DEANS INAUGURATED AT MEDICAL CENTER

During October's simultaneous celebrations of the University's Sesquicentennial and the medical school's 75th anniversary, the Medical Center inducted three new deans in the first such triple ceremony in its history.

The University took this occasion to confer honorary doctor of science degrees on the School of Nursing's founding dean, Loretta Ford, and William Peck '60M (MD), professor emeritus of medicine and biochemistry.

The newly invested deans are Edward Hundert, eighth dean of the School of Medicine and Dentistry; Patricia Chiverton, third dean of the School of Nursing; and Deborah Cory-Slechta, the medical school's first dean for research.

The appointments of Hundert, who is also professor of psychiatry and medical humanities, and Chiverton, also vice president of Strong Health, were previously announced in Rochester Review.

In the newly created post of dean for research, Cory-Slechta oversees the research missions for all of the medical school's departments as well as the seven research centers in the Aab Institute of Biomedical Sciences, of which she is director.

A native of Minnesota, she is an internationally respected researcher whose studies have been at the center of public health issues such as lead poisoning and the role of pesticides as risk factors for Parkinson's disease (see article).

Ford, dean emeritus of the nursing school, was its first dean when it became autonomous in 1972. She was honored for her pioneering work in fostering a collaborative nursing practice and nursing education model that is still being pursued by schools and hospitals today.

Peck, known as a distinguished investigator and leader in academic medicine, is executive vice chancellor for medical affairs and dean at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. A major focus of his work has been the integration of basic science and clinical research.

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