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Dr. David Stern is currently Vice President for Health Affairs (effective January 1, 2008) at the University of Cincinnati and Dean of the College of Medicine.
He comes to these positions after a career as a physician-scientist mainly at the College of Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University.
After completing college at Yale and medical school at Harvard, Dr. Stern began a long stint in New York at Columbia. He started as an intern in internal medicine in 1978. By the time he left New York for Georgia in 2002, he was the Carrus Professor and Director of the Center for Vascular and Lung Pathobiology.
Dr. Stern’s research work focused on properties of the blood vessel wall, especially in chronic vascular disorders such as diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease.
During the course of building the research Center at Columbia, Dr. Stern became fascinated with building programs at academic medical centers.
That led him into administration and his first job as a medical school Dean at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta. Dr. Stern spent three years in Georgia where he was known for his rapid recruitment of many department chairs, enhancing the school’s focus on diversity, and forging a strong partnership between the school and the health system.
In July of 2005, Dr. Stern assumed the Deanship at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine (COM) and was named Vice President for Health Affairs, in addition to Dean, in January of 2008. Since coming to UC, Dr. Stern has named chairs of multiple departments, formed a Joint Cancer Program with Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, led the development of a strategic plan involving the COM, UC Physicians and the University Hospital, and taken a leadership role in enhancing UC Physicians.
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