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Gregory Dalack, M.D., to lead U-M Medical School's Dept. of Psychiatry
ANN ARBOR, Mich.-The University of Michigan Medical School has appointed Gregory Dalack, M.D., associate professor of psychiatry, as the new chair of the Department of Psychiatry, pending Regental approval.
Dalack began serving as interim chair of the Department of Psychiatry Sept. 1, 2007 and as associate chair for education and academic affairs in the Department of Psychiatry in 2005.
"I have had many opportunities to speak with Greg about his vision for the department, and I am enthusiastic about its future. He has demonstrated outstanding skills in leading and bringing the faculty together," says James O. Woolliscroft, M.D., dean and Lyle C. Roll Professor of Medicine at the U-M Medical School.
Dalack, an Ann Arbor resident and father of three, is a devoted educator and clinician whose interests include schizophrenia and mood disorders; his research interests include the treatment of schizophrenic illness and the co-morbidity of nicotine addiction and schizophrenia.
He will lead a department with 182 faculty, 54 residents and fellows and 364 administrative, research, nursing and clinical support staff.
"I am both honored and very excited to have the opportunity to serve as chair," Dalack says. "We have a very strong department on the cusp of a new level of productivity and greater national recognition.
"The research activities of our talented faculty span the study of the basic neurobiology of psychiatric disorders, to the development of treatment interventions for those affected as well as those at risk, to the implementation of those interventions in the community as quickly and effectively as possible. I look forward to facilitating the growth of that translational science continuum, and see it naturally enhancing our training programs for the next generation of clinicians and investigators," he says.
Dalack joined the medical school faculty in 1992, serving as chief of the Mental Health Clinic at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System until 1999. He then served as chief of the VA Psychiatry Service and VA section director in the U-M Department of Psychiatry until 2005, when he became associate chair for Education and Academic Affairs. From 2006 until his appointment as interim chair, he also served as vice-chair of the department. Dalack received his M.D. from Columbia University and completed his psychiatry residency and a clinical research fellowship at the New York State Psychiatric Institute in New York.
"I am so pleased that the department will soon enter a new phase in its storied development under the talented leadership of Gregory Dalack," says John Greden, M.D., who stepped down as chair of the department in 2007 after 22 years. Greden remains an active faculty member in the department and serves as director of the U-M Depression Center.
Dalack began serving as interim chair of the Department of Psychiatry Sept. 1, 2007 and as associate chair for education and academic affairs in the Department of Psychiatry in 2005.
"I have had many opportunities to speak with Greg about his vision for the department, and I am enthusiastic about its future. He has demonstrated outstanding skills in leading and bringing the faculty together," says James O. Woolliscroft, M.D., dean and Lyle C. Roll Professor of Medicine at the U-M Medical School.
Dalack, an Ann Arbor resident and father of three, is a devoted educator and clinician whose interests include schizophrenia and mood disorders; his research interests include the treatment of schizophrenic illness and the co-morbidity of nicotine addiction and schizophrenia.
He will lead a department with 182 faculty, 54 residents and fellows and 364 administrative, research, nursing and clinical support staff.
"I am both honored and very excited to have the opportunity to serve as chair," Dalack says. "We have a very strong department on the cusp of a new level of productivity and greater national recognition.
"The research activities of our talented faculty span the study of the basic neurobiology of psychiatric disorders, to the development of treatment interventions for those affected as well as those at risk, to the implementation of those interventions in the community as quickly and effectively as possible. I look forward to facilitating the growth of that translational science continuum, and see it naturally enhancing our training programs for the next generation of clinicians and investigators," he says.
Dalack joined the medical school faculty in 1992, serving as chief of the Mental Health Clinic at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System until 1999. He then served as chief of the VA Psychiatry Service and VA section director in the U-M Department of Psychiatry until 2005, when he became associate chair for Education and Academic Affairs. From 2006 until his appointment as interim chair, he also served as vice-chair of the department. Dalack received his M.D. from Columbia University and completed his psychiatry residency and a clinical research fellowship at the New York State Psychiatric Institute in New York.
"I am so pleased that the department will soon enter a new phase in its storied development under the talented leadership of Gregory Dalack," says John Greden, M.D., who stepped down as chair of the department in 2007 after 22 years. Greden remains an active faculty member in the department and serves as director of the U-M Depression Center.