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Medical school dean
announces
retirement, new role
Medicine and health
programs lifted up
in new assignment
within provost’s
office
(Sept. 14, 2011 –
Athens, OH)
The family practice
physician who
spearheaded the
effort that resulted
in the largest
single gift ever to
a public institution
of higher education
in Ohio today
announced plans to
assume a new
leadership role
within Ohio
University.
Jack
Brose, D.O., dean of
the Ohio University
Heritage College of
Osteopathic Medicine
(OU-HCOM) and
executive dean for
health affairs at
Ohio University,
told faculty, staff,
students and guests
during his annual
State of the College
address he will be
retiring as dean as
of July 1, 2012, and
continuing his
faculty role at the
medical school under
the university’s
faculty early
retirement program.
At
the request of Pam
Benoit, Ohio
University Executive
Vice-President and
Provost, he will
also assume new
responsibilities
within her office as
the university’s
senior executive
director for health
services and special
assistant to the
executive vice
president and
provost.
In
this capacity, Dr.
Brose will advise
and support the
Provost’s Office on
the development of
the recently
approved central
Ohio regional
extension campus.
The campus will
allow Ohio
University to expand
the training of
primary care
physicians and
explore new health
care partnerships in
the state.
“This
is an important time
of growth for
health-related
disciplines at Ohio
University,” said
Dr. Benoit. “I know
that Jack will apply
the great skill and
dedication that he
brought to his work
as dean to his new
assignment. I
am very pleased that
the university will
be able to depend
upon his ability to
be a creative and
strategic leader and
to build on the
relationships that
he has established
across the
university and the
state.”
“I
want to take on some
new challenges, and
I’m also looking
forward to spending
a bit more time
teaching and with my
wife and
grandchildren,” said
Dr. Brose. “It’s an
exciting time at the
college, and I am
pleased to
contribute as we
move forward to
realize the
University’s
potential in health
care education.”
In
2009, Dr. Brose
initiated a
strategic planning
process for the
college’s next 10
years that
culminated last
April with the
announcement of a
$105 million gift to
the medical school
from the Osteopathic
Heritage
Foundations.
The
gift, the fifth
largest ever given
to a medical school
in the United
States, will be used
to open an OU-HCOM
regional extension
campus in central
Ohio by 2014 that
will accommodate an
additional 50
students per class.
The gift will also
be used to help
build a new
Diabetes/Endocrine
Clinical Treatment
Research Center and
a new facility for
the Ohio
Musculoskeletal and
Neurological
Institute, both on
the Athens campus.
The award will also
fund a major
transformation of
the college’s
curriculum, and it
provides money for
new scholarships and
loan forgiveness
programs for
graduates
who
commit to practicing
primary care in
underserved areas of
Ohio.
Dr.
Benoit indicated
that a search would
be conducted during
the academic year
for a new OU-HCOM
dean. “We hope
to have a
faculty-led search
committee appointed
by mid-October,
on-campus interviews
in March and April,
and the selection of
a dean in May.”
Dr.
Brose was named the
college’s fifth dean
in November of 2001.
He came to the
college in 1982 as
an assistant
professor of family
medicine and was
promoted to full
professor in 1993.
He has served as
director of the
Pre-doctoral Family
Medicine Fellowship
Program, associate
chair of the
Department of Family
Medicine, assistant
dean for Educational
Development and
Research, and
Assistant Dean for
Clinical Research.
During his tenure as
dean, Dr. Brose
oversaw a 40 percent
increase in the
college’s
enrollment,
redevelopment of the
college curriculum,
and construction of
new facilities and
renovations of many
of OU-HCOM’s
existing facilities,
including the $34.5
million,
89,000-square-foot
Osteopathic Heritage
Foundations and
Charles R. and
Marilyn Y. Stuckey
Academic & Research
Center; the opening
of the Life Sciences
Research Facility;
and in 2011, the
Heritage Clinical
Training and
Assessment Center &
Community Clinic.
Under
Dr. Brose’s
leadership, OU-HCOM
completed the
necessary
privatization of the
college’s faculty
physician practice,
which became
University Medical
Associates, and last
year took
responsibility for
Ohio University’s
student health
services, now known
as Campus Care.
Also, the college’s
system of teaching
hospitals across the
state, the Centers
for Osteopathic
Research and
Education, doubled
in size from 12 to
24 hospitals.
Throughout his
career at OU-HCOM,
including his time
as dean, Dr. Brose
continued to
practice medicine,
in recent years
volunteering in the
college’s free
Community Clinic,
which he founded in
2005.
In
addition, Dr. Brose
encouraged expanded
medical research
efforts, especially
in cancer, diabetes
and related
illnesses. Largely
due to the new drug,
Somavert®,
developed by OU-HCOM
professor John
Kopchick, Ph.D.,
Ohio University
ranks as the top
public university in
Ohio, and among the
top in the nation,
for research
royalties. Forbes
magazine ranked Ohio
University fourth in
the nation for
research returns on
investment.
“Through Jack
Brose’s excellent
leadership, the Ohio
University Heritage
College of
Osteopathic Medicine
has progressed,
excelled, and moved
into an exciting new
era,” said Ohio
University President
Roderick J. McDavis.
“Jack’s passion for
medical education
and service to our
region and state
have placed OU-HCOM
in a position of
strength resulting
in partnerships for
an exciting future.
The synergy he has
fostered is a firm
foundation for the
future success of
OU-HCOM. For his
passion, his energy,
and his vision, we
are very grateful.
We treasure Jack
Brose as a colleague
and a visionary and
thank him for his
thoughtful
leadership through
this important time
of transition.”
Dr.
Brose has received
twenty-six
“outstanding
instructor awards”
at OU-HCOM. He
also served on The
Ohio State
University College
of Medicine faculty
and was named
“Faculty of the
Year” by the OSU
Family Practice
residents. In
2001, the Ohio
Academy of Family
Physicians named him
as “Ohio Educator of
the Year.”
Dr.
Brose served as the
chairman of the Ohio
Council of Medical
School Deans for two
terms, and has been
commended for
bringing together
Ohio’s medical
schools to advocate
on behalf of medical
education in the
Ohio General
Assembly. He also is
the author of
numerous academic
and research
publications,
including a book
entitled “Guide to
EKG
Interpretation.”
Dr.
Brose received his
undergraduate degree
in biology from
Gettysburg College
in 1972. He attended
the University of
North Texas Health
Science Center at
Fort Worth - Texas
College of
Osteopathic Medicine
and earned his
Doctor of
Osteopathic Medicine
degree in 1976. He
completed a
residency in family
practice at the USAF
Medical Center
Scott, Scott Air
Force Base, in 1979
where he was chief
resident from 1978
to 1979, and
completed a Teaching
and Research
Fellowship at The
Ohio State
University College
of Medicine in
Columbus.
“I
have had the honor
of working with the
most talented people
in medical education
at the college,”
said Dr. Brose. “Our
faculty, staff and
students have
achieved so much
since I started here
in 1982. All these
advances were made
possible by their
vision and hard
work. I’m going to
miss everyone
terribly, but I’m
looking forward to
working with
university
leadership to build
relationships and
develop the funding
necessary to realize
the University’s
emerging health care
vision.”
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