FAIMER Staff

Lyuba Konopasek, MD

Senior Vice President, Intealth
Executive Director, FAIMER

As Executive Director of FAIMER and Senior Vice President at Intealth, Dr. Konopasek is responsible for the overall leadership and management of FAIMER programs and activities including its Global Programs, World Information Resources, Research, and initiatives that support international medical graduates. In her roles, she guides FAIMER activities that support the health professions worldwide, such as development of international partnerships and the acquisition and analyses of data. In addition, Dr. Konopasek works closely with the CEO and other executive leaders to develop and implement strategies for FAIMER that are aligned with Intealth’s overall vision and goals.

Before joining Intealth in 2024, Dr. Konopasek was Senior Associate Dean for Education at the Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University, where she had responsibility for both undergraduate and graduate medical education. Her previous roles also include Director for Physician Engagement and Well-Being Programs and Designated Institutional Official for NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in New York, where she had oversight for more than 150 residency and fellowship programs, and Associate Dean for Medical Education at Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar (WCMC-Q).

Dr. Konopasek’s activities in medical education have spanned the continuum from undergraduate medical education to residency training and continuing medical education. Her extensive faculty development experience includes work in China, Israel, Italy, Tanzania, and the United States, as well as foundational work from her time at WCMC-Q. Her faculty development focus has been on building local capacity for medical education and clinical care. She has presented numerous faculty development workshops nationally and internationally on topics including effective teaching skills, professionalism, physician well-being, communication skills, clinical reasoning, and feedback and assessment strategies.

Dr. Konopasek has held leadership roles with the Association of American Medical Colleges’ Medical Education Senior Leaders group; is a graduate of Drexel University’s Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine program; and has served on the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education’s Task Force on Physician Well-Being. She is a graduate of Brown University and the Pritzker School of Medicine of the University of Chicago. She completed her residency in Pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.