David Jan Skorton is an American physician, academic, non-profit and university administrator. He is the current President and CEO of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), a position he began on July 15, 2019. Prior to the AAMC, he led the Smithsonian Institution, the national research museums of the United States, as its 13th Secretary from July 2015 to June 2019. A cardiologist, he was president of Cornell University from 2006 to 2015. Before arriving at Cornell, he served as president of the University of Iowa, where he had been a longtime professor and then vice president. He began his career as a professor of medicine and engineering.
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