A doctor and leader from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine has been named as the new head of University of Chicago Medicine.
Dr. Mark Anderson will become University of Chicago’s executive vice president for medical affairs, dean of the division of the biological sciences and dean of the Pritzker School of Medicine on Oct. 1. He replaces Dr. Kenneth Polonsky who announced in March that he would leave after 12 years leading the institution.
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Polonsky will become a senior advisor at the end of September and will remain a tenured faculty member at UChicago.
Anderson is now director of the Department of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, as well as the William Osler Professor of Medicine and physician-in-chief of The Johns Hopkins Hospital. Previously, he led a cardiovascular research center and the department of medicine at the University of Iowa and served on the medical faculty at Vanderbilt University.
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He’s also an expert on the mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmias and heart failure, and has published more than 160 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters and book reviews.
University of Chicago Medicine includes the University of Chicago Medical Center, one of the largest and most highly rated hospitals in the city. It also includes Ingalls Memorial Hospital in Harvey as well as dozens of outpatient clinics.
The system announced plans earlier this year to build a $633 million, 500,000-square-foot cancer hospital in Hyde Park to address health inequities on the South Side, attract more patients and free up space for more patients at the main hospital.
The university also announced last week that Chancellor Robert Zimmer was stepping down amid his battle with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of cancer that affects the brain or spinal cord.
