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Sept. 28, 2000
APPOINTMENTS
Search for top medical
job begins
The University has appointed a committee to advise on the search for
a new Medical School Dean/CEO of the University of Pennsylvania Health
System. President Judith Rodin and Provost Robert Barchi stated in a joint
announcement: “The task assigned to this committee is of great importance
to the University and the Health System. Because the combined Dean/CEO
job will involve both academic and administrative responsibilities of
the highest order, we have asked several of our most renowned faculty
and University officers to serve on the committee.”
 Dwight
L. Evans, M.D., Ruth Meltzer Professor of Psychiatry, and professor
and chair of the department of psychiatry, will chair the committee.
Other committee members are:
Roberta
A. Ballard, M.D., Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Chief, Division
of Neonatology, CHOP
Michael
S. Brown, M.D., Paul J. Thomas Professor of Medicine and Genetics,
Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Southwestern
Garrett
A. Fitzgerald, M.D., Robinette Foundation Professor of Cardiovascular
Medicine, Elmer Bobst Professor of Pharmacology, Professor and Chairman
Department of Pharmacology
Robert A.
Fox, Chairman, R.A.F. Industries
John A.
Fry, Executive Vice President
Thomas Gerrity,
Ph.D., Professor of Management, Director, Wharton Electronic Business
Initiatives, The Wharton School
Eduardo
Glandt, Ph.D., Dean and Professor of Chemical Engineering, School
of Engineering and Applied Sciences
John H.
Glick, M.D., Madlyn and Leonard Abramson Professor of Clinical Oncology,
Director, University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center
DuPont Guerry
IV, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology-Oncology
Heidi Harvie,
M.D. Program
Bernette
L. Johnson, Jr., M.D., Herman Beerman Professor of Dermatology, Senior
Medical Director, HUP, Associate Dean for Veterans Affairs, Associate
Dean for Community Affairs, Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education
and Minority Affairs
David W.
Kennedy, M.D., Professor and Chairman Department of Otorhinolaryngology:
Head & Neck Surgery
Virginia
M.Y. Lee, Ph.D., John H. Ware, III, Endowed Professor of Alzheimer’s
Research, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Maureen
P. McCausland, DNSc, Chief Nursing Executive, Interim Chief Nursing
Officer, HUP, Associate Dean for Nursing Practice, School of Nursing
Social work, athletics
Roberta
Iversen, Ph.D., has been named interim associate dean of the School
of Social Work, succeeding Peter Vaughan, Ph.D., who is leaving to serve
as dean of the School of Social Work at Fordham. Iverson joined the faculty
in 1997 and was formerly a practicing social worker and supervisor at
a non-profit family agency. Her research centers on how gender, race and
class affect status and occupation.
Carla Shultzberg
has been named director of athletic communications. Since arriving as
an intern in the Office of Athletic Communications in 1995, Schultzberg
has moved to increasingly responsible jobs, including, most recently,
media relations chair for the 2000 NCAA Women’s Basketball Final
Four at the First Union Center. She was also media relations coordinator
for the last three Penn Relay Carnivals. Schultzberg will continue to
coordinate the athletics Web page and serve as editor of several athletic
department publications, including the quarterly newsletter, PennSport!,
and the Penn’s football and men’s basketball game-day programs.
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