Academic Leadership
Clinical Department Chairs
Maie St. John, MD, PhD
Chair, Head & Neck Surgery
Sarah M Dry, MD
Chair, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Oscar J Hines, MD
Interim Chair, Surgery
Thomas Carmichael, MD, PhD
Chair, Neurology, Regenerative Medicine Theme Chair
Sherin Devaskar, MD, PhD
Chair, Pediatrics
Patrick Dowling, MD
Chair, Family Medicine
Dieter Enzmann, MD
Chair, Radiological Sciences
E. Dale Abel, MD, PhD
Chair, Medicine
Greg Hendey, MD
Chair, Emergency Medicine
Nicholas Bernthal, MD
Interim Chair, Orthopaedic Surgery
Linda Liau, MD, PhD
Chair, Neurosurgery
Mark Litwin, MD
Chair, Urology
Maxime Cannesson, MD, PhD
Chair, Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine
Anne L. Coleman, MD, PhD
Chair, Ophthalmology, Director, Jules Stein Eye Institute
Deborah Krakow, MD
Chair, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Professor
Michael Steinberg, MD
Chair, Radiation Oncology
Helena Hansen, MD, PhD
HETSS Research Theme Lead, Interim Chair, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Interim Director, Semel Institute
Basic Science Department Chairs
Stephen C. Cannon, MD, PhD
Chair of Physiology, Interim Chair of Molecular & Medical Pharmacology, Interim Director, Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging
Leonid Kruglyak, PhD
Chair, Human Genetics, Professor
Siavash Kurdistani, MD
Chair, Biological Chemistry
Paul Micevych, PhD
Chair, Neurobiology
Eleazar Eskin, PhD
Chair, Computational Medicine, Professor
Jerome Zack, PhD
Chair, Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics (MIMG)
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