Lisa D. Coplit, MD

Dr. Lisa Coplit completed her medical school, residency and chief resident training in internal medicine at Boston University School of Medicine. She is an alumna of both the Harvard Macy Program for Physician Educators and the Stanford Faculty Development Program in Clinical Teaching Skills.

Before joining Quinnipiac, Coplit directed the Institute for Medical Education at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where she founded a teaching academy and established institution-wide professional-development programs and recognition systems for physician and scientist educators.

In 2011, Coplit joined Quinnipiac as the associate dean for assessment and faculty development at the Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine. She developed QU Netter's first program evaluation framework, launched a comprehensive faculty development curriculum for medical sciences and clinical educators and co-directed the first medical education concentration for students. In 2024, she was appointed inaugural senior associate dean for faculty affairs, leading the office that now serves as the central source of support for faculty appointments, onboarding, promotions, policies, and professional, leadership and career development. In 2024, she served concurrently as interim senior associate dean for education, advancing curricular initiatives and innovations and strengthening clinical partnerships.

Coplit is also a nationally recognized leader in medical education. She has held several regional and national leadership roles, including chair of the Academies Collaborative and chair of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Undergraduate Medical Education Steering Committee, and she was recruited to host a 19-part AAMC webinar series that supported 6,500+ curriculum leaders during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Her career has been dedicated to elevating the work of health-professions educators, expanding opportunities for their mentorship, professional growth, and career advancement, and through that work, continually improving the education of our learners. As interim dean, she is applying her experience with the goal of distinguishing Quinnipiac Netter as an exemplar of outstanding community-engaged, interprofessional, humanistic medical education.