AFMRD Selects David Holub, MD, for Leadership Development Cabinet

David C. Holub, M.D.

David C. Holub, MD, FAAFP, Family Medicine Residency Program Director, has been selected as a member of the Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors’ Just-in-time Opportunities for Leadership Development (JOLT) Cabinet.

This new initiative is designed to support and elevate leaders through targeted, timely leadership development opportunities in graduate medical education. As a member of the JOLT Cabinet, Dr. Holub will help design curriculum, select faculty and learners, develop assessment tools and build mentoring frameworks for family-medicine learners. Dr. Holub is one of five inaugural members selected nationally for the cabinet.

When Dr. Holub first learned of this effort, he wasn’t sure he would apply for it, but he was strongly encouraged to do so by Family Medicine leadership. While not confident he would be chosen, when putting together his application, he realized that his more than 25 years of experience included many of the roles that would be involved in the cabinet.

These roles ranged from serving as an associate program director and a program director at three different programs and included his current position at Highland, previous positions as community hospital-based residency programs and roles as a residency clinic medical director, a clerkship site director and a departmental fellowship co-director.

“My years of experience have given me a real-world understanding of residents’ specific learning needs,” Dr. Holub said. “Each of these roles has also helped me gain unique experience in important areas of the proposed JOLT curriculum such as meeting leadership, crucial conversations, the importance of committee work, mentoring, and GME funding.”

In recommending Dr. Holub for this position, Family Medicine Department Chair Colleen Fogarty, MD, stated, “Dr. Holub’s long experience as a Medical Educator and full spectrum Family Physician have brought him to now serving as a Program Director for one of the oldest Family Medicine Residencies in the country. During Dr. Holub’s short tenure as Program Director, he has demonstrated an impressive ability to examine and reflect on the Residency, he has developed novel solutions to chronic problems as well as launching a rural training track for our Residency.”

The JOLT Cabinet held its first virtual meeting in October and its first in-person session in early November. During the November meeting, the group created and launched the process to identify and select the first group of national faculty that will develop and teach the content when the first cohort of learners begin the JOLT fellowship in January 2027.

“I have been truly fortunate throughout my career in academic family medicine,” Dr. Holub added. “I am eager for the opportunity to pay it forward and share what I have learned through these experiences.”

1/15/2026