From the Sacramento Bee of December 21st: Dr. Carrie Byington will step down next year from her post as UC Health chief, having led the University of California’s six academic medical centers and 20 health professional schools as they met the initial and ongoing challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. She assumed her position as executive vice president over the division on Oct. 31, 2019, just two months before the respiratory illness took root. She is a pediatrician and had expertise in pediatric infectious diseases that proved invaluable, said UC President Michael V. Drake.
“Fortunately for us her infectious disease and pediatric expertise proved invaluable throughout the pandemic,” Drake said. “She established the UC Health COVID-19 Coordinating Committee which brought together hundreds of faculty researchers, clinicians, and administrators to tackle challenges from testing and monitoring modeling and return-to-campus protocols, to vaccine distribution management, hospital crisis standards of care, and long-COVID treatment.
“This was an amazing body of work. It made a real, tangible difference for us and the people of California and beyond.”
Drake said he will begin a national search for Byington’s successor in January...
Full story at https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/health-and-medicine/article270290422.html.
According to the systemwide website, Byington will continue through the end of the fiscal year. See https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/2022/12/a-message-from-president-drake-about-dr.-carrie-byington-stepping-down-as-evp-of-uc-health.html.
Although the announcement from UCOP is dated December 5, yours truly confesses to have missed it at the time. Apparently, so did the Bee.
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