This talk is being hosted by Graduate Student Association.

Dr German began her medical career at Harvard Medical School. She was a resident in medicine at the University of Rochester in N.Y. and a fellow in rheumatic and genetic diseases at Duke University. As an associate investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Duke she studied adenosine metabolism and published the first assay for adenosine in human plasma. She was associate dean of medical education at Duke. She then spent 13 years in medical education at Vanderbilt and during that time was senior associate dean of medical education and national chair of the AAMC GSA. She next led Saint Thomas Hospital in Nashville as its President and CEO and was Chief Academic Officer of Saint Thomas Health Services. Dr German led a successful hospital turn around and initiated service excellence and quality programs at the hospital that received national recognition. Dr German spent a year at the Association of American Medical Colleges in Washington, D.C. as a Petersdorf Scholar in Residence studying the leadership of academic health centers framed in the concepts of chaos theory and complex adaptive system science.

She has been honored for her contributions to the community as the recipient of the Athena award for the city of Nashville. She was inducted into the YWCA Academy for Women of Achievement and is a recipient of the AAMC Women in Medicine Leadership Development Award. Dr. German was recently named a Local Legend of Medicine in the National Library of Medicine.

Dr. German is the mother of two daughters. She ran her first Marathon in 2001.