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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