Joshua Sill, MD, Appointed Vice Dean of Graduate Medical Education
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Joshua Sill, MD, has been appointed vice dean of Graduate Medical Education for Macon & Joan Brock Virginia Health Sciences Eastern Virginia Medical School at Old Dominion University, effective July 1. In this role he will oversee the strategy, quality and compliance of all 44 residency and fellowship training programs within the medical school. He will succeed Francis Counselman, MD (MD ’83, Emergency Medicine Residency ’86), who will retire effective June 30, 2025.
Dr. Sill joined the faculty here after more than a decade of active duty with the United States Air Force, where he served in clinical, academic and leadership roles. His distinguished military service earned him multiple honors, including the Meritorious Service Medal, the NATO Medal and the Gold Medal for National Defense from France.
A professor in the division of Pulmonary and Critical Care in the Department of Medicine, Dr. Sill currently serves as chief of EVMS Pulmonary and Critical Care. He also directs the Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship Program and serves as director of the Adult Cystic Fibrosis Center at Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters. A clinician-educator and researcher, he is one of a small number of physicians who maintains board certification in four internal medicine disciplines.
“Dr. Sill brings a wealth of experience, clinical excellence and a deep commitment to the advancement of graduate medical education,” said Alfred Abuhamad, MD, executive vice president for Health Sciences. “His proven leadership and mentorship will continue to elevate the quality of training for our residents and fellows and ensure that our programs remain nationally competitive.”
Dr. Sill earned his medical degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch and completed his Internal Medicine residency at the University of California, Davis and David Grant Medical Center. He completed a fellowship in Pulmonary/Critical Care/Sleep Medicine at the San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium. He most recently earned a Master of Healthcare Delivery Science from Dartmouth College.
Dr. Counselman’s pending retirement marks not only his departure from overseeing Graduate Medical Education. It also signals the end of an outstanding four-decade-long career in medicine and medical education at Eastern Virginia Medical School. “Dr. Counselman leaves behind an incredible legacy in the countless lives he touched both as a clinician and as an educator,” Dr. Abuhamad said. “I am grateful for his extraordinary contributions to the institution and to the health of our community.” Read more on Pulse.