A surgical oncologist and department chair with academic roots in the Big Ten on Sunday became the first of four finalists identified to replace Brooks Jackson as vice president for medical affairs atop University of Iowa Health Care and as dean of the UI Carver College of Medicine.
Sandra L. Wong, professor of surgery and Department of Surgery chair at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and Dartmouth Health, also is professor of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice — with a long record as a health services researcher funded by the likes of the National Institutes of Health and the American Cancer Society.
Wong will visit the UI campus Monday and Tuesday to meet with faculty, staff, students, and administrators. She’s scheduled to participate in an open forum from noon to 1 p.m. Monday in the UI Medical Education Research Facility — a forum that also will be streamed via Zoom online.
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Other finalist forums are scheduled for Thursday; Monday, Aug. 29; and Thursday, Sept. 1 at the same time in the same location. The university will release names of each finalist 24 hours before their planned public forum.
Jackson, a pathologist by training who in February announced plans to step down from his vice presidential post to take a faculty research position, will remain in the administrative role until his successor begins.
Earlier in his career, Jackson established himself an internationally-recognized AIDS researcher — serving as principal investigator of the National Institutes of Health-funded International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials Network.
He came to Iowa in 2017 from a similar post at the University of Minnesota, leading the health sciences enterprise and the campus’ medical college.
In 2018, Jackson hired UI Hospitals and Clinics CEO Suresh Gunasekaran — who announced a month before Jackson that he was leaving UIHC to lead the prestigious University of California San Francisco Academic Health System.
The university hasn’t started its search for a new UIHC CEO, given its vice president for medical affairs post is in transition.
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Any successor chosen for Jackson will step into the health care operation — which boasts at $2.3 billion operating budget for fiscal 2023 — during a time of significant growth.
The hospital is building a $525 million campus in North Liberty, adding two stories to its existing inpatient tower, and eyeing a new inpatient tower in the coming years.
Wong holds degrees from the University of California-Berkeley; Northwestern University Medical School; and the University of Michigan School of Public Health.
She worked as an attending physician in surgical oncology at the University of Michigan Hospital and Health Systems for a decade before moving to Darmouth, where she continues as a surgical oncologist.
Wong has served as an administrator at various levels since 2007 — including as senior vice president of the surgical service line at Darmouth and chair of the Dartmouth Department of surgery, both positions she current holds.
She’s taught at the graduate and undergraduate level; spoken at numerous events; mentored dozens of medical students, residents, fellows, research associates, and faculty researchers.
And Wong has garnered tens of millions in past and present research funding.
To watch her public forum via zoom at noon, find the link on this page: https://now.uiowa.edu/2022/08/first...airs-carver-college-medicine-dean#more-145403
First UI Health Care VP finalist named, forum at noon
A surgical oncologist and department chair with academic roots in the Big Ten on Sunday became the first of four finalists identified to replace Brooks Jackson as vice president for medical affairs atop University of Iowa Health Care and as dean of the UI Carver College of Medicine.
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