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The Medical Center and the School of Medicine and Dentistry will be guided by interim leaders as the 2009–10 academic year gets under way.

Mark Taubman, the chair of the Department of Medicine, became acting CEO of the Medical Center in June after CEO Bradford Berk ’79M (MD), ’81M (PhD) suffered a serious spinal injury in a bicycling accident. (Also see the President’s Message, page 3.)

An internationally respected scientist and a recognized authority in vascular biology, Taubman joined the University in 2003, when Berk recruited him from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. As department chair, Taubman has presided over the largest single department in the Medical Center, with a $150 million budget and more than 1,000 faculty and staff who work in 10 units devoted to patient care, research, and education.

“It is Brad’s vision and my vision to make this into one of the nation’s greatest academic medical centers,” says Taubman. “In these last three years, Brad has made extraordinary strides in enhancing this institution clinically and scientifically. I hope to hand back to Brad an even stronger institution.”

After surgery at Strong Memorial Hospital, Berk, who was named CEO in 2006, was transferred in early June to the Kessler Rehabilitation Center in New Jersey, where he is expected to undergo several weeks of rehabilitation. Rochester neurosurgeon Paul Maurer, who led Berk’s surgical team, says Berk will likely return home in the fall to embark on an expected 9- to-12 month recovery process.

In a separate announcement, Elizabeth McAnarney, chair emerita of the Department of Pediatrics, was named acting dean of the School of Medicine and Dentistry this spring while a national search is carried out for a successor for David Guzick. Guzick, who became the school’s ninth dean in 2002, was named the senior vice president for health affairs at the University of Florida and the president of the UF & Shands Health System.

McAnarney served both as chair of the Department of Pediatrics and pediatrician-in-chief of the Golisano Children’s Hospital for 13 years, stepping down in 2006. Since that time she conducted research as a professor of pediatrics at the Medical Center.