JOHNSON CITY (July 12, 2021) – East Tennessee State University has appointed Dr. Leann Horsley as Dean of the College of Nursing.

Carol Anne Murdoch-Kinch has been named dean of the Indiana University School of Dentistry at IUPUI, subject to formal approval by the IU Board of Trustees.

Dr. Michael Chang recently was named chief medical officer for USA Health and associate vice president for medical affairs and professor of surgery at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine.

Penny A. Asbell, MD, FACS, MBA, FARVO, has been named chair of the Department of Ophthalmology in the College of Medicine and Director of the Hamilton Eye Institute at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC).

Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi announces Dr. Julie Anne Hoff as Dean of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences (CONHS).

Dr. Arthur E. “Art” Frankel, who led cancer research and clinical programs for three decades across the South, has been named chief of medical oncology at USA Mitchell Cancer Institute.

Dr. Marcia Katz, a nationally recognized clinical leader at Baylor College of Medicine and the Texas Medical Center, is joining UCF's College of Medicine as Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs.

Dr. John V. Marymont has been named vice president for medical affairs and dean of the College of Medicine at the University of South Alabama.  Marymont currently is chair of the department of orthopedics at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center at Shreveport.

The College of Health Sciences has named Kathryn S. Keim, PhD, RD, LDN, chairperson of the Department of Clinical Nutrition. She had served as the acting chairperson for the past year.