A list of leadership appointments, promotions, and departures in academic medicine.
Anthony Francis has been appointed associate vice president for innovation and development in the Office of the Vice President for Research at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Francis previously served as executive director of the Office of Technology Management and Advancement at the University of California San Francisco.
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Michael Bouchard, PhD, has been appointed dean of the College of Graduate Studies at the Medical University of South Carolina, effective July 1. Dr. Bouchard is a professor of biochemistry, molecular biology, microbiology, and immunology at Drexel University College of Medicine.
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Jeffrey Peipert, MD, PhD, has been named chair of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at the Robert Larner, M.D., College of Medicine at the University of Vermont. Dr. Peipert is Clarence E. Ehrlich Professor and chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Indiana University School of Medicine and Indiana University Health.
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Evan Scott, PhD, has been appointed as head of the University of Virginia’s Institute for Nanoscale Scientific and Technological Advanced Research. Dr. Scott holds appointments in both the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and the School of Engineering.
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Amy McGaha, MD, has been appointed chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Nevada, Reno, School of Medicine and Renown Health. Dr. McGaha previously served as the Roland L. Kleeberger, MD Professor and chair of the Department of Family Medicine at Creighton University School of Medicine.
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Christian Pettker, MD, has been named chair and department executive officer for the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine. Dr. Pettker is chief of obstetrics at Yale New Haven Hospital and a professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences and vice chair of quality and patient safety at the Yale School of Medicine.
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Alp Sener, MD, PhD, has been named the inaugural Andrew Lazarovits Chair in Immunobiology and Transplantation at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at Western University. Dr. Sener is the Keith and Leanne Lavergne Chair, division head, and chief of urology at Schulich Medicine & Dentistry.
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Cassandra Pruitt, MD, has been named director of the Division of Academic Pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Dr. Pruitt is a professor of pediatrics and has served as interim director of the division since July 2022.
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Robert Harbaugh, MD, has been appointed chief medical officer at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. Dr. Harbaugh has served in the role on an interim basis since April 2023. He will also continue to support the outpatient practices affiliated with Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.
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Naomi Nixon, JD, has been named associate dean for development at the Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine. Nixon previously served as senior major gifts officer at the Greater Miami Jewish Federation.
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Darryl DiRisio, MD, has been appointed chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at Albany Medical Center. Dr. DiRisio had been serving as interim chair since May 2022.
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Markus Bredel, MD, PhD, has been named chair of the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine’s Department of Radiation Oncology. Dr. Bredel succeeds Alan Pollack, MD, PhD, professor of radiation oncology, who has led the department since 2008.
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Itzhak Fischer, PhD, is stepping down from his position as chair of the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy at the Drexel University College of Medicine on July 1. Dr. Fischer has served as chair for the last 25 years.
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George Mashour, MD, PhD, has been appointed senior associate dean for faculty and faculty development of the University of Michigan Medical School, effective May 1. Dr. Mashour served as chair of the U-M Medical School Department of Anesthesiology and the Robert B. Sweet Professor of Anesthesiology since December 2019. Prior to his chair appointment, he served as associate dean for clinical and translational research and director of the Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research.
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James Graham, MD, has been named chair-elect of the Liaison Committee on Medical Education. Dr. Graham is executive associate dean for academic affairs in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine.
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Stephen Motew, MD, has been named president and CEO of the University of Florida (UF) Health clinical enterprise, effective April 1. Dr. Motew is a practicing vascular surgeon and joins UF Health from the Inova Health System in Northern Virginia, where he has served as the executive vice president and chief of clinical enterprise.
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Brian Druker, MD, has been appointed CEO of the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute after serving as director of the institute for more than 17 years. Tom Sellers, PhD, MPH, the new director for the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute, was recruited to Oregon Health & Science University in February 2023 as the institute’s chief research officer and a professor of medicine in the OHSU School of Medicine.
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Bruce Policeni, MD, MBA, has been appointed chair and departmental executive officer of the Department of Radiology in the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine. Dr. Policeni has served as interim chair of the department since Dec. 1, 2023.
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Elizabeth Gagliardi, MD, has been appointed chair of the Department of Gynecology at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, part of Beth Israel Lahey Health. Dr. Gagliardi is an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Harvard Medical School.
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William Mobley, MD, PhD, has been named director of the Sanford Institute for Empathy and Compassion at University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine. Dr. Mobley serves as the associate dean of neurosciences initiatives and Distinguished Professor of Neurosciences at UC San Diego School of Medicine, as executive director of UC San Diego's Down Syndrome Center for Research and Treatment, and he has served as interim director of the institute since its founding in 2019.
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Russell Woo, MD, has been appointed the first associate dean for clinical programs at Hawai’i Pacific Health and the chief academic officer for the HPH Medical Group. Dr. Woo is a professor and the associate chair for research in the Department of Surgery at the University of Hawai’i John A. Burns School of Medicine.
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David Korn, MD, died at age 91 in Boston. He served the AAMC from 1997 to 2008, first as senior vice president of biomedical research and then as chief scientific officer, before stepping down to become vice provost for research at Harvard University. During his tenure, Dr. Korn led the AAMC and the broader academic medicine community to manage financial conflicts of interest. As leader of what is now called the AAMC Scientific Affairs cluster, Dr. Korn oversaw the Council of Academic Societies — the predecessor to CFAS. During a long and distinguished career as a scientist and academic leader in medicine, he served as vice president and dean of the school of medicine, founding chair of the department of pathology, and professor of pathology at Stanford University from 1984 to 1995. Dr. Korn was a member of the National Academy of Medicine and an AAAS Fellow.
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Shelley Nuss, MD, has been named founding dean of the University of Georgia School of Medicine. Dr. Nuss serves as campus dean of the Augusta University/University of Georgia Medical Partnership.
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Nathan Kuppermann, MD, MPH, has been named executive vice president, chief academic officer, and chair of pediatric at Children’s National Hospital. For the past 18 years, Dr. Kuppermann has served as the Bo Tomas Brofeldt Endowed Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine. He is a distinguished professor of emergency medicine and pediatrics the associate dean for Global Health at UC Davis Health.
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Leonard Egede, MD, has been appointed chair of the Department of Medicine in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo. An expert in health disparities, Dr. Egede is now chief of the Division of Internal Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin and director of its Center for Advancing Population Science. He will begin his new role July 1.
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Donna Elliott, MD, EdD, has been appointed the inaugural Ensign Foundation and Tony Alamo, MD, Chair of Medical Education at Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. Dr. Elliott has served as vice dean for medical education and chair of the Department of Education since 2018.
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Brian Druker, MD, has been appointed CEO of the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute. Dr. Druker has served as director of the institute for more than 17 years.
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Markus Bredel, MD, PhD, has been named chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, effective Aug. 1. Dr. Bredel served as Sharon A. Spencer Distinguished Endowed Chair in Translational Radiation Oncology, director of functional brain radiosurgery and head of brain tumor research in the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s (UAB) Department of Radiation Oncology, and deputy associate director for translational research at UAB’s O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center.
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Rosalind Wright, MD, MPH, has been appointed inaugural dean of public health and chair of the new Department of Public Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Wright is the Horace W. Goldsmith Professor in Children’s Health Research at ISMMS.
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Brian Garibaldi, MD, has been named the Charles Horace Mayo Professor of Medicine and the inaugural director of the new Center for Bedside Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, effective Sept. 1. Dr. Garibaldi is professor of medicine and physiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and director of the Johns Hopkins Biocontainment Unit.
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Roger Dmochowski, MD, has been promoted to vice president and executive medical director of perioperative services at Vanderbilt University Hospital at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Dmochowski is a professor of urology, surgery, and obstetrics and gynecology and director of the Section of Female Pelvic Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
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Robert Tighe, MD, has been appointed to lead the development of Duke University School of Medicine’s research strategy on the impact of climate change on health. Dr. Tighe is an associate professor with tenure and chief of research in the Department of Medicine’s Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care at Duke.
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Carlos del Rio, MD, has been named chair of the Department of Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. del Rio is a distinguished professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Emory University School of Medicine and executive associate dean for Emory at Grady.
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Florette Gray Hazard, MD, has been appointed chair of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Sciences at the University of California, Davis, School of Medicine. Dr. Hazard previously served as a professor of pathology and pediatrics at Stanford University School of Medicine.
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Joshua Gordon, MD, PhD, has been appointed chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, director of the New York State Psychiatric Institute, and psychiatrist in chief of the NewYork-Presbyterian campus at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, effective Aug. 15. Dr. Gordon previously served as director of the National Institute of Mental Health.
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Michael Rosner, MD, has been appointed chair of the Department of Neurological Surgery at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Dr. Rosner has been serving as interim chair since October 2021.
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Katharine O’Connell White, MD, has been named chief and chair of obstetrics and gynecology at Boston Medical Center and Boston University Aram V. Chobanian & Edward Avedisian School of Medicine. Dr. White has served as vice chair of academics in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the associate director of the Complex Family Planning Fellowship, and the director of BEACON Research at Boston Medical Center.
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Juan Pablo Umaña, MD, has been appointed chair of Cleveland Clinic Florida’s Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. Dr. Umaña is an associate staff surgeon at Cleveland Clinic’s Main Campus in Ohio.
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Laurence Katznelson, MD, has been appointed vice dean of medical education at Cedars-Sinai, effective May 1. Dr. Katznelson serves as a professor of neurosurgery and medicine and as associate dean of graduate medical education at Stanford University School of Medicine.
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Alan Tita, MD, PhD, has been promoted to senior associate dean for global and women’s health in the University of Alabama at Birmingham Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine. Dr. Tita previously served as associate dean for global and women’s health at the school of medicine.
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Craig Westling, DrPH, MPH, MS, has been appointed the inaugural associate dean for health sciences education at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. Dr. Westling is an assistant professor of health policy and clinical practice at Geisel.
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Steven Kanter, MD, executive director of the Association of Academic Health Centers and former head of the Association of Academic Health Centers International, will retire in June after spearheading the merger of those organizations with the AAMC. In addition to his role with the Alliance, AAHCI, and the AAMC, Dr. Kanter is a past dean of University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine and for five years served as editor-in-chief of Academic Medicine.
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John DeToledo, MD, has been named the dean of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) School of Medicine and executive vice president for clinical affairs. Dr. DeToledo is the TTUHSC Vernon and Elizabeth Haggerton Chair of Neurology, has served as the founding chair for the Department of Neurology since 2009, is currently the interim school of medicine dean.
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Julie Gerberding, MD, MPH, has been elected chair of Case Western Reserve University’s Board of Trustees for a four-year term beginning in June 2025. Dr. Gerberding is CEO of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health and previously served as the first woman director of the CDC.
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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. Dr. Omuro previously served as chief of neuro-oncology at Yale School of Medicine and founding director of the Yale Brain Tumor Center.
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Charles Gerardo, MD, has been named chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Duke University School of Medicine. Dr. Gerardo has served as interim chair since July 2022.
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Nathan Selden, MD, PhD, has been appointed interim dean at Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine. Dr. Selden, a 2023-2024 COD Fellow, currently serves as the Mario and Edith Campagna Chair of Pediatric Neurological Surgery and as professor of neurological surgery at the OHSU School of Medicine.
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Katherine Heilpern, MD, has been named president of Yale New Haven Hospital, effective March 11. Dr. Heilpern is the former chief operating officer of the Weill Cornell Division at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and served for 12 years as chair of the department of emergency medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. Yale News further reported that the system will promote Pamela Sutton-Wallace, who previously served as interim president of Yale New Haven Hospital, to president of the entire system.
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Scott Stringer, MD, MS, has been appointed president of the MCV Physicians medical practice at VCU Health and senior associate dean for clinical affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, effective April 1. Dr. Stringer serves as chair of the Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.
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Hae Won Shin, MD, has been named chair of the Department of Neurology and Semmes-Murphey Professor of Excellence at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine. Dr. Shin recently joined UTHCS from the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, where she served in the Department of Neurology as executive vice chair, vice chair of clinical affairs, and epilepsy section chief.
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Jason Woloski, MD, has been named chair of the newly established Family Medicine Department at Geisinger College of Health Sciences. Dr. Woloski is an associate professor of family medicine at Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine and assistant program director for the Geisinger Kistler Family Medicine Residency Program in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
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Leslie Morse, DO, has been named chair of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami. Dr. Morse comes from the University of Minnesota School of Medicine’s Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, where she served as department chair and was a tenured professor.
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Also at the Miller School of Medicine, Laurence Sands, MD, MBA, has been named chair of the DeWitt Daughtry Family Department of Surgery. Chief of the Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery and vice chair of surgical education at the Miller School, Dr. Sands served as the department’s interim chair since December 2022 and has been with Miller School since 1997.
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Fedja Rochling, MD, has been named chief of the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. Dr. Rochling is a professor at UNMC and chief of gastroenterology at the Omaha VA.
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Juan Pascual, MD, PhD, has been appointed chief of the Division of Child Neurology in the Department of Pediatrics at NewYork-Presbyterian Komansky Children’s Hospital and Weill Cornell Medicine, effective March 1. Previously, Dr. Pascual directed the rare brain disorders program at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.
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Jennie Ono, MD, has been appointed chief of pediatrics at NewYork-Presbyterian Queens and an associate professor of clinical pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine. Dr. Ono most recently served as the medical director for inpatient pediatrics and the director of the Weill Cornell Medicine Pediatric Asthma Program at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center.
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Marketa Wills, MD, MBA, has been named CEO and medical director of the American Psychiatric Association. Dr. Wills currently serves as the senior vice president and chief medical officer of Johns Hopkins Health Plans. The American Psychiatric Association is a CFAS-member society.
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David Thomas, MD, MS, has been named dean of medical education and chair of the Department of Medical Education at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Thomas has served with distinction as an internal and rehabilitation medicine physician and as associate dean for continuing medical education at the ISMMS since 2011.
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