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UCSD Names Health Sciences Chief

UC San Diego has named a replacement for Ed Holmes, a former vice chancellor for health sciences and dean of the School of Medicine at UCSD, the school announced Jan. 18.

The UC Regents have appointed David Brenner, a gastroenterologist who is professor and chairman of the Department of Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center’s college of physicians and surgeons in New York City. Brenner, who spent time on UCSD’s Medical School faculty during the late 1980s and early 1990s, is also the physician in chief of the New York Presbyterian Hospital.

He will assume his new role in San Diego on Feb. 1. As chancellor, he will lead the medical school, the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UCSD Medical Center and UCSD Medical Group. Brenner will have oversight of more than 900 health sciences faculty physicians, pharmacists and scientists, 7,500 staff members, and more than 600 medical and pharmacy students. In addition, he will oversee the health system that cares for 125,000 patients annually, the school said.

Brenner, who has been Columbia’s chairman since 2003, holds a degree from the Yale University School of Medicine and has completed research in a genetics and biochemistry branch of the National Institutes of Health. Brenner’s research has focused on diseases of the liver, including the genetics of liver disease. He served as editor of the journal Gastroenterology for five years.

Brenner came to San Diego in 1985 on a fellowship in gastroenterology, later joining the faculty of the UCSD School of Medicine. He served as a physician at the Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, where he became a Pew scholar in the biomedical sciences and a clinical investigator.

Before heading to New York, he also worked for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition.

Holmes left UCSD several months ago to take a job in Singapore overseeing translational medicine at the National University of Singapore and the Agency for Science, Technology and Research, or A-STAR. He is also a medical professor at the university there.

, Katie Weeks

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