Robin K. Dreisigacker, JD, to join the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix as vice dean of finance and administration

Robin K. Dreisigacker, JD, will join the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix as vice dean of finance and administration.

Having served in management and executive roles in academic medical centers for 20 years and as associate dean of finance and administration for the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine since 2019, Dreisigacker brings extensive experience to her new role.

At UAMS College of Medicine, she served as the chief operations officer, chief financial officer and chief of staff to the dean, maintaining operational oversight for the more than 30 departments of the college, as well as all the centralized support services. She also led the planning, organizational performance, change and crisis management of the UAMS College of Medicine, overseeing more than 3,200 faculty/staff and an estimated budget of $550 million.

Dreisigacker's interest in academic medicine was ignited in 1995 while serving as a project manager on a physician outreach project at the University of Pennsylvania. Since then, she has gone on to hold management and leadership roles in areas spanning operations, strategic planning, communications and government relations at both the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center and the University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center. She also operated a strategic planning/management consulting practice and launched a general civil legal practice in New Mexico from 2012 to 2015.

Dreisigacker has held several key committee roles throughout her career — including as a member and secretary of the Arkansas Rural Practice Board, a position she was appointed to by then Governor Hutchinson, co-chair of the Finance and Operations Committee for the Baptist/UAMS Educational Consortium, a member of the Child Health Executive Committee, a joint UAMS and Arkansas Children's Hospital initiative, and more.

She received her juris doctor degree from the University of New Mexico School of Law, where she was honored with the Health Law Scholar Award. Dreisigacker received a bachelor of arts with distinction in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania.