Heather Heiman, MD, FACP, Named Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education
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The University of Illinois College of Medicine is proud to share that Heather Heiman, MD, FACP has been appointed senior associate dean for medical education, effective April 16, 2025. This follows her appointment as the interim associate dean for undergraduate medical education in fall of 2022. In this role, Dr. Heiman is responsible for the development, implementation, oversight, and evaluation of the MD program across the College of Medicine’s three campuses, with direct responsibility for the Office of Educational Affairs personnel in the areas of assessment and evaluation, instructional design, and education planning. Additionally, this role is responsible for the Office of Curricular Affairs and Student Affairs on the Chicago campus.
Dr. Heiman is also an associate professor medicine and medical education, and was recruited to the College in 2019. Since assuming her interim college-wide role in 2022, she has initiated several improvements in the operations of the Office of Educational Affairs as related to the quality of our curriculum and the expectations of our accreditation. She championed and is co-leading the Technology Optimization Project for Educational Data (“TOP-ED”), assessing and procuring new college-wide software solutions for managing the MD program.
Dr. Heiman received her medical degree from Harvard Medical School and completed a residency in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. In addition to her deanship, Dr. Heiman serves as an ambulatory general internal medicine physician in the Division of Academic Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, where she cares for a panel of primary care patients with acute and chronic conditions. Outside of her work within the College of Medicine, she is a board member of the American Board of Internal Medicine. She enjoys reading, birding, watching high-quality streaming series, and seeing her three musical children perform.