C. Donald Combs, Ph.D. serves as Vice President and Founding Dean, School of Health Professions, at the Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS). His responsibilities include strategic planning, collaborative partnerships with teaching hospitals and area universities, oversight of EVMS’ regional and specialty accreditation compliance programs and all health professions degree programs as well as medical modeling and simulation activities, program development, governmental and community relations, and educational outreach programs. Dr. Combs holds faculty appointments as tenured Professor of Health Professions at EVMS and as Adjunct Professor of Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Engineering at Old Dominion University. He currently teaches graduate courses in strategic planning, medical simulation, and interdisciplinary leadership. He also serves as the Founding Director of the National Center for Collaboration in Medical Modeling and Simulation (NCCMMS).He has long-standing research interests in health and human services management, peer review and accreditation, faculty workload analysis, emergency response, health services research, health professions regulation, strategic planning, and medical modeling and simulation. During the past decade he has worked with a number of academic health centers in the areas of faculty workload, accreditation, and strategic planning. He currently serves on several regional, state, and national boards and task forces that address national and international health policy, including the Association of Academic Health Centers, the Association of American Medical Colleges, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, Virginia Geohealth Innovations (VGI), the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH), the National Modeling and Simulation Coalition (NMSC), and the Society for Computer Simulation. He currently serves on the Boards of SSH, NMSC and VGI.