Dr. Abby Spencer serves as Professor and Vice Chair for Education in the Department of Medicine and as Director of the Academy of Educators at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Dr. Spencer graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a BS in Behavioral Neuroscience from Tulane University, and received her MD from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. She completed her Primary Care Internal Medicine residency at the New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill-Cornell Medical Center and subsequently completed a fellowship in General Internal Medicine with a concentration in Women’s Health and earned a Master’s Degree in Medical Education from the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Spencer enjoys caring for patients in the inpatient and primary care setting with a particular interest in women’s health. 

Dr. Spencer has dedicated her career to developing curriculum, building teams, mentoring, coaching, leading educational programs, and developing others in medical education. She has delivered over 200 invited faculty development/educational courses and workshops locally, regionally and nationally. She has won numerous national awards for her teaching, educational scholarship, mentorship, sponsorship, and leadership including the Society of General Internal Medicine National Brancati Leadership and Mentorship Award, SGIM National Scholarship in Education Award, ACGME Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Award, AMWA inspire award, the inaugural Washington University Advancing Women in Academic Medicine LEAD award and the national APDIM Dema C Daley Founders award for leadership and innovation in Medical education. She completed the ELAM fellowship in 2022, serves on the editorial board for the Journal of General Internal Medicine and the AMWA Board of Directors. Dr. Spencer has held leadership positions in many national organizations across academic internal medicine including founding SGIM TEACH faculty, councilor for the Association for Program Directors in Internal Medicine (APDIM), and currently serves as ACLGIM LEAD Faculty and on the ACGME Internal Medicine Review Committee as its incoming Vice-Chair. Her greatest professional joys are mentoring, teaching, sponsoring, and developing others.