Geisel School Dean Wiley W. Souba Jr. Honored by University

Hanover Dr. Wiley W. Souba Jr., of Hanover, recently received the Distinguished Service award from Muskingum University in New Concord, Ohio, in recognition of his personal and professional achievements.

The award s ponsored by the Muskingum University Alumni Council is the universitys highest alumni honor. It recognizes and honors alumni who have distinguished themselves through their professional endeavors and exemplary services to society.

Souba is the vice president for health affairs and dean of the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, where he also holds faculty appointments as professor of surgery and professor of business administration in the Tuck School of Business.

Previously, he served as dean of medicine at The Ohio State University and on the medical school faculties at Penn State University College of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and the University of Florida College of Medicine.

Souba holds a bachelors degree in chemistry from Muskingum. He earned his medical degree from the University of Texas Medical School Houston, a doctoral degree in nutritional biochemistry from the Harvard School of Public Health, and a masters degree in business administration f rom Boston University.

He has published three books and nearly 500 articles, abstracts, papers and book chapters. Souba has also served as editorial chairman of the American College of Surgeons journal Surgery and as co-editor of the J ournal of Surgical Research . He also holds an honorary doctor of science degree from Muskingum.

Souba is a native of Caracas, Venezuela.

Armistead Caregiver Services Appoints President

Lebanon Annmarie Plant, a registered nurse and certified case manager, has been appointed president of Armistead Caregiver Services.

See the original post here:
At the Hospitals: June 29, 2014