Carole J Bland

CAROL J. BLAND is professor and director of research in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Medical School, and member of the Department of Educational Policy and Administration, College of Education and Human Development, both at the University of Minnesota, where she has been a faculty member since 1974. She received an M.A. in experimental psychology and a specialist degree in behavior modification from Drake University in 1970 and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota...See more

CAROL J. BLAND is professor and director of research in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Medical School, and member of the Department of Educational Policy and Administration, College of Education and Human Development, both at the University of Minnesota, where she has been a faculty member since 1974. She received an M.A. in experimental psychology and a specialist degree in behavior modification from Drake University in 1970 and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1974 in educational psychology with an emphasis on measurement, evaluation, and adult learning. During 1989-1990, she was an American Council on Education Fellow, learning about higher education’ s administration, organization, and funding. She has been active in university-wide governance, having served on the Senate Faculty Affairs, Judicial, and Faculty Consultative committees. She has served as special assistant to the provost and has codirected a three-year university initiative to assist departments in solving complex academic issues. In the Academic Health Center she ahs served on the Faculty Consultative Committee and has chaired the faculty Affairs Committee. Currently, she directs the following: a university-wide study on the characteristics of research-productive departments, a departmental division that provides consultation, resources, and programs to support research; a three-year Clinical Investigator fellowship for family physicians; and a one-year national fellowship to prepare family medicine educators for the deanship or higher-level administrative positions. She also teaches courses and workshops on education, administration, research, evaluation, and facultyvitality. She has served as a consultant in these areas, as well as on physician specialty choice, to departments, universities, foundations, professional associations, and the federal government. She served as a chair on the board of directors of the Alfred Adler Graduate School, is currently serving as a regent for Augustana College, and has chaired or served on numerous other organizational and editorial boards, national peer review committees, and task forces. Her research focuses on the development and productivity of faculty, administrators, and institutions. She is series editor of the Springer Series on Medical Education (Springer Publishing Company), and has written more than 80 publications, including and award-winning book. Vitality of Senior Faculty Members: Snow on the Roof— Fire in the Furnace. ANNE MARIE WEBER-MAIN is assistant professor and associate director of research in the department of family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Minnesota Medical School. With Carole Bland, she helped develop a three-year Clinical Investigator Fellowship for family physicians and codirects a departmental research division that provides consultation, resources, and programs to support faculty-led research. In this capacity she consults with faculty and fellows on their research goals and plays a substantial role in assisting researchers with their scholarly writing projects, that is, the development of grant proposals, journal articles, book chapters, and other research-related manuscripts. She lectures on scholarly writing in a family medicine research courses and cofacilitates a participative writing seminar for family medicine and pediatrics fellows. Tothese academic roles she brings a diverse blend of educational and professional experiences that span the physical sciences, technical writing, and communications. She received a Ph.D. in chemistry (analytical emphasis) from the University of Minnesota in 1997. her doctoral research was funded by the National Institute of health... See less