Founding director of the trauma center at the University of Chicago Hospitals — where he also serves as executive vice president of community health engagement and chief of trauma and acute care surgery — participated in a public forum Monday as the third finalist to lead University of Iowa Health Care and its medical college.
Selwyn O. Rogers, Jr. was unveiled Sunday as the third of four prospects to succeed Brooks Jackson as vice president for medical affairs over UI Health Care and dean of the UI Carver College of Medicine.
The first two finalists participated in forums last week:
- Sandra L. Wong, professor of surgery and chair of the Department of Surgery at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and Dartmouth Health — also serving as professor of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice;
- Cristen P. Page, executive dean of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, where she supervises a team of vice deans, chairs, and center directors.
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Rogers has been with the University of Chicago since 2017. Before that, he served in various roles with the University of Texas Medical Branch — including as vice president and chief medical officer from 2014 to 2016, as well as assistant dean for clinical affairs and professor of surgery during that time.
In the early 2000s, Rogers served as section and then division chief of the Trauma, Burn, and Surgical Critical Care unit at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he also served as director of the Center for Surgery and Public Health.
Rogers earned his bachelor’s at Harvard University, along with master’s and doctorates from Harvard Medical School and Vanderbilt University.
The last of the four finalists’ name is scheduled for release Wednesday — 24 hours before he’s scheduled to participate in the final public forum Thursday.
Jackson, who announced plans to resign in February but stay on as a faculty researcher, said he’ll remain in the vice presidential role until his successor starts. Once that happens, UIHC will initiate a search for a new UI Hospitals and Clinics CEO — after Suresh Gunasekaran left in February to lead the University of California San Francisco Academic Health System.
Third UIHC VP finalist directs University of Chicago trauma center
Founding director of the trauma center at the University of Chicago Hospitals — where he also serves as executive vice president of community health engagement and chief of trauma and acute care surgery — participated in a public forum Monday as the third finalist to lead University of Iowa...
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