Stewart Mennin PhD

Stewart Mennin has been contributing to innovation in health professions education for more than 35 years. He is Principal of Mennin Consulting & Associates, Inc., Professor Emeritus of Cell Biology and Physiology, and former Assistant Dean for Educational Development and Research at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. He began his professional career as a research scientist studying reproductive neuroendocrinology and teaching human anatomy. Soon thereafter, he changed the focus of his inquiry to medical education.

He was co-director of New Mexico’s Primary Care Curriculum, an innovative community-oriented, problem-based parallel, the track at the School of Medicine (1979-1994). He directed to the office of Program Evaluation, Education and Research and the Office of Teacher and Educational Development. He is co-creator, author, and director of the Essential Skills in Medical Education Course (ESME) for the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE) and the online course: Essential Skills for Developing Adaptive Capacity in Leadership in Health Professions Education in a Time of Uncertainty (ESME – Leadership).

Professor Mennin has published widely and served as an invited consultant and teacher at more than 80 medical schools and health institutions worldwide. He has served as a consultant to the Ministries of Health in Brazil and in the Republic of Kazakhstan. He was an external advisor to the Plexus Institute’s education grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He was a consultant, external evaluator, and teacher at the Foundation for the Advancement of International Medical Education and Research (FAIMER) (2001-20012). He is a member of the advisory boards of Medical Science Educator and the Post-Graduate Master’s degree program at the Uniformed Services University for the Health Sciences, where he is an adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine.