Administration

Evarts, Phelps Leading Medical Center

Evarts

C. McCollister (Mac) Evarts ’57M (MD), ’64M (Res), retired CEO of the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center at Pennsylvania State University, has been named acting senior vice president of the Medical Center while a search for a successor to Jay Stein is conducted.

Evarts, a former chair of the Department of Orthopaedics at Rochester, reports to Provost Charles Phelps, who is serving as interim CEO of the Medical Center, responsible for overall strategic guidance.

The administrative changes come after Stein announced his resignation last May.

“Dr. Stein has made enormous contributions to the University and the Medical Center since Provost Phelps and I invited him to Rochester eight years ago,” Jackson said in a statement following Stein’s resignation. “His visionary leadership has been transformational for the Medical Center; the results are enduring.”

The Medical Center’s current strategic direction, in terms of development of clinical programs, basic research, medical and nursing curricula, and biotechnology and related fields, “is the right one,” added Jackson, and one that “will be vigorously pursued as we go forward.”

Phelps, who is leading the search to find a permanent executive for the Medical Center, is a nationally prominent health economist and former chair of the School of Medicine and Dentistry’s Department of Community and Preventive Medicine.

He came to the University in 1984 as a professor and director of the Public Policy Analysis Program. In 1991, he was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and to the National Bureau for Economic Research.

Evarts returned to the Medical Center earlier this year after retiring from Penn State, where he also had served as senior vice president for health affairs and dean of the College of Medicine.