{"id":674,"date":"2015-05-04T19:37:51","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T02:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/extra\/?p=674"},"modified":"2025-10-08T15:50:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T22:50:34","slug":"committee-set-to-find-wsu-medical-school-founding-dean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/campus-community\/committee-set-to-find-wsu-medical-school-founding-dean\/","title":{"rendered":"Committee Set to Find WSU Medical School Founding Dean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-spokane\/uploads\/sites\/456\/2015\/05\/2-Misc-Composite-lab-Research-Simulation_46.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-678\" src=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-spokane\/uploads\/sites\/456\/2015\/05\/2-Misc-Composite-lab-Research-Simulation_46-396x264.jpg\" alt=\"WSU medical school\" width=\"528\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-spokane\/uploads\/sites\/456\/2015\/05\/2-Misc-Composite-lab-Research-Simulation_46-396x264.jpg 396w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-spokane\/uploads\/sites\/456\/2015\/05\/2-Misc-Composite-lab-Research-Simulation_46-792x528.jpg 792w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-spokane\/uploads\/sites\/456\/2015\/05\/2-Misc-Composite-lab-Research-Simulation_46-990x660.jpg 990w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-spokane\/uploads\/sites\/456\/2015\/05\/2-Misc-Composite-lab-Research-Simulation_46-1188x792.jpg 1188w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WSU leaders provided an update on where the university is at in its pursuit of a medical school in Spokane today, releasing the names of those on the Founding Dean Search Committee.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Gary Pollack, Ph.D., will chair the committee. Pollack is the Dean of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pharmacy.wsu.edu\/?utm_source=about&amp;utm_medium=undefined&amp;utm_campaign=undefined&amp;utm_term=undefined&amp;utm_content=undefined\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WSU College of Pharmacy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the committee is as follows:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Marty Dickinson<\/b><br \/>\nCo-chair, WSU Spokane Advisory Council and Executive Vice President for Umpqua Bank<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Dan Dixon, J.D.<\/b><br \/>\nChief Community Engagement Officer, Providence Health &amp; Services<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Marcos Frank, Ph.D.<\/b><br \/>\nProfessor, WSU College of Medical Sciences<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Deb Harper, M.D.<\/b><br \/>\nGroup Health, Spokane<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>George Novan, M.D.<\/b><br \/>\nAssociate Dean, WSU College of Medical Sciences<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Emma Noyes, M.PH.<\/b><br \/>\nWSU College of Nursing, Colville Tribal member<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Nancy Potter, Ph.D.<\/b><br \/>\nAssociate Professor, WSU Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Ken Roberts, Ph.D.<\/b><br \/>\nActing Dean, WSU College of Medical Sciences<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Keith Watson, D.O.<\/b><br \/>\nPresident, Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A nationwide search will be used to find the founding dean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WSU leaders provided an update on where the university is at in its pursuit of a medical school in Spokane today, releasing the names of those on the Founding Dean [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":[],"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1513],"tags":[769,771,773,767,772,775,537,768,770,473,774,446,447],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/528"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5289,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions\/5289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/author?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spokane.wsu.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}