Robert Lembo, MD, FAAP
Deputy Director, Office of Clinical Research Training and Medical Education

Dr. Lembo serves as both the Executive Director of Graduate Medical Education and as the Designated Institutional Official to the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) for the NIH Clinical Center. In these roles, Dr. Lembo is responsible for administrative oversight of all ACGME accredited training programs at the Clinical Center, and for the maintenance of NIH institutional accreditation as a sponsor of graduate medical education specialty and subspecialty training programs nationally. He also serves as the director of the Clinical Electives Program, which provides senior year medical or dental students with an opportunity to gain firsthand experience working with patients enrolled in clinical or translational research protocols at the Clinical Center. Dr. Lembo is a graduate of Cornell University Medical College and completed his residency and fellowship training in Pediatrics at Yale-New Haven Hospital. He has served as a faculty member at Case-Western Reserve University, Yale University and New York University.

Irena Malkovska, PhD
Program Coordinator, Graduate Medical Education

Dr. Irena Malkovska serves as the Graduate Medical Education Institutional Program Coordinator in the Office of Clinical Research Training and Medical Education. She works collaboratively with the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education-accredited specialty training program Directors and Coordinators to ensure their ongoing compliance with national standards. Dr. Malkovska graduated from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center with a Ph.D. in neuroscience and received a B.S. in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.