Mary Klotman, MD, has been appointed dean of Durham, N.C.-based Duke University School of Medicine and vice chancellor for health affairs at Duke University.
Dr. Klotman will take the helm July 1 after the current dean, Nancy Andrews, MD, PhD, steps down.
Dr. Klotman has served as chair of Duke's department of medicine for nearly seven years. Previously, she spent 13 years as chief of the division of infections diseases at New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System and served as co-director of Mount Sinai's Global Health and Emerging Pathogens Institute.
"I am tremendously honored and humbled to have been selected as the next dean of what I know to be among the finest medical schools in the country," Dr. Klotman said. "I look forward to working collaboratively with colleagues within Duke Health and across DukeUniversity to further advance this institution that has so profoundly influenced me."