{"id":45719,"date":"2014-02-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2014\/02\/19\/search-committee-formed-for-internal-medicine-chair\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T09:25:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T15:25:45","slug":"search-committee-formed-for-internal-medicine-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2014\/02\/19\/search-committee-formed-for-internal-medicine-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"Search committee formed for internal medicine chair"},"content":{"rendered":"

The search committee for the new chair of the department of internal medicine was announced Tuesday by Bradley Britigan, M.D., dean of the College of Medicine.<\/p>\n

The 13-member committee will be headed by Carl Smith, M.D., chair of the UNMC Department of OB\/GYN and president of UNMC Physicians, the physician practice plan. <\/p>\n

“I appreciate Dr. Smith’s willingness to lead this important search,” Dr. Britigan said. “I believe it is an excellent search committee which I’m confident will find us an outstanding individual equipped to lead the internal medicine department during one of the most challenging periods ever in the history of health care.” <\/p>\n


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\n<\/TABLE>With more than 180 physicians and scientists, internal medicine is the largest department within the UNMC College of Medicine. The department is organized by disease specialty into 10 divisions. <\/p>\n

The search committee will be looking for a successor to Lynell Klassen, M.D., who announced last year that he desired to step down. Dr. Klassen, the Henry J. Lehnhoff Professor, is now in his ninth year as chair of the department. <\/p>\n

A UNMC faculty member for more than 30 years, Dr. Klassen plans to return to a faculty position in the rheumatology division, continuing his clinical, research and teaching activities.<\/p>\n

Other members of the search committee include:<\/p>\n