Chancellor announces major changes in UCLA health sciences leadership

UCLA Dr. John Mazziotta In an email to the UCLA campus community, Chancellor Gene Block today announced that Dr. John Mazziotta, a world-renowned brain imaging expert who established the UCLA Brain Mapping Center, has been appointed vice chancellor of UCLA Health Sciences and dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, effective March 1. Block also announced that Dr. David Feinberg will step down from his position as president of UCLA’s health system and CEO of UCLA’s hospital system on May 1 to become president and CEO of the Geisinger Health System in Danville, Pennsylvania. “While all of us are saddened to lose Dr. Feinberg, we are also excited that Dr. Mazziotta has agreed to take on this critically important role for UCLA,” Block wrote. “There is no better person than John Mazziotta to lead UCLA’s health science enterprise.” Mazziotta will take over the responsibilities of Dr. A. Eugene Washington. Block announced in January that Washington would leave UCLA for a position at Duke University Health System. Mazziotta, who joined the UCLA faculty in 1983, has served as associate vice chancellor for health sciences and executive vice dean of the Geffen School of Medicine since 2012. He has been chair of the department of neurology since 2002, and he has directed the Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center since 1993. Mazziotta will step down as neurology department chair and an interim chair will be appointed. “It is a great honor and privilege to le...
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