The University of Iowa has announced the composition of the search committee for the next vice president for medical affairs and dean of the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine. The first meeting of the 17-person committee will be held Thursday, Dec. 1.

UI President Bruce Harreld previously named Bruce Gantz, head of the Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery in the Carver College of Medicine, and Carroll Reasoner, vice president for legal affairs and general counsel, co-chairs of the search committee to replace Jean Robillard.

Robillard will continue to serve as vice president and dean until a new leader is named.

The UI search committee will include: 

Dale Abel—the John B. Stokes III chair in diabetes research, chair of the Department of Internal Medicine and professor of biochemistry, director of the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, and director of the Fraternal Order of Eagles Diabetes Research Center at the Carver College of Medicine

John Buatti—professor and chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology

Kathleen Buckwalter—professor emerita in the UI College of Nursing 

P. Barry Butler—UI executive vice president and provost

Keith Carter—Lillian C. O’Brien and Dr. C.S. O’Brien Chair in Ophthalmology, chair and head of the Department of Ophthalmology

Janet Fairley—chair, John S. Strauss professor and head professor in the Department of Dermatology 

Richard Fumerton—F. Wendell Miller professor of philosophy 

Mark Hingtgen—assistant vice president for finance in the Carver College of Medicine 

Matt Howard—professor and chair of the Department of Neurosurgery and a member of the Pappajohn Biomedical Institute (PBI)

Ken Kates—associate vice president and chief executive officer of UI Hospitals and Clinics

Nicole Nisly—associate chair for diversity and clinical professor of the UI Department of Internal Medicine

Todd Patterson—chief operating officer, UI Physicians

Mike Richards—member of the Iowa Board of Regents

Curt Sigmund—professor and chair of pharmacology in the Carver College of Medicine

Michael Welsh—professor of internal medicine and director of the PBI