Carolyn Snipe

Director, Graduate Medical Education, North Shore – LIJ Health System

Carolyn C. Snipe is the Director of Graduate Medical Education at the North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, a health network of Long Island, Queens and Staten Island with 15 member hospitals. Nine of the hospitals are teaching facilities that provide graduate medical education for more than 90 training programs with over 1,200 residents and fellows.

Ms. Snipe, who has a Bachelors Degree in Education from SUNY College in Buffalo and a Masters Degree in Counseling from New York University, has worked within the System for more than 35 years, the last 25 of which have been in the area of graduate medical education.

In her current position, Ms. Snipe is administratively responsible for all Health System graduate medical education activities. She is a member of the Health System's Graduate Medical Education Committee and serves as its ACGME Program Coordinator and the representative on the AAMC's Group on Resident Affairs.

Ms. Snipe has been actively involved in medical education outside of the Health System. She is frequently asked to serve as faculty or a guest speaker on graduate medical education issues at national and local meetings. Ms Snipe has been an active member of the Association of Hospital Medical Education (AHME), a national association since 1992. During this time she has served as the AHME Secretary/Treasurer, been a member of the Council of Administrative Directors of Medical Education (CADME) and served as the Chairman of the CADME program committee, the AHME committees on Electronic Technology and Communications. She is currently the AHME Region I representative.

Ms. Snipe is also involved in public and community service activity. She has been a frequent speaker at local schools on health care careers and has been a volunteer with the Make A Wish Foundation. Ms Snipe is a public member of the New York State Board of Professional Medical Conduct, the agency that monitors disciplinary actions involving physicians and physician's assistants in New York State.