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Rebecca Odinet-Frey Named Assistant Dean for Graduate Medical Education

Dr. Rebecca Odinet-Frey has been named Assistant Dean for Graduate Medical Education. Dr. Odinet-Frey completed her undergraduate education at LSU, received a master’s of education from the University of Mississippi, and a doctorate in higher education administration and leadership with a concentration in medical education from the University of New Orleans. She joined the LSU School of Medicine as Family Medicine Residency Program Coordinator in 1997, was appointed as the Graduate Medical Education Coordinator in 1999 and Director of Accreditation in 2004.
 
Dr. Odinet-Frey is responsible for accreditation of the LSU School of Medicine-Graduate Medical Education Training Programs which consist of 76 accredited residency and fellowship programs and 12 non-accreditable programs. She also oversees the assessment, implementation, and development of new GME programs and has managed oversight of over 375 ACGME program accreditation site visits. Dr. Odinet-Frey has co-authored four institutional review documents for accreditation by the American Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and played a key role in achievement of full institutional accreditation from the ACGME four times over a 23-year period. She has also managed the preparation process for over 145 program internal reviews.
 
In addition to her GME and ACGME activities, Dr. Odinet-Frey also helped coordinate and oversaw the LSU School of Medicine 20-month LCME accreditation self-study, application, and site visit that resulted in full medical school LCME accreditation for the most recent cycle. She was also the former GME Ombuds for LSU House staff and worked tirelessly to tackle educational, institutional, program and clinical site challenges to restore the LSU School of Medicine training programs after Hurricane Katrina.