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School of Medicine
Dean William Crist, who specializes in pediatric oncology,
talks with a patient. Photo courtesy of the School of
Medicine
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Prescription for Success
By Jeremy Diener
Of the all the deans on the University of Missouri-Columbia
campus, few have been as busy lately as the School
of Medicine’s William Crist.
Crist and the medical school, as documented
in a flurry of recent announcements, have appointed six new
department chairs and named the heads of two vital centers housed
at the school. Each time, Crist has noted, the school had focused
on and secured its top target in the candidate searches.
Charles Caldwell has been appointed director
of the Ellis Fischell Cancer Center, and as an endowed chair
in cancer research, established with a $1.1 million gift from
the Cancer Research Center (CRC) of Columbia. James Sowers,
one of the nation’s leading endocrinologists, has been
named director of the MU Center for Diabetes and Cardiovascular
Health, a professor of internal medicine, and the first Thomas
W. and Joan F. Burns Chair in Diabetology.
Other recent appointments include Jason
H. Calhoun, chair of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery;
Karen Hall Calhoun, chair of the Department of Otolaryngology;
Kevin Dellsperger, chair of the Department of Internal Medicine;
Karen Edison, chair of the Department of Dermatology; Steve
Eubanks, chair of the Hugh E. Stephenson Jr. Department of Surgery;
and Hung N. Winn, chair of the Department of Obstetrics and
Gynecology.
These recent appointments underscore the
University’s commitment to invest in the future of the
school, the state’s largest supplier of qualified doctors.
“Our medical school is essential to
our mission as a land-grant university,” said MU Chancellor
Richard Wallace. “We have trained more physicians practicing
in the state than any other medical school, and, together with
our affiliated hospitals and clinics, we provide a training
site for the state’s future health professionals.”
The School of Medicine also plays an integral
role in the interdisciplinary strength of MU’s life sciences
research program, with many of the school’s 434 faculty
interacting regularly with other life sciences faculty across
the campus. University of Missouri System President Elson Floyd
notes the medical school’s key role in life sciences research
on the Columbia campus.
“It is essential that medical education
and research remain an integral part of the University of Missouri-Columbia,”
Floyd said, adding that quality health care is vital to the
state’s future.
MU was recently selected by the National
Institutes of Health (NIH) to house a $10 million cancer imaging
center over such competitors as Stanford and Duke, helping to
bolster the state’s life sciences initiative.
The NIH has further recognized the School
of Medicine’s strength in comparative medicine, in partnership
with MU’s College of Veterinary Medicine, by awarding
the university major animal research resource centers such as
the nation’s only transgenic swine center.
“We are all very excited about the
progress and prospects for the School of Medicine as an integral
part of the MU Strategic Plan and our For All We Call Mizzou
comprehensive campaign,” Wallace said. “We are committed
to its success as part of our overall campus mission now and
forever.”
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