Below, forwarded by Harry Levitt, is an announcement from the School of Medicine at University of Pennsylvania about Brian Strom’s new roles as Vice Dean and Senior Advisor to the Provost:
November 30, 2007
We are delighted to announce that Brian Strom, M.D., M.P.H., George S. Pepper Professor of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Chair and Professor of Biostatistics & Epidemiology, and Director of the Center for Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, has been appointed to the newly created positions of Vice Dean for Institutional Affairs in the School of Medicine and Senior Advisor to the Provost for Global Health Initiatives. He assumes his new positions today.
As Vice Dean, Brian will lead the School of Medicine’s critically important relationship with the Philadelphia Veterans Administration Medical Center (PVAMC). The School’s longstanding association with the PVAMC has provided exceptional opportunities for faculty and residents to diversify their professional experiences across SOM’s core missions. We are most grateful to Bernie Johnson for his leadership in stewarding this relationship during the last several years. Brian will build upon Bernie’s work to develop strategic partnerships with SOM’s chairs, leverage the expertise of faculty, and form collaborative relationships with the senior administration of the PVAMC, so as to advance mutual goals in clinical education, research, and patient care. Richard Citron, the newly appointed Director of the PVAMC, is enthusiastic about Brian’s appointment and eager to begin their work together.
Additionally, Brian will work closely with Drs. Marjorie Bowman and David Asch to develop and promote the educational and research missions of the Center for Public Health Initiatives (CHPI) and Leonard Davis Institute (LDI). He will also play a significant role in developing and implementing the PENN Medicine Biomedical Informatics Initiative.
As Senior Advisor to the Provost, Brian will work closely with the provost, deans, and provost’s senior leadership team to implement the university’s global health initiatives. He will coordinate public health activities across the university, help the provost develop and fund new programs, and work with key groups to advance Penn’s commitment to public health, global health, and health services research.
We are confident that Brian will be a tremendous partner in all our public health initiatives, across the university and around the world. He is an accomplished leader who knows how to forge collaborative relationships; and his dual appointment both recognizes his outstanding leadership and gives us all an opportunity to advance our collaborative work in these vital areas. His skill and experience will be a great asset to the university and to our critically important relationship with the Philadelphia Veterans Administration Medical Center.
Brian is a global leader in pharmacoepidemiology research, the application of epidemiologic methods to the study of drug use and effects. Editor and an author of Pharmacoepidemiology, the field’s major text (now in its fourth edition), he has written or co-written 475 papers, been principal investigator of over 200 grants, and served as President of the International Society of Pharmacoepidemiology and Editor for the Americas for Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety, its official journal. He is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and one of only a handful of clinical epidemiologists ever elected to the American Society of Clinical Investigation and American Association of Physicians.
A faculty member of the School of Medicine since 1980, and winner of a 2004 Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, he earned a M.P.H. in Epidemiology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1980; an M.D. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1975; and a B.S. in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University in 1971.