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Candidates for med school dean to visit campus
By SUE WUETCHER
Reporter Editor
Four candidates for the position of dean of the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, including the UB faculty member currently serving as interim dean of the school, will meet with members of the UB and local health-care communities during campus visits scheduled during the month of June.
The candidates are Michael E. Cain, Tobias and Hortense Lewin Professor of Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis; S. Wright Caughman, Alicia Leizman Stonecipher Professor and Chair of Dermatology at Emory University; Roberta Hines, Nicholas M. Greene Professor and chair of the Department of Anesthesiology at Yale University School of Medicine; and Frederick C. Morin III, A. Conger Goodyear Professor of Pediatrics and Physiology at UB who has served as interim dean of the UB medical school since 2005.
Hines is visiting campus today and tomorrow. Cain will visit Sunday through Tuesday, Caughman will be here June 11-13 and Morin will be interviewed June 19 and 20.
Maurizio Trevisan, dean of the School of Public Health and Health Professions and chair of the search committee for the new medical school dean, said the search initially garnered "a large, diverse and international pool of highly qualified applicants." After review of all of the nominations and applications, the search committee whittled the applicant pool down to 13 candidates, who met with search committee members at an off-campus location. After those preliminary interviews, the committee invited several "exceptional candidates" to participate in the extensive, on-campus interview process, Trevisan said. While on campus, the candidates will meet with UB's senior leadership team, faculty, staff, students, and selected partners and individuals from the local research and health-care communities.
"The on-campus visits will provide for expanded participation and input in the search process, and will allow the candidates to gain more comprehensive understanding of the exciting opportunity available for the new dean to help position UB's School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences among the nation's best," he said.
Members of the campus community will be invited to participate, as appropriate, in selected meetings with the candidates, Trevisan added.
More information about the candidates is available at http://www.buffalo. edu/medicine-dean. Comments regarding the candidates may be sent to the search committee at medicine-dean@vpsa.buffalo. edu.
As evidenced by their curriculum vitae, all four candidates are prolific researchers who are active members of their home campuses, as well as in professional societies in their fields of medical expertise.
Cain, who also holds an appointment as a professor of biomedical engineering at Washington University, joined the university's medical school faculty in 1981. He serves as director of the Cardiovascular Division and is president of the board of directors of the Heart Care Institute at the medical school and at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis.
He received a bachelor's degree, cum laude, from Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pa., and a medical degree from the George Washington University School of Medicine.
An Emory faculty member since 1986. Caughman serves as executive associate dean for clinical affairs and director of the Emory Clinic Inc., a physician practice affiliated with the Emory University School of Medicine.
He received a bachelor's degree in English, cum laude, from Davidson College, a master's degree in English from the University of South Carolina, and a medical degree from the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston.
Hines joined the Yale medical school faculty in 1982 as an instructor in the Department of Anesthesiology. She was appointed an assistant professor of anesthesiology in 1984 and promoted to full professor and department chair in 1995. She secured funding for the Nicholas M. Greene Endowed Chair and was named the first Nicholas M. Greene Professor of Anesthesiology in 2004. She also serves as chief of the Department of Anesthesiology at Yale-New Haven Medical Center.
Hines is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire and Dartmouth Medical School.
Morin, a UB faculty member since 1986, serves as chair of the Department of Pediatrics, as well as interim dean. He also held the position of interim vice president for health sciences prior to the appointment of David Dunn to the post in September 2005.
Morin has served on a variety of professional, medical school and university-wide committees. He is actively involved in the UB 2020 academic planning process, serving as a member of the Academic Planning Committee and of coordinating committees for the Integrated Nanostructures, Molecular Recognition, Bioinformatics and Extreme Events strategic strengths.
He received a bachelor's degree in biology from the University of Notre Dame and a medical degree from Yale University.