Offices and Services
Dr. N. Lynn Eckhert
Interim Dean, School of Medicine
Dr. N. Lynn Eckhert, M.D., M.P.H., Dr.PH., was appointed Interim Dean of Gilbert and Rose-Marie Chagoury School of Medicine for the academic year 2010–2011, effective October 2010.
As a member of Partners Harvard Medical International (PHMI, what was then called Harvard Medical International), she played a major role in recommending the establishment of a school of medicine at LAU.
Dr. Eckhert, a pediatrician, is Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health, Professor in the Graduate School of Nursing and Adjunct Professor in Public Health at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and a Senior Lecturer in Population Health at Harvard Medical School.
Following postgraduate training at the Cleveland Clinic, the University of Oklahoma and Johns Hopkins University, the latter as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar, she joined the faculty at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. There, she served as a clinician, and as Associate Dean for Admissions, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Family and Community Medicine, and Dean/Vice Chancellor for International and Public Health Programs. She also served as Chairman of the school’s Executive Committee, President of the University Hospital medical staff, Chair of the Credentials Committee and on the Executive Committee of the Group Practice.
In 2003, she became the Director of Academic Programs at PHMI, where she works in the development of medical schools, faculty development and quality improvement.
She has served on the Board of Trustees of the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates and as its Chairman from 2001–2004. Dr. Eckhert was also a founding board member of the Foundation for the Advancement of Medical Education and Research (FAIMER). She is also a past member of the Composite Committee of the National Board of Medical Examiners.
Active in the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), Dr. Eckhert served on the Council of Academic Societies Administrative Board and as Chairman. She served for many years on the AAMC Executive Council presiding as the Chairman in 2004–2005. In 2005, she chaired the Search Committee for the Presidency of AAMC.
She is a past President of the Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine and a member of the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Academy of Family Physicians. In collaboration with AAMC, the Association of Schools of Public Health and the National Institute of Health, she is the Chairman of the selection committee to recommend health professional graduate students for participation in the yearlong international health research fellowship, the Fogarty Fellowships.
In addition to her work with PHMI, Dr. Eckhert’s international experience includes provision of pediatric services in Africa, and Haiti, working with Project HOPE in primary care training in many sites around the world, and a sabbatical year spent teaching at the University of Zimbabwe School of Medicine and in 2009 for two months at LAU Byblos. She has numerous presentations and publications in primary care, global health, academic leadership and quality improvement.
- Dr. Joseph G. Jabbra
- Dr. Abdallah Sfeir
- Mr. Emile Lamah
- Mr. Roy Majdalani
- Dr. Cedar Mansour
- Dr. Elise Salem
- Dr. Elie Badr
- Dr. Lynn Eckhert
- Dr. Said Elfakhani
- Dr. Philippe Frossard
- Dr. Nancy Hoffart
- Dr. George E. Nasr
- Dr. Pierre A. Zalloua
- Dr. Raed Mohsen
- Dr. Mars E. Semaan
- Mr. Charles Abou Rjeily
- Dr. Sami Baroudi
- Mr. Camille Abou-Nasr
- Mr. Abdo G. Ghié
- Mr. Georges Hamouche
- Ms. Sonia Hajjar
- Ms. Peggy Hanna
- Mr. Robert Hollback
- Mr. Nassib Nasr