To: All Faculty & All Academic Professionals & All Civil Service Staff
           <everybody@illinois.edu> 
    From: "President Michael Hogan" <presmike@uillinois.edu>

Reply-To: uipres@uillinois.edu
 Subject: VP of Health Affairs appointment recommended

Dear Colleagues,

Since Joe G.N. "Skip" Garcia joined the University of Illinois last year 
as the UIC Vice Chancellor for Research, he has met and consistently 
exceeded the high aspirations he sets for himself and his team, as well 
as the expectations of our Board of Trustees, his colleagues on the 
Chicago campus and the University administration.

Dr. Garcia's performance as interim Vice President for Health Affairs 
since last February has been equally impressive, and so it is with great 
satisfaction and confidence that I am recommending Skip to become VP-
Health Affairs on a permanent basis. The Board of Trustees will consider 
this recommendation when it meets next week on the Chicago campus, and 
pending trustees' approval the appointment will be effective June 16.

The University's health sciences clinical enterprise is an essential 
component of our health care, education, research and public engagement 
missions. It operates in a highly competitive environment in the Chicago 
area and other regions of the state, and it requires strong, visionary 
and stable leadership. I consulted with faculty advisory groups, UIC 
campus leaders and trustees, and a consensus emerged that we should move 
forward with a permanent VP-Health Affairs and that Dr. Garcia is the 
ideal person for the job.

His expertise and leadership are in high demand, and it was evident why 
when Dr. Garcia last week outlined a plan for the future of the 
University of Illinois' statewide health care enterprise at two forums on 
the UIC campus.

(http://tigger.uic.edu/depts/ovcr/research/events/townhall/index.html)

From leveraging our exceptional research capabilities to provide academic 
quality health care at multiple points in underserved communities, to 
rebranding our assets, it is clear that Skip has an aspirational and 
practical strategic plan for advancing the excellence and performance of 
the University's health care enterprise.
  
Before joining the University of Illinois at Chicago as Vice Chancellor 
for Research in 2010, Dr. Garcia served as the Director of the Division 
of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins University (1998-
2005) and subsequently as the Chair of the Department of Medicine at the 
University of Chicago for four years. He is the Earl M. Bane Professor of 
Medicine, Pharmacology and Bioengineering at UIC. I hope you will join me 
in congratulating Dr. Garcia on the rapid advancement he is already 
making in our clinical enterprise and on his pending appointment to this 
key leadership position for the University of Illinois.

Michael J. Hogan
President This mailing approved by:
The Office of the President

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