Dr.
Strom: PennMed/UPHS
Dr.
Brian L. Strom, George S. Pepper Professor of Public
Health and Preventive Medicine, has been appointed
Associate Vice Dean and Associate Vice President for
Strategic Integration, EVP of UPHS/Dean of the School
of Medicine, Dr. Arthur Rubenstein and UPHS CEO Ralph
Muller announced recently.
Dr.
Strom will be responsible for integration of the research,
clinical and educational activities of the medical
school and health system. "Successful planning and
implementation of maximal synergy in these endeavors
is a challenge that we all face," said Dr. Rubenstein. "Brian's
primary charge in these positions is to ensure that
we take full advantage of our system-wide resources
in mission planning and operation. In conducting this
effort he will approach the review of existing activities
and the generation of new opportunities from an end-user
perspective that cuts across each of the major constituencies:
faculty, school and health system administration and
staff, and clinical and research trainees," Dr. Rubenstein
added.
"His
first specific project task in this new position is
to develop an integrated vision for medical/biomedical
informatics at Penn Medicine. Brian will be reaching
out to all components of this area for participation,
from patient registry and care to health services and
genomics research and education," said Mr. Muller.
Dr.
Strom is also chair and professor of biostatistics & epidemiology,
professor of medicine, professor of pharmacology, and
director of the Center for Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics,
and chair of the Graduate Group in Epidemiology & Biostatistics.
He will retain these responsibilities in accepting
this new position. "Indeed, the breadth of his current
activities: as investigator, mentor, practicing physician,
and administrative leader positions him ideally for
this new responsibility," added Dr. Rubenstein.
After
earning his B.S. in molecular biophysics and biochemistry
at Yale, Dr. Strom obtained his M.D. degree from the
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, was an
intern and resident in Internal Medicine and NIH fellow
in clinical pharmacology at the University of California,
San Francisco, and earned the M.P.H. degree in epidemiology
at UC Berkeley. He has been on the faculty here since
1980. Although Dr. Strom's interests span many areas
of clinical epidemiology, his major research interest
is in pharmacoepidemiology; here he has authored over
350 manuscripts and held over 175 grants.
He
was a member of the Board of Regents of the American
College of Physicians, the Board of Directors of the
American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics,
and the Board of Directors for the American College
of Epidemiology. He is Editor for the Americas for Pharmacoepidemiology
and Drug Safety, the official journal of the International
Society for Pharmacoepidemiology and the International
Society of Pharmacovigilance.
He
serves on the Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory
Committee for the U.S. FDA. He is an elected member
of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy
of Sciences. He chaired the Institute Committee to
Assess the Safety and Efficacy of the Anthrax Vaccine,
and is currently Chair of the Institute Committee on
Smallpox Vaccine Program Implementation. Dr. Strom
is one of only a handful of clinical epidemiologists
ever elected to the American Society of Clinical Investigation
and American Association of Physicians.