Leslie Petch Lee Named Interim Campus Dean Of GRU/UGA Medical Partnership
Atlanta — April 21, 2015
Dr. Leslie Petch Lee, assistant dean for curriculum at the Georgia Regents University/University of Georgia Medical Partnership, has been named its interim campus dean, effective May 13, 2015.
鈥淭here is a strong consensus that Dr. Lee, who has served as a leader at the Partnership campus essentially from its beginning, is a terrific choice for interim campus dean,鈥 said Dr. Peter F. Buckley, dean of the Medical College of Georgia at GRU. 鈥淗er knowledge of the faculty, staff, and students, who are integral to the partnership鈥檚 function and purpose, will ensure continued progress as the national search for a permanent campus dean progresses and as we continue to prepare for our medical school reaccreditation.鈥
Lee, who joined UGA in 2005 and also has an MCG faculty appointment, became involved in the early planning and development of the GRU/UGA Medical Partnership in 2007 and was appointed coordinator for the first- and second-year curriculum鈥攌nown as phases 1 and 2鈥攆or the Medical Partnership in 2008. She became assistant dean for curriculum in 2010, a position in which she oversees the development and implementation of the phase 1 and 2 curriculum. She also represents the Medical Partnership on the MCG Instructional Technology Advisory Committee, the Phase 1 and 2 Curriculum Committee, the Curriculum Oversight Committee, the Admissions Committee, and the Executive Committee for Reaccreditation.
鈥淒r. Lee has helped guide the growth and progress of the GRU/UGA Medical Partnership since its founding, and I am confident that she will provide outstanding leadership while the national search for the next permanent campus dean continues,鈥 said Dr. Pamela Whitten, UGA senior vice president for academic affairs and provost.
Lee was previously associate director of the Virology Core Facility at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Center for AIDS Research. She earned her Ph.D. in pharmacology from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Inaugural Campus Dean Barbara Schuster will step down from her position on May 12 after nearly seven years of leadership. Houston Davis, 性视界APP executive vice chancellor and chief academic officer, is chairing a 15-member search committee that is conducting a national search for the next permanent campus dean of the Medical Partnership.
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