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Brian Strom, MD,
MPH, George S. Pepper Professor of Public Health
and Preventive Medicine, Chair of the Department of Biostatistics & Epidemiology,
and Director of the Center for Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics,
has been additionally 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. |
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As Vice Dean, Dr. Strom will lead the
School of Medicine’s relationship with the Philadelphia
Veterans Administration Medical Center. |
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Additionally, he will work closely to
develop and promote the educational and research missions
of the Center for Public Health Initiatives and Leonard Davis
Institute. He will also play a significant role in developing
and implementing the PENN Medicine Biomedical Informatics
Initiative. |
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As Senior Advisor to the Provost, Dr.
Strom will implement the University of Pennsylvania’s
global health initiatives. |
(PHILADELPHIA) – Brian
Strom, MD, MPH, George S. Pepper
Professor of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Chair of the
Department of Biostatistics & Epidemiology,
and Director of the Center
for Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, has been
additionally 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.
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Brian L. Strom, MD, MPH |
“Brian has a truly rare combination of talents that make him particularly
well suited for these two new positions,” said Dr.
Arthur H. Rubenstein,
Executive Vice President of the University of Pennsylvania for the Health System
and Dean of the School of Medicine. “Not
only has he made many significant contributions as a researcher and clinician
applying epidemiologic methods to the study of drug use and effects,
he is also an accomplished leader who knows how to forge collaborative
relationships to advance the field of public health.”
As Vice Dean, Dr. Strom will lead the School of Medicine’s relationship
with the Philadelphia Veterans Administration
Medical Center. This longstanding
association has provided exceptional opportunities for faculty
and residents to diversify their professional experiences.
Additionally, he will work closely to develop and promote the educational and
research missions of the Center for
Public Health Initiatives and Leonard
Davis Institute. He will also play a significant role in developing and implementing
the PENN Medicine Biomedical Informatics Initiative.
As Senior Advisor to the Provost, Dr. Strom will implement the
University of Pennsylvania’s global health initiatives. He will coordinate public health
activities across the university and work with key groups to advance Penn’s
commitment to public health, global health, and health services
research.
Dr. Strom is editor and an author of Pharmacoepidemiology,
the field’s
major text (now in its fourth edition) and has written or co-written
475 papers. He served as President of the International
Society of Pharmacoepidemiology and
Editor for the Americas for Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug
Safety, its official
journal.
He has been principal investigator of over 200 grants. Dr. Strom 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 for Clinical Investigation and American
Association of Physicians.
A faculty member of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine since 1980,
and winner of a 2004 Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, he earned an
MPH degree in Epidemiology from the University
of California, Berkeley in 1980;
an MD degree from the Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine in 1975; and
a BS degree in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale
University in
1971.
Dr. Strom lives in Penn Valley, Pa., with his wife, Elaine, and their two children.
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