Medical School dean finalists announced

A 22-member search-and-screen committee has presented Chancellor John D. Wiley with the names of four finalists for dean of the Medical School.

The panel recommended these finalists:

• Dr. Robert Golden, vice dean at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. Golden also has been professor and chair of UNC’s Department of Psychiatry since 1994 and has served on the faculty there since 1985. As vice dean, he has responsibility for the school’s academic programs.
• Dr. Edward McCabe, professor and executive chair of the Department of Pediatrics at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine. McCabe has served on the faculty there since 1994 and for the past 10 years he has served as physician-in-chief at UCLA’s Mattel Children’s Hospital. He also is co-director of the university’s Center for Society and Genetics and director of UCLA’s Human and Molecular Development Training Program.
• Dr. Wiley Souba, professor and chairman of the Department of Surgery at the Penn State College of Medicine/Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. He has held those posts since 1999 and is also a professor of cellular and molecular physiology and serves as surgeon-in-chief at the medical center. Souba is also director of the Penn State Hershey Center for Leadership Development.
• Dr. Bonita Stanton, professor and chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the Wayne State University School of Medicine. She has held those positions since 2002 and is also pediatrician-in-chief at the Children’s Hospital of Michigan. Prior to that, she was professor and chair of pediatrics at West Virginia University for three years.

The university will invite all the finalists to campus for return visits later this year.

The post came open when Dean Philip M. Farrell announced his intention to leave the deanship at the end of 2005.