SAN DIEGO : Medical School Names New Dean
The UC San Diego School of Medicine has named the head of neurological surgery as its new dean.
Dr. John F. Alksne will become acting dean immediately and then begin a three year-term as dean, pending final approval by the University Board of Regents. He succeeds Dr. Gerard N. Burrow, who will leave July 1 to become dean of the Yale University School of Medicine.
Alksne, 59, joined the UCSD School of Medicine faculty in 1971. He was a professor of neurological surgery at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond from 1967 to 1971 and previously chief of neurosurgery at Harbor General Hospital and assistant professor of neurosurgery at UCLA from 1964 to 1967.
He established and directs the Epilepsy Surgery Program at UCSD.
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