A list of leadership appointments, promotions, and departures in academic medicine.
Shou-Ching Tang, MD, PhD, has been appointed associate dean for translational research and director of Phase I Clinical Trials Program at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine and associate director for clinical research at the LSU-LCMC Cancer Center. Dr. Tang comes to LSU from the University of Mississippi Medical Center School of Medicine where he served as the associate director for clinical and translational research at the Cancer and Research Institute, director of Phase I clinical trials and the Interdisciplinary Experimental Therapeutic Program, and chair of clinical leadership council for the cancer service line at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.
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Shawn Kwatra, MD, has been appointed chair of the Department of Dermatology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and chief of service of dermatology at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Dr. Kwatra previously served as the Founding Director of the Johns Hopkins Itch Center at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
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Nasser Lakkis, MD, MSc, has been appointed chair of the Department of Internal Medicine at University of South Alabama Health. Dr. Lakkis is currently a tenured professor at Wayne State University School of Medicine, where he is also the chief of cardiology at Wayne Health and Detroit Medical Center Adult Hospitals.
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Michael Zelefsky, MD, has been appointed vice chair for academic and faculty affairs in the Department of Radiation Oncology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Dr. Zelefsky previously served as chief of the brachytherapy service, vice chair of clinical research, and director of genitourinary radiation oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering.
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Manuel de la Cruz Gutierrez, PhD, MLS, has been appointed interim director of the Holman Biotech Commons (formerly the Biomedical Library) at the University of Pennsylvania. De la Cruz Gutierrez previously served as the director of data and innovation services at the Holman Biotech Commons.
Yaron Tomer, MD, has been named the Marilyn and Stanley M. Katz Dean at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, effective Oct. 2. Dr. Tomer is currently the Anita and Jack Saltz Chair in Diabetes Research, and professor and chair of the Department of Medicine at Einstein and Montefiore.
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Natalio Debs-Elías, MD, has been appointed interim dean at University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine. Dr. Debs-Elías is an orthopedic hand surgery specialist in Bayamon, Puerto Rico.
Thomas Agresta, MD, has been named chair of the Department of Family Medicine at UConn Health and the University of Connecticut School of Medicine after serving in the interim department chair role. Dr. Agresta has been a member of the school of medicine faculty since 1995. In addition to his expertise in family medicine, he is also board certified in clinical informatics.
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Anne Dixon, MA, BMBCh, has been appointed chair of the Department of Medicine at the Robert Larner, M.D., College of Medicine at the University of Vermont. Dr. Dixon is a professor of medicine at the Larner College of Medicine and has been serving as interim chair of the Department of Medicine since last October.
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Michael Robek, PhD, has been named chair of the Department of Immunology and Microbial Disease at Albany Medical College. Dr. Robek is a professor of immunology and microbial disease at Albany Medical College and has served as interim chair of the department since last year.
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Steven Yeh, MD, has been named vice chair of clinical and translational research at the University Nebraska Medical Center Department of Ophthalmology. Dr. Yeh is Stanley J. Truhlsen Endowed Chair and director of retina and uveitis at the Truhlsen Eye Institute at UNMC.
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Steven Mennerick, PhD, has been named director and associate dean of the Roy and Diana Vagelos Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Mennerick is a professor of psychiatry and neuroscience and the John P. Feighner Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and has served as interim associate dean of the Roy and Diana Vagelos Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences since Dec. 2020.
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Patricia Houston, MD, has been named interim dean of the University of Toronto Temerty Faculty of Medicine in Canada. Dr. Houston has served as vice dean for medical education at U of T Medicine since 2016.
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Michael Pencina, PhD, has been named chief data scientist, a new position, at Duke Health. Dr. Pencina currently serves as vice dean for data science, professor of biostatistics and bioinformatics at Duke University School of Medicine, and director of Duke AI Health.
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Andrea Jackson, MD, has been appointed chair of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, effective Oct. 1. Dr. Jackson is a professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences and chief of the Obstetrics, Gynecology and Gynecologic Subspecialties Division at the UCSF School of Medicine.
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Ihab Kamel, MD, PhD, has been named chair of the Department of Radiology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine at the Anschutz Medical Campus. Dr. Kamel previously served as a professor of radiology and oncology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
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Phillip Rodgers, MD, has been appointed chair of the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School. Dr. Rodgers is a professor of family medicine and internal medicine at the medical school.
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Antonio Omuro, MD, has been named chair of the Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine, effective Feb. 1, 2024. Dr. Omuro currently serves as chief of neuro-oncology at Yale Cancer Center and as founding director of the Yale Family Brain Tumor Center.
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Michael Robek, PhD, has been appointed chair of Albany Medical College’s Department of Immunology and Microbial Disease. Dr. Robek has served as interim chair of the department since last year.
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Aimee Payne, MD, PhD, has been named chair of the Department of Dermatology at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and dermatologist-in-chief at NewYork-Presbyterian/CIUMC, effective Dec. 4. Dr. Payne is a professor of dermatology and director of the Clinical Autoimmunity Center of Excellence at Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Ravi Allada, MD, has been appointed executive director of Michigan Neuroscience Institute at the University of Michigan Medical School. Dr. Allada has served as a professor and chair of the Department of Neurobiology at Northwestern University since 2012.
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Said Ibrahim, MD, has been named dean of Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University and president of Jefferson University Physicians. Dr. Ibrahim currently serves as senior vice president of Northwell Health’s medicine service line.
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Fredric Edward Wondisford, MD, MBA, has been named dean of the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix, effective Oct. 2. Dr. Wondisford is a professor and chair of the Department of Medicine in the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, the Henry Rutgers Chair and Chancellor Scholar at Rutgers Health, and chief of the Medical Service at the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital.
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Christopher Carpenter, MD, has been appointed Stephan Sharf Interim Dean at Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, effective Sept. 5. Dr. Carpenter currently serves as Michael E. Maddens, M.D. Distinguished Chair and Professor of the Department of Internal Medicine at Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine.
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Keith Leaphart, DO, MBA, has been named the new Humana chief health equity and community impact officer at Thomas Jefferson University, effective Sept. 11. Dr. Leaphart previously served as chair of the Board of Directors for The Lenfest Foundation in Philadelphia.
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Rebecca Ramirez, MD, has been named chief physician executive at University of Toledo Health. Dr. Ramirez was previously at Healthcare Advisory Network and served as chief transformation officer and chief hospitalist officer for Kettering Health in Ohio.
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Natasha Keric, MD, has been named chief of the Division of Trauma, Surgical Critical Care, and Acute Care Surgery at the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix. Dr. Keric is an associate professor of surgery, the co-director of the surgery clerkship, and inaugural chair of the Program Evaluation Committee at the college of medicine.
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Gregory Toussaint, MD, has been appointed interim dean of the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine. Dr. Toussaint recently served as associate dean for clinical skills education and as a member of the Department of Pediatrics at the medical school.
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Joan Conaway, PhD, has been named president-elect of the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, a CFAS-member society. Dr. Conaway is vice provost and dean of basic research at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
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Rene Olvera, MD, MPH, has been named chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine, effective Sept. 1. Dr. Olvera is the chief medical officer for the Center for Health Care Services, the local mental health authority for Bexar County, and as vice chair for community psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Long School of Medicine.
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Marc Halterman, MD, PhD, has been appointed senior associate dean and executive director of the Office of Research at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo, effective Oct. 26. Dr. Halterman most recently served as chair of the Department of Neurology and co-director of the Neurosciences Institute at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University.
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Saralyn Williams, MD, has been named associate dean for faculty affairs at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Dr. Williams is a professor of emergency medicine, internal medicine, and pediatrics at VUSM.
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Juan McGruder, PhD, has been appointed senior vice president of institutional advancement at Meharry Medical College. Dr. McGruder previously served as vice president of advancement at Oglethorpe University.
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Mercer University School of Medicine announced the reorganization of its Department of Academic Affairs and several new leadership changes: Stephanie Beavers, MD, has been named senior associate dean of academic affairs, James Knapp, PhD, has been appointed associate dean of academic affairs for preclinical curriculum and assessment, Gretchen Bentz, PhD, has been appointed associate dean for academic affairs for preclinical curriculum and medical student research, Lizzie Rhodes, DMD, has been appointed associate dean of academic affairs for curricular integration, and Lisa Bauman, MD, has been appointed associate dean of academic affairs for academic achievement.
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Yuval Silberman, PhD, has been named associate dean for interdisciplinary research at Penn State College of Medicine. Dr. Silberman is an associate professor of neural and behavioral sciences at PSCM.
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Elena Volpi, MD, PhD, has been appointed director of the Sam and Ann Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Dr. Volpi has also been appointed a professor in the Department of Medicine at the Long School of Medicine. She previously served as a tenured professor in the Departments of Internal Medicine, Neurobiology, Neurology, and Nutrition and Metabolism at the University of Texas Medical Branch.
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Elizabeth Gray, MD, has been named the founding dean of the new Medical College of Georgia four-year campus in Savannah. Dr. Gray is associate dean at the Southeast Campus of the Medical College of Georgia.
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Madhusmita Misra, MD, MPH, has been named chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and will additionally serve as physician-in-chief for UVA Health Children’s. Dr. Misra comes to UVA from Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, where she serves as chief of the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology. She is also the director of pediatric research and associate program director at the Massachusetts General Hospital Translational and Clinical Research Center, medical research officer at Massachusetts General Hospital, and associate chief for academic faculty development at Mass General for Children. Dr. Misra will succeed James Nataro, MD, PhD, MBA, who has served as chair since 2010.
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Robert Gross, MD, PhD, has been appointed joint chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. Dr. Gross also will serve as the senior vice president for neurosurgical services at RWJBarnabas Health. Dr. Gross, who holds the MBNA/Bowman Endowed Chair in Neurosurgery, is professor and vice chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at Emory University School of Medicine. He will begin his new role Nov. 6.
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A. Brian Wilcox Jr., MD, has been named associate dean of Clinical Affairs and Graduate Medical Education of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine in Nashville. Dr. Wilcox succeeds Gregory James, MD, who recently retired.
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Richard Keller, PhD, has been named chair of the Department of Medical History and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. The department has 13 faculty members engaged in research, teaching, and service in the history of medicine and public health, clinical and research ethics, and public health ethics.
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Yun Wu, PhD, has been named chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, a joint program of the University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo, effective Sept. 1. Dr. Wu is an associate professor of biomedical engineering at the Jacobs School.
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Martin Edelman, MD, has been appointed inaugural chair of the Department of Medical Oncology at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University. Dr. Edelman is chair of the Department of Hematology/Oncology and deputy director for clinical research at Fox Chase Cancer Center.
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Ellen Friedman, MD, has been named senior associate dean of professionalism at Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Friedman leads the Center for Professionalism that is part of Faculty Affairs and Faculty Development at Baylor.
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Shou-Ching Tang, MD, PhD, has been appointed associate dean for translational research, associate director for clinical research at the LSU-LCMC Cancer Center, and director of Phase I Clinical Trials Program at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine. Dr. Tang comes to LSU from the University of Mississippi Medical Center School of Medicine where he served as the associate director for clinical and translational research at the Cancer and Research Institute, director of Phase I Clinical Trials and the Interdisciplinary Experimental Therapeutic Program, and chair of clinical leadership council for the Cancer Service Line at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.
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Michael Whitfield, PhD, has been reappointed to another term as chair of the Department of Biomedical Data Science at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. Dr. Whitfield is also the founder and director of the Center for Quantitative Biology.
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Marc Tessier-Lavigne, PhD, announced he will resign as president of Stanford University after an investigation found mistakes that he had missed in years-old scientific papers and that labs he had overseen had an “unusual frequency” of data manipulations, although Dr. Tessier-Lavigne himself did not engage in any fraud or falsification of data, reported the Washington Post.
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Curtis Whitehair, MD, has been appointed interim dean of Florida Atlantic University Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, effective July 27 as Julie Pilitsis, MD, PhD, transitions out of her role as dean. Dr. Whitehair serves as senior associate dean for graduate medical education, designated institutional official, and associate professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at the school of medicine.
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Raaj Kurapati has been named executive vice chancellor and chief operating officer for the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Kurapati comes to UTHSC after having served since 2018 as the executive vice president and chief operating and financial officer for the University of Memphis.
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Susan Roberts, PhD, has been appointed senior associate dean of foundational research at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. Dr. Roberts previously served as a senior scientist in the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University and as a professor of nutrition at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy.
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Ashley Williams Hogue, MD, has been named director of the Center for Health Communities in the College of Medicine at the University of South Alabama. Dr. Hogue is a trauma surgeon at USA Health University Hospital.
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Scott Heysell, MD, has been appointed director of the Center for Global Health Equity at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Dr. Heysell is an infectious disease specialist in the Department of Medicine and the Thomas H. Hunter Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at the UVA School of Medicine.
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CFAS Administrative Board Member and CFAS Biomedical Research and Training Committee Chair Neil Osheroff, PhD, received the Mentoring, Innovation, and Leadership in Educational Scholarship Award at the annual Asia Pacific Medical Education Conference. Dr. Osheroff is the John G. Coniglio Chair in Biochemistry and professor of biochemistry and medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.
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Anthony Fauci, MD, has joined the faculty of Georgetown University as a Distinguished University Professor in the School of Medicine’s Department of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases.
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Samuel Finlayson, MD, MPH, MBA, has been appointed interim dean of Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine at University of Utah Health. Dr. Finlayson previously served as associate vice president and chair of the Department of Surgery at the university. The interim dean position consolidates and assumes the executive dean responsibilities previously held by Michael Good, MD. Dr. Good will continue at the University of Utah in his roles as senior vice president for Health Sciences and as CEO.
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Margaret Larkins-Pettigrew, MD, MEd, has been appointed chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Drexel University College of Medicine. Dr. Larkins-Pettigrew is a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the college of medicine and has served as senior vice president; enterprise chief diversity, equity, and inclusion officer; and clinical inclusion strategist at Allegheny Health Network since 2020.
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Iris Romero, MD, has been named the inaugural executive vice dean of the biological sciences division and the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, effective Aug. 1. Dr. Romero is the dean for diversity and inclusion and a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Pritzker School of Medicine.
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Charles “Chipper” Griffith III, MD, has been named dean of the University of Kentucky College of Medicine. Dr. Griffith has served as acting dean of the UK College of Medicine since July 2021.
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Mary Klotman, MD, has been named Duke University’s first executive vice president for health affairs, a role in which she will also continue to serve as dean of the School of Medicine, Duke President Vincent E. Price announced Friday. Dr. Klotman’s appointment, effective July 1, follows a restructuring of the leadership model for Duke Health’s academic and clinical missions. As executive vice president for health affairs, Dr. Klotman will be the chief academic officer of Duke Health.
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Omar Atiq, MD, has been named president of the American College of Physicians (ACP). Dr. Atiq is a medical oncologist at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute and a professor in the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology at UAMS College of Medicine. ACP is a CFAS-member society.
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Gerald Harmon, MD, has been named interim dean at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine - Columbia, effective Aug. 1. Dr. Harmon is the immediate past president of the American Medical Association, and he currently serves as vice president of medical affairs at Tidelands Health.
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Mark E. Lowe, MD, PhD, a pediatric physician-scientist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been appointed the university’s vice chancellor for research. He also has been named senior associate dean of research at WUSTL School Medicine.
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Umamaheswar Duvvuri, MD, PhD, a researcher in advanced, minimally invasive robotic surgery of the head and neck, has been named the Mendik Foundation Professor of Otolaryngology and chair of the Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, effective July 1. He joins the institution from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, where he served as a professor in the Departments of Otolaryngology and Cell Biology, director of robotic surgery in the Division of Head and Neck Surgery, and co-leader of the Head and Neck Cancer Program.
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David Gozal, MD, MBA, has been appointed dean and vice president for health affairs at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine. Dr. Gozal previously served as the Marie M. and Harry L. Smith Endowed Chair and chair of the Department of Child Health at the University of Missouri - Columbia School of Medicine, as well as the physician-in-chief of the University of Missouri Health Children’s Hospital.
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Stephen Dewhurst, PhD, has been named vice president for research at the University of Rochester. Dr. Dewhurst is the Albert and Phyllis Ritterson Professor of Microbiology and Immunology and has been serving in the interim role since 2021. He will continue to serve as vice dean for research at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry.
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Careyana Brenham, MD, has been named associate dean for graduate medical education at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. Dr. Brenham is a family medicine physician and a professor of family and community medicine at SIU School of Medicine.
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Michael Nasr, MD, has been named chair of the Department of Pathology at State University of New York Upstate Medical University Alan and Marlene Norton College of Medicine. Dr. Nasr has served as interim chair of pathology and medical director of clinical pathology and genomics at SUNY Upstate.
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David Belyea, MD, MBA, has been named chair of the Department of Ophthalmology at The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Dr. Belyea has served as the interim chair of the department since January 2021.
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Mingyu Liang, MB, PhD, has been named chair of the Department of Physiology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson, effective June 12. Dr. Liang joins the university from the Medical College of Wisconsin, where he served as the vice chair for interdisciplinary and translational research in the Department of Physiology since 2021. CFAS Administrative Board member Nicholas Delamere, PhD, a representative from the Association of Chairs of Departments of Physiology, stepped down as chair on June 30, 2022, after 16 years in the role.
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Calvin Brown III, MD, has joined Lahey Hospital and Medical Center as its new Chair of Emergency Medicine, reported the Daily Times Chronicle. Dr. Brown has more than 25 years of experience in health care leadership, clinical, and the academic arenas and joins Lahey from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.
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Arthur R. Derse, MD, JD, CFAS administrative board member and CFAS representative from the Association of Bioethics Program Directors, chair of the CFAS Advocacy Committee, and incoming CFAS chair-elect, was elected to the AMA’s Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs (CEJA) for a seven-year term by the AMA’s House of Delegates on June 13. CEJA is the judicial authority of the AMA and maintains, updates, and promotes the AMA’s code of ethics. Dr. Derse is director of the Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities, Julia and David Uihlein Chair in Medical Humanities, and professor of bioethics and emergency medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
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Shashank Kraleti, MD, has been named chair of the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine, effective July 1. Dr. Kraleti will also hold the Dr. Algernon Sidney Garnett Chair in Family Medicine. He has served as director of the department’s family residency program since 2016.
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Douglas Padgett, MD, has been named surgeon-in-chief and medical director of the Hospital for Special Surgery at the New York Medical College. Dr. Padgett has served as associate surgeon-in-chief there since 2019.
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