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Marschall S. Runge
Marschall S. Runge, MD, PhD, has been named as the Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs at the University of Michigan (U-M), effective March 1. He succeeds Michael M.E. Johns, MD, who served as interim executive vice president for medical affairs and interim chief executive officer of the U-M Health System since June of last year. Dr. Runge joins U-M from the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, where he was executive dean for the School of Medicine and chair of the Department of Medicine. He is also principal investigator and director of the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute at UNC.
Dr. Runge earned a bachelor's degree in biology and a PhD in molecular biology from Vanderbilt University. He earned his MD and completed internship and residency in internal medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He completed a cardiology fellowship at Harvard's Massachusetts General Hospital, where he served on the faculty prior to moving to Emory University as an associate professor of medicine in 1989. Prior to joining the UNC faculty in 2000, Dr. Runge was the John Sealy Distinguished Centennial Chair of Internal Medicine and director of the Division of Cardiology and the Sealy Center for Molecular Cardiology at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.
Associate Medical Director of Liver Transplantation Appointed at Temple University Hospital
Lee F. Peng, MD, PhD, has been appointed Associate Medical Director of Liver Transplantation at Temple University Hospital and Associate Professor of Medicine at Temple University School of Medicine. His appointment was effective January 12, 2015.
Dr. Peng earned his MD from Harvard Medical School and PhD in synthetic organic chemistry from Harvard University. He completed an internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Harvard's Massachusetts General Hospital, where he subsequently completed a Clinical and Research Fellowship in Gastroenterology and Hepatology. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology and specializes in liver diseases and gastrointestinal endoscopy. His research has focused on Hepatitis C Infection and is supported by the National Institutes of Health.
Prior to joining Temple, Dr. Peng was an instructor at Harvard Medical School and an assistant physician at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He is a member of the American Medical Association, the American College of Physicians, the American Gastroenterology Association, and the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease.
Chair of the UK Department of Neurology, Co-Director of KNI Appointed
Larry B. Goldstein, MD, has been appointed as chairman of the Department of Neurology at the University of Kentucky (UK) College of Medicine and co-director of the Kentucky Neuroscience Institute (KNI). He joins UK from Duke University, where he is professor of neurology and Chief of the Division of Stroke and Vascular Neurology. He is also director of the Duke Stroke Center and an attending neurologist at the Durham VA Medical Center. His appointment at UK will begin in June this year.
Dr. Goldstein earned his MD from Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 1981. He completed an internship and neurology residency at Mount Sinai Medical Center and a research fellowship in cerebrovascular disease at Duke University. His work has focused on stroke prevention and treatment and ischemic neurologic disorders.
Inaugural Dean of UT College of Medicine, Chattanooga to Step Down
David Seaberg
David Seaberg, MD, will be stepping down from the joint positions of dean of the University of Tennessee (UT) College of Medicine, Chattanooga, and senior vice president of the Erlanger Health System. Dr. Seaberg joined UT Chattanooga seven years ago as the inaugural dean of the Chattanooga campus. He will remain in his current roles until a candidate has been identified to fill the positions and will subsequently continue as the University Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine.
Dr. Seaberg earned his MD at the University of Minnesota and completed residency training in Emergency Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to joining UT, he was Professor and Chair for the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Florida, Gainesville. He also previously served as President of the Florida College of Emergency Physicians and currently serves on the Board of Directors for the American College of Emergency Physicians and the Emergency Medicine Learning and Resource Center. Additionally, he founded the University Alliance for Weapons of Mass Destruction Education and served as co-chair of the Health/Medical/ Hospital/EMS Committee of the State Work Group for Domestic Security. He is certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine and the Certifying Commission in Medical Management.
Associate Dean for Research Affairs Named at Boonshoft School of Medicine
Timothy Broderick
Timothy Broderick, MD, has been named associate dean for research affairs at the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine. His appointment was effective Jan. 1, 2015. He succeeds Arthur Pickoff, MD, who retired Dec. 31, 2014. Dr. Broderick is a professor of surgery and chief scientist at the Wright State Research Institute, a post he will retain in his new role.
Dr. Broderick earned his MD at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. He completed residency, also serving as chief resident in general surgery, at the Medical College of Virginia at Virginia Commonwealth University. Prior to joining to Wright State, Dr. Broderick was a program manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. He also previously served as professor of surgery and biomedical engineering at the University of Cincinnati, where he founded and directed the Center for Surgical Innovation. He has served the U.S. Army Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center within the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Medical Informatics and Technology Applications Consortium, and the National Space Biomedical Research Institute External Advisory Council.
Dean-designate Named at the Duke-NUS
Thomas Coffman, MD, has been named the Dean-designate at the Duke-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School (Duke-NUS). His appointment was effective January 1, 2015. He will succeed Ranga Krishnan, MB ChB, as Dean at the conclusion of Dr. Krishnan's term on June 30, 2015.
Dr. Coffman earned his MD from Ohio State University School of Medicine in 1980. He completed internship, residency and fellowship training at Duke, the Durham VA Medical Center, and Duke-NUS and has remained at Duke throughout his career. In his new role, he will maintain an academic appointment in the Duke Department of Medicine. A recognized leader in cardiovascular medicine and kidney disease, Dr. Coffman is a past president of the American Society of Nephrology. His research has focused on mechanisms of kidney injury in disease states and the role of the kidney in regulation of blood pressure. In 2012, his team was awarded a five-year grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases to establish the Duke O'Brien Kidney Research Center.
New Chair for the Department of Geriatrics Named at FSU College of Medicine
Paul Katz
Paul Katz, MD, has been named as the new Chair for the Department of Geriatrics at the Florida State University (FSU) College of Medicine. He will assume the post in May this year, succeeding the inaugural chair of the department, Kenneth Brummel-Smith, MD. Dr. Katz will join FSU from Baycrest Geriatric Health Care System in Toronto, Canada, where he serves as vice president of medical services and chief of staff. He is also a professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto. Dr. Brummel-Smith will continue to serve in the role until Dr. Katz arrives and will subsequently remain on the faculty.
Dr. Katz earned his MD from the University of Michigan and completed a geriatric medicine fellowship at the University of Buffalo, State University of New York and the VA Medical Center in Buffalo. His prior posts include service as chief of staff for research at the Canandaigua Veterans Administration Medical Center and Rochester VA Clinic. He also previously served as chief of the Division of Geriatrics/Aging at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and as medical director at Monroe Community Hospital.
Dr. Katz is currently co-lead investigator on a $3 million grant from the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care to create a new nursing home-focused Centre for Learning, Research and Innovation. He has also received funding for his work from the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Veterans Administration and the Health Resource Service Administration. Dr. Katz is co-editor of the textbook, Practice of Geriatrics and Psychiatry in Long-Term Care. He is a past president of the American Medical Directors Association.
Inaugural Director Appointed at UAB's New Informatics Institute
James J. Cimino
James J. Cimino, MD, has been named the inaugural director of the Informatics Institute in the School of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). The institute was established by the Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama System in June 2014. Dr. Cimino will also serve as co-director of the UAB Center for Clinical and Translational Science and, pending approval of the University of Alabama Board of Trustees, will hold the inaugural University Endowed Chair in Informatics.
Dr. Cimino earned his MD at New York Medical College. He completed internship and residency training in medicine at Saint Vincent's Hospital in New York, followed by a research fellowship in medical informatics at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard. He served as a professor of biomedical informatics and medicine at Columbia University. In 2008, Dr. Cimino accepted a dual appointment with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center and the National Library of Medicine, where he built the Biomedical Translational Research Information System.
Dr. Cimino is co-editor of the textbook on informatics, Biomedical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine, Fourth Edition. He is a fellow and past president of the American College of Medical Informatics and has served on the board of directors of the American Medical Informatics Association. In 2014, he was elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine. He has received numerous honors and awards for his work, including the Donald A. B. Lindberg Award for Innovation in Informatics and the President's Award from the American Medical Informatics Association. He is a two-time recipient of the NIH Clinical Center Director's Award.
Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Named at Ucsf
Dan Lowenstein
Dan Lowenstein, MD, has been named as the executive vice chancellor and provost at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Dr. Lowenstein is professor and vice chair of the Department of Neurology at UCSF. His new appointment was effective February 1. He succeeds Jeff Bluestone, PhD, who stepped down to devote more time to his diabetes research.
Dr. Lowenstein earned his MD at Harvard Medical School. He completed residency and clinical fellowship at UCSF, and has served on the faculty there for the majority of his career. During his tenure at USCF, he has served as vice chair of the Department of Neurology, director of the UCSF Epilepsy Center at UCSF Medical Center and director of the Physician-Scientist and Education Training Programs in the UCSF School of Medicine. He left UCSF for two and a half years to serve on the faculty at Harvard Medical School as the Dean for Medical Education before returning in 2003.
Dr. Lowenstein is a leading epilepsy researcher, and he heads the Epilepsy Phenome/Genome Project (EPGP) and the Epi4K Gene Discovery in Epilepsy project. He is a past president of the American Epilepsy Society and the 2001 recipient of the Society's prestigious Basic Research Award. In addition to receiving a number of scientific awards, Dr. Lowenstein has also been recognized for his civil rights and advocacy efforts with the 1998 Black Student Health Association's Faculty Award, the 1998 UCSF Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Award, the 2006 Holly Smith Award for Exceptional Service to the UCSF School of Medicine, and the 2009 UCSF Chancellor's Award for Public Service.
Founding Chair of Department of Population Health Named at UND
Gary G. Schwartz
Gary G. Schwartz, PhD, MPH, PhD, has been named the founding chair of the Department of Population Health at the University of North Dakota (UND) School of Medicine and Health Sciences. He joins UND from Wake Forest University School of Medicine, where he served as scientific director of the Prostate Cancer Center of Excellence since 1999. He also served as an associate professor in the Departments of Cancer Biology, of Urology, and of Epidemiology and Prevention at Wake Forest. His appointment at UND begins on May 1, 2015.
Dr. Schwartz earned a PhD in Biological Psychology at the Downstate Medical Center of the State University of New York. He completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Cancer Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he also earned a Master of Public Health and a PhD in Epidemiology. His research has focused on the epidemiology of prostate cancer and vitamin D. His work has been supported by the National Institutes of Health's National Cancer Institute as well as the American Cancer Society. He is an inventor on several patents for biomarkers for the early detection of cancers of the pancreas, the prostate, and the ovary.
Founding Gilbertson Distinguished Chair of Geriatrics Named
Donald Jurivich
Donald Jurivich, DO, has been named the founding Eva L. Gilbertson, MD, Distinguished Chair of Geriatrics at the University of North Dakota (UND) School of Medicine and Health Sciences. He joins UND from the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago, where he was the Vitoux Endowed Chair, Associate Professor of Geriatric Medicine and chief of the Division of Geriatric Medicine. He was also chief of Geriatric Medicine at the Jesse Brown Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Chicago. His post at UND began April 1.
Dr. Jurivich earned his osteopathic medicine doctorate from the Midwestern University, Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine. He completed residency training in internal medicine at Rush Medical Center in Chicago and the Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC. He also completed a fellowship in geriatric medicine at Duke. His research has focused on Alzheimer's and other chronic diseases of the elderly. He receives funding from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Aging and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Dr. Jurivich is a Diplomate in Geriatric Medicine, which he earned from the American Board of Internal Medicine. He is a member in a number of professional societies, including the American Medical Directors Association, the Illinois Geriatrics Society, the Gerontological Society of America, the Central Society for Clinical and Translational Research, American Medical Association, American Osteopathic Association, and the Institute of Medicine of Chicago. He is also a member of the American Geriatrics Society, for which he has served on the board of directors.
Executive Director of New Biorepository Appointed at Arizona Health Sciences Center
David T. Harris
David T. Harris, PhD, professor of immunology at the University of Arizona (UA), has been appointed executive director of the new Arizona Health Sciences Center (AHSC) Biorepository. Dr. Harris has served on the faculty at the UA since 1989. He is an international leader in biobanking, with more than 20 years of experience in the field.
Dr. Harris earned a Masters of Medical Sciences degree as well as his Doctorate in Microbiology and Immunology from Wake Forest School of Medicine. He subsequently served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in Lausanne, Switzerland. He then joined the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he served as a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine until joining the UA.
In 1992, Dr. Harris established the first cord blood bank in the United States. His research interests include stem cells and regenerative medicine, cancer research/stem cell transplantation and gene therapy. He is currently the Director of the Cord Blood Stem Cell Bank and is a member of the Arizona Cancer Center, the Children's Research Center, and the Arizona Arthritis Center. During his tenure at UA, Dr. Harris has also served as a consultant to the governments of China, Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea and has founded 4 companies: Cord Blood Registry, Inc.; ImmuneRegen BioSciences, Inc.; QuReGen, Inc. and AdiCyte.
Associate Director for Science Policy, NIH Named
Carrie Wolinetz, PhD, has been named as the new Associate Director for Science Policy, National Institutes of Health (NIH). Her appointment was effective February 23, 2015. She succeeds David Shurtleff, PhD, who was serving as the Acting Associate Director for Science Policy.
Prior to her appointment, Dr. Wolinetz most recently served as Deputy Vice President for Federal Relations with the Association of American Universities (AAU). In that role, her primary responsibility was to coordinate advocacy on funding and policy issues relating to the NIH and biomedical research. Before joining AAU, she was Director of Scientific Affairs and Public Relations at the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB). She is currently the President of United for Medical Research and serves as Adjunct Assistant Professor at Georgetown University in the School of Foreign Service's program on Science, Technology & International Affairs. She is past Chair of the advocacy committee for the Association for Women in Science (AWIS).
Dr. Wolinetz earned a BS in animal science from Cornell University and received her PhD in animal science from The Pennsylvania State University.