By: Deborah Johnson Wood
Two years ago, Saint Mary’s Health Care and the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine agreed to a partnership with a promise of opportunities for collaboration. One of those opportunities has arrived.
Dr. David Kaufman, currently department chair of the Colleges of Human Medicine and Osteopathic Medicine, has been named the inaugural medical director of Saint Mary’s neuroscience programs, a three-year appointment.
Neurosciences will be located in the $60 million, 140,000-square-foot Hauenstein Center at Saint Mary’s Health Care when crews wrap up construction in early 2009.
“We have been conducting a search for a medical director for about two years and we are most pleased that Dr. Kaufman has agreed to join us,” said Philip H. McCorkle, Saint Mary’s CEO and president in a prepared statement.
Recruiting nationally renowned leaders for the neuroscience program will help Saint Mary’s create the desired model for the neuroscience programs. Dr. Kaufman will help with recruitment as part of the agreement between the hospital and MSU.
“Dr. Kaufman’s appointment as medical director of Saint Mary’s Health Care neuroscience programs will further strengthen the connection between our organizations, and his role in building the program and its future will benefit this region and the entire state,” said Lou Anna K. Simon, MSU president.
Source: Saint Mary’s Health Care; MSU College of Human Medicine
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Deborah Johnson Wood is development news editor for Rapid Growth Media. She can be contacted at [email protected].
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