Kathleen Tracy, Ph.D., has been appointed the adjacent elder subordinate dean for probe astatine UVM's Larner College of Medicine. (Photo courtesy of J.K. Tracy)
Vermont Business Magazine Richard L. Page, M.D., dean of The Robert Larner, M.D. College of Medicine astatine the University of Vermont, has announced the assignment of J. Kathleen (Kate) Tracy, Ph.D., arsenic elder subordinate dean for research. Tracy volition besides service arsenic prof of medicine astatine the Larner College of Medicine and manager of probe astatine the UVM Health Network. She volition statesman her caller relation successful February 2023.
Tracy comes to Vermont from the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMB-SOM), wherever she is simply a prof of epidemiology and nationalist health, vice seat for probe services, epidemiology and nationalist health, and caput of the Division of Preventive Medicine.
She has been a subordinate of the UMB-SOM module since 2004, with secondary appointments successful the UMB-SOM Department of Medicine and the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health astatine the University of Maryland Baltimore County.
Since 2010 Tracy has been manager of the UMB-SOM Clinical and Translational Research Informatics Center. From 2017 to 2020 she was the inaugural manager of the Richard and Jane Sherman Center for Health Care Innovation, a UMB halfway formed to foster cross-campus probe and acquisition collaborations related to wellness attraction innovations. Since 2020 she has besides been peculiar advisor to the elder vice chancellor for world and pupil affairs of the University System of Maryland (USM), and successful this presumption has been liable for providing wide oversight, expertise and enactment to USM campuses’ and determination centers’ effect to the COVID-19 pandemic. Tracy holds a doctorate successful objective and wellness science from the University of Maryland Baltimore County.
A idiosyncratic with heavy expertise successful women’s health, with a attraction connected cervical crab prevention successful underserved populations, and informatics methods to enactment multi-disciplinary squad science, Tracy has published astir 100 peer-reviewed articles successful a assortment of fields. Engaged successful galore interdisciplinary collaborations, she has been main oregon co-principal researcher oregon sub-team pb connected probe studies totaling astir $100 cardinal successful backing from specified organizations arsenic the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
“We are delighted to invited Dr. Tracy to our College and UVM” said Dean Richard L. Page, M.D. “She brings extended acquisition successful subject and enactment that volition complement our existing strengths and volition supply for maturation of our probe impact. We particularly look guardant to enlargement of objective probe successful the UVM Health Network successful her relation arsenic manager of probe for the Network.”
Tracy succeeds Gordon L. Jensen, M.D., Ph.D., who retired arsenic the Larner College of Medicine’s elder subordinate dean for probe successful July. Richard Galbraith, M.D., Ph.D., has served arsenic interim elder subordinate dean for probe since Jensen’s retirement.
11.15.2022. BURLINGTON, VT -- Larner College of Medicine astatine the University of Vermont. MED.UVM.EDU
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