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UT HEALTH
UT Health San Antonio president announces
new medical school dean
By William L. Henrich, M.D., MACP, President and Professor of Medicine
It gives me great pleasure to
announce the appointment of
Robert Hromas, MD, FACP as the
Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long
School of Medicine Dean and
UT Health San Antonio
Vice President for Medical Affairs.
Dr. Hromas began his duties in
February, earlier this year.
Dr. Hromas earned a B.S. in Biology at Wheaton College, Illinois Vice President of the University of Florida Physicians Clinical Prac-
and his medical degree at The University of Texas Medical School tice Association and a member of the UF Health Shands Hospital
at Houston. He did a post-doctoral research fellowship in the regu- Executive Board. The University of Florida's Department of Med-
lation of immunoglobulin gene expression and a residency in Inter- icine has approximately 360 faculty, 210 residents and fellows, more
nal Medicine at the University of Iowa, followed by a post-doctoral than 600,000 patient encounters per year along with 24,000 annual
research fellowship in transcriptional regulation of hematopoiesis at hospital admissions. He has trained 29 graduate students or fellows,
the University of Washington. He also was a hematology fellow at most of whom have entered academic careers, and 21 junior faculty,
the University of Washington and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Re- almost all of whom have obtained tenure, with three obtaining
search Center. He is board certified in Internal Medicine with a sub- Hematology-Oncology Division Chief positions. He has served on
specialty board certification in hematology. editorial boards of Blood and Stem Cells and has won numerous
Dr. Hromas also previously served as Chair of the Department teaching and patient care awards, including the Indiana University
of Medicine at University of Florida Health, where he was also the Humanism in Medical Education Award, the Indiana University
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