Iowa City — The next head of the University of Iowa’s sprawling healthcare enterprise and medical school is retired US Surgeon General Dennis J. Jamison, with decades of leadership and healthcare experience at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Mr. takes office. at Emory University.
Jamison, 58, who most recently served as Professor and Dean of Gynecology and Obstetrics at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta and as Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Emory Health Care, will become UIHC’s Medical Director starting August 1. Appointed as vice chairman. He is also Dean of UI Carver College of Medicine.
According to the offer letter, she earns $1.3 million a year, saying, “Her experience and skill set are well suited for the position, and your direction, guidance, and leadership will benefit our teaching, research, and clinical care.” It will be strengthened.” Iowa. ”
The appointment “will continue at our (and your) discretion, but will not exceed June 30, 2028, unless extended or renewed,” the letter said.
In terms of her salary breakdown, UI offered Jamieson a base salary of $900,000 for appointment as a tenured faculty member. A $300,000 administrative grant for her vice presidency. and an additional $100,000 addition to her deanship.
She was one of two finalists in a second run to replace Brooks Jackson, who announced he would step down and resume his studies as a faculty member in 2022. Jackson earned $1.28 million in the 2022 budget year, according to the state salary database. His current salary is $1.06 million, according to the university.
responsibility
According to the offer letter, Jamieson will report to both UI chairman Barbara Wilson and executive vice president and president Kevin Kregel. She oversees and maintains the “Integrated Strategic Plan” across UI Healthcare, including Carver College of Medicine, UI Doctors Faculty Practice Plan, and UI Hospitals and Clinics, which reported $2.3 billion in net income for fiscal year 2022. become. .
The letter states that one of Jamison’s responsibilities includes “building, managing and evaluating UI Healthcare’s leadership team,” which includes chief executive officers of hospitals and clinics. However, this top position is currently held by Chief Nurse Kim Hunter on an interim basis.
More than a year ago, Hunter succeeded former CEO Suresh Gunasekaran when he stepped down in 2022 to become head of the University of California, San Francisco Academic Health System. The UI leadership was waiting to start a nationwide search for a replacement for Gunasekaran before appointing a new medical vice president.
Other vice-chancellor responsibilities listed in the letter of offer include overseeing the planning of the UIHC facilities and the implementation of the 10-year facilities master plan, which includes the construction of a new campus on the main medical campus. It also includes building a hospital tower.
She also serves as Chairman of the UI Physicians Group and is responsible for managing donations from the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust. She will also serve on the board of directors of the Musser Davis Rand Company, which was set up solely for the benefit of UI College of Medicine.
The company reported a net worth of $17.8 million in 2021 after distributing $1.5 million to medical schools that same year. In budget year 2017, the company distributed $16.7 million to universities in the form of “miscellaneous funds,” reducing its net worth from $31.9 million to $17.9 million. The company distributed $35 million to UI in 2015, according to public records.
According to Jamison’s letter of offer, “this company is a significant source of revenue[for the university],” and the dean’s post includes “annual discretionary funding to support the university’s strategic initiatives.” It is reported to contain about $270,000.
“Rich and Diverse Background”
Jackson, 69, had established himself as an internationally recognized AIDS researcher before coming to the UIHC in November 2017, and was involved in the International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trial funded by the National Institutes of Health. He was the principal investigator of the network.
Jamison has a background in women’s health and AIDS, and began working for the CDC in 1999 as a medical officer on the HIV team in the Division of Women’s Health and Fertility. From 2000 until 2003, she served as a medical officer in her CDC’s Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, “Mother-to-Child Transmission and Pediatric and Adolescent Research.”
She led the CDC’s “Unexpected Pregnancy, STDs and HIV Intervention Research Team” for eight years, according to her resume.
Along with his work at CDC, Jamieson was promoted to professor at Emory University School of Medicine. According to US News & World Report, Emory Medical School ranks 23rd in research and 64th in primary care. UI’s medical school ranks him 44th in research, but ranks him 19th in primary care.
Jamieson’s first academic appointment came in 1998 as a clinical assistant professor of gynecology and obstetrics at Emory University, and he became a full professor in 2017 as well as chair of the school’s Gynecology Specialty Division.
After earning a medical degree from Duke University School of Medicine in 1992 and a master’s degree in public health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1991, Jamieson trained at the CDC and began military service in 1997. .
Starting as a lieutenant with the U.S. Public Health Service, she rose to the rank of captain by 2008 and served for many years with the national emergency response team during the 2003 monkeypox outbreak. 2005 Hurricane Her Katrina. 2014 Ebola crisis. And the 2016 Zika virus.
Upon his retirement from Public Health in 2017, Mr. Jamieson was awarded the Distinguished Service Award, the highest honor for a Corps officer, for “outstanding contributions to reproductive health and public health practice.”
Clinically, Jamison practices obstetrics and gynecology at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. Her scientific research focuses on emerging infectious diseases during pregnancy, with projects addressing health disparities and social determinants of health in the context of maternal morbidity and other adverse pregnancy outcomes. .
In a statement announcing her hiring, UI President Wilson praised Jamieson’s “rich and diverse background of experience” and said it would “partner with the Iowa community to expand access to healthcare. in” praised her for being able to lead UI Healthcare.
“I was particularly impressed with Dr. Jamison’s ability to bring people together and create a culture that supports everyone’s success within the organization,” said Wilson.
Second search
Jamison’s selection comes after an unsuccessful first attempt to replace Jackson last year.
The UI convened four finalists on campus in August (diverse members from Dartmouth Health College, the University of Chicago, the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, and the University of Nebraska School of Medicine), but the finalists selected have not been announced. No, but the finalist changed. I quit my job “due to family obligations.”
Its UI resumed the search process in December.
Jamison visited campus on May 1 for a public forum. Another finalist, University of Illinois School of Medicine President Mark I. Rosenblatt, visited on his May 8th.
Rosenblatt and Jamison, who are also vice presidents for medical affairs at the Illinois Health College, spoke of growth as UIHC has embarked on a number of construction projects totaling over $1 billion.
“Most Important” Characteristics
Jamieson said he sees UIHC’s “real growth opportunities in rural areas.”
“The question is what it looks like,” she told a forum attendee on May 1, guiding the answer towards growth through collaboration. “One of the really important things in this is having a dialogue with other healthcare organizations.
UIHC executives cite congestion across inpatient wards and long wait times in emergency rooms to justify plans for explosive growth.
“It’s important to go out and find out how people in Iowa feel about the University of Iowa,” Jamison said. “How do people feel about healthcare, what are the barriers, why do they come here, why don’t they come here, what is the parking situation like?”
UI Provost’s Kregel praised Jamison’s communication and problem-solving skills.
“These attributes will be of paramount importance to Dr. Jamieson as he leads Carver College of Medicine and the academic healthcare system,” Kregel said in a statement Tuesday.
And in response to the reaction to being selected for the job, Jamieson said on a forum this month that she was fascinated by the UI women’s basketball team and considered herself a “convert,” but was “thrilled.” I’m honored,” he said.
“The University of Iowa’s outstanding reputation, combined with the resources and reach of UI Healthcare available, including the key role UI Healthcare plays in shaping health across the state, has made this leadership position. It will be unique, enable broad and widespread healthcare delivery, and have public health implications.”
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