Leadership Updates

I want to share with you that I will no longer be serving as the Senior Vice President of Health Sciences. It has been a privilege to serve alongside you in support of the Health Sciences mission.

As the university positions itself for future success, it is adapting its organizational model in ways that reflect the mission and better serve our students while also enhancing opportunities for cross-collaboration in teaching, research and service.

I’m thrilled to share that Janko Nikolich, MD, PhD, director of the Aegis Consortium and chair of the Department of Immunobiology at the College of Medicine – Tucson, was confirmed as a Regents Professor at yesterday’s Arizona Board of Regents’ meeting.

I am pleased to announce that Dan Theodorescu, MD, PhD, is joining the University of Arizona Health Sciences as the director of the U of A Cancer Center on March 1.

As we kick off the Spring 2025 semester, I’d like to share with you a wonderful look back at last year: the U of A Health Sciences Impact Annual Report 2024.

Sharing updates from the groundbreaking for the Center for Advanced Molecular and Immunological Therapies (CAMI) in Phoenix on Oct. 30.

Director of didactic education and former Air Force colonel will lead accreditation review in the spring and launch of first class in August 2026.

The Center for Advanced Molecular and Immunological Therapies will be led by Deepta Bhattacharya, PhD, a renowned immunologist at the College of Medicine – Tucson.

Former Northwestern University director of the Center for Biomedical Informatics and Data Science brings extensive teaching and research background to Health Sciences.