The ACGME is pleased to announce that Nikhil Goyal, MBBS will join the organization as its next Senior Vice President, Accreditation. Dr. Goyal will oversee the activities of the accreditation staff members responsible for 17 medical and hospital-based specialty Review Committees and those supporting the programmatic accreditation of graduate medical education (GME) programs. As a member of the ACGME Senior Leadership Team, he will act as a liaison to other GME organizations and agencies. He will also provide support to the Review Committees to help ensure fair reviews of GME programs, drive improvement in the use of accreditation data, and communicate accreditation-related matters to the medical education community.
Prior to joining the ACGME, Dr. Goyal was the Associate Designated Institutional Official (DIO) at Henry Ford Health and a practicing emergency physician at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan. In this role, he oversaw 61 ACGME-accredited programs at Henry Ford Hospital and Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital. He was previously the DIO of Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital and the program director of the transitional year residency, combined emergency medicine-internal medicine residency, and combined emergency medicine-internal medicine-critical care residency/fellowship program at Henry Ford Hospital.
Dr. Goyal has been a significant contributor to the ACGME’s Mission through his service as member and Chair of the Transitional Year Review Committee, and as Vice Chair of the Council of Review Committee Chairs of the Board of Directors. He also served on the ACGME Board’s Committee on Requirements and Task Force on Diversity and co-chaired the Board’s Task Force on Burden Reduction. His background in informatics and programming has led to several innovations that have benefited the GME community and will continue to help improve ACGME accreditation. In addition, he has provided valuable and dedicated service to organizations including the National Resident Matching Program®, Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, and Association for Hospital Medical Education.
Dr. Goyal completed medical school at Maulana Azad Medical College in New Delhi, India, followed by a residency at the Henry Ford Hospital in the combined emergency medicine-internal medicine program. He is Board certified in emergency medicine, internal medicine, and clinical informatics, and his academic appointments include Clinical Professor of Medical Specialties at Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine and Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine at Wayne State University School of Medicine.
Dr. Goyal has received several awards and honors throughout his career, including multiple years of Top Reviewer awards from the Journal of Graduate Medical Education, Annals of Internal Medicine, and Academic Emergency Medicine Education and Training. He was awarded the Distinguished Section Editor award by the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine and the Roger F. Smith Outstanding Resident Award by Henry Ford Health System.
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