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Donald Douglas Miller
Donald Douglas Miller, MD, CM, MBA, has been named dean of the School of Medicine at New York Medical College (NYMC) in Valhalla, NY. Dr. Miller joined NYMC from the University of Alberta, where he was dean of the faculty of medicine and dentistry and chair of the Health Sciences Council. In his new post he will also serve as the vice-provost for bio-medical affairs for the Touro College and University System, which includes NYMC. His appointment began on December 15, 2014. Dr. Miller succeeds Edward C. Halperin, MD, MA, who served as dean of the School of Medicine and chancellor and CEO of the College since 2012. Dr. Halperin will continue to serve as NYMC's chancellor and CEO.
Dr. Miller earned his MD at McGill University, where he also completed residency in Internal Medicine. He completed a clinical and research cardiology fellowship at l'Institut de Cardiologie de Montréal, a clinical cardiology fellowship at Emory University School of Medicine and a cardiac imaging fellowship at Harvard University. He subsequently earned an executive master of international business administration degree from Saint Louis University.
Dr. Miller is a prominent cardiologist, physician-scientist and recognized leader in academic medicine. Before joining NYMC, Dr. Miller's clinical practice in general cardiology and nuclear cardiology was based at the Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute. His prior posts include service as dean of the School of Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia as well as clinical appointments as an internist, cardiologist and medical imager at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center San Antonio, Saint Louis University and the Veterans Administration. Dr. Miller was the Robert G. Petersdorf Scholar-in-Residence with the Association of American Medical Colleges.
IU School of Medicine-Muncie Names Director and Associate Dean
Derron Bishop
Derron L. Bishop, PhD, has been named director and associate dean of the Indiana University (IU) School of Medicine-Muncie. His post began on December 1, 2014, prior to which he served as interim director and interim associate dean for the past year. He succeeds T. Stuart Walker, PhD, who served as associate dean and director from 2006 to 2013.
Dr. Bishop joined the IU faculty in 2002 as the director of the physiology course at the Muncie medical education program and is adjunct associate professor of cellular and integrative physiology at IU School of Medicine-Muncie. He was honored with an IU Trustee Teaching Award in 2008 and was named the Outstanding Professor in Basic Sciences in 2013. Dr. Bishop earned a master's degree in physiology at Ball State University and a doctorate in neurosciences from Washington University in St. Louis.
Chair of New Department of Medical Genetics and Molecular Biochemistry Appointed at Temple University School of Medicine
Glenn S. Gerhard, MD, has been appointed Chair of the new Department of Medical Genetics and Molecular Biochemistry and the inaugural holder of the Joseph and Rebecca Goodfriend Endowed Chair in Genetics at Temple University School of Medicine. He previously served as Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine & Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Penn State College of Medicine, where he was also Co-Director of the Institute for Personalized Medicine. His appointment at Temple began December 1, 2014.
Dr. Gerhard earned his MD at Penn State University College of Medicine. He completed postdoctoral training in Cellular and Molecular Biology of Aging at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia as well as in the Department of Human Genetics at the University of Pennsylvania. He was a resident in both Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, where he subsequently served as Medical Director of the Molecular Genetic Diagnostics Laboratory. After his laboratory relocated to the Weis Center for Research at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, PA, he served as a Staff and Senior Scientist and Medical and System-Wide Director of the Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory.
Dr. Gerhard is board-certified in Clinical Pathology. He is a recognized leader in the development of genomic medicine. He is a member of numerous study sections of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), including a Special Emphasis Panel for Clinical Studies of Genetic Susceptibility to Disease. His research has focused on multidisciplinary research approaches to understanding the impact of obesity, genetics, nutrition and aging on the development of chronic disease. He has received support from the NIH, the Veterans Administration, the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, the National Organization for Rare Disorders, and the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries.
Chair of Neurology Appointed at UA-Phoenix and Barrow Neurological Institute
Jeremy Shefner
Jeremy Shefner, MD, PhD has been appointed as chairman of the Department of Neurology at the University of Arizona (UA) College of Medicine – Phoenix. He will also serve as associate director and chair of the Department of Neurology at the Barrow Neurological Institute, where he succeeds longtime UA College of Medicine faculty member, Terry Fife, MD.
Dr. Shefner's research has focused on motor neuron disorders, with particular interest in biomarker development and clinical therapeutics of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Prior to joining the UA, Dr. Shefner served at the State University of New York (SUNY) Upstate Medical University as Chair of the Department of Neurology and Director of the ALS Program and the Neurophysiology Laboratory. He also served as co-founder and co-chair of the Northeast ALS Clinical Trials Consortium.
Dr. Shefner earned his PhD from the University of Illinois at Chicago and MD from Northwestern University Medical School. He completed residency at Harvard Longwood Neurology Training Program and fellowship in Clinical Neurophysiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and subsequently served on the faculty of Harvard Medical School.
Unm School of Medicine Names Executive Vice Dean
Martha Cole McGrew
Martha Cole McGrew, MD, has been named executive vice dean of the University of New Mexico (UNM) School of Medicine. Dr. McGrew, chair of the medical school's Department of Family and Community Medicine, has served at the UNM School of Medicine since 1990. Her new post began on January 1. She succeeds Thomas Williams, MD, who stepped down at the end of 2014.
Dr. McGrew earned her MD at Louisiana State University (LSU) School of Medicine in Shreveport. She completed a residency in Family Medicine at LSU Medical Center and a faculty development fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco. She served on the Family Medicine faculty at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine prior to joining UNM. Her work has focused on maternal-child health and medical education.
Senior Associate Dean for Research Named at University of Kansas School of Medicine
Peter Smith
Peter G. Smith, PhD, has been named senior associate dean for research at the University of Kansas (KU) School of Medicine. He succeeds Paul Terranova, PhD, whose retirement became effective on January 2. Dr. Smith transitions to the post from his roles as professor and interim chair of the Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology and director of Pilots and Collaborative Research Awards for Frontiers: Heartland Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (Kansas CTSA). He is also co-director of the Kansas Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center and founding director of the Institute for Neurological Discoveries.
Dr. Smith's research has focused on autonomic neurobiology, pain mechanisms, neuronal plasticity, nerve regeneration and repair, and the neurobiology of developmental disabilities and has been supported by the National Institutes of Health. He earned a PhD in physiology and pharmacology from Duke University, where he also conducted postdoctoral activities. He is a member of the KU School of Medicine Research Committee, chair of the cDNA Microarray Advisory Committee and a member of the Board of Trustees for the National Parkinson Foundation Heartland. Dr. Smith is a member of the editorial board of Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical, and is the North American representative to the Executive Committee to the International Society for Autonomic Neuroscience.
Dean of Clinical Affairs and Ceo for Faculty Practice Named at Ucsd
Thomas Moore
Thomas Moore, MD has been named dean of Clinical Affairs and CEO for Faculty Practice at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) Health Sciences. Dr. Moore joined the UCSD Health System in 1983 and has held a number of leadership roles. He served as professor and chairman of the Department of Reproductive Medicine for 18 years and was also chair of the Women and Infants Clinical Program Council. He also served as a member of the Health System's Strategic Planning Steering Committee, the Medical Group's Board of Governors Finance Committee and the Council of Chairs, and was chair of the Jacobs Medical Center Birth Center Steering Committee.
Dr. Moore earned his MD from Yale University. He completed internship and residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego and fellowship in Maternal-Fetal Medicine at UCSD School of Medicine. He has served 25 years in the U.S. Navy and participated in two executive development programs through the Wharton School of Business and the Harvard School of Business.
Dr. Moore has served on numerous boards and advisory panels, including those of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, American Gynecological and Obstetrical Society, and National Institutes of Health. He has received numerous honors for his work, including the 2014 Louis M. Hellman MD Midwifery Partnership Award from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
Longtime Director of the National Library of Medicine to Retire
Don Lindberg
Don Lindberg, MD, announced that he will retire at the end of March 2015. Dr. Lindberg has served as director of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) for more than 30 years, and his leadership has spanned a period of major advances in the world of information technology. As such, he was at the forefront of bringing together burgeoning technology and Medicine. He is known for his expertise in information technology, artificial intelligence, computer-aided medical diagnosis, and electronic health records, and he served as the inaugural President of the American Medical Informatics Association.
During his tenure, Dr. Lindberg has overseen a number of milestone developments, including free Internet access to MEDLINE via PubMed, MedlinePlus for the general public, the Visible Human Project, ClinicalTrials.gov, the Unified Medical Language System, and creation of the National Center for Biomedical Information. He has served in a number of interagency leadership roles, including founding Director of the National Coordination Office for High Performance Computing and Communications in the President's Office of Science and Technology Policy and the U.S. National Coordinator for the G-7 Global Healthcare Applications Project. He is also recognized for his outreach efforts to make health information accessible in minority and underserved populations.
A pathologist, Dr. Lindberg earned his M.D. degree from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Prior to joining the NLM as Director in 1984, he served at the University of Missouri as Professor, Chairman, and Director of Information Science in the School of Library and Information Science and as Professor of Pathology in the School of Medicine. He was also Director of the Information Science Group at the School of Medicine from 1971 until joining the NLM.
Dr. Lindberg is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the New York Academy of Medicine, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In addition to numerous other honors and awards earned over the course of his career, he has received the inaugural AMA Nathan Davis Award for outstanding Member of the Executive Branch in Career Public Service; the Presidential Senior Executive Rank Award; Computers in Healthcare Pioneer Award; Association of Minority Health Professions Schools Commendation; U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science Silver Award; Presidential Rank Award of Meritorious Executive in the Senior Executive Service, Medical Library Association President's Award, and the American College of Medical Informatics Morris F. Collen, MD, Award of Excellence. He holds honorary doctorates from Amherst College, the State University of New York at Syracuse, the University of Missouri-Columbia, and the University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, Innsbruck, Austria, and Old Dominion University.
Senior Associate Dean for Public Health Named at Ucsd
Bess Marcus
Bess Marcus, PhD, has been appointed senior associate dean for Public Health with the University of California San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine. In this new role, she will develop a Public Health Institute at UCSD. She will also be charged with coordinating health research and education activities across the campus, promoting interdisciplinary collaborations, and overseeing the public health degree offerings at UCSD.
Dr. Marcus earned her MS and PhD degrees in clinical psychology from Auburn University and completed a fellowship in Behavioral Medicine at Brown University. Her research has focused on promoting exercise adherence and understanding the acquisition and maintenance of exercise behavior, and has been supported by the National Institutes of Health for more than 25 years. Over the past decade, she has focused on increasing physical activity among underserved and at risk populations. She served on the Executive Committee for the Development of a National Strategic Plan for Physical Activity and is currently on the Board of Directors for the National Physical Activity Plan Alliance.
New Executive Director Named at Simmons Cancer Institute
Aziz Khan
Aziz Khan, MD, has been named the executive director of the Simmons Cancer Institute at Southern Illinois University (SIU) School of Medicine. He has served as interim director since the end of 2013. He succeeds K. Thomas Robbins, MD, who retired from the post. In his new role, Dr. Khan will continue to serve as the chief of the division of hematology and oncology, professor of clinical medicine, and chief medical officer of Simmons Cancer Institute.
Dr. Khan joined SIU in 2007 as an associate professor of clinical medicine and attending physician at Memorial Medical Center and St. John's Hospital. Before moving to Illinois, he was an associate professor at Keck School of Medicine of University of the University of Southern California (USC). He earned his medical degree at Allama Igbal Medical College in Lahore, Pakistan in 1982. He completed a residency at Georgetown University School of Medicine and fellowships in hematology and medical oncology at the Los Angeles County/USC Medical Center. His research has focused on gastrointestinal malignancies, breast cancer, lung cancer, autologous bone marrow transplants and hematological malignancies.
Dr. Khan is board certified in Internal Medicine and Medical Oncology by the American Board of Internal Medicine and is a member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the American Society of Hematology. He serves on a number of committees, including St. John's Hospital's Pharmacy & Therapeutics Committee, the SIU School of Medicine Department of Internal Medicine Philanthropy Committee and the SIU Healthcare Alliance Steering Committee.