Dr. Jason R. Frank is a clinician-educator focusing on all aspects of training in the health profession. He is a professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Medicine as well as an attending physician at the Ottawa Hospital. Dr. Frank currently serves as the founding Director for the Centre for Innovation in Medical Education at the University of Ottawa. Formerly, he worked as the Director, Specialty Education, Strategy and Standards in the Office of Specialty Education at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

Dr. Frank obtained his medical degree from the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Medicine and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in Emergency Medicine at the University of Toronto. He received his Masters of Education in Education from the Ontario Institute for Studies.

He is known for his work on all aspects of medical education, particularly the CanMEDS Project since 1994, and as one of the pioneers of competency-based medical education (CBME). He is the founder and chair of the International CBME Collaborators consortium and the Competence By Design project. He has contributed to health professions systems worldwide.

A past finalist for Canada’s Top 40 Under 40, Dr. Frank has been recognized for his contributions to medicine and teaching. He is the recipient of the 2013 Council Award Honouring Outstanding Physicians, from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, and was made an honorary Fellow of the Australian Orthopedic Association in 2015 for his contributions to surgical education. In 2020, he was given the Ian Hart Award by the Association for Medical Education in Europe, one of the highest international honours for contributions to health professions education.

Ms. Pore is the Executive Director of Administrative Affairs for the American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA), where she is responsible for advancing the mission, supporting the Board of Directors’ strategic vision, and leading 80 full-time employees. Ms. Pore began her tenure in her current role in 2020, leading the organization through the global pandemic. Under her leadership, the organization successfully transitioned the organization’s flagship, in-person certification exam into a virtual format to support anesthesiologists’ career advancement. She later fostered the return of the in-person exam and managed a safe return to the office for employees, creating a new, effective hybrid work model.

Under her leadership, the ABA developed its first comprehensive Diversity, Equity and Inclusion strategy and established a technology task force to foster innovative assessment approaches. She is currently driving the development of the organization’s new strategic plan.

Ms. Pore joined the ABA in 2014 as the organization’s first communications and marketing leader. As the Chief Marketing & Communications Officer, she launched the ABA’s first-ever branding initiative and significantly increased the board’s communications footprint, contributing to higher stakeholder engagement.

Prior to joining the ABA, Ms. Pore served in various communications leadership roles at Kaplan, Inc., and Fordham University. She began her career as a newspaper journalist in North Carolina. Ms. Pore holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, a Master of Business Administration from Fordham University, and an Executive Certificate in Nonprofit Leadership from Duke University. She is an American Society of Association Executives Certified Association Executive.

Dr. Yaneva is Manager, AI and NLP Research at the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME). Victoria completed her Doctor of Philosophy in Natural Language Processing (NLP) at the University of Wolverhampton, England in the United Kingdom. Her interests lie in the various intersections between Artificial Intelligence (AI)/NLP and educational measurement, with an emphasis on developing applications for high-stakes clinical exams. Examples of this work include NLP research on automated generation of exam content, predicting item characteristics such as difficulty and response time from item text, and automated scoring of free-text responses to clinical items.

Another area of interest for Dr. Yaneva is the use of eye-tracking methodology in process validity research for clinical multiple-choice questions. Together with Matthias von Davier, she co-edited the recently released book Advancing Natural Language Processing in Educational Assessment.