Cheryl F. McCartney, M.D.

Cheryl F. McCartney, M.D. is Executive Associate Dean for Medical Education and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine.

She served as Associate Dean for Student Affairs from 1987 until 1998, when she was promoted to her current position. As Executive Associate Dean, she led faculty students and administrators through the two-year institutional self-study and the site survey visit by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, which resulted in full eight year re-accreditation for the School of Medicine. Her oversight of the accreditation review by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education led to re-accreditation with Commendation.

Currently, she is leading the School’s design and implementation of a comprehensive curriculum reform that impacts each of the four years of medical student education. Dr. McCartney oversees the medical school’s units for Admissions, Student Affairs, Educational Development, Curriculum, Curricular and Classroom Support, Continuing Medical Education and the new Academy of Educators.

Dr. McCartney has been a leader of state, regional and national organizations. She is a past Chair of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Southern Group on Student Affairs (GSA), and has been a member of numerous LCME site survey teams for the accreditation of medical schools across the United States. She has been President of the North Carolina Psychiatric Association, President of the North American Society of Psychosocial Obstetrics and Gynecology, has served as an oral examiner for the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association (APA). She has been Chair of the APA Committee on Women. Currently she is a member of the APA’s Council on Medical Education and Lifelong Learning and represents APA on the Council of Medical Specialty Societies.

Dr. McCartney is a graduate of Northwestern University Medical School’s Honors Program in Medical Education and a December, 1979 graduate of the Psychiatry Residency at the University of North Carolina, where she served as Chief Resident in the Consultation-Liaison (C/L) Division. On the faculty of the C/L Division from 1980-1987, she received two psychiatry resident teaching awards, and served as Division Director for two years. Her clinical scholarship and service as a consultation-liaison psychiatrist focused on the psychological aspects of gynecologic cancer and infertility.