UH appointed Dr. Ruth Bush as the associate dean for medical education, Dr. David Buck as associate dean for community health, and Dr. Kathryn Horn as the associate dean for student affairs, admissions and outreach, according to a press release. All three have ties to Baylor College Medicine, either as a professor or a graduate.
UH College of Medicine is looking to hire four more administrators, according to minutes from the May 24 meeting of the University of Houston System Board of Regents. The board approved the request that Chancellor Renu Khator “negotiate and execute multi-year contracts exceeding $1 million in total value for upcoming faculty hires in the college of medicine."
The four remaining positions are:
Clinical sciences chair Behavioral and social sciences chair Biomedical sciences chair Health systems and population health sciences chair
Dr. Ruth Bush, associate dean for medical education: Dr. Bush most recently served as a tenured professor at Baylor College of Medicine in the Departments of Medicine and Surgery and deputy director of the Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety at the Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center. In these leadership roles, she oversaw scientific program operations and research of 200 faculty and staff. A graduate of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Dr. Bush previously held faculty positions at the Texas A&M College of Medicine and was the chief vascular surgeon at the Olin E. Teague VA Medical Center in Temple, Texas. In addition to being an accomplished physician and medical educator, Dr. Bush is also an attorney.
Dr. Kathryn Horn, associate dean for student affairs, admissions and outreach: Dr. Horn spent nearly three decades in various leadership and faculty roles at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso. She served as the assistant vice president for student services, associate dean for student affairs and associate professor of family and community medicine. Dr. Horn provided integrated services and programs supporting students’ academic and professional success across schools of medicine, nursing and biomedical sciences. For more than a decade, she was also the medical director of Circle of Hope Hospice of Visiting Nursing Association in El Paso. Dr. Horn received her medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.
Dr. David Buck, associate dean for community health: Dr. Buck is an expert in community health, serving as a professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine for more than two decades at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, where he also received his medical degree. Dr. Buck holds adjunct professor positions at the University of Texas Health Science Center School of Public Health and Rice University. He also founded Healthcare for the Homeless-Houston and Patient Care Intervention Center to improve health care quality and costs for underserved populations.