Colonel Ashley M. Maranich, MD, MHPE, FAAP, FIDSA is the current Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Professor of Pediatrics at the Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, MD and previously served as the Assistant Dean for Clinical Sciences from 2019-2024. Dr. Maranich is a graduate of Trinity University where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology. She earned her Doctor of Medicine from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio on an Army Health Professions Scholarship and a Masters Degree in Health Professions Education from the Uniformed Services University. She entered active duty service in June 2003 and completed her internship and residency in Pediatrics at Madigan Army Medical Center and then a fellowship in Pediatric Infectious Disease at Walter Reed Army Medical Center/National Naval Medical Center. Dr. Maranich is board certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Infectious Disease with a Certificate of Knowledge in Clinical Tropical Medicine and Travelers’ Health. She is a Fellow of both the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and Infectious Disease Society of America. Dr. Maranich maintains a clinical practice as a Pediatric Infectious Disease consultant, serving as a faculty member for the Walter Reed Pediatric Infectious Disease Fellowship.  

Dr. Maranich was the Pediatric Residency Program Director at Tripler Army Medical Center Director from 2016-2019 and the Transitional Year Program Director at the San Antonio Military Medical Center from 2013-2016.  She has a long-standing interest in medical education, having served in a number of educational leadership roles throughout her career. She holds a number of national leadership roles to include Chair of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education’s Transitional Year Review Committee, immediate Past-President of the Association of Hospital Medical Education, ACGME Careers in Medicine Advisory Council member, and an AAP National Conference and Exhibition Planning Committee member. 

COL Maranich’s military career has included duty assignments at all of the hospitals in the Army Pediatric training platform as well as a combat deployment to Mosul, Iraq in support of Operation New Dawn, humanitarian deployment as part of a joint task force in support of Pacific Partnership, and participation in a recovery mission in Vietnam with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. She has been awarded numerous military awards, to include the Bronze Star and Order of Military Medical Merit, as well as receiving the Army’s “A Proficiency Designator” recognizing the highest level of achievement in the Medical Corps.