-certified internist and endocrinologist, Dr. Ginzburg is an active staff physician at Long Island Jewish Medical Center.
During COVID, she received the Act of Good Deeds Award for providing medical advice related to COVID operations that allowed a local school to safely maintain in-person classes.
Presently, Dr. Ginzburg is a practicing endocrinologist, focusing on treating women’s metabolic bone diseases, including osteoporosis.
Dr. Ginzburg graduated magna cum laude in Biopsychology from the University of Michigan.
She earned her MD at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, where she also completed her residency and was selected for chief residency in Internal Medicine as well as a fellowship in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism.
