July has had special significance for UC Davis Health leadership:

First, David Lubarsky marked his first-year anniversary as vice chancellor of Human Health Sciences and chief executive officer of UC Davis Health. Then, new deans came on board: Allison Brashear at the School of Medicine and Stephen Cavanagh at the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing. See below for a story and video from a welcome reception for the new deans, and profiles of both.

At midmonth, Lubarsky posted a video (above) and a report reflecting on his first year at UC Davis Health (he started July 2, 2018) and looking forward to the next.

“The culture here is one of kindness, compassion and excellence,” Lubarsky wrote. “It doesn’t need an overhaul. It needs a new strategic direction to take all that’s been built and adapt it for a future that is as exciting as it is inevitable.”

His one-year anniversary report is in two parts:

• “My 1st Year With You,” in which he states, “Much of what we accomplished was made possible by creating partnerships, internally and externally, that freed up people to do the right thing.”
• “Looking Ahead to Our 2nd Year Together,” in which he declares the coming year will be the “Year of Patient Access.”

Meet the new deans

‘Embracing our future’

“And so we begin the next phase,” Lubarsky said July 22 at the morning reception where he introduced the deans on their first day of work. “Bringing in new blood constantly is key to the life blood of an academic organization. It gets new thinking, it gets new teamwork, it gets new ideas really out there and into circulation, and lets us embrace our future.”

Brashear and Cavanagh will work jointly and with Lubarsky to develop models around integrated care delivery and advanced practice for both their disciplines.

Read more in this news story.

Allison Brashear: School of Medicine

A third-generation physician and the former chair of the neurology department at the Wake Forest School of Medicine, Brashear is described by others in academic medicine as “an excellent change agent” and “a leader for these times.” [Click for story and video ...]

Stephen Cavanagh: Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing

The former dean of the College of Nursing at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Cavanagh sees his new post at UC Davis as “a chance to make new models of health care that really will make an impact on people’s lives.” [Click for story and video ...]

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