Lang
12/16/22
After two months of gathering input from campus stakeholders, the University of Iowa is relaunching a search for the next vice president for medical affairs (VPMA) and dean of the Carver College of Medicine.
That’s according to a new release issued Thursday by the UI Office of Strategic Communication.
The initial search was paused in October after the candidate who was offered the position declined due to family obligations.
UI President Barbara Wilson and Executive Vice President and Provost Kevin Kregel spent the next eight weeks reevaluating the search and meeting with campus stakeholders during 11 listening sessions.
The president and provost have named Matthew Howard and Edith Parker as co-chairs of the new search committee. Howard is the chair and department executive officer of the Department of Neurosurgery and the John C. VanGilder Chair in Neurosurgery. Parker is the dean of the College of Public Health and professor of community and behavioral health.
UI officials say the full search committee and search firm will be named in January.
The new VPMA and dean will replace Brooks Jackson, who announced in February that he will return to faculty to focus on his research once his successor begins.
A national search for the next CEO of UI Hospitals & Clinics will begin after the new VPMA and dean has started. Former CEO Suresh Gunasekaran left at the end of February to become the new leader of the University of California San Francisco Academic Health System.