Jennifer Anne Cleland

Professor Jennifer Cleland is LKCMedicine's Vice-Dean (Education). She is responsible for the development, delivery and evaluation of the MBBS programme, as well as for the activities of the LKCMedicine Medical Education Research and Scholarship Unit (MERSU). Prof Cleland was Director of the Centre for Healthcare Education Research and Innovation (CHERI), University of Aberdeen (2011-2020) and the Director of the Scottish Medical Education Research Consortium (205-2020) before moving to Singapore in 2020 to lead MERSU. She became Vice-Dean of Education at LKCMedicine in September 2020. Education She is a psychologist by training. She received her PhD in animal social behaviour from Queen’s University Belfast in the United Kingdon (UK) (1993). She then trained and worked in industrial and clinical psychology, receiving her Masters in Occupational Psychology (1994; also Queen’s Belfast) and a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the University of Edinburgh, UK (2000). She then shifted focus to medical and education research, and medical education, splitting her time between clinical work in Liaison Psychiatry, research, teaching and management. She was part of the MBChB senior management team at the University of Aberdeen, UK, for 20 years, starting as an Honorary Clinical Lecturer in 2000 when she had primary responsibility for developing the clinical communication vertical curriculum on the medical programme. She was lead for community medicine across Years 1-3 of the MBChB. She became a full Professor in 2011, first holding a Personal Chair then as the recipient of the UK’s only Endowed Chair of Medical Education Research, the John Simpson Chair. Recognition Prof Cleland is a Visiting/Adjunct Professor at Curtin University, Perth, Australia; the Universities of Aberdeen and Southampton, UK; and the Uniformed Services University of the USA, Maryland, USA. She is also a Visiting Scholar at The Wilson Centre, Toronto, Canada. Her global standing is also recognised via numerous Memberships, Fellowships and Honorary Fellowships (e.g., Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh) and Editorial roles with internationally leading journals, including Medical Education. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Association for Medical Education Europe (AMEE: 2019). Prof Cleland has vast leadership and management experience, gained through roles including Director of the Centre for Healthcare Education Research and Innovation (CHERI), University of Aberdeen, UK (2013-2020); Chair of the Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASME; 2014-2018); Director of the Scottish Medical Education Research Consortium (SMERC; 2015-2020); Lead for the Association for Medical Education Europe (AMEE) Research Committee (2013-2018); and Chair of the Board of Management for Medical Education (2014-2018). She has served on the advisory panels of a number of funding bodies including Asthma UK. She was the medical education expert for the UK’s system for assessing the quality of research across UK higher education institutions (REF2021, Education). She is currently a member of AMEE’s Executive committee.