is a collaborative of scholars, educational specialists, and consultants providing services that help academic leaders pursue educational excellence, the application of knowledge, the discovery of ideas, and the quest of lifelong learning. The AAL team strives to build long-term relationships based on superior service, mutual trust, and intellectual inspiration. The AAL team below focuses on professional development and consulting services.
N. Karl Haden, Ph.D.
Dr. Haden is the founder and President of the Academy for Academic Leadership. Since its founding in 2005, the Academy for Academic Leadership has worked with nearly 100 higher education institutions and associations through faculty development programs and consulting services. Dr. Haden’s consultation and faculty development activities have included clients from dentistry, pharmacy, veterinary medicine, allied health, and medicine. Dr. Haden’s areas of expertise include leadership development, organizational change, team building, strategic planning, curriculum development and the scholarship of teaching and learning. He served as Associate Executive Director and Director of the Center for Educational Policy and Research at the American Dental Education Association (ADEA). He continues to direct the ADEA Leadership Institute, a premier leadership development program in health professions education. Dr. Haden regularly presents to organizations on issues and trends in higher education, health professions education, and policy-related matters in higher education. In the past 10 years, he has made over 250 presentations to groups in higher education. Dr. Haden has authored or coauthored over 70 articles and monographs in educational policy. In 2006, Dr. Haden received an ADEA Presidential Citation for his contributions to dental education and the profession of dentistry.
Judith E. N. Albino, Ph.D.
Dr. Albino has served as president of two higher education systems, the University of Colorado, a public research university, and Alliant International University, a private nonprofit university with multiple campuses in California, Mexico and Kenya. Her higher education experience also includes service at the dean and vice-presidential levels, and she has spent more than twenty-five years as a faculty member in schools of dentistry and medicine, as well as departments of psychology and educational psychology. She received her baccalaureate and doctoral degrees from the University of Texas at Austin and the Certificate in Professional Coaching from the Zicklin School of Business of Baruch College, City University of New York. Dr. Albino’s leadership has extended to community and nonprofit groups, and she has served on corporate and civic boards. She also has been an officer and served on governance groups of numerous professional organizations, including the American Psychological Association and the Federation of Psychological, Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences; the American Association for Dental Research; the American Council on Education; the National Collegiate Athletics Association; and the Society of Psychologists in Management, a group which she recently served as president. Dr. Albino’s research in behavioral aspects of health and disease has been supported by the NIDCR and has resulted in numerous scientific publications and presentations. More recently, her work at the University of Colorado has focused on health disparities. At AAL, she works extensively in the areas of planning and evaluation, leadership and board development, and executive coaching.
Cynthia C. Amyot, B.S.D.H., Ed.D.
Dr. Amyot is Professor and Director, Distance Education and Faculty Development, University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC), School of Dentistry. Dr. Amyot has been a full-time faculty member at UMKC since 1993, serving three years as Director of Graduate and Degree Completion Studies and five years as Director of the Division of Dental Hygiene. Dr. Amyot developed online degree programs for graduate and degree completion studies during her tenure as director. She teaches at all levels of the curriculum; predoctoral, graduate and undergraduate. Dr. Amyot’s areas of expertise include educational methodologies, ethics, special issues in higher education and distance education and technology. Dr. Amyot has received numerous distinguished teaching awards from the School of Dentistry and recently was the recipient of the university wide Elmer Pierson Outstanding Teaching Award. She has published in several peer-reviewed journals (Gadbury-Amyot). Her research interests include: portfolio assessment of student competency, community-based service-learning, access to care and oral health-related quality of life. She served as Chair of the Council on Research for the American Dental Hygienists’ Association for several years. Dr. Amyot served as an educational consultant for the American Dental Association Commission on Dental Accreditation for over ten years. She has held several offices in the UMKC Alumni Association and served on numerous committees throughout the university. She recently was named the recipient of the 2007 ADEA/William J. Gies Foundation Education Fellowship.
William L Clarke, M.B.A
William L. (Bill) Clarke has more than thirty years of concentrated experience in entrepreneurial management and top tier management consulting. As an entrepreneur, Bill built an international retail systems company whose trade name became and remains a generic term in the retail industry. As a consultant, Bill focused on business planning, strategy and systems development as a partner with The Garr Consulting Group in Atlanta, the retail industry’s leading logistics consulting firm. He also served as the marketing and strategy development partner. The firm grew from 10 to over 100 professionals and was positioned for acquisition by Touche Ross (now Deloitte Touche). Following the acquisition, Bill was recruited by Ernst & Young, another Big 8 firm, to manage their national retail practice. During his consulting career he has managed hundreds of major consulting engagements for some of the leading firms in the Fortune 500. After retiring from Ernst & Young, he continued to consult in business planning, strategy development, organizational structure, management process, business startups, turnaround management, marketing, meeting facilitation and executive mentoring. In addition, he took on several interim management assignments in the CEO role for troubled or turnaround companies. Bill has served on a number of for profit and not-for-profit boards. As an avocation, Bill has been an adjunct professor of marketing for The Ohio State University system and more recently with Brewton-Parker, a smaller denominational college in Georgia. As a senior consultant working from the Academy for Academic Leadership’s Atlanta offices, Bill’s primary areas of focus include strategic planning, implementation planning and project management, and marketing.
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Dominick P. DePaola, D.D.S. Ph.D.
Dr. DePaola has held positions as Dean of three of the nation's dental schools and has also been Interim Dean of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. In addition, Dr. DePaola has served for 10 years as President and CEO of the Forsyth Institute, which is the world's leading research institution specializing in oral diseases and disorders and their relationship to overall health and well being. Throughout his 35 year career, Dr. DePaola has provided consultation services to a wide variety of institutions of higher learning, the food and pharmaceutical industries, the dental industry, the American Dental Association, the National Institutes of Health, and private foundations. Dr. DePaola has been President of the American Dental Education Association and the American Association for Dental Research and is the only dentist who is an Honorary Member of the American Dietetic Association. He is currently President of the Santa Fe Group, which he co-founded, and Interim Academic Dean at Nova Southeastern University College of Dental Medicine. Dr. DePaola provides consultation on strategic planning, leadership, accreditation, organizational development, workforce issues, merging for mutual growth, faculty development, research grants and contracts, and nutrition education. He is a frequent invited speaker on the future of dental and health professions education and the future of science and its impact on health professions education and clinical practice.
Clyde H. Evans, Ph.D.
Dr. Evans was vice president at the Association of Academic Health Centers 1998-2005. Previously, he spent 13 years at Harvard Medical School as a member of the faculty, director of the Office for Academic Careers, and Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs. In 1996-1997, Dr. Evans was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow, working for Senator Bill Frist on biomedical research, bioengineering, academic health centers, and cloning. In 1997, Dr. Evans was a Scholar-in-Residence at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), working on leadership issues with the Council of Deans. Dr. Evans has conducted numerous seminars, including the AAMC Women in Medicine early and mid-career professional development seminars, the minority faculty professional development seminar, and the executive development seminars for chairs, associate deans, and new deans. He has consulted with public and private schools, state departments of education, and numerous academic health centers on the institutional aspects of faculty development. Dr. Evans provides career development consultation to individual faculty members and organizational consultation to academic leaders. He has expertise in addressing the institutional issues connected with faculty recruitment, retention, and advancement, including those specific for women and minority faculty. His diverse experiences allow him to incorporate perspectives from the level of professional and personal issues for individual faculty to the broader organizational issues for institutions.
Christy M. Fellers, OTD, OTR/L
Dr. Fellers is Assistant Professor and Academic Fieldwork Coordinator of Occupational Therapy in the MSOT Program at Milligan College. She has been working full time in administrative and faculty positions in the program since 2005. She has worked diligently over the years studying a variety of pedagogical methodologies in an effort to improve and expand her classroom experiences. Dr. Fellers is responsible for teaching the physical dysfunction portion of diagnostic considerations to her first year students and the adult neurological dysfunction coursework to her second year students. Additionally, Christy is the Academic Fieldwork Coordinator responsible for the successful placement and supervision of MSOT students during their clinical fieldwork experiences. She worked for 7 years as an acute care OT in a Level I Trauma Center. Here she was able to specialize in the treatment of adult and pediatric patients with neurological illness or injury as she holds a clinical specialty certification in Neurodevelopmental Treatment.
William D. Hendricson, M.S., M.A.
AAL Senior Consultant William Hendricson has been a consultant in health professions education for 38 years. He currently is Assistant Dean for Educational and Faculty Development at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA) Dental School. He was Director of the Instructional Development at the University of Illinois Medical Center-Chicago from 1972 to 1978 and was an educational specialist for UTHSCSA from 1978-1998 where he directed faculty development programs including the UTHSCSA Teaching Excellence Course. He chaired the UTHSCSA Division of Educational Research and Development from 1999-2006. He has been a consultant to 160 universities, associations and the armed services, and an invited speaker at more than 200 meetings. From 1996-2005, Prof. Hendricson was principle instructor and co-director in a grantsmanship and research fellowship conducted by the American Academy of Family Practice and has been training director on 16 NIH or HRSA grants that involved educational interventions for health care providers related to arthritis, fibromyalgia, kidney disease, substance abuse, asthma, oral health, science translation into practice, homeless health services, interprofessional education, dental training for physicians, information technology, and preceptor training for community practitioners. Prof. Hendricson conducted a Master Teacher Fellowship for Emergency Medicine residency directors for American College of Emergency Physicians for 12 years. He was principle instructor in the Combined Medical Services Teaching Enrichment Program and was an instructor trainer in Pediatric Advanced Life support courses for the American Heart Association from 1987 to 2002. He has published 104 articles, monographs and chapters addressing issues in health professions education and was Associate Editor of the Journal of Dental Education from 2000-2009. Prof. Hendricson was a member of the Commission on Change and Innovation in Dental Education of the American Dental Education Association from 2005 - 2010. In 2009, Prof. Hendricson was awarded the Presidential Citation for Excellence in Dental Education by the American Dental Education Association.
Rob Jenkins, M.A.
Best known for his popular “Two-Year Track” columns in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Rob Jenkins has earned a national reputation as an advocate for community colleges and as an authority on two-year college issues. During his 23-year career—all spent at two-year schools—he has served as a part-time faculty member, a full-time faculty member, a department chair, an academic dean, and a program director. He is currently associate professor of English and director of The Writers Institute at Georgia Perimeter College, a large, multi-campus, urban/suburban community college in Atlanta. Rob holds a master’s degree in writing from the University of Tennessee, and his stories, essays, and poems have appeared in a number of outlets, including The Clearing House, Southern Poetry Review, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and The Gwinnett Daily Post. In recent years he has also come to be in some demand as a speaker, addressing faculty, staff, and student groups on a variety of two-year and four-year college campuses around the country. Rob lives with his wife and two of their four children outside Atlanta, where he is active in his church, in the arts community, and in local youth sports programs.
Paige Metzger, M.B.A.
Paige Metzger has worked as a Financial Analyst for four years and in the marketing field for over 10 years. Working in IBM as a Financial Analyst in the Sales and Distribution Division, she supported a staff of over 1,500 and created and managed an annual expense budget of $200M within the Software Division. She has worked for IBM Business partners as a Channels Communications Manager and Marketing Specialist where she helped design the first company website, developed databases for 500 IBM Resellers, and designed, managed and edited all marketing materials. She was awarded the Bravo Award for outstanding customer support and the Merchandise Award for providing unprecedented support to the S/390 organization within IBM, one of the largest organizations within the Sales and Distribution Division. In addition to her marketing activities at the Academy for Academic Leadership, she is currently working part time on her own business, Metzger’s Designs. She has an M.B.A. and a B.S. in Marketing from Clemson University.
Debi Moon, J.D.
A graduate of the University of Tennessee and UT Law School, Debi Moon has served as the Assistant Vice President of Educational Affairs at Georgia Perimeter College, the Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning, the Director of the Center for Distance-Learning and as a Associate Professor of Business. She is the recipient of the National Teaching Excellence Award and was a Governor’s Teaching Fellow in the State of Georgia. In the last four years, her centers won the Best Practices Award for Academic Affairs from the University System of Georgia, placed in the top 10 finalists nationally for the Community Colleges Futures Assembly Bellwether Award, and she was awarded the national Wagner Award for Innovation for her work in faculty development in distance learning.
Douglas Myers, M.Ed.L
As a multi-faceted and innovative educational leader, Douglas Myers has twenty-five years of successful experience designing, delivering and managing scores of professional educational programs and organizational curricula. He specializes in aligning professional education and organizational development programs to organizational culture, intellectual capital, strategic objectives and organizational missions. He has been a successful educator, entrepreneur, education and business consultant, corporate vice president, and executive director with extensive experience in both the profit and nonprofit sectors. Before joining the Academy for Academic Leadership as a consultant, Mr. Myers was the Director of Training & Professional Development, specializing in Strategic Projects, for the Boys & Girls Clubs of America and Associate Executive Director of The Adventure Centre, an experiential education corporation. Serving in all of these roles, he has worked with the U.S. Department of Defense, Fortune 100 Corporations, Top 100 Universities and major non-profit organizations, gaining expertise in curriculum development, assessment and evaluation, technological learning systems, change management, corporate culture design, professional certification, educational accreditation, leadership and team building, complex project management and strategic planning. Mr. Myers has designed numerous face-to-face and virtual learning solutions tailored for audiences ranging from new professional staff to seasoned corporate executives. His educational programs incorporate a variety of outcome-based instructional design techniques, integrating adult learning principles, experiential learning methods, blended learning approaches and performance metrics.
Paula N. O’Neill, M.Ed., Ed.D.
AAL Senior Consultant Dr. Paula O’Neill has served in faculty and leadership roles in health science education for more than more than 27 years. Since she began her career she has served as a medical educator and director/vice chair of multiple departments within teaching hospitals and medical schools. She is a tenured professor of Diagnostic Sciences and Associate Dean for Educational Research and Professional Development (OPD) at The University of Texas Dental Branch at Houston. Dr. O’Neill has consulted with over 80 institutions worldwide and presented more than 200 invited seminars and workshops on the topics of faculty and curriculum development and evaluation; teaching and learning; developing leadership capacity; mentoring and cultural competency. She has published nationally on faculty development and educational research in peer-reviewed journals, served two terms on the Editorial Review Boards of the Journal of Dental Education and Computers in Nursing, chaired two NIH study sections and is a member of ADEA’s Commission on Change and Innovation (CCI). She is a 2002 Fellow of the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine Program for Women, received The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston President’s Award for Mentoring Women in 2006, and was elected to membership in the statewide University of Texas Academy of Health Science Education in 2008. She has been the principal investigator for numerous educational research grants, co-director for foundation or corporate grants, and is the principal investigator for The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Summer Medical and Dental Education Program and the HRSA funded Hispanic Center of Excellence.
Pam Overman, Ed.D., R.D.H.
Dr. Overman is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at UMKC School of Dentistry. Her teaching background includes oral health education and health promotion, educational methods for health professional faculty, and evidence based decision making. She currently teaches evidence based decision making methods to third year dental students and cross cultural communication to first year dental students. Her administrative responsibilities include faculty development. She brings to the program a wealth of experience in helping practitioners make the transition to their roles as new faculty. Dr. Overman received her B.S. in dental hygiene from UMKC School of Dentistry, her M.S. degree from UMKC’s School of Graduate Studies, and in 2001, a doctoral degree in education policy and leadership at the University of Kansas. Her professional service has included numerous positions of national leadership including chair of the ADEA’s National Dental Hygiene Directors, chair of ADEA’s Council of Allied Program Directors, and American Dental Hygienist’s Association Commissioner on Dental Accreditation. She is currently chair-elect of ADEA’s Section on Academic Affairs as well as a peer reviewer for the Journal of Contemporary Dental Practice, the Journal of Dental Education and the Journal of Dental Hygiene.
Richard R. Ranney, D.D.S., M.S.
Since his first faculty appointment in 1969, Dr. Ranney has held faculty positions in four dental schools, and served as an advanced dental education program director, department chairman, assistant dean and dean. He was Dean of the University of Alabama-Birmingham Dental School and the University of Maryland Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, Dental School. He was continuously funded as a Principal Investigator on NIH research and training grants from 1970 to 1986 and was the Principal Investigator for one of the first specialized clinical research centers funded by NIDR in 1978. He is an author of more than 150 publications and has made 180 presentations nationally and internationally. Dr. Ranney served as President of both the American and International Associations for Dental Research. He is a Fellow of the American and International Colleges of Dentists and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He served on the editorial boards of five journals, and was an inaugural member of the Oral Health Advisory Committee for the State of Maryland. Among his academic honors are the Balint Orban Prize from the American Academy of Periodontology, the Basic Research in Periodontal Disease Award from the IADR, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Buenos Aires.
Robert E. Smith, Pharm.D.
Robert E. Smith is currently Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Assistant to the Dean for Professional Affairs at Auburn University Harrison School of Pharmacy. Dr. Smith served as chief pharmacist at the United States Public Health Service, Indian Health Service Hospital in Crow Agency, Montana. He later served as a faculty member at Wayne State University, College of Pharmacy and at the Creighton University School of Pharmacy. In 1989, Dr. Smith was appointed Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean at the Saint Louis College of Pharmacy where he served until 1995. Dr. Smith has completed two, one-year sabbaticals, one as administrative fellow to Robert Heaney, MD, Vice President for Health Services at Creighton University, and one as Administrative Scholar in Residence at the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP). During his sabbatical at AACP, Dr. Smith designed and implemented the first (1996) AACP Institute, a 4-day conference on curricular and pedagogical change. This program is now in its 15th year. He was elected President of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy for 1999-2000 and served a three-year term on the AACP Board of Directors. He has served as a speaker and consultant at several colleges of pharmacy as well as a member of several American Council of Pharmaceutical Education site evaluation teams. In addition, he is the Director of the Academy of Leadership and Management for the American College of Clinical Pharmacy. His current teaching, speaking and scholarship interests focus on leadership, management, strategic planning, pedagogical issues and community pharmaceutical care.
George Weinstein, M.B.A.
George Weinstein is Managing Director at AAL. In this capacity Mr. Weinstein oversees all of AAL's professional development programs, consulting services, and website initiatives, and manages all promotion and marketing. Additionally, he provides the primary initial interface with alumni as well as current and potential clients at AAL’s Atlanta office. He has over a decade of experience in administration, project management, and marketing, working for companies such as Westinghouse, Lucent Technologies, and ARRIS. He has managed global projects involving teams in the U.S., Mexico, the U.K., The Netherlands, India, and Taiwan. In recent years, he has written and edited numerous health-related articles and features, and created marketing collateral for placement in national trade publications. Mr. Weinstein is also an author with publishing credits in books and periodicals. In his spare time, he volunteers for two educational non-profits, promoting children’s interest in aviation and increasing opportunities for Atlanta-area writers. He graduated from the University of Maryland with a B.A. and holds an M.B.A. from Virginia Tech as well as a Masters Certificate in project management from the Stevens Institute of Business.
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