Maya Hammoud

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Maya M. Hammoud
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Born
Lebanon
Citizenship American
Occupation(s)Obstetrician-gynecologist, medical educator

Maya M. Hammoud is a Lebanese-American physician who is a professor of obstetrics-gynecology and Learning Health Sciences at the University of Michigan Medicine. [1] [2] She is known for her leadership in medical education, particularly her work in reforming the residency application and selection process in the United States. [1]

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Early life and education

Hammoud was born in Lebanon and immigrated to the United States at the age of 17. [3] She worked at a Kmart cafeteria and helped out at her father’s gas station while she pursued her education. [4] Hammoud has a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry with minors in French and psychology, an MD, and an MBA, all from the University of Michigan. [5]

Career

Hammoud has been on the faculty at the University of Michigan since 2000 and was promoted to a full professor in 2014. She was also faculty at Weill Cornell Medical College-Qatar from 2006-2009 where she first served as Associate Dean for Student Affairs and was then promoted to Senior Associate Dean for Education. [6] She has been the senior adviser for medical education innovations at the American Medical Association (AMA) since 2016 [7] and the J. Robert Willson Research Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Michigan Medical School since 2020. [8] In 2018, she became the first Muslim president of the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics. [9] She was also a member of the Board of Directors of the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) from 2021-2025. [10]

Hammoud has played a central role in reforms to the U.S. residency application system and has advocated for holistic review, implicit bias training, and equity in residency selection. [11] She is the principal investigator of an AMA “Reimagining Residency” $1.75 million grant focused on improving the transition from undergraduate to graduate medical education for OBGYN. [10] She helped develop the Alignment Check Index within FRIEDA AMA Residency & Fellowship Programs Database to improve alignment between applicants and residency programs. [12] She was a key player in developing ResidencyCAS, a novel residency application system for OBGYN outside of the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS), which was also later adopted by emergency medicine. [13]

As senior adviser for medical education innovations at the AMA, she has played a significant role in establishing health systems science as a key part of medical education [14] and building academic coaching programs. [15] She launched and directed the Health Systems Science (HSS) Academy from 2016 to 2022 [16] [17] and created the annual AMA Academic Coaching Implementation workshop. [18] [19] This was launched in 2019 and is ongoing.

Her scholarship includes over 100 peer-reviewed publications, as well as co-editing several books on health systems science and coaching. [20]

Awards and recognition

Selected publications

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Maya Hammoud-Notable Women in Health". Crain's Detroit Business. 2020-03-11. Retrieved 2025-10-08.
  2. ↑ "Dr. Maya Hammoud became the 52nd President of APGO!". Lebanese Ministry of Information. Archived from the original on 2025-07-10. Retrieved 2025-10-08.
  3. ↑ "Hammoud family". Crain's Detroit Business. 2014-06-01. Retrieved 2025-10-08.
  4. ↑ "Dr. Maya Hammoud first Muslim appointed as president of national OB-GYN education association". ArabAmericanNews. 2018-04-23. Retrieved 2025-10-08.
  5. ↑ "Dr. Maya Hammoud elected at-large member of NBME Executive Board". ArabAmericanNews. 2021-04-10. Retrieved 2025-10-08.
  6. 1 2 Hammoud, Maya (2008). "HPV vaccine: Not immune to controversy" . International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics. 101 (2): 123–124. doi:10.1016/j.ijgo.2008.01.009. ISSN   1879-3479.
  7. ↑ "Shorter Bio for Maya Hammoud, MD, MBA" (PDF). Association for Hospital Medicine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 8 Oct 2025. Retrieved 8 October 2025.
  8. ↑ National Academies of Sciences, Engineering; Division, Health and Medicine; Health, Board on Global; Education, Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional; Forstag, Erin Hammers; Cuff, Patricia A. (2022-10-05), "Speaker Biographical Sketches", Exploring the Role of Health Professional Students and Trainees as Members of the Health Workforce During Crises: Proceedings of a Workshop, National Academies Press (US), retrieved 2025-10-08
  9. ↑ mkobryn@apgo.org (2018-05-31). "Welcome New APGO President Maya M. Hammoud, MD, MBA - APGO". APGO -. Retrieved 2025-10-08.
  10. 1 2 "NBME Announces New Officers and Members Elected to Its Board of Directors | NBME". www.nbme.org. 2025-09-05. Retrieved 2025-10-08.
  11. ↑ Hammoud, Maya M.; Andrews, John; Skochelak, Susan E. (2020-02-11). "Improving the Residency Application and Selection Process". JAMA. 323 (6): 503. doi:10.1001/jama.2019.21212. ISSN   0098-7484. Archived from the original on 2020-01-23.
  12. ↑ "Are you in tune with a residency program? Get a new way to check". American Medical Association. Archived from the original on 2025-09-20. Retrieved 2025-10-08.
  13. ↑ Brouillette, Monique (2025-03-01). "Emergency Medicine Looks for an Alternative Residency Application Platform: Is This the End of the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS) Monopoly?". Annals of Emergency Medicine. 85 (3): A9 –A11. doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2024.12.018. ISSN   0196-0644.
  14. ↑ Borkan, Jeffrey M.; Hammoud, Maya M.; Nelson, Elizabeth; Oyler, Julie; Lawson, Luan; Starr, Stephanie R.; Gonzalo, Jed D. (July 2021). "Health systems science education: The new post-Flexner professionalism for the 21st century". Medical Teacher. 43 (sup2): S25 –S31. doi: 10.1080/0142159X.2021.1924366 . ISSN   1466-187X. PMID   34291713.
  15. ↑ Wolff, Margaret; Morgan, Helen; Jackson, Jasmyne; Skye, Eric; Hammoud, Maya; Ross, Paula T. (Feb 2020). "Academic coaching: Insights from the medical student's perspective". Medical Teacher. 42 (2): 172–177. doi:10.1080/0142159X.2019.1670341. ISSN   1466-187X. PMID   31630595.
  16. ↑ "Health Systems Science Academy 2019–2020 Scholars Program" (PDF). American Medical Association. 2019. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 Aug 2025. Retrieved 8 October 2025.
  17. ↑ "Health Systems Science Academy 2022–2023 Scholars Program" (PDF). American Medical Association. Retrieved 8 October 2025.
  18. ↑ "2025 AMA Academic Coaching Implementation Workshop" (PDF). American Medical Association. Retrieved 8 October 2025.
  19. ↑ "2024 AMA Academic Coaching Implementation Workshop" (PDF). American Medical Association. Retrieved 8 October 2025.
  20. ↑ "hammoud maya - Search Results - PubMed". PubMed. Retrieved 2025-10-08.
  21. ↑ "2019 Inspiration Award Honorees" (PDF). American Medical Association. Retrieved 8 October 2025.
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