Announcing the GUMC Search Committee

Dear Colleagues:

It has been wonderful to share these opening days and weeks of the semester with all of you. As we begin this fall semester, I write to provide an update on our search for our next leader of the Medical Center and share with you details on our search committee.

Our Committee chair will be Lucile Adams-Campbell, PhD, Distinguished University Professor, Associate Director, Minority Health & Health Disparities Research, and Senior Associate Dean for Community Outreach and Engagement at Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and Georgetown University Medical Center. I am deeply grateful to Dr. Adams-Campbell for agreeing to chair this Committee.

Joining her on the Committee are members of our faculty and academic leadership from a diverse range of disciplines, colleagues from MedStar Health, and members of our Board of Directors.

• Paul Almeida, PhD, MBA
  Dean and William R. Berkley Chair, McDonough School of Business
  
  
• Steve Evans, MD
  Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs and Chief Medical Officer for MedStar Health, Professor of Surgery
  
  
• Patrick Forcelli, PhD
  Professor and Vice-Chair, Department of Pharmacology & Physiology
  
  
• Mary Furlong, MD
  Professor, Interim Academic Chair, Department of Pathology and Senior Associate Dean for Curriculum and Director of the Office of Medical Education, School of Medicine
  
  
• Nady Golestaneh, PhD, MSc 
  Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Neurology, Biochemistry and Cellular & Molecular Biology, Director of Research in the Department of Ophthalmology
  
  
• Jesse Goodman, MD, MPH
  Professor and Director, Center on Medical Product Access, Safety and Stewardship (COMPASS) and Attending Physician, Infectious Diseases, Georgetown University and DC Veterans Administration Hospitals and Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
  
  
• Rebecca Katz, PhD, MPH
  Professor and Director of the Center for Global Health Science and Security
  
  
• Jan LaRocque, PhD
  Associate Professor, Department of Human Science, School of Health
  
  
• Bruce Luxon, MD, PhD
  Professor, Chair, Department of Medicine
  
  
• Kathleen Maguire-Zeiss, PhD
  Professor, Chair, Department of Neuroscience
  
  
• John Marshall, MD
  Physician Executive Director, MedStar Washington DC Integrated Hematology Oncology Division; Director, The Ruesch Center for the Cure of GI Cancers; Frederick P. Smith Endowed Chair; Chief Medical Officer, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center
  
  
• Sue Mulroney, PhD
  Professor of Pharmacology & Physiology, Associate Dean for Preclinical Sciences and Interdisciplinary Medical Programs, and President, Faculty Senate
  
  
• Timothy O’Neill (L’77)
  Georgetown University Board of Directors
  
  
• Michelle Roett (M’03), MD, MPH, FAAFP
  Professor and Chair of Family Medicine, Founding Director of the GU Center for Health Equity, Director of DC AHEC at GUMC, Clinical Chief, Family Medicine, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
  
  
• Jeanne Ruesch
  Georgetown University Board of Directors
  
  
• Hillary Sale, JD
  Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Leadership and Corporate Governance; Professor of Management, McDonough School of Business
  
  
• Myles Sheehan, SJ, MD
  Director of Pellegrino Center, Professor of Medicine, David Lauler Chair of Catholic Health Care Ethics
  
  
• Carlo Tornatore, MD
  Professor and Chair of Neurology at Georgetown University Medical Center, Chairman and Neurologist-in-Chief, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Physician Executive Director for Neurology at MedStar Health
  
  
• Sarah Vittone, DBe, MSN, MA, RN
  Associate Professor; Senior Program Director for Undergraduate Studies and Masters Entry Programs, School of Nursing; Bioethics Consultant-Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics
  
  
• Myriam Vuckovic, PhD
  Associate Professor, Department of Global Health, School of Health
  
  
• Neil J. Weissman, MD
  Professor of Medicine and Chief Scientific Officer, MedStar Health

Our University Secretary, Marie Mattson, will support the Committee along with the firm Isaacson, Miller, who will be assisting in our search.

I wish to thank each of our colleagues for their willingness to serve and support this important work for the future of our Medical Center and our University.

Sincerely,

John J. DeGioia