DEANS APPOINTED AT MEDICAL, NURSING SCHOOLS

This summer Edward M. Hundert succeeded to the dean's chair at the School of Medicine and Dentistry, while Patricia A. Chiverton became the new dean of the School of Nursing.

Hundert previously served as the medical school's senior associate dean for medical education and professor of psychiatry and medical humanities, with responsibility for undergraduate, graduate, and continuing medical education.

As a Yale undergraduate, Hundert received a Marshall Scholarship to attend Oxford University, where he earned a master's degree in philosophy, politics, and economics. He went to Harvard Medical School for both his M.D. degree and psychiatric residency training, receiving Harvard's prestigious Sirgay Sanger Prize for excellence in psychiatric research.

Recruited to the School of Medicine and Dentistry from Harvard Medical School in 1997, Hundert has led Rochester through a sweeping reform of its medical school curriculum. Named after the intertwining strands that comprise DNA, the "Double-Helix" curriculum integrates basic science and clinical medicine throughout all four years of medical school, with students learning to care for patients as they learn the biological and social sciences that are fundamental to an understanding of disease, treatment, and prevention.

He succeeds Lowell Goldsmith, who at the end of the last academic year announced his intent to take a sabbatical leave and not pursue a second term as dean.

A member of the School of Nursing faculty since 1984, Patricia Ann Chiverton '80N (Mas), '91W (EdD) is the third dean of the School of Nursing.

An accomplished educator, skilled clinician, and an active researcher, Chiverton has been serving as interim dean following the retirement last year of Dean Sheila Ryan.

As interim, Chiverton has led the school through the implementation of its ambitious plan to unify education, research, and clinical care into a platform for its curriculum. She also has served as associate dean for clinical affairs, vice president for Strong Health, and CEO of the school's highly respected Community Nursing Center.

Chiverton holds a master's degree in psychiatric mental health nursing from the School of Nursing and a doctoral degree from the Margaret Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development.

Chiverton's primary research interests include various aspects of aging, among them dementia and Alzheimer's disease. In 1992, she received a major grant from the New York State Department of Health to study how sensory stimulation could affect the behavior of nursing home residents with dementia. She also serves as co-principal investigator of a nearly $1 million, five-year grant from the New York State Bureau of Public Health to measure the impact of managing adolescents' health care through school-based clinics.

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