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College of Medicine names three department chairs |
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Jim Winkler |
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Aug 30, 2006 |
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Three new chairs have been named to head departments in The University of Toledo College of Medicine.
Drs. David M. Krol, Linda French and Akira Takashima are the new chairs of the departments of Pediatrics, Family Medicine, and Medical Microbiology and Immunology, respectively.
“I’m delighted all three have decided to join the College of Medicine,” said Dr. Jeffrey P. Gold, executive vice president and provost of health affairs and College of Medicine dean. “They are superb clinicians and scientists. Their energy, skills and dedication to patient care, medical education and research make them ideal to provide leadership for these three important departments.”
Gold stressed their appointments were the result of national searches that produced a field of outstanding candidates and that the trio comes from “highly respected, prestigious institutions.”
Several community and political leaders helped Gold and the search committees in the recruiting process; these included business executive Richard Anderson of The Andersons; Dr. Elizabeth Ruppert, UT professor emeritus of pediatrics; State Rep. Teresa Fedor; Susan Gilmore, a member of the Board of Trustees; and top administrators from Mercy Health Partners and ProMedica Health System Inc.
Krol will begin his duties Sept. 11, Takashima Oct. 1, and French Nov. 15.
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| Krol |
Currently on the faculties at the Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons and Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health and an associate of the Center for Oral Health Policy at Columbia’s School of Dental and Oral Surgery, Krol is also director of medical affairs and clinical evaluation of the Children’s Health Fund in New York City.
An Elyria, Ohio, native and a 1990 graduate of The University of Toledo, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in biology, Krol earned an M.D. degree in 1996 from Yale University School of Medicine and completed residency training at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital in Cleveland. He also earned a master of public health degree in 2004 from Columbia.
He completed fellowship training at Yale University’s Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy and the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at Yale.
A three-time letter winner and member of the UT baseball team, Krol was a 16th round draft choice in 1989 by the Minnesota Twins baseball team and was inducted into the Varsity T Hall of Fame in 2004.
He is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, chairs the academy’s Section on Young Physicians, and is a senior policy research consultant with the Children’s Dental Health Project in Washington, D.C. He received an American Medical Association Foundation Leadership Award in 2001.
His professional affiliations include the American Public Health Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, Ambulatory Pediatrics Association and Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy.
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| French |
French is currently senior associate chair of family practice and associate professor of family medicine at the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. She is a graduate of the Austral University Medical School in Chile and completed residency training at Oakwood Hospital in Dearborn, Mich.
Her clinical interests are in women's health, perimenopausal issues, hormone therapy, perinatal issues, maternity care and infant health.
She earned the Outstanding Clinician Award from the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine in 2005 and is a member of the editorial boards of The Journal of Family Practice and Family Medicine, two publications in which she has published extensively.
She is one of 48 senior women faculty members selected for the 2006-07 class of the Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine Program administered by Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia. It is the only in-depth national program that prepares senior women faculty for leadership positions at academic health centers. Its curriculum combines traditional MBA training oriented toward issues and strategies pertinent to academic health management with personal and professional development on leadership and career advancement.
She participated in the recent accreditation review of the department’s residency program by the Residency Review Committee.
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| Takashima |
Takashima, who holds both M.D. and Ph.D. degrees, is professor and vice chairman of research in the Department of Dermatology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. He has been at the school since 1990 and on the faculty of the immunology and molecular biology programs of the Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences since 1993. He is one of the founding members of the medical center’s Center for Biomedical Inventions.
His research interests include skin biology, immunoregulation, dendritic cell biology and tissue engineering. His research group has developed several dendritic, cell-based immunoregulatory strategies that are potentially applicable to the treatment of inflammatory skin disease and skin cancer. His basic and translational research has been supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health.
For his work on genetic manipulation of dendritic cell function, Takashima received the CE.R.I.E.S. Award in 1996. A member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, American Association of Immunologists, American Association for Cancer Research and Society for Investigative Dermatology, Takashima is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Immunology, Journal of Investigative Dermatology and the Journal of Dermatological Science. He was honored with the 2004 Montagna Lectureship from the Society of Investigative Dermatology.
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