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Arthur J. Ross III, M.D., M.B.A., has joined the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University as interim dean. He succeeds David J. Bjorkman, M.D., M.S.P.H., who recently announced that he would step down as dean and executive director of medical affairs after serving as dean for four years.
A pediatric surgeon and researcher, Dr. Ross recently retired as dean at West Virginia University School of Medicine. His distinguished career includes serving as a faculty physician at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia/University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; as the founding regional dean for the Western Clinical Campus of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine; and as dean of Chicago Medical School and vice president for medical affairs of Rosalind Franklin University.
