Dr. Matthew Cunningham was named director of educational evaluation for the UW School of Medicine in January 2019. He succeeds Jan Carline, who has retired (see Huddle article). Cunningham is an assistant professor in the UW School of Medicine Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education and has a doctorate in neurobiology and behavior.
Cunningham joined Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education as a research scientist in 2009. He directed the medical education testing program and played a large role in moving the School to fully computerized testing. He has also worked in research administration at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.