Columbia University Medical Center Names
Vice Dean of Academic Affairs at Medical School
Dr. Anne Taylor, Associate Dean at Minnesota, Faculty Mentoring
Expert, Joins CUMC
NEW YORK – Anne L. Taylor, M.D., a professor of medicine and
associate dean for faculty affairs at the University of
Minnesota Medical School, will join Columbia University Medical
Center Nov. 23 as vice dean for academic affairs at the
university’s nationally acclaimed medical school, the College of
Physicians and Surgeons. In her new position, Dr. Taylor will
lead faculty development for Columbia’s 4,004 faculty in
clinical practice and 299 basic sciences faculty.
An established researcher whose extensive body of work has
focused on cardiovascular diseases in minorities and women, in
her administrative roles at Minnesota, Dr. Taylor has led the
reorganization of faculty academic tracks, established faculty
mentoring programs, and co-chaired university-wide task forces
to address diversity. She co-authored a book on faculty
mentoring to be published in 2008 and has co-directed a National
Institutes of Health / National Medical Association mentoring
program for minority house staff.
“Dr. Taylor’s experience, energy and dedication will help us
ensure that Columbia is a great place to build an academic
career, as well one of the premier academic centers in the world
for education, research, and the care of patients,” said Lee
Goldman, M.D., executive vice president for health and
biomedical sciences and dean of the faculties of health and
medicine at Columbia University.
At Columbia, Dr. Taylor will oversee faculty recruitment
searches and the faculty appointments process, while enhancing
faculty career development and programming.
“Joining Columbia in its drive to hire and retain top-flight
physicians and researchers is an opportunity for me to draw on
years of networking and professional collaboration across the
country, in various capacities as a dean, doctor and
researcher,” Dr. Taylor said of her appointment. “I look forward
to joining Columbia and to working with faculty to capitalize on
Columbia’s extraordinary expertise in all aspects of the health
sciences.”
At Minnesota, Dr. Taylor also co-directed the Deborah E. Powell
National Center for Excellence in Women’s Health. From 2001 to
2005, Dr. Taylor chaired the steering committee for the
African-American Heart Failure Trial, the first major clinical
trial to test the effectiveness of a heart failure medication in
African-Americans. She has authored and co-authored more than 62
publications.
As an established researcher, Dr. Taylor’s research has been
supported by the National Institutes of Health and the American
Heart Association. Her research focus has been on cardiovascular
disease in African Americans and women as well as the transfer
of knowledge about cardiovascular disease prevention from
academic medicine to communities.
She has served on committees at the American Heart Association,
the NIH, the National Medical Association, and the Association
of Black Cardiologists (ABC), an international organization of
nearly 600 health care professionals dedicated to eliminating
disparities of cardiovascular disease in people of color. From
2001 to 2004, she served as director of the ABC’s Center for
Women’s Health, whose mission is to reduce cardiovascular
mortality and morbidity among women of color.
Dr. Taylor began her academic career at the University of Texas
Southwestern Medical Center in 1984 as assistant professor and
director of the echocardiography lab at Parkland Memorial
Hospital. From 1990 to 2000, Dr. Taylor was associate professor
of medicine at Case Western. Leadership roles during this time
included chief of cardiology at the Louis Stokes Cleveland
Veterans Affairs Medical Center, director of echocardiography at
the University Hospitals of Cleveland, and vice chair for
women’s health programs in the Department of Medicine. She
joined the University of Minnesota in 2000.
A native of New York City, Dr. Taylor received her bachelor’s
degree from Hofstra University and studied cello at the
Manhattan School of Music. She then completed medical school,
internal medicine residency, and a clinical cardiology
fellowship at the University of Chicago, with cardiovascular
research training at Johns Hopkins University and the University
of Iowa.
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