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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 18, 2002
Corinna Kaarlela, News Director
Contact: Cara Peracchi Douglas, Director, Public Affairs and Communications,
UCSF Fresno
Phone: 559.243.3606
E-mail: carapd@ucsfresno.edu
Web: www.ucsfresno.edu
NEW
DEANS NAMED FOR UCSF FRESNO
FRESNO -- The University of California,
San Francisco, (UCSF) School of Medicine recently announced that
Joan Voris, MD, has accepted the position of associate dean for
UCSF Fresno Medical Education Program effective December 1, 2002.
Voris succeeds Deborah Stewart, MD.
Earlier this fall Susan Wall, MD,
was appointed senior associate dean for UCSF Fresno and Graduate
Medical Education. Wall serves as the primary liaison between the
Fresno Program and UCSF School of Medicine Dean’s Office.
“I am grateful that Drs. Wall
and Voris have taken on this new challenge,” said Haile Debas,
MD, and dean for UCSF School of Medicine. “They are both experienced
leaders who have been UCSF faculty members for numerous years.”
Joan Voris, MD, has been a member
of UCSF Fresno faculty for over 20 years. Before being appointed
associate dean of UCSF Fresno, Voris was the medical director of
ambulatory care at University Medical Center in Fresno.
As the new associate dean for UCSF
Fresno, Voris is responsible for providing the leadership necessary
to develop research and medical opportunities to train culturally
sensitive doctors of the future.
“The next few years promise
to be very exciting times for UCSF Fresno,” said Voris. “As
we step into a new era of medical education with the opening of
the Medical Education and Research Center in 2004, I hope to do
all I can to better serve our community.”
For more information, please contact
Cara Peracchi Douglas at 559.243.3606. Photo available.
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