Thomas Cavalieri, dean of the Rowan-Virtua School of Osteopathic Medicine, has been selected to service arsenic the inaugural elder vice provost of the precocious formed Virtua Health College of Medicine and Life Sciences and main world serviceman of Virtua Health, it was announced Wednesday.
In his caller relation arsenic elder vice provost, Cavalieri volition person oversight of each the undergraduate and postgraduate acquisition and probe programs, arsenic good arsenic the infrastructure and systems to enactment the world ngo of the 3 schools that are portion of the Virtua Health College. (Those schools are the Rowan-Virtua School of Osteopathic Medicine, the Rowan-Virtua School of Nursing & Health Professions, and the Rowan-Virtua School of Translational Biomedical Engineering & Sciences.)
As the main world serviceman for Virtua, helium volition measure and coordinate the world show of the residents, students and fellows, ensuring that the shared strategical goals betwixt the assemblage and the wellness strategy enactment aligned.
Tony Lowman, provost and elder vice president for world affairs for Rowan University, said Cavalieri is the cleanable prime for the roles.
“Dr. Cavalieri has served arsenic dean astatine the School of Osteopathic Medicine since 2006,” helium said. “Under his leadership, the aesculapian schoolhouse has experienced tremendous growth, much than doubling enrollment and expanding to a 2nd campus. At the aforesaid time, the aesculapian school’s objective signifier has continued to grow, with much than 130 physicians and wellness attraction providers delivering aesculapian services passim confederate New Jersey.”
It was conscionable implicit a twelvemonth agone that Rowan University, 1 of the nation’s Top 100 nationalist probe universities, and Virtua Health, the largest wellness strategy successful confederate New Jersey, announced the caller world wellness concern to alteration aesculapian education, wellness attraction transportation and biomedical probe successful the region.
The concern encompasses New Jersey’s lone osteopathic aesculapian school, an expanded nursing and allied wellness professions school, a caller schoolhouse of translational biomedical engineering and sciences, and aligned objective practices.
Key station for Drye
Rowan University announced that Terri Drye volition presume a cardinal enactment relation arsenic main administrative serviceman wrong the Virtua Health College of Medicine and Life Sciences.
Drye volition oversee the modulation of the doc signifier plan, integration of the nursing schoolhouse and administrative oversight for the college. Her 20-plus years of wellness attraction enactment experience, with 10 years arsenic a elder person successful the roles of main quality resources serviceman and main administrative serviceman successful some world and assemblage wellness care, volition beryllium invaluable successful aligning and increasing programs successful her relation arsenic strategy vice president.
Drye has served arsenic main quality resources serviceman astatine Rowan since December 2017. She volition clasp strategical oversight of HR successful the relation of CHRO successful summation to this caller role.
Dr. Reginald Blaber, enforcement vice president and main objective serviceman for Virtua Health, besides praised the selection.
“We are thrilled that Dr. Cavalieri volition pb the caller Virtua Health College,” helium said. “Throughout his career, helium has been a tireless advocator for aesculapian education, probe and improving the lives of medically underserved individuals. At the aforesaid time, helium has helped to beforehand the aesculapian assemblage done his enactment connected respective statewide and nationalist committees.”
A prof of medicine and the Osteopathic Heritage Endowed Chair for Primary Care Research, Cavalieri is the founding manager of the Center of Aging, which has grown into the Rowan-Virtua New Jersey Institute for Successful Aging. He is the recipient of galore awards for his advocacy and diligent attraction and has authored much than 40 peer-reviewed publications, galore of which absorption connected end-of-life issues.
Cavalieri said helium is anxious to instrumentality connected the caller roles.
“I’m honored and humbled by the assurance that Rowan University and Virtua Health person placed successful me, and excited by the situation of starring the Virtua Health College,” helium said. “Our ngo is clear. We volition question to amended the wellness of New Jersey residents, make opportunities to bid the adjacent procreation of wellness attraction professionals, innovate probe that impacts lives and summation wellness equity by gathering the needs of medically underserved communities. I’m looking guardant to moving with the galore talented individuals astatine Rowan and astatine Virtua Health as, together, we enactment to execute those goals.”
The caller Virtua Health College of Medicine and Life Sciences of Rowan University is supported by Virtua Health’s philanthropic concern of $85 cardinal to Rowan University to make an endowment that volition substance investments successful faculty, acquisition programs and the operation of a state-of-the-art probe facility.
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