Illinois Medicine

faculty news The lates t accompl i shment s of our di s t ingui shed facul ty COLLEY APPOINTED SENIOR ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR FACULTY AFFAIRS Karen Colley, PhD, has been named senior associate dean for faculty affairs. Colley previously had served as associate dean for graduate research and education and interim dean for research. She is one of the co-founders of the graduate education in medical science program, the college's umbrella PhD graduate program, and served as co-director. Colley also is a professor in the depart- ment of biochemistry and molecular genetics, which she joined in 1991. Her research focuses on the fundamental processes of protein trafficking and glycosylation (the process that attaches glycans to molecules) in cells. She is a member of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the American Society for Cell Biology, and she serves on the board of direc- tors of the Society for Glycobiology. Colley also has served on two NIH study sections and on the editorial boards for the Journal of Biological Chemistry and Glycobiology. She received the University Scholar Award in 2003 and was a fellow in the Emerging Leadership in Academic Medicine program (see "World Class Leaders," Illinois Medicine, Winter 2011, page 26). She received her PhD in biochemistry from Washington University in St. Louis and completed postdoctoral training in biochemistry and cell biology at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine. Karen Colley LOY NAMED ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR CURRICULUM Gary Loy '77, MD, MPH '05, has been appointed associate dean for curriculum. A professor of clinical obstetrics and gynecology at the Col- lege of Medicine, he previously had been assistant dean for curriculum and co-director of the Urban Medicine Program. His service at Illinois Medicine has included roles as residency program director, clerkship director, director of departmental education in obstetrics/gynecology and course director of Essentials of Clinical Practice and Professionalism. Loy has been published in the areas of fetal physiology and education and is currently a co-investigator on grants in reproductive environmental health and in education. He is a fellow in the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, an educational scholar in the Association of Professors and Gynecology, and is listed in America's Best Doctors. Loy received his medical degree from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, and he completed a residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Chicago Medical Center and a fellowship in maternal-fetal medicine at the University of Colorado. Gary Loy GARCIA APPOINTED VP FOR UNDERGRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION Abbas Hyderi, MD '01, MPH, has been named assistant dean for undergraduate medical education, with principal oversight of the M1/M2 curriculum. He is an assistant professor of clinical fam- ily medicine, which he became in 2005, and he has served as the director of the Essentials of Clinical Medicine course since 2007 and as associate residency program director in the department of family medicine since 2008. Hyderi's research on medical student curriculum development and residency has been funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He also has been recognized at both the medical school and residency program with numerous teaching and mentoring accolades, including the prestigious UIC Council for Excellence in Teaching and Learning's Teaching Recognition Program Award and the 2010 Illinois Acad- emy of Family Physicians Teacher of the Year Award. After receiving his medical degree from the College of Medicine, Hyderi completed a combined residency in family medicine and preventive medicine at Oregon Health and Science University while obtaining a master's in public health degree in health administration and policy at Portland State University. HYDERI APPOINTED ASSISTANT DEAN Abbas Hyderi OF HEALTH AFFAIRS The university Board of Trustees has approved the appointment of Joe G.N. "Skip" Garcia as university vice president for health affairs. Vice chancellor for research for University of Illinois at Chicago since February 2010, Garcia had been serving as interim vice president for health affairs—one of two university-level vice president positions created four months ago through administrative restructuring (see "The Power of One University," page 24). Garcia, whose research focuses on lung disease, also holds the Earl M. Bane Professorship. Garcia's new appointment, effective June 16, was announced to campus by President Michael Hogan, who called him "the ideal person for the job. He has met and consistently exceeded the high aspirations he sets for himself and his team, as well as the expectations of our Board of Trustees, his colleagues on the Chicago campus and the university administration. It is clear that Skip has an inspirational and practical strategic plan for advancing the excellence and performance of the university's health care enterprise," the president added, referring to town halls Garcia held May 26 on campus. Previously, Garcia had been professor and chair of medicine at the University of Chicago, where he garnered nearly $80 million in funding and improved the university's National Institutes of Health ranking from No. 25 to No. 12. Prior to that, Garcia served as chief of pulmonary and critical care medicine at Johns Hopkins University, where he also held an endowed chair in medicine and faculty appointments in environmental health sciences and biomedical engineering. Joe G.N. "Skip" Garcia HARRIS NAMED HEAD OF DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAL EDUCATION Ilene Harris, PhD, has been ap- pointed head of the department of medical education, where she is a I L L INOIS MEDICINE | 11

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