Academic Analytics at AAMC-GFA 2025: Reducing Faculty Burden & Sustaining a Culture of Excellence
Academic Analytics was proud to participate in the 2025 AAMC-GFA conference in Portland, Oregon where faculty affairs leaders engaged in thoughtful conversations with their peers and the company’s leadership over a private dinner at Portland City Grill. These interactions offered valuable insight into the evolving needs of medical schools and the strategic role data can play in supporting faculty development, retention, and institutional growth.
Key Conference Learnings
Integrated Faculty Solutions Are Essential
Leaders seek platforms that simplify CV generation, reduce administrative burden, support career development, and offer benchmarking across peer institutions.
Reducing Administrative Burden Pays Dividends
Streamlining routine tasks allows faculty and physician-scientists to focus on core mission areas like research, teaching, and clinical care.
Peer Benchmarking Enables Strategic Planning
Institutions require high-impact metrics to inform decisions in a rapidly changing academic and healthcare environment.
Recognition Drives Retention and Reputation
Increasing external recognition for faculty is a powerful, underutilized strategy to boost morale, retain talent, and elevate institutional prestige.
Key Questions & Highlights from the AAMC-GFA Dinner
Recruiting Top Talent
How can institutions use data to:
Expand candidate pools and reduce bias in faculty searches?
Leverage existing networks to build interdisciplinary initiatives?
Elevating Recognition Through Honorific Awards
How do we:
Identify high-performing yet underrecognized faculty?
Match faculty with competitive awards to increase institutional prestige?
Streamline the identification of qualified nominators and external reviewers
Empowering Annual Reviews with Integrated Data
How are we enabling faculty and chairs to:
Align annual reviews with institutional strategic goals?
Integrate data across research, teaching, and clinical care to drive development?
Save time while surfacing opportunities for funding, collaboration, and recognition?
Driving Institutional Progress Through Data
How does integrated data help departments and senior leaders:
Monitor progress on strategic goals?
Improve workload and personnel planning?
Strengthen collaboration between Faculty Affairs, Academic Affairs, and Institutional Research?
Tell a more compelling story of faculty impact on community and economic development?
Conclusion
The conversations at AAMC-GFA reaffirmed the importance of smart, integrated data solutions that reduce faculty burden, enhance visibility, and align individual and institutional goals. Academic Analytics is committed to helping institutions address these challenges with tools that are flexible, insightful, and tailored to the complex needs of academic medicine.
