About the Academic Health Center
In 1970, the University of Minnesota’s previously autonomous College of Pharmacy and School of Dentistry were reorganized, together with the Schools of Nursing, Medicine, and Public Health, and the University Hospitals, into a centrally organized and administered Academic Health Center (AHC). The university’s College of Veterinary Medicine was also closely aligned with the AHC at this time, becoming formally incorporated into the AHC in 1985.
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Dr. Dianne Bartels served as a staff nurse and then head nurse at University Hospital from 1964 to 1970. After completing bachelor’s and master’s degrees, she returned to University Hospital in 1979, serving as associate director of nursing until 1986….
Dr. Frank Cerra joined the University of Minnesota’s Department of Surgery in 1981. He became Chair of the Department in 1993, Dean of the Medical School in 1995, and Senior Vice President of Health Sciences in 1996. He retired…
Dr. Christopher Chute joined the health informatics graduate faculty at the University of Minnesota in 1990. He was appointed co-principal investigator with Laël Gatewood, PhD…
Dr. Donald Connelly came to the University of Minnesota in 1967 as a computer programmer and medical student. He earned his M.D. in 1971 and…
Dr. Milton Corn served as Director of the Extramural Programs Division of the National Library of Medicine, which provided fund University of Minnesota’s health informatics…
Robert Dickler completed a master’s degree and doctoral coursework at the University of Minnesota as well as a residency program at University Hospital in 1972. He served in several administrative positions over the course of his ten years at…
Dr. Lynda Ellis joined the University of Minnesota’s Departments of Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine as a postdoc in 1971. In 1973, she became an assistant…
Dr. Stanley Finkelstein joined the faculty of the Division of Health Computer Sciences in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the University of…
Robert Howard received his B.A. in 1942, his M.D. in 1945, and his Ph.D. in 1952, all from the University of Minnesota. He completed a residency in internal medicine at the University of Minnesota Hospital. He joined the faculty of…
Sally Howard served as director of public relations for the Academic Health Center at the University of Minnesota from 1985 to 1996….