The search for the University of Iowa's next vice president for medical affairs and dean of the Carver College of Medicine will be open and community-driven.
Search committee co-chairs
Matthew Howard
Chair and department executive officer; Department of Neurosurgery; John C. VanGilder Chair in Neurosurgery
Edith Parker
Dean, College of Public Health; professor, community and behavioral health
Search committee
Alexander Bassuk
Professor of pediatrics-general neurology and chair, Stead Family Children’s Hospital Department of Pediatrics
Mark Braun
Executive director, Board of Regents, State of Iowa, ex-officio member
Joseph Clamon
Associate vice president for legal affairs, UI Health Care
Jackie Kleppe
Director of outreach and engagement, UI Health Care Marketing and Communications; and Staff Council president
Peter Matthes
Vice president for external relations and senior advisor to the president
Marta Van Beek
C. William Hanke Professor of Dermatology and executive medical director of UI Hospitals & Clinics’ main campus ambulatory clinics
Sherry Bates
President pro tem, Board of Regents, State of Iowa
Keith Carter
Professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences and chair and head of the Department of Ophthalmology
Lyndsay Harshman
Associate professor of pediatrics-nephrology, dialysis and transplantation
Benjamin Linden
Third-year medical student in the Carver College of Medicine and Graduate and Professional Student Government representative
Cheryl Reardon
Chief human resources officer and associate vice president, ex-officio member
Engage with the process
You will have multiple opportunities to engage with the search as it progresses.