Dr. Nancy C. Andrews has been reappointed to a second
five-year term as dean of the Duke School of Medicine, Dr. Victor J. Dzau,
chancellor for health affairs at Duke, announced Thursday.
The reappointment followed her review conducted in
accordance with university policy. A
committee chaired by Michael Merson, professor of medicine and director of the
Duke Global Health Institute, collected comments from the university committee
and submitted a report to Dzau and Provost Peter Lange.
"Nancy effectively led the School of Medicine through
the historically challenging financial crisis at the end of the last decade and
has advanced our academic mission through recruiting new department chairs,
strengthening laboratory cores and developing new initiatives," Dzau said
in a message to faculty announcing the reappointment.
"I look forward to the contributions Nancy will
continue make across our clinical, research and educational missions."
Andrews
also carries the title of vice chancellor for academic affairs for Duke
Medicine. A pediatric
hematologist/oncologist by training, she is also a professor in the departments
of Pediatrics and Pharmacology & Cancer Biology.
She came to Duke in 2007 following a successful career as a
physician/scientist at Harvard Medical School, where she also was dean for
basic sciences and graduate studies.
At Duke, Andrews has maintained an active NIH-funded
research laboratory studying mouse models of human diseases. A Howard Hughes
Medical Institute Investigator from 1993 to 2006, she has authored more than 100
peer-reviewed articles and 16 book chapters.
Among her numerous research awards and honors are memberships in the
Institute of Medicine of the National Academies and in the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences. She is a past president of the American Society of Clinical
Investigation.