Toronto Physician Accepts UCSD Medical School Post
Dr. Gerard Noel Burrow, chief of medicine at the University of Toronto and chief physician at Toronto General Hospital, has accepted a position as dean of the medical school at the University of California at San Diego, Burrow confirmed Monday.
The 54-year-old endocrinologist said he had decided to take the job offered to him by UCSD Chancellor Richard Atkinson.
The Boston native said he plans to begin about March 1.
Burrow noted the university’s fast-growing reputation and the potential for creative work.
“I think UCSD in a very short period of time has risen to a position of national and international prominence, based on an extremely strong research base,” he said.
The appointment of Burrow must be confirmed by the UC regents, who are expected to consider the matter in November. Burrow would succeed Dr. Robert G. Petersdorf, who resigned last September to head the Assn. of American Medical Colleges in Washington.
Burrow said he became head of endocrinology at the University of Toronto in 1976 and was named chief of medicine there in 1981. Before going to Canada, Burrow was a professor of medicine at Yale University for 10 years.
Burrow also served on the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission from 1959 to 1961, studying the effects of the World War II bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.
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