Brownsville Regional Dean McCormick
Re-Appointed as Chancellor’s Fellow
HOUSTON – (June 14, 2007)–Epidemiologist Joseph B. McCormick, M.D., dean of The University of Texas School of Public Health’s Brownsville regional campus, has been appointed to an additional year as the first Chancellor’s Fellow in Public Health by University of Texas System Executive Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs Kenneth I. Shine, M.D.
“During this time Dr. McCormick can pursue the Wellness Initiative which he has so effectively led,” said Shine. “In connection with this appointment a grant of $25,000 will be made to Dr. McCormick for any academic purpose which he selects.”
McCormick was first appointed as the Chancellor’s Fellow in Public Health two years ago. Since then he has focused on System-wide public health education, academic and community relations and multidisciplinary research. He organized and led a two-day Wellness Symposium last March at the Thompson Conference Center of The University of Texas at Austin, which developed recommendations for implementation of prevention and wellness programs for faculty, staff, and students at all UT System institutions.
“I am very pleased that Dr. McCormick will continue to serve as the Chancellor’s Fellow in Public Health, providing leadership for the development of collaborative activities with other UT components and for linking public health training to the educational programs for other health professions,” said Guy S. Parcel, Ph.D., dean of the UT School of Public Health and the John P. McGovern Professor in Health Promotion.
McCormick – who also is the James H. Steele Professor of Epidemiology at the UT School of Public Health – has garnered widespread attention for his international work fighting dangerous viruses, including the Marburg virus in Angola. He served as a consultant to the World Health Organization (WHO) in viral hemorrhagic fevers, smallpox eradication and AIDS. McCormick and his wife Susan Fisher-Hoch , M.D., Ph.D., professor of epidemiology at the UT School of Public Health’s Brownsville regional campus , are co-authors of the best-selling book, Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC.