UCI Names Cygan to Head Hospital
Five months after taking the job on an interim basis, Dr. Ralph Cygan Friday was named director of UC Irvine Medical Center.
Cygan, 53, has been a faculty member at the UCI College of Medicine for more than 20 years, holding a variety of positions.
“We performed a rigorous national search for this very important position, and found that the most qualified candidate was right here at UCI,” Chancellor Ralph J. Cicerone said in a news release.
Cygan took the job after Mark Laret was appointed CEO of UC San Francisco Medical Center.
Cygan has a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Harvard University and medical degree from State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn. He is married and has two children.
The UC Regents must approve the appointment.
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