Governing Board:
David Stern
, MD
Vice President for Health Affairs; Dean, College of Medicine
University of Cincinnati
David Stern, MD, serves as dean of the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine and vice president for health affairs in addition to his role as co-director of the Cincinnati Cancer Consortium. A search is currently under way for a permanent director to lead the collaborative program.
Stern joined the UC College of Medicine in June 2005 from the Medical College of Georgia, where he had served as dean of medicine and professor of medicine, physiology and graduate studies since April 2002.
Stern completed his undergraduate work at Yale University and received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School. He spent most of the next 24 years at the College of Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University in New York, where he completed an internal medicine residency and a fellowship in hematology.
Beginning in 1985, he spent two years at Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation in Oklahoma City before returning to Columbia as an associate professor in the physiology and cellular biophysics department. He established a laboratory that grew into Columbia's Center for Vascular and Lung Pathobiology. He also became the Gerald and Janet Carrus Professor of Surgical Sciences and professor of physiology and cellular biophysics and directed Columbia's Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Center on the Vascular Complications of Diabetes.