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Med school needs dean
Zhi Xiong - The Daily Iowan
Issue date: 3/24/08 Section: Metro
The UI anticipates a new job listing: dean of the Carver College of Medicine.
Jean Robillard, the UI vice president for Medical Affairs and the former dean of the medical school, announced March 14 that he will no longer hold both administrative positions.
Robillard hopes to fill the spot "no later than July 1" this year, according to an e-mail to hospital staff. A notice of the job opening and instructions for submitting nominations should be posted some time in March.
Paperwork is likely still working through the system because of spring break, said Steve Maravetz, the senior assistant director of health-science relations.
Robillard wants to concentrate on overseeing UI Health Care, composed of the medical school, UI Hospitals and Clinics, and UI Physicians. Efforts to create an overarching administrative entity began in January 2007, when Robillard was appointed to lead it.
"With that effort now successfully underway, I believe the time is right to select a new dean," he wrote.
Bruce Gantz, the head of the UI otolaryngology department, will lead the search committee.
Gantz was chosen because of his successful leadership in the department, Maravetz said. U.S. News & World Report ranked UI's ear, nose and throat specialty second in the nation in its 2007 "Best Hospitals" list.
The new dean will be a medical doctor, Maravetz said, most likely from the medical school or UI College of Public Health faculty.
The committee is looking for someone who has seen the process of coordinating the three health entities and experienced the transition.
"I think VP Robillard indicated that he wants to find someone who understands what integration brings to the enterprise," Maravetz said.
The dean vacancy follows a flurry of changes in health administration sparked by the leadership restructuring. Another search committee is looking for a hospital director, which Robillard had said would be done by June or July.
In December, former hospital director Donna Katen-Bahensky left the UI because of a different view on the health enterprise: She wanted the hospital to be more independent of academia rather than combine with it, Robillard said in a February interview.
Robillard had been the dean of the UI medical school since February 2003. In January 2007, then-UI interim President Gary Fethke named him to be the vice president for Medical Affairs, a three-year term during which he planned to maintain his position as dean, according to a UI news release.
Maintaining his position as the vice president of Medical Affairs, Robillard still heads UI Health Care. The medical-school dean will report to him for clinical issues and to the provost for academic matters.
E-mail DI reporter Zhi Xiong at:
zhi-xiong@uiowa.edu
Jean Robillard, the UI vice president for Medical Affairs and the former dean of the medical school, announced March 14 that he will no longer hold both administrative positions.
Robillard hopes to fill the spot "no later than July 1" this year, according to an e-mail to hospital staff. A notice of the job opening and instructions for submitting nominations should be posted some time in March.
Paperwork is likely still working through the system because of spring break, said Steve Maravetz, the senior assistant director of health-science relations.
Robillard wants to concentrate on overseeing UI Health Care, composed of the medical school, UI Hospitals and Clinics, and UI Physicians. Efforts to create an overarching administrative entity began in January 2007, when Robillard was appointed to lead it.
"With that effort now successfully underway, I believe the time is right to select a new dean," he wrote.
Bruce Gantz, the head of the UI otolaryngology department, will lead the search committee.
Gantz was chosen because of his successful leadership in the department, Maravetz said. U.S. News & World Report ranked UI's ear, nose and throat specialty second in the nation in its 2007 "Best Hospitals" list.
The new dean will be a medical doctor, Maravetz said, most likely from the medical school or UI College of Public Health faculty.
The committee is looking for someone who has seen the process of coordinating the three health entities and experienced the transition.
"I think VP Robillard indicated that he wants to find someone who understands what integration brings to the enterprise," Maravetz said.
The dean vacancy follows a flurry of changes in health administration sparked by the leadership restructuring. Another search committee is looking for a hospital director, which Robillard had said would be done by June or July.
In December, former hospital director Donna Katen-Bahensky left the UI because of a different view on the health enterprise: She wanted the hospital to be more independent of academia rather than combine with it, Robillard said in a February interview.
Robillard had been the dean of the UI medical school since February 2003. In January 2007, then-UI interim President Gary Fethke named him to be the vice president for Medical Affairs, a three-year term during which he planned to maintain his position as dean, according to a UI news release.
Maintaining his position as the vice president of Medical Affairs, Robillard still heads UI Health Care. The medical-school dean will report to him for clinical issues and to the provost for academic matters.
E-mail DI reporter Zhi Xiong at:
zhi-xiong@uiowa.edu
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