Julie Byerley appointed President and Dean of Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine
DANVILLE, Pa. – Geisinger announced that Julie Byerley, M.D., M.P.H., will serve as the new president and dean of the Geisinger Commonwealth College of Drugs (GCSOM), govt vice president and main educational officer, productive January 1, 2022. She succeeds Steven Scheinman, M.D., who has served as the president and dean of the school since 2012. Scheinman is established to retire at the close of this calendar year.
“I am thrilled to announce Julie Byerley as our school’s following president and dean,” stated Jaewon Ryu, M.D., J.D., president and CEO of Geisinger. “In addition to staying a hugely highly regarded chief in schooling and her several career accomplishments, Dr. Byerley’s enthusiasm for tutorial excellence, study, and instructing will be significant to aiding us understand our vision: to make far better health less difficult for the communities we provide. We could not be more thrilled to have her be a part of our crew and guide GCSOM into the future.”
“We’re self-assured Dr. Byerley will operate to assure the good quality of GCSOM’s educational systems and accreditation that will not only floor pupils with the incredibly ideal in healthcare instruction, study and innovation, but will instill her enthusiasm for individual outcomes that will finally profit our communities for generations to follow,” mentioned Virginia McGregor, chair of the GCSOM board. “We want to thank Dr. Scheinman for his management during the years and eyesight in increasing GCSOM from a little local community institution into the nationally revered health-related university it is currently. We seem forward to operating with Dr. Byerley to carry on this custom of excellence at GCSOM and to develop upon the foundation that Dr. Scheinman assisted us set up.”
“I’m honored and ecstatic to be becoming a member of as the new president and dean of GCSOM and Geisinger’s chief educational officer,” explained Dr. Byerley. “The university has a perfectly-identified national track record for becoming ground breaking, community centric and affected individual focused when delivering hands-on schooling and coaching that prepares college students for careers in healthcare. And our exploration establishment has prolonged been regarded as a person of the most groundbreaking groups in medication making use of populace and individual-primarily based information. I am keen to serve and operate intently with pupils, personnel, scientists and school to more the success of the school, our investigation surroundings and all of the educational and education systems that we present to make much better health much easier for every person our pupils, alumni and researchers will affect through their professions.”
As the new dean, Byerley will give visionary management for GCSOM, assuring excellence, innovation, and a target on learners, patients, and the marketing of overall health. She will continue to establish GCSOM as a leader in the sector and design the community assistance mission of the firm.
In addition to her GCSOM obligations, as chief educational officer, Dr. Byerley will leverage her experience from a environment-class tutorial and analysis establishment at the College of North Carolina (UNC) to also oversee the administration of academic experiences for learners through Geisinger, such as graduate healthcare schooling, nursing, pharmacy, advanced practitioners and other health and fitness professions.
She will also be accountable for overseeing Geisinger’s globe-renowned exploration environment that incorporates extra than 50 whole-time research faculty and a lot more than 30 clinician investigators dependable for groundbreaking healthcare breakthroughs like the MyCode Precision Overall health Initiative and far more. Geisinger’s places of study abilities span precision health and fitness, genomics, informatics, data science, implementation science, results research, health solutions exploration, bioethics and participation in hundreds of clinical trials each year.
Byerley has been with the UNC School of Medicine since 2002, serving lately as vice dean for academic affairs wherever she oversaw the school’s educational business and the Place of work of College Affairs and Management Advancement. Because January 2021 she has served as interim dean of the UNC Adams College of Dentistry.
Byerley attained her bachelor’s degree in physics and a educating certificate from Rhodes University and attended clinical school at Duke College. She accomplished her pediatrics residency and main residency at UNC-Chapel Hill in which she also gained a master’s degree in general public health and fitness with a focus on maternal and child health.