Messages from the Executive Vice President

January 14, 2011

Search for Chair of the Department of Psychiatry

I am pleased to announce the launch of a search for the next chair of the Department of Psychiatry. Dr. George Kuchel will chair this effort. The members of the committee are listed below and they will be called together in the next few weeks to begin their work. I have asked them to work diligently to identify a diverse group of candidates and I ask your assistance in this regard. Please contact Dr. Kuchel if you know of persons we might invite to submit their names for consideration.

The members of the Psychiatry Chair Search Committee are:

• George Kuchel, M.D., Chair, Professor, Department of Medicine; Director, UConn Center on Aging
• Daniel Connor, M.D., Professor, Department of Psychiatry
• Jonathan Covault, Ph.D., M.D., Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry
• Robert Fuller, M.D., Associate Professor, Department of Traumatology and Emergency Medicine
• Victor Hesselbrock, Ph.D., Professor and Interim Chair, Department of Psychiatry
• Ellen Leone, R.N., M.S.N., Associate Vice President of Operations, and Director of Nursing, John Dempsey Hospital
• Godfrey Pearlson, M.D.,  Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine and Lab Director at the Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center at the Institute of Living
• Surita Rao, M.B.B.S., Assistant Professor (St. Francis), and Head, Department of Psychiatry, St. Francis
• Pramod Srivastava, Ph.D., M.D., Professor and Interim Chair, Department of Immunology
• Susan Tannenbaum, M.D., Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
• Julie Wagner, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Oral Health and Diagnostic Sciences (SODM) and Psychiatry (SOM)
• Leslie Wolfson, M.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Neurology

Thank you.

Cato T. Laurencin, M.D., Ph.D.
Vice President for Health Affairs
Dean, UConn School of Medicine